Well done and good luck to the group members of the Arts and Talents Group (artists with special needs) on their exhibition paintings presently on show at the Stranraer Library. I meet with the group weekly to give art tutoring and inspire the artists to create their own paintings. The artwork on show represents around 12 months work and I know that the artists were all very excited about showing their work and in the run up to the show they were fully involved in the preparation, framing, hanging process for the exhibition with the help of their support workers. On the opening evening of exhibition, an excellent response was received from the local community and the local newspaper turned up to take photographs of the exhibition and artists. This turnout and positive response to the group members paintings have inspired them to create more work and a few members have asked me about wanting to start a new painting theme in our next art session.
