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Life and Likeness

Friday 1st May 2009

Mr Stephen Norris took a calculated gamble and won, when he successfully bid for a Bing Jones portrait package at Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust's Las Vegas Ball, which was held in aid of the Sheffield Leukaemia and Blood Disorder Appeal.

Mr Norris, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, retired after 25 years at the Northern General Hospital, where he treated patients with wrist and hand disorders (orthopaedic injury - soft tissue injury and work related upper limb disorder). He is now in private practice at Thornbury Hospital in Sheffield. 

Mr Norris, a supporter of the Appeal, attended the ball and was delighted to have the successful bid for the portrait package, said:

"It is a great pleasure to help raise funds for Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust and to be able to support a much needed project like the Sheffield Leukaemia and Blood Disorder Appeal."

The portrait package was donated by Bing Jones (56), an art graduate who combines his artistic life with his work as a medic with the National Blood Service.

A professional portrait painter with many major portrait commissions to his credit, Dr Jones’ work involves collecting bone marrow stem cells for bone marrow transplants, hence why is such a keen supporter of the Sheffield Leukaemia and Blood Disorders Appeal. 

Bing, who had previously designed a Christmas Card  for the Appeal, said: "It is always a massive pleasure painting a colleague and even better to be able to combine the pleasure of doing the portrait, with raising funds for the Leukaemia and Blood Disorders Appeal."

The portrait was taken by Bing as part of his solo exhibition called ‘Life and Likeness’ at Kings College in Cambridge, where it hung among a huge range of work, from pen and ink sketches of Bing’s children, to official oil on canvas portraits of doctors and academics.

Delighted to receive the portrait, Mr Norris said: "I am absolutely delighted with the portrait. It has been greatly admired by family and friends and sitting for Bing was most enjoyable."

If you would like to support the Sheffield Leukaemia and Blood Disorder Appeal, please contact carol.denton@shct.nhs.uk or 0114 226 3517.

 

 

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