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• Vol. 36 No. 3 (2024)

  Bagheera dreams

  Victor Grech is a consultant paediatrician with a special interest in paediatric cardiology. He finds photography and painting relaxing pastimes. He lives in Pembroke with his family, as well as three Siamese cats with the Kiplingesque names Shanti, Mowgli and Shere Khan. This painting depicts these felines' predecessor, beloved Bagheera who crossed the Rainbow Bridge - missed but not forgotten (1994-2011).

  Oil on canvas board with painting knife.

• Vol. 36 No. 2 (2024)

  'Veccia at night' 
  
  

  Lino Said is a retired dentist who is also a self-taught artist. His preferred media are acrylics and pastels.

  Born in 1962, Dr Said attended St Albert the Great College, before graduating from the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malta in 1985. He is currently attending a Diploma course in Archival and Ecclesiastical Patrimony.

  His other interests include Maltese history and archaeology. He also manages a local boutique winery.

  He has been involved in a number of fund-raising activities for various charities.

• Vol. 36 No. 1 (2024)

  'The Maltese Ġilju' - Acrylic on canvas, 2.5m by 70cm
  
  Faye Borg Grech is an educational psychologist by profession who always had a love for art. It started as a young girl's hobby, then obtaining her ordinary and intermediate levels in art. Art is no longer just a hobby, but also an escape from the busy days and the troubling thoughts.
  
  Ms Borg Grech obtained her degree and masters in psychology, and more recently her warrant. She works with the church schools supporting children and adolescents with any learning and mental health needs. She married her husband Luke in 2021. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the wedding turned into an intimate and beautiful ceremony. 
  
  She is an admirer of nature and animals, especially cats. She is the proud owner of an energetic ginger tabby and a very vocal Siamese cat. Most of her artworks will involve an aspect of nature. 
• Malta Medical Journal

  Vol. 35 No. 2 (2023)

  'Escaped rabbit in Maltese countryside monochrome violet in the style of Van Gogh' - Watercolour A3 size (29.7 x 42 cm)   By Chris Camilleri   Chris Camilleri uses Artificial Intelligence to generate images that are used for reference. He paints watercolour paintings of figures, portraits, animals and battle scenes. He likes traditional Chinese art, Tibetan thangkas and high fantasy. His favourite painters are Otto Dix, J.W. Waterhouse and Frank Frazetta. Chris works as an anaesthetist. He is married to Georganne and lives in Qormi.
• Malta Medical Journal

  Vol. 35 No. 1 (2023)

  ‘Fear in Ukraine’ - Acrylic on Canvas

  By Stephanie Mizzi

  Stephanie is a freelance writer and professional photograher. After her mother's sudden passing in 2018 she felt the urge to try her hand at painting. It helped her get through the grief and pain following her demise. She is also a qualified Personal Trainer and Spinning Instructor. In April 2022 she founded Artists for Ukraine, 20,000 Euros were collected in aid of Ukrainian Refugees in Malta. Following its success, she is now working on another project called Artists Inc. which will unite established artists along with new talent both to exhibit their work for charity and to promote new talent. She is also mother to 15year-old Matthew.

  Stephanie also has her own personal website: www.stephaniemizzi.com

• Vol. 34 No. 3 (2022)

  ‘Autumn hues’ - Oil pastel painting

  By Mariella Scerri

  Mariella Scerri is a teacher of English and is also reading for a PhD in Medical Humanities with University of Leicester. Painting is a newly found hobby she discovered during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in 2020. Her preferred medium is oil pastel drawing and she derives inspiration from landscapes and seascapes.

• Malta Medical Journal

  Vol. 34 No. 2 (2022)

  ‘Sqaq biswiet Misrah San Frangisk, Qormi’ - Watercolours

  By Christian Camilleri

  Christian Camilleri is an anaesthetist who began painting in childhood. His preferred medium and subject consist of watercolour figures, portraits, rural and battle scenes. He derives inspiration from both Baroque and early 20th Century sources.

• Malta Medical Journal

  Vol. 34 No. 1 (2022)

  ‘Early morning in the Doge's palace courtyard’ - Pencil

  By Alexander Manche

  Alexander Manche founded the Cardiothoracic Unit in Malta in 1995, having trained in the UK and the US for almost 20 years.

  He also pioneered the transplant programme, mitral valve repair and minimally invasive aortic valve surgery. He was responsible for training the new generation of surgeons.

  His interests include art, music, travel and medical history.

• Vol. 32 No. 2 (2021)

  'Pastoral'  - pencil and ink sketch on cardboard

  by Oliver Friggieri (1947 –2020)

  Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher.

• Vol. 33 No. 1 (2021)

  Cover Picture: 

  'despising the poor'

  stoneware ceramics

  By  Joseph Agius

  Joseph Agius is a senior staff nurse at the Fairyland Ward. He has been working there for the last 30 years. However, his hobby of ceramic sculpture has become his passion and he has established himself as one of Malta’s foremost ceramists. He tends to favour a social neo-realist aesthetic. His profession as nurse exposes him to a world whose fabric at times includes pain, diseases, despair and death. World news is another source of inspiration. Agius chooses linguistic metaphors and figures of speech as springboards for his creations. The titles of his works have a metaphorical origin which Agius interprets as a narrative in clay.

