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A PORTRAIT
Bryan Brooke
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We reproduce a commissioned portrait with a difference. The
Norman Tanner Unit of Gastroenterology has recently been
transferred from St James's Hospital, Balham, to St George's
'Hospital, Tooting. John Kirkham, wishing to depict those
associated with the development of the unit, commissioned this
self portrait from Professor Bryan Brooke.
Bryan Brooke graduated from Cambridge and Barts in 1940.
After military service in the second world war he was appointed
senior lecturer in Aberdeen in 1946, and reader in surgery in the
University of Birmingham in 1947. He was elected to the chair of
surgery, St George's Hospital in 1963 and retired in 1976, having
moved to St James's Hospital, Balham, for the last four years of
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professional life. He has a zest and enthusiasm for life,
with great good humour. Seminal contributions to the
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literature include eversion ileostomy ('The Brooke stoma')
Lancet 1952; ii: 102. He was founder, and president for 26 years,
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of the Ileostomy Association of Great Britain and Ireland.
He has held numerous one man exhibitions of his paintings and
his work has been exhibited by invitation in Birmingham, East
Anglia, Milan, and Sydney. Individual paintings in oil and water
colours have been acquired for private collections in the United
Kingdom and overseas and by various public bodies including the
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London, and the RAMC HQ Mess, Millbank.
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He has recently developed new techniques of pictorial creation
using sheets of handmade paper modifying methods originating
in Japan. This new art form peinture en papiere was exhibited for
the first time at the Digby Gallery, Colchester in 1987.
The artist comments that obtaining a physical likeness in a self
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portrait is not difficult. The achievement lies in portraying facets
of the persona which is seen quite differently by the artist in a self
portrait than by those who gaze upon him.
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A portrait: Bryan Brooke
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