Diversity of art at Bath

Rowena Loverance reflects on communicating in unlimited ways – art at Yearly Meeting Gathering

A photo of trainees for the Friends Ambulance Unit taken at Jordans, which was used a as a training camp circa 1914. This was one photo in the film FAU Shorts. | Photo: copyright of the Library of the Religious Society of Friends.

Celebrating the publication of his thirteenth novel this week, Howard Jacobson wrote ‘To lose oneself in making art – all questions of quality apart – is an incomparable way of living life. Never mind self-expression. The truly wonderful thing about being a painter, a writer or a musician is escaping self.’

It would be interesting to know if that was the experience of the hundreds of Friends who found themselves, perhaps to their own surprise, making art this year at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG).

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