The first art exhibition of another busy year has opened at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery. Entitled 'The Light of Day', the exhibition features art works from the museum's permanent collection, some of which have not been displayed before. With the earliest work dating from 1775, an etching of Pembroke Castle by Paul Sandby and the most recent being a watercolour of St Govan's Chapel by David Bellamy, dating from 2004, amongst the other artists on display are works by Naomi Tydeman, David Jones, Nina Hamnett, Claudia Williams, Stan Rosenthal, Gillian Adie, David Burton, Samuel Phillips Jackson, Sidney Morse-Brown, James Priddey, Frank Lewis Emanuel, Augusta Smith and William Monk. There is also a fascinating picture, adding greatly to the social history of the town, of a watercolour of Tenby Iron Pier, designed in 1848 to be constructed off Castle Beach. This pier, 50 or so years before the construction of the Royal Victoria Pier, was never built. The museum is open at this time of the year from Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm, with last admissions at 4.30 pm. The exhibition runs until March 24.
