An exhibition organised by the craft group of St George's, Hartlepool in the summer of 2005 got a write-up and picture in the Hartlepool Mail - mainly through one provocative exhibit.
Painter Chris Eddowes describes it all in her own words...
These are the first two of (hopefully) a series of paintings set in Hartlepool. The next could possibly be the Samaritan woman at the well.The feeding of the five thousand will have to wait until I'm better at people!
The St Hilda's one has two sleeping soldiers- they look rather like the ones who have been involved in the re-enactions on the Headland recently.
In the Fish Sands, the avenging angel has his sword replaced by a 99- more in keeping with the seaside. The other one is a pre-raphaelite angel but I felt his pose was so like a teenager that he had to have blue jeans.
Both figures of Christ are "borrowed" from famous paintings. No prizes for guessing which!
Chris, who is a member of our Synod Training Committee, told the Hartlepool Mail "You have to remember that Jesus was preaching and living in ordinary places like Hartlepool. You don't have to go to the Holy Land to think how Jesus would have lived."
