Richard Keating Artist

November 2025

First Friday Walk. Bone Scan Cheltenham General Hospital and Norton Wood, Nailsworth.

‘Between Worlds, Between Times, Between Mediums’

thanks for the prompt Tamsin Grainger.

A radioactive in-between-times walk

I was walking both inside and outside. This was in itself a metaphor for passing between worlds. The inside was mainly in hospital where my own inside, my bones were being scanned. I was very aware of the portals that are a part of passing between worlds – between states of being, between times, between being and maybe not being.

After I’d been injected with radioactive isotopes, I had a lot of time to wait around – waiting is itself being between things and between times. Walking changes waiting to doing, to being. So in-between times Helen and I took a mildly radioactive First Friday Walk outside.

This in-between-times walk was about changed states – particularly inside and outside the hospital, particularly the wonder of autumnal changes and eventually returning inside to the hospital and a still meditation inside me. I think of changes as a series of in-between states and processes. Temporary encounters with an ongoing series of remembered and shared moments and experiences of our time on earth. Our time walking the land.

January 2026.

Running the equivalent of a Marathon to raise funds for Prostate Cancer research.

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Park Run, Eastville, Bristol

March 2026

Radiotherapy Running: I had 20 days of radiotherapy in Cheltenham Oncology Unit; five days a week. Although it was hard to find the time to run I wanted to keep running as a part of my treatment. I was aware of the radio waves attacking my body and attempted to replicate this in my drawings.