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Sir Neil Cossons OBE

1996-1999

Concentration

1991-1993

Three Surgeons and Theatre Lights

1991-1993

Nurse in Red

1991-1993

Threaded needle holders

1991

Surgeons' Hands

1991-1993

First Impressions

1990-1994

Stephen Westaby, Cardiothoracic Surgeon

1991-1993

The Horologist, John Elcomb

1996-1999

Cardiothoracic Surgery

1991-1993

In the X-ray Unit

1991-1994

Pastel painting, Sound Dish, Launch Pad, by Keith Holmes, 1994

Pastel painting

1994

Pastel painting, Heavy Pen, Launch Pad, by Keith Holmes, 1994

Pastel painting

1994

Charcoal sketch. Sir Neil Cossons OBE, 1997, by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum. This preliminary sketch is a study of the Director’s hands, two of which can be seen in the final oil painting of the Director seated in his office.

Sketch of Sir Neil Cossons OBE

1997

Pastel painting, Distorting Mirror, Launch Pad, by Keith Holmes, 1994. In the Science Museum's interactive education area

Distorting Mirror, Launch Pad

1994

Charcoal drawing, Stadium Lights, by Keith Holmes, 1994

Stadium Lights

1994

Charcoal sketch. Sir Neil Cossons OBE, 1997, by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum. This preliminary sketch depicts a similar view to the final oil painting with the Director seated working in his office.

Sketch of Sir Neil Cossons OBE

1997

Pastel painting, Caerphilly Castle, by Keith Holmes, 1994. In the Science Museum's Land Transport Gallery (closed 1996). Painting is of Dawn Bentley cleaning the locomotive whilst she was a Conservation Assistant. She later became the Conservation Assistant Supervisor and worked for the museum for 33 years, retiring in 2018.

Caerphilly Castle

1994

Charcoal drawing, Scientific Instrument, by Keith Holmes, 1994

Charcoal drawing

1994

Painting, pastel, 'Navigation officer' by Keith Holmes, 1998. A study of a navigation officer working in infra-red light, using chart and drawing instruments, wearing headphones and speaker attachment; worked from study on board HMS Somerset, the officer is female and later became acting captain.

Navigation officer

1998

Painting. David Westaby examining X-rays, Endoscopy Unit, Charing Cross Hospital London, by Keith Holmes, 1991-93. Oil on board; image 45x60cm in frame, 53.5x68.5x3cm.

David Westaby examining X-rays

1991-1993

Charcoal sketch. Sir Neil Cossons OBE, 1997, by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum. This preliminary sketch is a view of the Director’s head and shoulders as he talks on the telephone.

Sketch of Sir Neil Cossons OBE

1997

Painting. Sir Neil Cossons OBE, by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum, 1994 to 1996, completed 1999. Oil on board; image 102x121cm in frame by artist, 107x125x3.5cm. Left hand panel of a triptych about the Science Museum: looking at curatorship. The Director is seated working in his office, a modern manager using communications technologies. Behind him looking over his shoulder, a Parianware bust of Albert Prince Consort [by Brown-Westhead Moore Co, 1862; our Inv.1991-79], and hints of past curatorship and industrial heritage, Ironbridge; on the desk, present and future science including DNA, 60 molecular model, plan of the Wellcome Wing opening 2000, pictorial heritage represented by postcard of oil painting 'Coalbrookdale by Night' by Loutherbourg 1801 (Inv.1952-452), and a prism reflecting also the PRISM Fund and museum outreach programme; entry ticket hints at museum charges issue

Sir Neil Cossons OBE

1996-1999

Pastel painting, "Technician at Wroughton", by Keith Holmes, 1994. Study of Mike Ham, working in the Science Museum's conservation hangar

Technician at Wroughton

1994

Painting, Serendip / by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum 1994 to 1996. Panel inspired by serendipitous discovery within Science Museum collections during work on commission; forming middle of triptych. Begun 1997, completed 1999 and retitled 'Serendip' from 'Ongoing no.3'. Oil on board; image 102x52.5cm in frame by artist, 107x58x3.5cm. Signed on geometrical figure bl, KH99. A showcase is structured upon matter of infinity. Within its windows are some of the treasures of science which have contributed to the making of the modern world. Including: Whittle aeroengine; DNA model; accelerator; chaos butterfly; conjectural mathematical model of stellated octohedron (from a 16th century print in'Perspectiva Corporum Regularium'); model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Penydarran' of 1804. Top right: experimental Jarvik 2000 artificial heart pump; panel was completed after artist attended pioneering operation 1998 by Stephen Westaby at Oxford Heart Centre

Serendip

1997-1999