SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY, MORVAH:

This Sunday sees the opening in the Schoolhouse. Gallery, Morvah, of an exhibition by two artist friends - Themes, paintings and collage by Jenny Spencer-Smith, and Shades, sculpture by Diana Dixon.
While, at this time, the works of the former are an unknown quantity, with Jenny Spencer Smith, somewhat courageously, opting to say nothing but preferring to let her paintings and collage speak for themselves, the latter's sculptures will be known to many.

It will be recalled that Newlyn-based Diana Dixon's bird sculpture Dying Guillemot was purchased last year by a London psychotherapist who now displays it in his consulting room where he feels it "holds a lot of things for a lot of people".

Fresh from time spent at Stigeria, where Aristotle was born, and a place where, as she says, "a sense of suffering prevails", not surprisingly perhaps, psychology and philosophy have influenced her recent works. In order to escape "the daily drama" around her when there she spent considerable time in the nearby mountains where she witnessed all manner of events that have given rise to the 20 or so sculptures - people and creatures, bull to donkey, foal to birds, not to mention the abstract forms - that make up her exhibition.
Exhibitions by two artists, both of whom' use visual metaphors to express meaningful events in their lives, admission is free,

and Jenny Spencer-Smith's Themes and Diana Dixon' s Shades can be seen in the School house Gallery, Morvah. 11.30am to 5pm, Tuesday to Sunday (closed Monday), from August 14 until August 26.