The Bethany Tayla Woods Fund Website

This is Me: The Art of Children is a unique and pioneering project from the Association of Children's Hospices (ACH) to showcase and sell works of art by children and young people who use children's hospice services throughout the UK.

Bethany Tayla Woods / age 6 / East Anglia Children's Hospices

My name is Bethany Tayla Woods and I am six years old.

I was born with a condition called Merosin Negative Congenital Muscular Dystrophy. This means that my muscles are not producing the protein that they need to build me up and make me strong, so I am not able to walk. However, I like to use my electric wheelchair to get about.

I have been coming to East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices in Ipswich for about two and a half years now. I have a lot of fun and am very busy when I visit there.

I love to paint and I have painted myself as a princess, just like Cinderella. She is my favourite princess and I want to be like her. I used a golden blonde yellow colour for my hair and I mixed red and white colours for my face. As well as painting, I also love to do lots of activities such as playing hide and seek, playing with play dough, dressing up, doing pretend play and I really enjoy making pretend meals for the staff using the toy kitchen. Sometimes I have Music Therapy with Ray and I regularly have outreach at home.

I have made lots of friends at the hospice and look forward to my visits.

SOLD by auction on 5 December 2007

http://www.childhospice.org.uk/artofchildren/catalogue/index.html

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With thanks to 'This is me' and the' Association of Children's Hospices (ACH)'