It’s hanging in a central lobby on the ground floor of the royal marsden hospital in Kensington, behind a grand piano with a vase of flowers on perpetual rotation. A staircase covers three of the four walls, the staircase is solid and so the steps on it always sound very gentle and there is surprisingly a lot of distant laughter heard from there. Meditated over this painting a lot while waiting for my sister to receive treatment and while she was in surgery. It doesn’t take long at all to really feel like the painting sees you and hears your thoughts. I let a lot out on this lady. It isn’t just a painting of princess diana, it’s my friend.
