Tenby Museum and Art Gallery has been involved in exhibiting and supporting artists for the past 13 years since the provision of the New Art Gallery. The museum is proud of the artists whose work we have shown and are always supportive of up and coming artists by offering them the opportunity to display their work. Also our permanent art collections is regarded as one of the finest in the county, including works by Gwen and Augustus John, John Piper, Kyffin Williams, Arthur Giardelli, David Jones, Nina Hamnett, John Knapp Fisher and many others. Sadly the article quoted a gentleman who depicted the current art exhibition in a very negative light. As the story behind the article was apparently instigated as a publicity device to try and draw people in to see the exhibition I am sorry to say that it has not done anyone any favours - neither the town, the museum, the recognised art critic who opened the show and very generously travelled from Brighton to attend, nor the two artists. The museum is of the opinion that people have made up their minds about the show purely from this publicity and less people have been inclined to make the visit.

If the artists do not mind their reputations being sullied and their own work denigrated then that is entirely their choice but the museum is too professional and too long established to be associated with what amounts to nothing more than a sensationalist stunt.

The sad thing is that the work has a great deal of artistic merit; the picture of the multi storey car park so lambasted by co conspirator Mr Baxter is in fact a charming pencil study. I feel it would have been much better if the work had been allowed to speak for itself as opposed to resorting to what amounts to little more than shock tactics which have made people weary not only about the integrity of the two artists but also the integrity of the museum.