Mike's story is on the local newspaper(bordermail.com.au) in Wodonga.

[The following article is from the newspaper of the photo]

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Artist shows his thanks in paint

By KATE COUGHLAN

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Helen Lindner said the painting Mike Lamble donated to the Wodonga hospital was "absolutely beautiful' and greatly appreciated by staff.

Picture: TARA ASHWORTH

A SYDNEY artist has repaid Wodonga hospital staff for saving his life by donating an art work.

Mike Lamble, from Mosman, experienced s dull ache in his abdomen during a holiday on the Great Ocean Road and decided to return home.

But he was in such excruciating pain in Wodonga that he couldn't get out of the car.

His wife rushed him to hospital where he had emergency surgery for severe appendicitis.

"I'm an artist and teacher and the only way I could express my appreciation was to give some­ thing of me to this wonderful hospital and these wonderful people," Mr Lamble said yesterday.

"It's for their amazing care, warmth and life­ saving treatment."

"They were actually caring for me. It was amazing."

Mr Lamble said he was seen by a doctor five minutes after he arrived at the emergency department on December 27.

"Three hours later,I was in the operating theatre. How good is that?" he said.

Mr Lamble said the seriousness of his condition had only struck him after the operation.

"The surgeon, who' d come in off Christmas leave, came to see me a day after and he said: 'when we opened you up you were an awful mess'," Mr Lamble said.

"One of the nurses told me I wouldn't have made it home to Sydney."

Mr Lamble's oil paint­ing of Lambs Valley, in the Hunter Valley, will hang in either the reception area or ward where he was treated.

"I want people to know how wonderful these doctors and nurses are," Mr Lamble said.

Associate nurse man­ager of the surgical unit Helen Lindner said the donation was a welcome surprise.

"The painting is absolutely beautiful," she said.

"It's a real surprise, and especially nice after a busy Easter period.

"It's very special to have someone recognise our work. It doesn't hap­pen very often and that' s why it's extra special."

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Art Talk

What a week ! The art gallery talk on Victorian Visions was very well attended with many extra people from the general public. The reaction was enthusiastic with requests for many more and a rather special moment in my life, a happy coincidence ,as I was speaking the owner of the collection ( Mr Schaeffer himself) was looking over his pictures without my knowing and asked one of the attendance who I was as he had listened to my explanations of his pictures I quote ' he obviously knows what he is talking about' at the break we were Introduced a long enthusiastic conversation followed with some inside information about the next picture I will be speaking about.
This was John William Waterhouse Mariamne 1887. Great story, but what was so exciting I was able to announce at the end of my explanation not known to me or the general public until my meeting with Mr Schaeffer. On the right behind Herod in the background just poking his head into the picture is believed to be a self portrait of the artist, at the end of the exhibition the painting is to be removed from the frame so the gallery can have a look.


My latest talk at the art gallery of New South Wales will contrast British Victorian Art with French Impressionism dates and title to be announced

Also there will be a special portrait workshop Saturday 25th September.

Talk at the Art Gallery

Have I painted a contraversial painting?

I am so busy running and teaching at my artschool it is very difficult to find the time to write words for my site each week typical of the last three weeks is: I have just spent the holidays teaching a school workshop for all ages which is wonderful for me and great fun for the kids see pictures although by the end of the week I'm exhausted.

My students are constantly asking me to enter one art competition or another, time is the problem but this year I said I would do it as I miss the challenges of freelance illustration and working to deadlines so three weeks ago I made a decision to enter a picture for the Mosman Art Prize deadline tomorrow 19th of July anyway I completed the picture two days ago being painted in oils its quite a large picture which would normally take a week or so to be dry, so it had to stand in front of a fan heater for the last two days and nights to be dry enough to take.

The Mosman Art Prize is quite controversial, some years the winner has baffled many, in other words its 'crap' but the publicity and interest it generates well i guess that's what its all about, so what about my picture there are literally thousands of entries with only space for a hundred or so, so the first hurdle is to get in, well my picture is painted in a traditional style (I thought this was the right technique to make it believable) but the subject matter is controversial as you can see, it may make it in? I chose a subject matter which is close to my heart Global Warming the title being '' Who's Telling Us the Truth'' take a close look and you will see the water level has risen to half way up the Opera house ( whilst I appreciate this is a gross exaggeration, the intention is to make people think) with ice bergs floating in Sydney Harbour .Why the title? depending on which group of elites you listen to its already happening re:Al Gore( An Inconvenient Truth and others) or Sir Nigel Lawson or is it Lord? former treasure in the Thatcher government it is some sort of hoax, if Global Warming is a reality its not caused by man,s activity on earth its just a natural cycle the earth is going through, or to quot the leader of the Australian Opposition ''ITS A LOAD OF CRAP'' thank you Mr Abbott, so what can 'we' really believe that's what the picture is drawing attention to!

Portrait workshop

I will be conducting a portrait workshop on April 24th at my studio at the Northshore School of Art which is already full. -----
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