Unique drawings by celebrities – Bid now and help raise money. Hurrah for you!

Fancy having an original sketch by Johnny Vegas on your wall? Or one by Rowan Williams or  Miranda Hart? Maybe your tastes tend more towards an original Quentin Blake? Or a drawing by Marcus Brigstocke or Alan Davies or…over twenty celebrities have donated sketches to raise money for a Hay-on-Wye school and you can bid on them until Friday 18th October 2013.

All the best, The Etherington Brothers, 2013

What is these people’s interest in Hay-on-Wye? Do they all send their children to school in a small town on the English/Welsh border? Why have they devoted their artistic talents to creating masterpieces for you to decorate your walls? Why do they want to raise money to help a small school in Hay?

Hay-on-Wye is a cultured town. It attracts the bohemian reaches of society. It has an annual festival about which you may have heard. If you haven’t it’s called the Hay Festival, which is one of those names that does its job perfectly. It’s in Hay. And it’s a festival. This year when the famous were assembled in marquees discussing literature, reading Shelley and signing books many of them drew a picture to help raise money for the local primary school. Some showed great prowess in their handling of the pen. Others didn’t. But now all the pictures are being auctioned to raise money.

Thanks for the sparkly starlight, Jonny Duddle, 2013

The full list of celebrities that have donated sketches includes: Cerys Matthews, Miranda Hart, Johnny Vegas, Quentin Blake, AC Grayling, Marcus Brigstocke, Cath Kidston, Claudia Winkleman, Michael Morpurgo, Lee Mack, The Etherington Brothers, Alan Davis, Damian Lewis, Robert Lindsay, Marcus Alexander, Chris Ridell, Rowan Williams, Anthony Browne, Johnny Duddle, Kevin Crossley-Holland, John Whaite and the Baker Brothers and Lily Cole.

If you see any of these people please smile at them – they’ve had quite difficult lives, Marcus Brigstocke

If you want more than a sketch then Kevin Crossley-Holland has donated the original painting for his latest book Arthur: The Seeing Stone, a historical novel for children set in the Welsh Marches.

To view all the pictures click here. This is your chance to get a unique work by actors, comedians, archbishops and even artists. You can score a once-in-a-lifetime artwork or get a completely unique Christmas present for the Lily Cole fan in your life.