• Malta Medical Journal

  Vol. 32 No. 3 (2020)

  ‘Meersburg am Bodensee, Germany (1991)’ - Watercolour

  By Mario Borg

  Mario Borg, Read Pharmacy at Bachelor's level (1982-86) and later read History of Art at both Bachelor's & Master's levels (1994-2001)

  He has been practicing art in several of its techniques since a long time ago with watercolours, assemblage, acrylics and collage being his preferred media.

• Malta Medical Journal

  Vol. 32 No. 2 (2020)

  Cover Picture:

  ‘drawing of Dawn, a sculpture by Michelangelo for the Cappella Medici’ - Pencil

  By Alexander Manché

  Alexander Manché founded the Cardiothoracic Unit in Malta in 1995, having trained in the UK and the US for almost 20 years.

  He also pioneered the transplant programme, mitral valve repair and minimally invasive aortic valve surgery. He was responsible for training the new generation of surgeons.

  His interests include art, music, travel and medical history.

• Malta Medical Journal

  Vol. 32 No. 1 (2020)

  Cover Picture:

  ‘Vegetable Open Market’

  Watercolours

  By Lina Janulova

  Dr Lina Janulova qualified as a medical doctor from the Malta Medical School in 1985 and obtained a Masters in Public Health in 1997.

  Position: Consultant in Public Health & the Medical Administrator, Mater Dei Hospital (>than 10 years).

  I had the opportunity to pursue my passion for painting 4 years ago where I attend art classes with Mr George Farrugia in Qormi on a weekly basis.

• Vol. 31 No. 3 (2019)

  Cover Picture:

  ‘View of Barrakka Gardens at Night’

  Watercolours

  By Christian Camilleri

  Christian Camilleri is an anaesthesia trainee who began painting in childhood. His preferred medium and subject consist of watercolour figures, portraits and battle scenes. He derives inspiration from both Baroque and early 20th Century sources.

• Malta Medical Journal

  Vol. 31 No. 2 (2019)

  Cover Picture:

  ‘Valletta’

  Maltese lace (Bizzilla)

  By Sr Therese Bajada

• Vol. 31 No. 1 (2019)

  Cover Picture:

  ‘View of St. Angelo from the old fish market in Valletta’

  Watercolours

  By Christian Camilleri

   

  Christian Camilleri is an anaesthesia trainee who began painting in childhood. His preferred medium and subject consist of watercolour figures, portraits and battle scenes. He derives inspiration from both Baroque and early 20th Century sources.

• Vol. 30 No. 2 (2018)

  'Impulse'

  Acrylic on canvas

  by Pierre Mallia

  Pierre Mallia started painting when he was young watching with his father; in the last few years he took up painting again and focuses on Maltese views, mountains, ships and animals. This cover painting was a spontaneous one which gave him the ‘impulse’ to start painting again.

• Vol. 30 No. 1 (2018)

  'Valletta Nocturne'™
  Oil on canvas with palette knife
  By Victor Grech

  Victor Grech is a consultant paediatrician with a special interest in paediatric cardiology. He has a PhD in this field and another in science fiction. He is the editor of the journals Images in Paediatric Cardiology and the Malta Medical Journals and co-chairs HUMS, the Humanities, Medicine and Sciences Programme at the University of Malta.

• Vol. 29 No. 3 (2017)

  Cover Picture: â€˜Valletta’ - Oil on canvas with palette knife

  By Victor Grech

  Victor Grech is a consultant paediatrician with a special interest in paediatric cardiology. He has a PhD in this field and another in science fiction. He is the editor of the journals Images in Paediatric Cardiology and the Malta Medical Journals and co-chairs HUMS, the Humanities, Medicine and Sciences Programme at the University of Malta.

• Vol. 29 No. 2 (2017)

  Cover Picture: â€˜Astral Birth’, Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

  By Erika Zammit

  Erika Zammit is a full time Artist specialising mainly in acrylic and oil paintings. She studied the Arts and History of Arts at Advanced level, and furthered her studies on her own. Her main specialisations are space paintings, portraits and figure drawings. At a young age she joined the NGO Special Rescue Group– St. Lazarus Corps as a volunteer. Growing up volunteering for this NGO was a major inspiration in her life, which lead her to study First Aid at Advanced level, and further become a lecturer in the subject. She is also a lecturer with the institute of Medical Emergency Education, and her subjects are Advanced First Aid, and basic life support.

• Vol. 29 No. 1 (2017)

  Cover Picture: â€˜Old Farm house’, Ink

  By Daren J Caruana

  Daren J. Caruana has an interdisciplinary background, having read Biochemistry at the University of Warwick, PhD in Electrochemistry at the University of Southampton, then after a spell at the Department of Biomedical Sciences in Malta he spent a postdoctoral fellowship at the Chemical Engineering department at the university of Texas at Austin working with Prof. Adam Heller. He was awarded the Marlow Medal and prize (2004) for the development of gas phase electrochemistry and is now a Reader in Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at UCL. His research interests are focused towards understanding the electrochemical properties of plasmas and extending electrochemical science to the gas phase through new applications, including developing new analytical methodology for bioaerosols.