Saturday, September 24, 2011

Sustaining the person within press release!


Delighted to see the press release appear in the Observer this week (24 September).  There should be another mention next week as well, possibly in the Solihull News or Times.  We are thrilled by the enthusiastic response from all sorts of people - had a sweet email from St Bernard's Residential Home for example, who had not been able to attend the presentation but wanted us to meet up with the lady who is involved in taking art activities at the home.

'Grace, moving on' is due to be collected from the Arts Complex on Monday - how ironic, we moved Grace and her belongings to Aberystwyth yesterday to start her first year at Uni.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Sustaining the Person Within is launched!

Kathryn Pettitt and I have been preparing for the launch of our arts project 'Sustaining the Person Within' for what seems like forever!  Our presentation was part of An Insider Guide to Arts Work with Older People Event at Solihull Arts Complex today, 8th September.  Our presentation was a bit different involving some art students from Rayner House Residential Home in Solihull - while the presentation went on they did some painting at a table set for an art session.  There was a lovely display of memorabilia and our interactive ice breaker gave the audience time to think about the things they would miss about home if they moved into resdential care.  Kathryn and I will now be planning the next stage of the project - starting art and craft sessions in residential care homes and day centres in and around Solihull.  We will tell you more in due course.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Solihull Artist Forum (SAF) Exhibition

On Thursday I went along to the private view at Solihull Arts Complex of the exhibition marking Ten Years of SAF.  Extraordinary that it has been 10 years since the group first formed, many of those original members still being very involved.


My painting 'Grace, moving on' is one of the exhibits - a follow on from a previous image of my daughter, 'Grace Playing the Saxophone' which curiously hung in the SAF Hands On Exhibition in 2008.
I shall be in the gallery tomorrow, 5th September between 1.00 and 3.00pm and again on the 9th September, also between 1.00 and 3.00pm.  The exhibition runs until the 24th September.