Artists Guy Beck­les, Em­bah and Althea Bastien will join mem­bers of the Arts So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ASTT) to show their work at the ASTT's an­nu­al May ex­hi­bi­tion, this year en­ti­tled Belle Eau (Beau­ti­ful Wa­ter).The ex­hi­bi­tion will take place at the ASTT, Fed­er­a­tion Park, Port-of-Spain, from May 16-25.Belle Eau cel­e­brates the Unit­ed Na­tions Year for Wa­ter Con­ser­va­tion and ex­hibitors have been asked to cre­ate a piece in keep­ing with this theme.

The work of four ur­ban artists–Dar­ren Chee­wah, JAP, Nick Sal­loum and Danielle Boodoo-For­tune–will al­so be fea­tured.They have been in­vit­ed to dis­play on the ex­te­ri­or of the build­ing. The artists will be­gin their paint­ings at the show's open­ing so pa­trons can ex­pe­ri­ence the work as it pro­gress­es and get a first-hand view of how ur­ban art is cre­at­ed.

The pieces will be done on ply­wood, so po­ten­tial buy­ers are en­cour­aged to bid as they progress, with the fi­nal bid­ding tak­ing place up­on com­ple­tion of the works. To this end, the ASTT hopes to bring young, new emerg­ing artists and art lovers to the or­gan­i­sa­tion.As part of their man­date to ed­u­cate the pub­lic on art and the his­to­ry of art in T&T, they will al­so in­clude as part of the ex­hi­bi­tion their sec­ond talk in the se­ries "Con­ver­sa­tions with the El­ders" on May 18.

The pan­el will in­clude Em­bah, Pe­ter Min­shall and Althea Bastien to talk about art from the 60s and 70s.