More Exhibitions

Sarah Putt, who works at Booths Bookshop and does those amazing window displays, had the opening of her exhibition of paintings yesterday evening in Booths Cafe. She's done lots of portraits of local Hay people, and there were a couple of landscapes, and mixed media mosaics. I liked the one called Lost in Hay, with a group of bits and pieces that had been picked up off the street. The portraits are excellent - I was talking to Susie, who sat for her portrait, and she said that it not only looked like her, but it got inside her too. Her husband said that he wouldn't want to own it, though, because Susie looked far too serious in it!
The cafe was packed out - I saw lots of people I knew.
Sarah has a website at www.sarahputt.org
As we were leaving, Elizabeth told us that there was another exhibition opening around the back of the building, and we were welcome to go to that as well.
This one is called Ex Purgamento, and is a collection of frankly strange and surreal objects by Natalia Zagorska-Thomas. I quite liked the white shoe with white kid glove 'wings'. She was offering drinks and nibbles too, but in her case it was herring and vodka! To quote her flyer (which gets rather philosophical): "Tadeusz Kantor said, 'The object exists between the rubbish heap and eternity.' It is in that space, suspended between destruction and immortality, that Zagorska-Thomas's objects fight with her for control of their own destiny."
Natalia has a website at www.zagorska-thomas.com