Arts society president Rei Hendry was a member at the time the panels were painted and in use and remembers many of the names associated with the work.
"Joan Grehan, she was one of those who painted this," she says.
"They [the panels] have been painted a number of times. We first started painting them when we had the industrial fairs at the Memorial Hall where the arts society set up a bay and painted them. The next year they'd redo them or start all over again if someone was of a mind to."
The panels were also used when similar fairs were held at the racecourse.
"We also used them on a float in the Christmas Parade." On that occasion society members dressed up as the common perception of artists - berets, paint-flecked smocks etc.
Rob is restoring the panels and repainting some of the more damaged scenes.
He is leaving some as they are to show the state in which they were found, showing the degradation.
"Barbara McPhail painted here ... Wally Morgan, he was a bomber pilot during the war and he was here painting ... Dot Bowra was another one." Barbara Vine, society secretary, is fairly sure a figure on the panels - a woman in a floral frock - is a representation of Dot Bowra, painted by Joan Grehan.
Other names mentioned were Phyllis Brown, Maureen Firtle, Connie Booth, Alba Abbott, Margaret McGuire, Bruce Tanning, Cliff Cawsey, Val Southcombe, Lucy Homer-Smith, Faith Mckee Wright, Phil Colville, Mary Watkins, Cynthia Hughes-Johnson, Mary Morgan, Shirley Holt, Margaret King and Jack Hammond.
"It was very much a group thing," says Rei.
"We just spread them out on the floor and painted; it was a fun activity, and being a group thing, no-one felt threatened."
Rob says: "I'd like to invite any of these people who are still around, or people who knew them, to come and see us on a Monday [between 10 and midday] when the panels are here."
