annual competition, entitled Grand Art Festival By The Sea, featuring work by artists from all over the Island. The entire proceeds from the festival will go towards the first Visual Arts Scholarship, generated in Bermuda, to be used at an accredited university.

"This will be our first annual competition,'' says Elise Outerbridge of Masterworks. "We are very grateful to the Bank of Butterfield who have very generously donated $5,000 to help set the scholarship up. The competition is open to everyone -- young and old, professionals, amateurs, students and visitors -- anyone who wants to put paint to paper! And, of course, people can submit watercolours, oils, pastels, photography, mixed media, silk screen -- whatever they wish.'' With the theme of `How I See Bermuda', the Grand Art Festival Exhibition will take place on Sunday, May 31, and will be set up on Front Street (between the Bank of Butterfield and No. 6 Shed).

Masterworks will hold another Community Art Day at Astwood Park on Saturday, March 28, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. when there will be an opportunity to meet and paint with artists, as a practice run for the festival.

Other artists lined up for future shows include Simon Hodgson, Chesley Trott, Molly Smith, Niall Woolf, Gillian McColloch, Graham Foster, Roland Russell, `Cig' Harvey, Belinda Tartaglia and Sharon Wilson.

Entry forms for the Grand Art Festival By The Sea are available from Masterworks' Gallery on Front Street, The Bank of Butterfield, Artcetera, or Frameworks. There is a $5 entry fee payable to the Scholarship Fund. Upon receipt of a completed form and fee, each participant will receive a voucher for a 10 percent discount at Artcetera for art supplies and at Frameworks for framing. All entries should be no smaller than eight by ten inches and no larger than three by five feet. Applications should be completed by April 1 and final submissions by April 30. For further information, telephone 295-5580 or 295-2379.

Masterworks will also commence another season of `Artists Up Front Street' tomorrow, March 20 (through April 2) with an opening members' reception commencing at 5.30 p.m. The first artist to be featured this year will be Elizabeth Mulderig who will interpret some of Bermuda's historical figures "under the guise of the Bermuda onion''.

GETTING READY -- Artist Bill Gringley helps two young painters during Masterworks' Community Art Day held recently at Penno's Wharf, St. George's.

They are busy preparing for the joint Masterworks and Bank of Butterfield Grand Art Festival By The Sea, to be held in May.