For hospitals and healthcare spaces
Hospitals and Healthcare
Large-scale floral oil paintings for hospitals, pediatric primary care and behavioral health settings. Painted by a practicing pediatric nurse practitioner and pediatric mental health specialist.
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A clinician's perspective
I am a Family Nurse Practitioner working in pediatric primary care and pediatric mental health, and I see children and families in clinic every week. Before that I worked as a registered nurse in a pediatric cardiac ICU. That work informs how I paint and how I think about where these paintings belong. Subject matter that is calm, legible and non-clinical gives a young patient something to look at other than the room they are in, and gives a parent somewhere to rest their attention while they wait.
The scale is deliberate. A large painting reads from across a corridor or a waiting area, not only up close. The palette is warm and saturated without being agitating, and the imagery carries no narrative a child needs to interpret.
For the space
Even surfaces, no high-contrast pattern, no figurative content to decode.
Day rooms, family waiting areas, corridors and quiet rooms. Reproductions on request for patient rooms and repeated corridors.
Acquisition, long-term loan, or commission to a specified wall and palette.
Standard wall mount. Security hardware and protective glazing available on request.
Within driving distance of Lake Charles I deliver and hang the work myself. Beyond that, shipping and installation are quoted at cost.
Each painting is signed, dated and titled, with a certificate of authenticity. Full-resolution and detail images are supplied for design review or art committee submission.
From both sides of the room
I have ASD and ADHD, each diagnosed under the DSM-5-TR. In the neurodivergent community the combination is called AuDHD, though it is not a diagnosis in its own right. I also care for children and families in mental health practice, so I know these settings from both sides: as the clinician in the room, and as someone who knows what it is to be overwhelmed by one. Deep, sustained interests are a recognized part of ASD; mine are art and mental health, and this work is where the two meet.
Painting is how I regulate and how I process what I carry from clinical work, and that shapes what reaches the canvas. The palettes are warm and saturated but even, without flicker, hard contrast or busy pattern, so a painting can be looked at for a long time without wearing on the senses.
The scale comes from the same place. A large painting holds a wall calmly and asks nothing of the person looking at it. For a patient who has been made to feel like too much, it is one thing in the room that is allowed to take up space.
“I know I’m not stupid. My brain just works differently. Simple things are hard for me. Complex, involved thinking is much easier.”
Before painting, I spent years as a wedding photographer, where the whole job was “getting them to look happy. Never sad. Never just resting.” The paintings do the opposite. They let a feeling be what it is.
In the space
Commissioned installations
I also paint installations for one space. Each series is made for the patients and families who will be looking at it, whether that is a pediatric clinic, a behavioral health lobby or a family waiting room, and every piece is one of a kind for that hospital.
There is no fixed size or number of works. Tell me about the space and the people who use it, and I will send you ideas.
How to work with me
Write to erin@erinsmithfineart.com with the space, who uses it and your timeline. I am glad to visit the site or submit to an art committee.
The proposal has the artist statement, my clinical background, selected works and the current price list in one file you can share with your committee.
Current Schedule of Works
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All works are oil on canvas and unframed, on 1.5 inch stretchers. Framing is optional at additional cost. This list is drawn from the Available Work page and is always current.