Art exhibition

Everyone in the village received a formal invitation to the ‘Animaux’ exhibition, which was held this morning at 11.00am at the Marie.

Before anyone could get a glimpse of the pictures being exhibited, there were of course the usual speeches from the mayor, the artist, and from someone important from Vannes. Forty minutes later we all filed up the stairs to a small room above the Marie. The pictures were actually very good and they allowed your imagination to see more than was actually painted. I did feel very sorry for the artist as the pictures were hung in a long narrow room lit with fluorescent tubes with a huge table taking up virtually the whole of the room so your face was virtually pressed against the picture you were looking at.

However, the artist was incredibly genuine and kind. She spent at least 30 minutes answering the children’s questions, why do you paint animals, how did you paint that unicorn ?, how long did it take to paint that picture and so on..

We then enjoyed a cider with cassis in the warm April sunshine.