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Painting of Hart’s Bakery within painting of Hart’s Bakery on wall of Hart’s Bakery
Like many people, whenever Donna Hughes travels via Temple Meads she makes sure to pay a visit to Hart’s Bakery in one of the arches underneath the station concourse.
Donna has been in the bakery enough times that when she was commissioned to hang some of her paintings on its walls, she was able to draw its interior from memory.
One of her paintings currently hanging in one corner even features within it another of her paintings hanging on the wall, just where it is located until the end of September.
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‘Table Manners’, currently on display in one corner of Hart’s Bakery, also features within one of Donna’s paintings
Donna, who paints under the name of Donna Sarah, is originally from Anglesey but now lives in Frome where she combines being a freelance illustrator with work as a social media manager and barista.
“I just love bread and cakes,” Donna told Bristol24/7 on a recent morning in Hart’s Bakery, as customers admired her paintings on the walls.
“It’s funny when I come here and people are talking about them. But I’m always too shy to say, I did that!'”
Table Manners features plenty of cafe-related paraphernalia
“I have always wanted to do a show in here,” Donna added. “Having been in this space a lot, I thought that it would be great for my work.”
As well as some of her previous illustrations including a view of houses on Sion Hill in Clifton Village, Donna’s exhibition includes an exterior of the bakery as well as the meta illustration of the painting within the painting.
“I wanted to do a semi-relevant one without it being too croissant-heavy,” she explained.
Donna Hughes at Hart’s Bakery, where her work is currently on display
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