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Beneficial effects of landscape images on hospital patients
Clinical studies show lower blood pressure, better self-esteem and better pain control when exposed to natural landscape - even in the form of landscape images.* Subjects prefer blue sky and clouds, textural variety, open vistas and places where they can imagine visiting or living - all features of our prints.
The scenes are regional and modern - of West Bergholt in ‘Constable country’ - and suggest an optimistic reconnection with landscape and place in much the same way as some hospitals now name wards after local communities or artists.
Prints can be over ten feet long with a wipe clean surface suitable for corridors and public places, while sets of smaller images would be suitable for more intimate spaces.
stephentaylorprints.com is NHS-sid registered.
* A recent study of pre-operative bronchoscopy patients at John Hopkins found better pain control among patients with a large landscape at their bedside and the sound of birdsong and a babbling brook, reducing expenditure on painkilling drugs. See Pretty, Peacock, Sellens & Griffin “The mental and Physical health outcomes of green exercise”. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, October 2005; 15(5) 319 –337. Also Honeyman, 1992; Purcell and Lamb, 1998; Staats and Hartig, 2004 etc . For an overview see Jules Pretty, The Earth Only Endures, 2007, Chapter 3: A Room with a Green View.