The brush is mightier than the sword

The six soldier artists - Brigadier Maurice Calleja, Brigadier Claude Gaffiero, Colonel Ronnie de Renzy Channer, Captain Eric Gerada Azzopardi, Major Martin Scicluna and Major Philip Zammit Briffa - are holding another exhibition of their paintings at...

The six soldier artists - Brigadier Maurice Calleja, Brigadier Claude Gaffiero, Colonel Ronnie de Renzy Channer, Captain Eric Gerada Azzopardi, Major Martin Scicluna and Major Philip Zammit Briffa - are holding another exhibition of their paintings at Palazzo Santa Sofia, in Mdina.

The exhibition, which is open to the public today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., is being held at Palazzo Santa Sofia by courtesy of the Most Noble Baron and Baroness Apap Bologna Sceberras D'Amico Inguanez.

The six soldier artists - collectively known as the Fort St Elmo School of Painters - first held an exhibition in May 2000 in aid the Malta Hospice Movement. This was followed in May 2003 with an exhibition in aid of the Eden Foundation. They raised thousands of liri for both charities. This time their focus is on the Malta Red Cross Society, which has done such outstanding work for the Tsunami victims in Sri Lanka.

All 42 paintings in the exhibition are for sale.

Bank of Valletta and Middlesea Valletta Life are supporting the exhibition.

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