NEXT month is a prestigious month for Fishguard's award winning community drawing project, Coast Lines, with two significant exhibitions in the capital.

Running from October 4 until October 30, Every Drawing Tells A Story, will take place in the Pierhead building of the Senedd.

This exhibition, sponsored by Paul Davies AM, will feature one of the drawing sheds and a 30-foot panel depicting and celebrating life in Fishguard and Goodwick.

The drawing sheds and the panel were part of the finale of a year-long project which saw lifeboatmen, rugby players, businesses, visitors and school children get sketching. The final exhibition involved three drawing sheds festooned with community drawings and the thirty-foot panel in St. Mary's Church.

"The exhibition in the Pierhead building is likely to prove an usual, but potent display of how the arts can represent and reflect the aspirations of an ordinary community of extraordinary talents," said local photographer Philip Clarke. "It's something that everybody can own and that other Welsh communities can be inspired by."

Coast Lines lead artist, Lizzy Stonhold, has built on the 2016 project by developing and running an all-Wales project, Drawn Together Wales.

This collaboration with Voluntary Arts Wales, Cardiff, is a national drawing project covering all twenty-two counties, all drawings are uploaded on a map of Wales creating a collective vision of the country.

The project has involved a dozen artists part-time, and an army of enthusiasts of mixed skills. All have taken up a pencil to sketch their environment, in what has proved to be a creative and thoughtful study of national life.

More than 4,500 sketches have been downloaded so far and the resulting drawings will be exhibited in the National Museum and Gallery in Cathays Park from October 2 to 31. There will also be workshops to encourage visitors to get sketching and drawing leaflets available for sketching objects, artefacts or just their surroundings in the museum.