Artist Sophie Tea visited SHARE in Chester on Friday (September 20), to transform a pair of wooden clogs into a masterpiece. Throughout the day, she dropped hints on her social media channels, leading to a crowd of more than 100 buyers showing up at the shop to acquire an original Sophie Tea. The artist's Charity Shop Friday series sees Ms Tea visit charity shops across the country, buy an item, paint it that day, and return it for the same price.
Ms Tea has also visited Bristol, Worcester, London, Hertfordshire, Solihull, Exeter, and Stroud over the past 13 weeks, transforming everything from a Monopoly board and an antique clock to a luxury dolls house. During her Chester visit, she was given an insight into how the team at SHARE supports the homeless community in the area. She went with the team for their daily outreach to chat with some of the local community and understand how SHARE makes a difference to the lives of the homeless.
She then went on to paint at SHARE's re-store project, which sees rough sleepers, marginalised individuals, and people in temporary accommodation gather weekly to restore furniture and create community art projects. Ms Tea also drew on more than 100 items which people had bought in store. More information is available at www.
sophieteaart.com.