Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2007 | Page 7

FOREWORD Impressions from an Island II Sun 12 August to Wed 15 August 2007 Please support Children in Need The Wight Satin ladies’ barbershop chorus are not averse to making a bit of a noise to promote their summer of fun fundraising for Children in Need. Thanks to a bus from the Newport transport museum Wight Satin announced their forthcoming concerts in style: events will take place in Cowes on Aug 4th and 18th and on Aug 26th a whistlestop tour sees them in Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin and Godshill. On Sept 1st they are back in Cowes, and on the 8th in the United Reformed Church in Ryde. Check www.wightsatin.co.uk for details or call 01983 854471. Following on from the success of ‘Impressions from an Island’ in December, ‘Impressions from an Island II’ is being held at The Martins, Eddington Road, St Helens from Sunday 12th August for 4 days The exhibition will feature many local paintings and drawings by twelve artists, photography by Ben Wood, Pottery by Dom Alexander Tingay and some IOW antiquarian books. There will be over thirty works by Cavendish Morton RI, ROI. Many of these have come from his studio and encompass a period of some 70 years, and include Island Paintings from the 1930’s. Works are priced from £125 to £5000, and include artists, Sien Anderson, Kate Bland, Paul Cox, David Firmstone RWS, Island Life - www.islandlife.tv Mark Grzegorczyk, Sjoerdtje Hak, Nick Hewitt, Holly Maslin, Fiona Moatt, Carol Owen, Martin Swan RSMA and Peter Wright. ‘Impressions from an Island II’ opens from 12.30pm on the 12th August at The Martins, Eddington Road, St Helens, Isle of Wight PO33 1XS. Most of the work available can be viewed at www.impressions2. co.uk. prior to opening. For enquiries, telephone IOW 872768 or 07970 778088. 7