FEATURING the contents of a ShelterBox in the window display of her current exhibition, Nicky Carlyon, proprietor of Badcock's Gallery in Newlyn, leaves one in no doubt of its purpose – to raise funds for this splendid cause.
The third such exhibition to be held here – the previous two raised enough to supply ten ShelterBoxes – she is hoping this one will not only equal but pass that total.
Sadly, this is the last picture show of any kind to be seen here. However, although she is closing the premises after a successful decade of showing and selling art works, she is keeping the name and the reputation of Badcock's alive with a new online venture in the New Year, Badcock's on Tour.
While thanking everyone for their support and custom during the past ten years, she points out that information regarding future events can be obtained via her e-mail newsletter: www.badcocksgallery.co.uk
Launched in the year 2000, at the same time as Badcock's Gallery, founded by Tom Henderson, Rotarian and former Royal Navy search and rescue diver, the Helston-Lizard Rotary Club adopted ShelterBox as its Millennium project unaware that it would become the largest Rotary Club project in the world.
Forty two artists, all of whom are donating part of the proceeds of their sales to ShelterBox, have come up with more than 100 works, of postcard size and ranging in price from Kristin Vestgard's oil on canvas Winter 1 at £50 to Laurie Steen's oil on wood Beech Hedge 1 at £370.
It's impossible to mention them all but from Bernard Evans' St Michael's Mount and Audrey Evans' Godrevy Lighthouse to Alice Mumford's White Cloth, Red Apples and Jessica Cooper's Roses Almost Gone, this is a quality show. A reminder that small is beautiful, in view of its good cause one can but hope that public response to it will match that of ShelterBox to disaster and be equally magnificent.
Admission is free, and Postcards For ShelterBox can be seen in Badcock's Gallery, The Strand, Newlyn, 10.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday, 11am to 5.30pm Saturday, until Christmas Eve.
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