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Noyes Art Designs Paints the Prairie State By Nancy Noyes Shawnee Mission Medical Pavilion recently opened in Lenexa, KS. Noyes Art Designs worked with Darren Pecharich, a designer at Boulder Associates Architects and Interiors to create a Kansas Prairie design that included a steel and ceramic sunflower installation in the Imaging Center as well as a random dimensional clay sculpture wall in the Surgery Center. “We wanted Kansas to be represented through the design and artwork, and Darren and Nancy worked hard to show off our state, “ said Robin Harrold, Administrator. Kansas, after all, is the Sunflower state; so the use of sunflowers in the sculptures as well as photographs within the departments brought smiles to the faces of the owners and staff.
The Surgery department wanted the emphasis of artwork to be in the Waiting Area as family and friends spend a great deal of time there while their loved one is in surgery. The 16 piece installation boasts hand crafted clay of all Kansas subjects including wheat, corn, rolling hills, and the requisite sunflower!
The Emergency Department was designed with photographs in the treatment rooms of fields of wheat, wind turbines, rolling hills and fields of sunflowers. The Waiting Area is brightened by 3 oversized vector prints that include geese flying over the Plains and sheaths of wheat flanking that piece.
We loved working on this project; It was a fun challenge and one that stretched our creativity to commission the Sunflower sculpture that needed to fit within OSHA restrictions. It is one of my great joys when staff and the public give us sincere appreciation when they see how the artwork pulls together all of the design elements!
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