Artist plans veterans project ahead of Liberation Day in Guernsey
2025-01-27
Category: entertainment

An art teacher in Guernsey is planning a project to honour veterans ahead of Liberation Day.Sam Bailey, a fine artist and teacher at Les Varendes High School and the Sixth Form Centre, is best known for her memorial art.She has only moved to the bailiwick recently, but has worked with the Royal British Legion in the past, publishing books of her drawings with all the proceeds going to the charity.Ms Bailey said she was hoping to do a similar project in the island honouring local veterans.
She went to a veterans' breakfast in Guernsey with the Royal British Legion, getting ideas on how to showcase the former members of the armed forces.Ms Bailey said: "Now I feel it is my chance to highlight our veterans and the amazing job that they do, continue to do, and have done."I get a huge amount of satisfaction from knowing that I bring joy to people that perhaps would have never smiled again."She added: "They gave up their yesterday for us to have a tomorrow. We have to remember that and never forget it."
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