Sketches: Stories of Art and People

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Anna Freeman presents a showcase of stories about the meaning of art in people's lives.

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True stories of life-changing encounters with art in all its forms.

Writer Anna Freeman presents a showcase of stories about the meaning of art in people’s lives. This week, stories of people using creativity to pay tribute to others.

Capturing someone's essence, really seeing them, is a way of honouring them. The writer Anna Freeman hears stories of people using their creativity to pay tribute to others, through drawing, painting and song. 

There's the Leeds-based writer and musician using song to honour elderly members of the local community though a series of musical portraits. An art teacher drawing every member of the British armed forces to have lost their lives in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. And there's a mural that appears on a wall in Leith depicting a face familiar to many locals. But where has the subject of the painting gone? 

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