Exhibition to remember artist (From Free Press Series)

Exhibition to remember artist

THE talents of well-known local artist Daphne Edmondson, who died in June, will be celebrated this weekend with an exhibition of some of her work.

Not only will it give her friends the chance to admire some of her best paintings - many of them for sale - but also to raise money for her favourite charity, the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.

Daphne, who lived with her husband Neil in Bridge Street, Crickhowell, died in June aged 78 and had a very private family funeral, in line with her wishes.

To celebrate her life, and to allow her friends to pay their last respects, her family decided to hold the exhibition on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Clarence Hall, Crickhowell between 11am-4.30pm.

There is no admission price, but visitors can make a donation to the charity.

Her daughter Chris said: "We've got a lot of her paintings from the last 40 years, and there are far too many for us to hang up at home, so we plan to sell some of them so we can raise around £1,000 for the charity, which was one of her favourites.

"The paintings are mostly in oil and include landscape and still life, and a marvellous one she did of a donkey.

"We've had some of them reframed for the exhibition and those for sale will be very reasonably priced at between £10-£80."

Daphne was a member of Crickhowell Art Group, and for many years also belonged to Abergavenny Art Group. She and her husband moved to Crickhowell in 1983 when he retired.