Tickets are now on sale for CUH Charity’s raffle of painting by Matt Lamb valued at €100,000.

As part of the art and sale exhibition by the Warren Gallery in the CUH, the Matt Lamb family who are based in Chicago so kindly donated a piece of work by Matt Lamb called “Working Together”.  This piece has been valued at €100,000.  This unique painting was donated by the family as part of the CUH Charity’s appeal to raise €1,500,000 to refurbish the Children’s Unit.

Matt Lamb, who was born in Chicago in 1932, ran the city’s largest family-run funeral home franchise.  But after a brush with death in his early 50s, he revaluated his priorities, sold his businesses and dedicated the rest of his life to art.

With several homes in West Cork and studios around the world, he became a tireless activist for world peace and used his art career to advance his own personal mantra of “peace, tolerance, understanding, hope, and love”.

In 2001, in the wake of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, he created The Lamb Umbrellas for Peace project.

He brought 38 children who had lost their parents in the attack to Washington DC for a three-day art workshop where they expressed their feelings in colourful ways on the umbrellas which were subsequently shown on Capitol Hill.

That project has now become a global art movement.

Lamb received treatment in CUH before his death in Feb 2012. A number of his work can also be seen throughout the CUH and CUMH.

Tickets are now for sale at €10 each, 3 for €20 or a book of 10 for €50 and are available from the CUH Charity Office, Room 8, Main Concourse, Cork University Hospital, Wilton.