AN inspirational artist who tragically lost her long battle against a deadly genetic disorder has one of her paintings permanently on display at Glasgow’s newest hospital.
Karly Burns died at the age of 27 in 2013, after battling cystic fibrosis having never realised her dream to have her artwork displayed in a solo exhibition.
In 2014 her family managed to realise that dream with an exhibition of her life’s work at the Trongate 103 gallery in Glasgow.
Now one of her paintings, a modern-day take on the Garden of Eden called the Confines of Free Will, is to go on permanent display at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Karly’s mother Helen said: “It will be her 30th birthday on February 1, so it is quite fitting.”
The painting had been on display at the cystic fibrosis unit of Gartnavel hospital before being moved to the new hospital.
Karly had originally donated the painting to the West of Scotland Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Centre in Gartnavel, where she had been treated for 10 years.
Karly, a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, was a member of the visual arts programme Project Ability for several years prior to her death, and completed a residency with the scheme in 2012-2013.
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