AN annual art and craft exhibition is proving a huge success, say organisers.

And exhibitors and visitors alike are thrilled with the new Linkinhorne Parish Hall at Upton Cross, where it’s taking among the first major events to have taken place.

Organiser Ruth Carthew said: ‘Everybody’s loving the new hall.

‘People are saying what a fantastic setting it is to show off their work.’

So many people visited over the event’s opening two days that the kitchen had run out of refreshments by lunchtime on Saturday.

Since 1999, the annual exhibitions have married the works of internationally renowned artists with local amateurs and schoolchildren, created a stage for craft workers to demonstrate their skills, offered home-made refreshments and shown off the work of local groups from poets to the ladies of the WI.

The event has raised well over £32,000 for local causes since its formation and been visited by thousands of people.

Since last summer’s exhibition, Linkinhorne Parish Hall has been demolished and rebuilt following a fund-raising drive by local people.

The exhibition continues today, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm.