"Look at the detail on this," Mary said, pointing to one of the drawings in the new art exhibition at the Globe (she was there in her official capacity as Mayor, for the opening). "Isn't that wonderful? And then he's got a tree growing out of his nose...."
Lynette Margerison's view of the world is - interesting.... She paints in oils on driftwood, collects plastic bottles on the shore (around Ogmore) and tries to float little boats inside them, and made a sculpture of a fence post, some wire fencing and a lot of children's shoes spray painted in peacock colours. She's recently moved from the seaside to Talgarth, and is gaining inspiration from walks in the Black Mountains.
This new exhibition at the Globe is only one small part of Powys Arts Month - I got a booklet from Athene in Castle Street, and there are all sorts of things going on. Locally, Lion Street Gallery is listed, as well as Hay Makers and Kate Freeman the painter. Clyro Village Hall has an exhibition called The Lives of Others (a collaboration between four visual artists, a storyteller and the wider community, it says); Karin Mear and Nigel Evans of the B&R are opening up their home for animal inspired pop art, photography and paintings, called At Home with Baaah! (Children and pets welcome), and the photo for Artbeat Brecon, the Brecon Arts Festival, is of one of Huw Parsons' poems printed on a brown paper bag filled with apples - he did a collaboration with the local greengrocers!
Further afield, there's photography, paintings, sculpture, the Beulah Music Festival, pottery, Shakespeare from the Mid Powys Youth Theatre, glass, woodcuts by Guatamalan artists and wickerwork stags. There's even 'art to wear' made from felted wool on organza, with embroidery.
And it's happening in venues spread between Welshpool and Machynlleth in the north down to Ystradgynlais and Crickhowell in the south (Powys is big - really big. You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's nothing to Powys)*
*with apologies to Douglas Adams
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