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Pauline is a local artist who has been painting for around 12 years since retiring from education. She regularly exhibits in Chirk, Ellesmere at Canvas & Clay, and Wrexham at the Drawing Board gallery. Pauline prefers to work in watercolour to great effect, more recently she has been experimenting with watercolour and ink with fantastic results. She takes inspiration for her works from the world around her, be it flowers, animals, buildings, and people. Pauline Read more…

‘From the Darkness Came Light’, this was the name of our art competition run in conjunction with Elizabeth Darlington and her art exhibition of the same name. What a competition it was, with many excellent entry’s to choose from the task of deciding our winners was not an easy one, nevertheless a choice had to be made. The winner of our junior competition was this excellent painting by Mabel Easthope. The scene is framed with Read more…

In May 2020 with the country still staying indoors, zoom quizzing and baking banana bread Community managed Whittington Castle lost its income streams and was on the verge of closure. They launched a ‘Castle in Crisis’ fundraising drive which saw them through the numerous lockdowns but are now reopening the appeal for support. “We are only open today thanks to the generosity of the community” reports Chairman Jonjo Evans, “if we’d fully closed we’d have Read more…