"I have a quest to bring creativity and healing into the world of medicine in this 21st Century. This collaboration between art and medicine is in dire need today. We walk into the very technological uncolorful atmospheres of the medical setting, which has been dehumanized and we see the very essential quality that color and the life force is needed to bring about healing.

It is my goal to set the seeds for this in many areas including the same people who are creative i.e. the artist who sees their world through their narrow eyes of themselves limiting their art to only the venues, which the art world has set up narrowly for themselves.

Art and humanism should be available to all and not selfishly. The human being is the only one that can create tools with their hand, body, spirit and mind being expressed to evoke feelings of well~being. Let this creativity help to heal.

GK Chesterton has stated that “A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.” My purpose is to make you think what might be done for the future. I am sure many of you all ready know of some of the ideas but what more can be done if we move in this direction preventing emotional illness which is the beginning of much of our human pathology.

I propose that there be major involvement financially and emotionally to make this a mainstream event and not just be a volunteer program but a livelihood program that will give talented people jobs and purpose to help the sick live life to its fullest whatever life they have. Artists and audiences should not see art just in our rigid venues of galleries and museums but to expand the thinking that we work together to improve the spirit in other places, which art does, such as hospitals and medical settings. Creative people need to be validated and money does this. In this series I have painted you will see individuals whom I have met who are aligned and contribute to this field.” Wilma Bulkin Siegel, M.D.

Wilma Bulkin Siegel, M.D. was born in Philadelphia in 1936. As a 7 year old, Dr. Bulkin vowed that she would either become a physician or an artist when she grew up. Although a medical career ultimately won out (she graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1962), she continued studying and refining her skills as an artist throughout her years as a practicing physician.

Retired since 1990, Dr. Bulkin devoted nearly 20 years as an oncologist and educator at Montefiore Hospital and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. She later served as medical director of the Ritter Scheurer Hospice at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx. Dr. Bulkin studied sculpture with Bruno Lucchesi at the New School in New York from 1974 to 1984, and art at the National Academy of Design in New York from 1989 to 1993.

The recipient of several watercolor awards, Dr. Bulkin’s paintings are found in numerous private collections. Dr. Bulkin exhibits primarily in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and New York, where she and her husband Jesse Siegel, reside.