Dartmouth painter Tom Forrestall ('58) is heading to Italy to raise money for a Halifax Church. He is leaving for Rome Monday and hopes to complete between 20 and 25 paintings in and around the Vatican and Rome. He expects the paintings to sell for about $3000 each and has promised to give half of his sale proceeds to the St. Patrick’s Church Restoration Society.
The parish is to be merged with the St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica, and if the society’s fund raising efforts fail, the church will be sold. Fund raisers need $300,000 in cash and an additional $300,000 in pledges to keep the church open and they expect to reach the half-way mark by the new year.
Tom Forrestall also donated an orginal watercolour to Mount Allison University, in memory of his late wife, Natalie Forrestall ('58).
You can reserve the limited edition print, "PIC-NIC SITE" and contribute to the NATALIE FORRESTALL FINE ARTS BURSARY.
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