New Whitchurch Arts member sells artwork three times over. Well done Karin, for selling a painting and taking 2 commissions.

The Off the Walls exhibition, in conjunction with Green Aware week, was a great success last Saturday in the Gill Nethercott Centre. Our new screens were a credit to Steve Morris, Liz and Steve Miller for their hard work in the repair and painting of them. Thanks to Jacqui and Maria for co-ordinating the artwork to enhance the new screens.

The theme of ‘Green’ and ‘Energy’ gave artists a new perspective for artwork to submit.

Painting ©2010 Steve Miller

A powerful piece by Steve Miller depicting Stonehenge and wind turbines, gave the foundation for meaningful discussions about the environment.

Thank you to everyone who made the day what it was.

A big thank you to SEEDA, who made it possible through their funding to update the display materials for the exhibition, including free standing easels which added that certain panache.

Another big thank you to Steve Morris who put a lot of time and effort into collating artist details, making labels, making and displaying the roadside plaques (which proved to be the biggest lure to people who attended the exhibition) putting together a slide show amongst other things.

People enjoy art on the theme of 'Green' and 'Energy'

Liz did a brilliant job involving children in the art challenge. It was great to see the variety of art pieces the children chose to copy and the talent that we have in our younger generations.

Gillian and Maria serve up creative coffees!

Maria and Gillian spent a lot of time in the kitchen serving refreshments. With the money raised from the refreshments we will be buying token presents to say thank you for the children who entered the art challenge.

Eric’s music serenaded the steady flow of people through the afternoon and the overall feeling was that of accomplishment.

Whitchurch Arts can take pride from the compliments of the public who graced the exhibition and look forward to the next one in six months time.