<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/janes-artworkmay15.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2616" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/janes-artworkmay15-300x225.jpg" alt="jane's-artwork(may15)" width="300" height="225" /></a>Jane entered the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/little-painting-challenge-whitworth" target="_blank">BBC Little Painting Competition </a>earlier in the year without expecting any recognition because she had sent one of her silver paper works, not a painting. She was pleasantly surprised to learn that out of the 29,000 entrants her work was to be exhibited at the<a href="http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/" target="_blank"> Whitworth Gallery Manchester </a>alongside another 1,000 postcards. (Jane's is top right in the photograph and she refused to pose in front of her work)

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/whitworth-art-gallerymay20.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2617" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/whitworth-art-gallerymay20-200x150.jpg" alt="whitworth-art-gallery(may20" width="200" height="150" /></a>The postcards were hung across the great hall in groups of ones and twos with a huge variety of styles and media. Although Jane is not prone to being proud but there was a very obvious smile across her face as we wandered around the display and we came across her work.

We stayed in the gallery looking at the other displays for over two hours before deciding that as we were in Manchester we ought to get to the Lowry Gallery in Salford.