The Malta Independent on Sunday

CareMalta enriches portfolio with more ZVART pieces

Zammit Clapp and Fix-Xatt ta’ Bormla are latest additions

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CareMalta recently added two Zaren Vassallo Art (ZVART) pieces to its portfolio – a watercolou­r by Jacqueline Agius, entitled Zammit Clapp Hospital Residentia­l Home, and Fix-Xatt ta’ Bormla, an acrylic on canvas by Wayne Pisani. Both works of art were unveiled in the span of a week.

Launched by the Vassallo Group to celebrate its 75th anniversar­y, the ZVART initiative has been very well received, with a number of commission­ed art pieces yet to be unveiled by the group in a number of its properties until the end of this year.

So far, CareMalta has unveiled The Heart Giver, by Wallace Falzon, at its Mosta head office, The Red Pillar Box, by Jessica Debattista, at Casa Arkati, Nostalgia of Żejtun, by Joseph Baldacchin­o, at the Żejtun Home and Retrieved Nostalgia, by Diane Agius Calleja, at Dar il-Madonna tal-Mellieħa.

In a short address after the unveiling ceremony at Zammit Clapp, Agius said: “This is an honour for me, especially since I was born here, formerly the Blue Sisters Hospital.

Every painting tells a story and this one tells mine.”

The watercolou­rist grew up in a creative family. Her father’s artistic influence activated a passion for architectu­re and a love for drawing and painting. In fact, she enjoys painting landscapes, with their wide, open spaces, the glittering sea and especially the warm stone buildings and churches standing proud against the skyline.

“For me, the unpredicta­bility and uncontroll­able nature of watercolou­r make it the most exciting and expressive medium of all. When my eyes are drawn to light dancing on a building, I immediatel­y see a painting.”

Meanwhile, Fix-Xatt ta’ Bormla captures this old town’s lively and idyllic promenade, where something is going on all the time.

Pisani, a tattoo artist from Cospicua who mostly creates pencil drawings of human faces, said: “Art means everything to me. It makes me feel complete. Through art, I can fully express my emotions. I am so pleased that the residents at Bormla

Home will be able to feel well just by looking at the portrait I’ve created for them.”

Those attending included Nazzareno Vassallo, chairman of the Vassallo Group, Pio Vassallo, the group’s CEO, Natalie Briffa Farrugia, CEO of the CareMalta Group, Charlo Bonnici, chairperso­n of the ZVART committee, ZVART committee members Joe Saliba and Stephen Borg, as well as Pierre Jacobs and Antoine Borg, facility manager and assistant facility manager at Zammit Clapp and Bormla Home respective­ly.

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