“Can artworks help in a hospital?” This was the question I was left with whilst I sat in the Fracture Clinic waiting room. I had badly broken my arm after a cycling accident which resulted in two operations. As I gazed at the beautiful paintings of nature on the walls, I sensed that their purpose was to evoke serenity… and yet I was frustrated that I couldn’t feel any sense of calm within. My research during the MA led me to conclude that perhaps abstract art could be more successful in generating aesthetic engagement with an artwork. I investigated themes of optical illusion, pattern, and rhythm, to convey progress and ‘healing’. I utilised knitting and crochet methods to suggest comfort and homeliness and developed the pieces by dipping them in bone china slip. The results are rhythmic and aesthetically intriguing patterns encompassed in fragile bone china, which I feel if viewed in a hospital environment, could provide patients with a distraction and in turn could calm nerves.