Our trustees play a vital role, overseeing major decisions about the charity.

We aim to ensure that our trustees share a diverse range of skills. Find out more about them below.

Prof Jane Anderson CBE, BSc, MBBS, PhD, FRCP, FRSA, SFFMLM

Professor Jane Anderson is our Chair. She is an internationally recognised figure, academic and clinical leader with extensive experience in fast-moving and politically sensitive areas of medicine, health, and public policy. As an experienced board and committee chair and charity trustee, Professor Anderson has the leadership expertise, communication, advocacy, and influencing skills, to support Paintings in Hospitals further towards our ambitious vision to revolutionise art and creativity in healthcare environments, for the wellbeing of all.  

Stephen Crampton-Hayward FRSA

Stephen is our Treasurer and Vice-Chair. He also chairs our Finance & General Purposes Committee. With a degree in Finance & Economics, Stephen's career has focused on charity administration and governance. He is Director of Finance & Corporate Services for WorldSkills UK. Prior to this, he was Managing Director of Whitechapel Gallery, having worked primarily in arts charities throughout his 20-year career, including the Serpentine Gallery, the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and the Central School of Ballet. Stephen is Acting Chair of Discover Story Centre and a trustee of the National AIDS Trust.

Dr Mary Black

Mary is a public health doctor. “Tell the truth, and use numbers to help you,” is her philosophy. Raised in Northern Ireland and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, she is Board Clinical Director and Head of Health Protection at Public Health Scotland. Her very unusual CV includes establishing a medical school in North Queensland, working with the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the Balkans, being a salmon judge in Alaska, and starting two successful tech companies. She has also worked for the 2012 London Olympics, and as a Director of Public Health in London.

Jeanette Grose

Jeanette has over 20 years’ experience of marketing and fundraising in both the not-for-profit and business sectors. As Head of Philanthropy at top 25 national charity Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), she leads a team of seven to raise an annual target of £2 million from trusts and major donors. Jeanette is also a trustee of the Young Ealing Foundation, which provides support to the Children and Young People sector in the London Borough of Ealing. Having attended various art therapy courses, Jeanette is passionate about the role that art can play in long-term health and wellbeing.

Professor Marion Lynch

Marion is a Nurse and Consultant in International Health Systems, Quality Improvement and Innovation. She was formerly Deputy Medical Director at NHS England, South East. From a family of nurses, Marion’s first role was on a Haematology Unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, caring for teenagers with Leukaemia. A portfolio career with academic opportunities, including receiving her Doctorate, has led to roles including Programmes Lead for Patient Leadership at the NHS Leadership Academy in the Thames Valley. Marion is also a Visiting Professor in Dementia Care with the University of West London, where she teaches and supervises students. Last year she set up her own charity, the Fiona Foundation for Kids, in order to provide special care for children living in the Mathare slums in Nairobi, Kenya.

Robert Milburn

Robert is a Chartered Accountant and was an audit partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 25 years until his retirement in 2014. Since then, he has been a trustee of Parks for London (2014 to 2018) and is currently a trustee and governor at The Lady Eleanor Holles School in South West London and chairs a small charity raising funds to help vulnerable young people in Lebanon. Robert also sits on the audit and risk committees of the care sector charity Marie Curie, the Valuation Office Agency, The National Archives, and Canal and River Trust.

Krishna Omkar

Krishna is a Senior Associate at international law firm King & Spalding. His legal practice includes cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate advisory matters. Krishna was named a Future Leader by the Financial Times in 2015 and 2016, and listed by the Telegraph as one of the Top 50 LGBT people in business. His pro-bono work includes aiding LGBT rights activists across the globe and establishing a foundation that helps underprivileged students from India access international education opportunities.

Farha Quadri

Farha chairs our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee. She is Programme Lead for a major transformation programme at King’s College Hospital, designed to improve urgent and emergency care. Prior to working for the NHS, Farha was a strategy consultant at KPMG where she specialised in the healthcare and life sciences industries and advised C-suite leaders on growth strategy, organisational change and global health systems. She has an undergraduate degree from Oxford University in French and Spanish and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. During her time at Columbia, Farha worked as a policy advisor to former US president Bill Clinton at The Clinton Foundation.

Our Board of Trustees has three subcommittees covering Finance, Engagement, and EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion). You can find out more about them here.

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