The Art of Geocaching event (GC1X98A) Worcester, England.

When the U.K. cacher Tavisman decided to do his first event he wanted to do something different… but what?

Inspiration came from the availability of his brother’s small art gallery situated in a converted coach house in Worcester and when you have an art gallery then all you need to do is find some art to fill it…right?

I must admit that I’ve never thought of geocaching as being a particularly artistic hobby but the wide range of exhibits, both those created especially for the event and those submitted from various geocachers world-wide, convinced me that geocaching can be a very good outlet for creativity and flair.

Moulded, sculpted, constructed, plaited, painted and photographed, there were geocaching ‘items’ of all shapes and sizes on display. Hand-crafted TBs provided plenty of inspiration: The largest ones on display were the “TB Memorial” (TB2R1V2) for those wishing to pay their respects to departed travel bugs and the amazing “Atomic Sub-machine cache gun” (TB2R1XR) designed for blasting 35mm film cans into hedgerows at high speed - one of the U.K. reviewers who attended the event is particularly concerned about this innovation! There was a variety of cache containers, from the huge Bookcrossing cache trunk to a homemade nut and bolt with a good ‘rusty’ paint job done on it. The cacher Lime Candy had made plaited scoubie bracelets for those attending and Tavisman provided commemorative wooden nickels for visitors to take away with them.

Around the gallery walls we found an array of geocoins which included some detailed work sheets showing how coins are designed and the various stages before production. There were pathtags and wooden nickels (which are not so commonly seen here in U.K.), Signature “calling cards” and interesting Signature items.

When we visited around lunchtime there was a steady flow of cachers wandering around viewing the displays: Many had come some distance to attend this event – the most ‘distant’ being The Glowing Wombats from Victoria, Australia – admittedly, they were on a family visit to U.K.!

It was very enjoyable to see this different sort of caching event: All credit to Tavisman for the effort he put into collecting the exhibits together, organising them and displaying them so effectively.

By MrsB of the Blorenges