A new exhibition opened last night at Addymans. Derek dressed the part, in a Malian tunic top, and the shop was full of Malian mud paintings and wooden sculptures. One of the artists was there too (on the second attempt to get a visa from Bamako).
As well as exhibiting the pictures and sculptures, Hay2Timbuktu have been going round local schools showing the children how to make mud pictures. They even brought the mud over from Mali!
It was also a chance to see how far they've got with putting the new shelves in the front room. The church they come from is (or was) somewhere in Eastern Europe - they're not sure which country, but they've decided that the original blue and gold paint scheme looks so good that they're not going to change it.
Lots of people were there, and I suppose the general description of the sort of people who attended (the ones I know anyway) would be something between "the great and the good" of Hay and "the usual suspects"! I saw Kate Freeman upstairs, talking about how she had been called an 'allogorical artist' rather than an abstract artist, and mentioning that she's branching out into figurative work.
I also saw Paul from Oxford House, with his empty wine glass between his knees while he checked out an interesting volume (I did offer to hold the wine glass for him!).
Apparently some people have said that they like to see art exhibitions at Addymans, because it gives them a better idea of what the art work will look like in their own home, rather than seeing it in some vast empty space of a conventional gallery.
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