Impressionist Art Seen Through Blurred Vision

The French painter widely accredited with being the leader of the neo-impressionist movement, Georges Seurat, took a scientific approach to the way he applied his paint to the canvas. By the use of tiny dots of colour (known as pointillism) the viewer is required to join the dots rather than having the paints already blended on the canvas. This technique is pretty time consuming for the artist – Seurat took two years to complete his famous “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”. When viewing his great works I can’t help but wonder about his eyesight and how these pictures might be viewed by those with colour blindness….

London Vision Clinic Featured On Channel 4 Live From The Clinic – Donna Sepala’s Patient story

A staggering 2.1 billion pounds is spent on one particular accessory every year and I’m not talking handbags. 50% of the UK population suffers with poor eye sight. Every year we spend more than £2.1 billion on glasses and contact lenses. Unsurprisingly, corrective surgery has become so popular that 100,000 people had the procedure in the UK last year. LASIK, a type of laser eye surgery, costs on average £3,000 for both eyes. Recovery time for this procedure is between three and four hours….

A Patient’s Laser Eye Surgery Video Diary (Part 8 of 8)

In the final post of her LASIK video diary, Kelly, describes her experiences 3 months after LASIK laser eye surgery. Her 3 month post op check up revealed she had some light sensitivity, which she didn’t really notice day to day, but this was treated. She reflects on wearing glasses and lenses as “a distant memory”, and how the decade of glasses wearing simply disappeared in a matter of couple of months….