On Thursday evening we visited the A Level Art Private View of our sponsors
Claires Court Schools. It's always a pleasure to join them for any event, as you'd be hard-pushed to meet more welcoming, friendly and hospitable people, but the A Level PV is always a highlight for us.

The art and photography team at Claires Court truly allow their students to experiment, take risks and thoroughly immerse themselves in their studies. It is of continual amazement to us that the students challenge themselves by tackling very mature subject matter and approaches to them with a committed and hard-working approach beyond their years.

The photography on show was a joy. These students have a real eye for the commercial, poring over magazines for inspiration in fashion and styling. A career in advertising photography is definitely on the cards for some of these talented students.

Once again, a triumph of a year - congratulations to all the students and the teaching team!

The work of Grzegorz Motyl available to browse or buy from The Rendezvous until Friday 28th June.

Grzegorz is a self taught artist with a good eye for colour. He paints to express his emotions, the medium of oil playing a large part in realising
his visions. He works on multiple surfaces (including wood) and in 3d, but the work on show this month is his more traditional work on canvas.

As always, a portion of Grzegorz' sales from The Rendezvous will go directly to Age Concern Slough and Berkshire East. You can also find Grzegorz on Facebook.

When the wonderful people at Liquitex approached us with an offer of support, we couldn't believe our ears. We were overwhelmed that they had even heard of us and genuinely expected a few goodies for our participating artists and perhaps a teeny possibility of a mention on their Facebook page and Twitter. We could never have dreamt in a million years that they would be sending along acclaimed street artist PHILTH to paint a huge mural, live on-site during our June event.

We needed to find a space for the mural and Bovilles Art Shops came to the rescue, donating the back wall of their premises. It was in bad shape, so we have the wonderful Brian Aldridge preparing it for PHILTH's arrival. The photo is only of a third of the wall - it's pretty big and can be seen from the main road into and out of town.

PHILTH sent over some ideas for the mural this week and we are literally beside ourselves with excitement! They're beautiful, don't you think? On top of this wonderful gift, Liquitex and their sister companies, Conté, Winsor & Newton and Snazaroo have given wonderful goodies for our artists' check-in packs and are sending a professional face painter to the event. We couldn't be more grateful to them for their generous support and particularly to Sarah Clarke for co-ordinating it all.

UPDATE: The finished piece in all it's awesome glory!