Spending time with art, even just a few moments, can boost your mood and support overall wellbeing.
Use this page to discover artworks and their stories featured in the common areas of the UF Health Cancer Hospital in Gainesville, FL.
Blue
by Kathleen Wobie
Encaustic (wax) and Oil on Canvas
Kathleen Wobie is a Florida-based artist known for her vibrant, large-scale oil, acrylic, and encaustic paintings capturing North Florida landscapes, nature, and abstract works. Her work frequently covers Florida scenes, landscapes, and “critters,” with a unique, often dreamy, approach to color and light. She has a strong interest in encaustic painting (painting with hot wax).
Coconut Palm
by Trish Beckham
Oil on Canvas
Educated at Old Dominion University, Trish Beckham is a contemporary painter living and working in Ormond Beach. Her oil paintings are tonal and impressionistic with a focus on mood and atmosphere. Using a palette knife as her primary tool, Beckham masterfully creates layers paint giving the viewer an extraordinary depth of visual information for the eye to wander through.
Florida Wetland
by Trish Beckham
Oil on Canvas
Cumberland Island
by Mitch Kolbe
Oil on Canvas
Mitch Kolbe is a contemporary artist who has worked as a commercial artist, graphics printer, muralist and sculptor, while pursuing his fine art painting. His strongest ties are to the pre-modernist painters who began portraying Florida more than a century ago. This approach is still one of the most powerful in conveying the distinctive qualities of the landscape.
Digital Print Series
by Maggie Taylor
Evening Plunge by Maggie Taylor
Golden Afternoon by Maggie Taylor
The Collector by Maggie Taylor
Maggie Taylor is a contemporary artist based on the edge of a sun-drenched prairie outside Gainesville, Florida, a landscape of cows, alligators, and migratory birds. She is a technology based image maker using both Photoshop and AI to create her work.
Location: UF Health Cancer Hospital 2nd Floor Waiting
Great Blue Heron
by Greg Stephens
Greg Stephens is a wildlife photographer based in Gainesville Florida. He and his wife spend their time traveling to wild spaces across the US capturing the beauty of the natural world. Greg often trains his eye on the slighted of details, like the bird’s wing just grazing the surface of still water.
Plunge
by Bryan Hunt
“Plunge” is a large cast bronze sculpture by American Artist Bryan Hunt depicting the movement of falling water. It stands in the center of the Garden of Hope and represents the artist’s fascination with nature–in particular, with the speed, force, pressure, and current of water running through narrow ravines and gorges.
Re-Arrangements
Series by Lauren Lake
Silkscreen graphite & acrylic on paper
Lauren Lake is a visual artist living in Alfred, New York. She is the Dean of Alfred University’s School of Art, Design and Performing Arts. She received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Art Education from the University of Florida. While at the University of Florida, she served as a volunteer for UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine and brought her experience in the hospital to the classroom. The drawings in the collection were donated in honor of her mother, Suzanne Garber.
“In my work, I examine the surreality of the ‘garden,’ which exists as both natural and artificial. Instilling contradictory symbolism in unfamiliar imagery, the garden itself is an ironic place that symbolizes perfection and imperfection at the same time. I am particularly interested in the cultural constructs of gardens that must be seen in a broader sociological and political perspective, as well as the consideration of gardens as “neutral” or “pure,” devoid of political or professional interests. I regard the garden landscape as an analogy to drawing and to consciousness in that the garden is a locus of the human condition.” –Lauren Lake
Rescue Horses Series
by Susan C. Johnson
Susan C. Johnson is a painter currently living and working in Gainesville, Florida. She was born in Middletown, Connecticut and received her degree in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State College in New Haven. Susan paints in oil and acrylic and has focused her attention on the horse as her primary painting interest. Her desire is to capture both the indomitable spirit and grace of these animals.
Underwater Springs Series
by Margaret Tolbert
Margaret Ross Tolbert is a painter living in Gainesville. Soon after her first underwater explorations in the springs that form the heartland of the Floridan aquifer, she discovered that, in certain ideal circumstances, the lens of water is not only a metaphorical construct but a physical space we can enter. When we enter this space, we are transformed.
Her work has since been about communicating the experience of immersion through painting.
Untitled
by Jerry N. Uelsmann
Ink Jet Print on Paper
Jerry N. Uelsmann was a champion of the idea that the final image need not be tied to a single negative, and may be composed of many. During the mid-twentieth century, when photography was still being defined, Uelsmann didn’t care about the boundaries given by the Photo Secessionists or other realists at the time, he simply wished to share with the viewer, the images from his imagination and saw photomontage as the means by which to do so. Jerry is one of the most recognized American photographers and spent his career at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Location: UF Health Cancer Hospital 2nd Floor Elevator Lobby