Pastel Society Annual Exhibition

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Yesterday I attended the private view of the annual exhibition of the Pastel Society, held at the Mall Galleries in London. It was very busy and hot but there was (and still is) a huge variety of pastel (and other dry media such as pencil, charcoal etc) on show.  I met up with my Facebook friend Merrie Curtiss-Fuller Dadd  which was lovely as I only knew her via facebook - until now. She has a wonderful pencil portrait in the show.  She also told me that, after I had left, my painting ‘Lace Lines’ received the ‘Red Dot’ - sold on opening night. Brilliant!

Pastel Society annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries
The Mall, London
http://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/index.php?pid=2&subid=198
10-21 June 2014
Open 10-5 every day.
Admission £3

Here are a few pics
Lace Lines, pastel, hanging wonderfully in the West Gallery
at the Mall Galleries.

Merrie’s portrait top left, my pastel painting bottom right.

The crowd when I came in - it got busier and busier!

walls in the gallery.

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