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Newry's Head Injury Support charity hosted a Social Enterprise Showcase at their Kildare Street Premises on Wednesday 21 May.
Shelagh Smyth, Manager, Head Injury Support; Fiona Murphy, service user; Carole
Murphy, Founder, Head Injury Support; Cllr Aoife Finnegan, Newry, Mourne and Down
District Council; Cllr Pete Byrne, Chairperson, Newry, Mourne and Down District
Council; Justin McNulty MLA and Hanna Downey, Founder, Head Injury Support.
Photograph: Columba O'Hare/ Newry.ie
Head Injury Support provide a lifeline to individuals and families living with the long-term effects of brain injury with services that help to empower recovery, rebuild confidence, and restore lives.
The event to mark Brain Injury Week was entitled 'Living in Colour' and saw products from service users for sale. On offer were cards, jewellery and framed art.
Speaking about her art journey service user Fiona Murphy said "I was born and reared with art, I've done it my whole life. I had my accident and it was one skill I never lost. I couldn't walk, couldn't talk, couldn't do anything, but when I came around from that, I never lost the skills to do art.
"People always say it's therapeutic, and believe me it is. It's just a pleasure doing it."
Fiona concentrates on Pebble Art and has some beautiful and thought provoking creations. She gets plenty of requests to do pieces including wedding requests, proposals, newborn babies or even new houses.
James Cassidy really appreciates the Head Injury Support services and admits he would be lost without them. He's been interested in art for years too "I've been interested in in art, from from my schooldays, Painting and drawing landscapes and trees and things like that"
One of his beautiful paintings sums up Belfast with a colourful collage of the Harland and Wolfe shipyard, Titanic building, nomadic and the Big Fish.
