Tenby Museum and Art Gallery is delighted to be starting 2022 with a wonderfully eclectic show, highlighting art that was created during lockdown.

The ‘Tenby Shares’ exhibition was meant to have been displayed last year, but Covid restrictions and refurb work put the show on the back-burner, with the Museum closed to the public for several months.

The project is a result of work done by Artisan Avenue (a not for profit local arts for well being organisation) to encourage and celebrate talent form within the community. The exhibition features works from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds across the community. Included are - journals, photography, paintings, patchwork quilts, model ships, poetry and sculpture.

The exhibition was officially opened this month by Tenby’s Mayor, Clr. Mrs. Sam Skyrme-Blackhall, who said: “The work I have seen here is amazing, it really is, and you really should be very, very proud of yourselves, and all those who participated in this from the start. How fantastic that during the hard times, people came together in the way in which you have done.

“Of course it’s not just about art, but also about the wider support network that is given. This is what communities do. This is Tenby and this is the way Tenby does it,” she added.

Museum Curator Mark Lewis remarked: “In what is an odd dichotomy, being locked down, and working more often than not at home, I felt that I got so much closer to the community over these past few months.

“Projects and discussions taking place over Zoom opened up a new way of thinking, a new creativity if you will, where obstacles like mountains or Dylan Thomas, were able to be overcome or walked around.

“It saw an evolution of thought, a rainbow revolution of defeating challenges, and this is what this colourful vibrant wonderful exhibition represents.

“If the world is slightly off-kilter at present, then let these artworks help swing back that pendulum, to bring us back to what is important, each other,” he added.

The exhibition runs until February 12 and the museum is currently open from Thursday to Saturday.