Grasby Art Group hold their First Exhibition

By May the 13th thanks to the West Lindsey District Council advertising of the Open Churches week-end the whole of Lincolnshire and his wife seemed to know that the village of Grasby was open to visitors. As there were to be Artist on display in the Village Hall and the church dressed overall with flowers on a nursery rhyme theme it was thought that now was a good time for the Grasby Project Phase II to show what it was made of.

Display boards were purchased and mounts for the pictures of Grasby Art Group handed out and members brought their work for show to the Wednesday meeting. The actual display was erected in the tower of the church, after the bell ringers had been persuaded to make room, with the paintings given a final check by the Group Tutor, Ailsa Wish of Caistor.

During the two days over two hundred people visited the church and while not everyone liked every picture, for art is a very personal thing, there was no disagreement on the amount of work that had gone into the paintings or that this talent had now been hiding under a bushell for far too long.

The group welcomes new members at 6.30pm on a Wednesday in the village hall and is the first of a series of workshops presented by the Grasby Project. The next to take place is a Tree Identification Workshop on June 25th which is the preamble to the carrying out of a hedgerow survey. This data will be computerised and put onto a parish map that will then be cross-stitched by the village as an historical document of the future.

Other events to watch out for are The Grasby Poet, Bookbinding, Cross-stitch, Website building, and a series of WEA style lectures with the cream of local history lecturers.For more information on any of the events please contact Ifor Barton on 01652 628337 or e-mail