Chesterfield artist is producing a drawing a day to boost morale and raise funds for NHS workers

Stacey Goodwin came up with the idea after her father suffered a stroke and spent several months in Chesterfield Royal Infirmary.

Every time the 27-year-old went to visit her father she would take him one of her drawings “to brighten his day and give him something different to look at”.

And when the coronavirus pandemic struck, Stacey, who works as a sales manager, decided to extend the project and launched her Facebook page Isolation Ink.

Now, each day, Stacey creates a new drawing and posts them onto the page and will be donating all the artwork to Chesterfield Royal, or the new Nightingale Hospital.

She has also created her own JustGiving page and is asking people to make donations to help local NHS services stay afloat.

She also wants people to put up their own artwork onto her Facebook page and hopes to start competitions to keep young people active and creative while they are stuck at home.

She said: “I draw a lot anyway as a hobby and when my dad had a stroke on December 30, I started drawing pictures to put on the wall next to his hospital bed and a lot of the staff at the hospital loved them.

“I was drawing because I was stuck at home and bored and with the new page I draw and share one picture a day - I’m using coloured paper to try and represent all the colours of the rainbow, which people are using at the moment. If it gets enough follows and likes, I’m going to start doing competitions as well.

“People can just go onto the Isolation Ink page and share their own work.”

Stacey, from Holmewood, Chesterfield, is now dealing with the hospital’s arts team to establish how to physically deliver the art, and whether all or some of it should be donated to the new Nightingale Hospital, in London.

Her dad is now back at home and recovering after his stroke.