Christmas Coasters in the Arts Cafe St.Ives, Cornwall

The owners of the Arts Cafe had the inspired idea to invite artists to contribute coasters with art work on them for a Christmas display.

These formed a lively exhibition and in a way a snapshot of what art is going on now, contributed with none of the self consciousness of many shows and with all being included.

I didn’t see any of the names of the most famous artists who get shown here.

The ones I include were the photos I took that turned out best.

My own was a joke about how a Hepworth snowman might look. with a stripey scarf.

Angela Elsom also thought of knitting.

Jenny Shaw-Browne 

 and Gazelle did impressionistic paintings of scenes.

James Wood did a formal kaleidescopic detailed design.

Juliette had two images maybe by children?

and an unknown [to me] contributor mounted springs on the coaster.

Marie Keeling used brass fitments abstractly

and Humphrey Hallwood drew a stylish composition  in black and white.

Paul Healey had an elegant collage reminding me of Schwitters

and Mary Hayes had an expressionist dark design, 'Its a cold world without you'.

That’s just a few of them, there were a great many more, many at very keen prices.

Hopefully the Arts Cafe will repeat something similar next year, making dropping in for refreshments very interesting.