The ‘Taffiators’ - Welsh-based members of the prestigious Guild of Aviation Artists - returned to Pembroke Dock during half-term week to host a range of art activities for all ages at the Heritage Centre.

Five artists visited at various times during the week and led sessions with visitors as well as painting and sketching their own subjects.

They were Ruth Lewis, Tim Jenkins, James Field, Ieuan Leighton Matthews and John Wynne Hopkins.

The Sunderland Trust, which runs the Heritage Centre in the former Dockyard Chapel, has worked closely with the Guild in the past and previously staged a very successful joint exhibition locally. There are plans to hold another exhibition in 2017 with GAvA members.

Among the many subjects worked on by the artists was a fine study of a 422 Canadian Squadron Sunderland preparing for a wartime operation patrol at Pembroke Dock. Artist John Wynne Hopkins did most of the painting while at the Heritage Centre, finishing it later at his home studio. This will be one of several subjects from which prints will be available at the Heritage Centre.