Exhibition week.

Wednesday 5th, was assigned for placing of works at Wooton, St. Andrews, so we met early morning and carried our art into the display areas and began the transformation of the church.  My main piece was in the pulpit, leaning up from the shelf of the lecturn to the back wall, with various additives and it was important that all parts were safe and secure with health and safety very much in the forefront of our minds.  All the cables and connections to sound effects were made safe and blocked off to avoid any possible misfortune for our visitors and of course all the artists.  The children had arranged to meet on Thursday at the church to fill their spaces and to give to Caroline the self-portraits they had made to be put on the old cd`s.  These were hung in the trees to be viewed both on the approach to the church and on leaving. The older children from the Primary School had collaged pictures after the style of Acrimboldo which were very colourful. We had all distributed leaflets to advertise the event which co-incided with Harvest Festival. Friday was the local Flower clubs turn to brighten St. Andrews with floral beauty. Barry and myself met Caroline on Friday afternoon to help with last minute preparations for the refreshments and the atmospherics, which played a huge part in the transformation. An opportune find led to an installation in the vicars room, off the altar area where Barry set up a sound spectacle with wonderful results and was a real success, with everyone impressed.   We had 18 donated raffle prizes, and together with the auction and saleable home-mades we were hopeful for a good return for the fund. `Treasures in the Midst`, the first of our collaborated exhibitions was a big learning curve for us, but all in all it was certainly worthwhile.  Sunday evening saw St.
Andrews returned to its normality when oddly it seemed the church echoed our feelings of inevitable culmination.  My personal reflection to end with this week is that ` Art in its many forms is one of the finest ways of communication, it has no restrictions of age, race, or creed.

Cordiali saluti, Suemuse.