Pictures chosen for 'twin towns' souvenir
booklet
Three pictures of scenes in and around Barry Island have been
selected by the public for a 'twin towns' souvenir booklet.
Selected from 25 postcard-sized pictures of the area by members
of the Vale of Glamorgan Artists group, the winning entries, and
views of the Vale's main towns, will feature alongside similar
contributions from the twin towns of Fecamp (France), Rheinfelden
(Germany) and Mouscron (Belgium).
This year marks twinning anniversaries with Fecamp
(50 years), Rheinfelden (40 years) and Mouscron (25 years) and, in
addition to the booklet, the Vale council and its 'partners' are
mounting an exhibition of all the submitted works - around 100
in total.
The exhibition opens in Fecamp at their Festival of the Sea in
June and moves on Mouscron during July and August and Rheinfelden
in September as part of the town’s street stall festival,
Troitterfest. It will open in the Vale at the Cowbridge Food and
Drink Festival, 25 and 26 October, before moving on to Art Central
in the Town Hall, Barry.
The Vale's booklet pictures will be 'The Carousel
Comes to Barry' (Eve Hart, above)), 'The Old Harbour' (Peter
Moulding, right) and 'A Trip to Barry Island' (Alan Salisbury, top
right). Eve, who enjoys working on small-scale paintings of
familiar local scenes, produced her top entry after a visit to the
Island with her grandchildren.
Vale Mayor Cllr Clive Williams, who congratulated the artists,
heard that the group, founded in 1997, has members from across the
area. It has organised numerous exhibitions, including one at the
Welsh Assembly, and already has close links with Fecamp and
Rheinfelden where they have also exhibited.
13/05/2008