"I just want to hug the pictures"  (Rudy de Freitas - Lesley's 5 year old son who is registered blind)

"It was all a great day. I hope I can come back again" (Rudy's 8 year old brother Mikey, also blind)

"It was brilliant.  I really liked Happy Rain and I hope we can return" (Maya, Rudy & Mikey's sister)

"It is a happiness to know of your ability to “open the eyes of the blind” through tactility’.

“The first time I have felt colour and movement.  Remarkable”

“This is genuine magic.  It makes me smile and feel excited.  Touched!”

“It makes me feel happy.  It makes me smile”

"It is wonderful to be able to enjoy 'seeing' through touching"

"The idea of being able to actually touch the paintings was a novel one and was met with great delight by so many people as it enabled them to 'see' the paintings"   (Wiltshire Blind Association)

"It was a splendid exhibition and a most beneficial one for all who came to see it, and for those here at the PEH who experienced it as they passed by on their daily round of work and caring" (Princess Elizabeth Hospital)

"For half an hour each day, I come and look at your paintings and, during that time, I forget all my troubles.  I just thought you would like to know" (Visitor to the Princess Elizabeth Hospital)

"Thought provoking, often poetic and inspirational"

"I visited this wonderful exhibition of paintings twice.  Fantastic"

"Everything is so vibrant.  The freedom to touch makes it all doubly fascinating"

"Wonderful work.  Sometimes it is like looking through a mirror into another world"

"Thought provoking, inspiring ..... you are my hero!"

"Never seen anything like it before!  It is marvellous - do some more!"

"Wonderful show.  The touching works both ways"

"Inspiring touchy feely paintings"

"What a great exhibition.  I love the stories behind them.  I am so glad I came.  Inspirational"