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Sydenham Gardens is a unique wellbeing centre utilising its gardens, nature reserve and activity rooms to help people in their recovery from mental and physical ill-health in Lewisham.
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They asked their co-workers to write down words describing what Sydenham Gardens meant to them, and draw pictures of their favourite plants. Taking these drawings I created a composition to be painted as a mural outside Forest Hill railway station.
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