See the artwork
On September 15th Gallery Tresco will be hosting an opening night for a very special collection of paintings and artwork. Throughout February 2009 Lucy Dorrien-Smith sent bunches of Tresco daffodils to our artists asking them to create a piece of art that could be used in the fund-raising effort to build a Hospice for life challenged children in Cornwall.
The images featured here are just two of the many submitted for our forth-coming show, which will be supported by a full colour brochure to be mailed out in September.
Please contact us at gallery@tresco.co.uk if you would like to be included in the mailout.
WORDS BY STUART KETTLE
"In February this year I received a box of early Daffodils from Gallery Tresco on the Isles of Scilly, with a letter asking me to help by producing a painting using the Daffodils as a source of inspiration in support of the 'Precious Lives Hospice' in South-West Cornwall.
I thought for a long time what Daffodils might say about a Childrens' Hospice. Daffodils to me are a sign of new life and hope, a splash of colour after the long Winter, so I have used the Daffodil as a representation of hope and light. In giving the flower a soft, out of focus image I try to portray the idea that, even through a veil of tears, light will shine through and go on leaving positive memories of the precious children.
The new Hospice is depicted as a sandcastle, watched over by a lone Oystercatcher perched on a child's seaside spade, a constant memory of the lost child.
Overall the picture is one of hope and positive feelings reflecting the dedicated work of those people helping to bulild 'Little Harbour' Hospice for Children now and in the future." Stuart Kettle, 2009
