Portraits help isolating elderly feel 'connected'

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image captionResident Lyn Irwin-Porter said seeing the portraits all together made her feel "happy"
Shielding retirement home residents said they felt more “connected” after their portraits were painted during the lockdown.
Dr Marylane Barfield decided to paint her fellow residents at Magpie Court in Hanham, near Bristol, to help keep her “sane”.
The 14 portraits are being revealed to the subjects during December 2020.
The paintings will also be exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Art in 2021.
They were created from photographs as the residents within the retirement village are all shielding currently.
Dr Barfield was originally born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Fine Art, settled in Birmingham in the UK, and has spent her life as a professional artist.

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