Finding Hope

Bestselling author Adele Parks follows in Barack Obama’s footseps and finds inspiration in the work of GF Watts

- Adele Parks

IT’S tricky convincing teens and tweens that a trip to an art gallery is a good idea, but it is a good idea, especially if grandparents are visiting because we ought to do something and monopoly (even the Guildford version) just causes a row.

Art is inspiring, even if you don’t consider yourself arty or you can’t draw (which are just two of the excuses kids use to wiggle out of a gallery visit). We can all feel, in fact teens do feeling stuff very well, we can think, believe, debate – again, fortes of the teen – so I think it’s a perfect daytrip destination.

Watts Gallery in Compton has been neglected by our family because it’s on our doorstep; you know, the way Londoners always say they’ve never been on the London Eye, we’ve never visited Watt’s Gallery. What a mistake.