Interiors
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.