On
four Friday evenings in November and December, fourteen
children from Grantshouse, aged from 6 to 11 years, attended 'Kidzart'
in the Village Hall.
Their
amazing talents and imagination was astounding as they created
Plaster-of-Paris bowls, beakers and platters from Mod-Roc and
then sculptured various models of their own choice from clay
during the first evening.
Over
the following weeks these creations were painted and they went
on to paint and draw portraits of each other, still life
items, land and seascapes as well as amazing abstracts and
other subjects of their own free choice.
It
was time to have a show! So, just
like the adult art classes, Kidzart's children held an
exhibition of their work in the village Hall on Saturday 12th
December from 2.00 to 4.00pm with a preview on the evening of
Friday 11th at 7.00pm.
Before everyone arrived Angie
took a break
from preparing the exhibition and hanging the pictures on
display but one of the artworks was hung upside down! - can you
spot which one it was? (The artist soon put us right. Thank you
James!)
Mrs. Margaret Morgan
from RDA
At 7.00pm on Friday evening
visitors started to arrive and were welcomed with a glass of
mulled wine or fruit juice accompanied by savoury snacks.
The Expo was formerly opened by Mrs
Margaret Morgan from Reston. The Chairman of Berwickshire's Riding
for the Disabled, she congratulated all the children for producing
such a wonderful show, exhibiting so much talent and artistic
imagination.
Every child chose at least one or
more of their creations to be offered for sale at the exhibition,
the proceeds from the sale of the artworks to be donated to
Berwickshire's Riding for the Disabled. The price of each
item for sale was set at a minimum of £1.00 or maximum of
£2.00.
We were delighted that all the
artwork offered for sale was very quickly sold raising a grand
total of £83.00 for the RDA.
Organized by the Grantshouse
Community Trust the entry to the exhibition was free but
donations to the Trust's Funds were welcomed and a grand
selection of raffle prizes were also kindly donated by friends,
both raising a grand total of £46.00 towards the funds.
Many thanks to Angie, John,
Kateriina and Jane for organizing and helping at Kidzart; to all
the children thanks for all the fun and to everyone who attended
the Expo many thanks for their generosity!
The selection of
raffle prizes ->
Ruby made and
painted this bright red bowl in Mod-Roc and then modelled
the walrus and dolphin and her little house in clay. They are very
attractive unpainted but maybe one day she will decide
to paint them.
The 'elephant'
beautifully modelled in clay and painted by Alyx
With Christmas only a few weeks
away some fabulous Christmas Cards and seasonal pictures were
designed as collage using fabrics,
sequins, buttons and assorted beads, paints and glue.
Many extra thanks are due to
Kateriina Hyslop who inspired the children
and helped
us all by providing all the collage materials
<- A collage
Christmas Card designed and made by Bonny
A clay
Christmas tree and star also modelled and painted by Alyx ->
