Ever fancied partaking in a contemporary artwork?

Well local artist Alan Rees-Baynes (Elm Grove Country House, St. Florence) is asking visitors to Tenby Museum to do just that, but to supply words for two paintings.

The viewer in art has always played an invisible role within the art world, unless you are a critic, personal response is often kept personal, or to one’s self. In these paintings you the viewer can respond in two words to a couple of famous paintings from the museum collection. The first 100 responses for each painting will then appear upon the finished work. As a thank you, all words will be put into two hats and two lucky visitors will win an original artwork based upon these paintings.

The chosen artists are Gwen John - Landscape at Tenby with Figures and Edward Joseph Head - The Domino Players. Both paintings represent Tenby in different ways. Gwen John’s view of Tenby encompasses the harbour as backdrop. A view that doesn’t seemed to have altered too much since it was painted in 1900. Compared with the more intimate venue for Edward Joseph Head’s wood panelled scene with a view of St. Catherine’s Island glimpsed through a window. These paintings have been enjoyed time and again by visitors over the years, but here is your chance to give your response in the form of two words that will go towards two new works that will be shown later this year. Alan Rees-Baynes eagerly awaits your words to begin the artwork.