ABSTRACT
Adrian Hill, himself an artist and art teacher, had a period of enforced idleness as a phthisical subject in a sanatorium, and he discovered a new reason for drawing and painting. It made him feel better, and perhaps indirectly affected the physical healing process. He clearly sees that a good teacher can make all the difference between disruption and integration, by personally sponsoring art interest and activity. Some think that the official occupation-therapy teaching is dangerously veering towards a training in skills, an immense number of skills, the training being enough to put off the true artists, potters, musicians. An artist, potter, musician, sculptor, modeller, who lives in his own chosen medium, takes the trouble to reach a group of bedridden or immobilised patients, and by personal contact enables each patient, in his or her own way, to create a bridge between the unconscious and ordinary conscious living, a bridge with two-way traffic.
