ART to aid the people of Iraq will go on display in Chagford next month.
More than 70 professional artists and craftsman from all over the South West have donated work for the Art for Aid Exhibition which opens on August 2.
Proceeds from the sale will go to UNICEF and The Red Cross to help the people of Iraq.
The exhibition will feature paintings, sculpture, photographs, prints and craftwork from furniture, basketwork to handmade Honiton lace.
Among the more famous artists whose work is included in the exhibition are Robert Lenkiewicz, Peter Randall-Page, Brian and Wendy Froud, Alan Lee, Hedevig Blakstad and Sarah Gillespie.
To mark the exhibition?s opening there will be a concert of classical Indian music by R. Romain and J. Sterckx.
The concert will be introduced by David Halpin, the local surgeon who felt so much for the plight of the Palestinians that he spent £94,000 of his own money to charter a ship, fill it with food, blankets and clothing and take it directly to Gaza in February for distribution to the poorest families.
All donations from the concert will go to Mr Halpin?s ?Dove and Dolphin Charity?, which is continuing the earlier aid effort. The concert will be followed by refreshments, drinks and viewing.
The exhibition will run for two weeks and will be concluded on Saturday, August 16, with an auction of unsold work by Chagford-based Rendells estate agents and auctioneers.
The exhibition is at the Chagford Barns, Chagford House, and is open daily between 11am-5pm, until Saturday, August 16.