A drop-in session facilitated by local historians and through Edge Hill University offered a spectacular display of local history documents and photographs in the Tower Room, with an opportunity for local families to recount their own history. This was accompanied by external and internal flood lighting of the building, with additional images of the town in years gone by, projected as a rolling display onto the walls of the building, as seen in the photographs following:
The artist is Wayne Catterall, who recently wrote, “I am so pleased and grateful that my painting has found its way to this beautiful church in Ormskirk for people to see, and to hear that so many have enjoyed looking at it for a year now.” Wayne completed the painting whilst having attended an art class at Thorn Cross Prison in 2014, discovering ‘a version of myself I never knew existed’, through painting. Having served time for serious offences, he had promised to his 5 year-old son that he would put his criminal life behind him, was released in 2016, and has not been back to prison. He concludes, “We have to do what we can to make interventions, break the cycles that are leading far too may of our children and young people into crime and imprisonment. Prison is not somewhere anyone wants to be, I can assure you.”
Look carefully at the photograph; Wayne’s attention to detail is simply spectacular!
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