Lechlade Art Society Events 2019-21
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Programme 2019-21
All monthly meetings, the AGM, workshops and open studios are held in the Pavilion unless stated otherwise. The Pavilion is next to the New Memorial Hall, Oak Street, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, GL7 3AY. See the map below. January – No meeting Tuesday February 12th, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm – Roger Jones "Watercolour Demonstration www.roger-jones.co.uk Tuesday March 12th, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm - Liz Spurway "Glass Art" Tuesday April 16th, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm –Simon Sonsino "Calligraphic Art - Demonstration" www.simonsonsino.com Tuesday May 14th, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm - Chris Smith "Creative Framing - Talk" www.thepictureframers.co.uk Tuesday June 18th, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm – Julie Fowler "Ceramics - Talk and Demonstration" www.newbreweryarts.org.uk/julie-fowler Tuesday July 23rd, 1.30 pm – 4.00 pm – AGM (1.00pm for OSCART competition entries to be submitted, 1.30pm for viewing and initial voting, 2.00pm for AGM) August - No meeting - Annual Art Exhibition Friday 23rd to Tuesday 27th in the New Memorial Hall Tuesday September 17th, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm – Cath Hodsman, Conservation Artist "Insects and Botanical Art, a Passion - Demonstration" www.cathhodsmanwildlifeartist.com Saturday and Sunday September 21st & 22nd, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm - Collective Participation in Swindon Open Studios www.swindonopenstudios.org/lechlade-art-society Tuesday October 15th, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm - Dr. Caroline Palmer, Ashmolean Museum, "Falling out of History - Women Artists from Elisabetta Sirani to Lizzie Siddal - Talk" Tuesday November 12th, 2.00pm – 4.00 pm – George Boyter, "Composition - Watercolour Demonstration" georgeboyterartist.com Friday December 13th, 12.30pm for 1.00pm - Christmas Buffet Lunch at Wrag Barn Golf Club, Highworth Tuesday 11th February 2020, 2.00pm - 4.00pm - Graham Cox "Land and Seascape Painting in Pastel - Demonstration" www.moodyviews.co.uk Tuesday 10th March 2020, 2.00pm - 4.00pm - Paul Deacon "Portraits in Charcoal - Demonstration" Tuesday 21st April 2020, 2.00pm - 4.00pm - Bill Mather "Landscapes in Three Colours (Acrylic) - Demonstration" CANCELLED www.williamharleymather.co.uk Tuesday 12th May 2020, 2.00pm - 4.00pm - Paul Oakley "Palette knife techniques in oil - Demonstration" CANCELLED www.pewseyvalestudio.co.uk Tuesday 9th June 2020, 2.00pm - 4.00pm - John Somerscales "Watercolour Demonstration" CANCELLED www.jdsomerscales.co.uk 11th August 2020 Annual General Meeting (Zoom, online) 8th to 22nd September 2020 - Susan Neale "Use and Creative Techniques of Acrylic Inks - YouTube Demonstration" Monthly Meetings Update February 2021 - No events are scheduled because of the current lockdown but we are hopeful that Spring 2020 will bring some better news - watch this space! |
Activities and links
Monthly Meetings
A varied programme of talks and demonstrations by invited professional artists and speakers. Visitors are most welcome to our monthly meetings. Just arrive and register (£4 p.p.) at reception. If you wish to become a member then pick up a form at reception or download from the Membership page. Thursday Group An enthusiastic group of between 20 and 30 "regular" members who meet weekly to paint or draw in any medium and to chat and enjoy each others company in a sociable environment. Exhibition The annual exhibition is usually held in August at the New Memorial Hall. It provides an opportunity, over several days, for members to show their work in a formal but friendly exhibition environment. The New memorial Hall is a beautiful modern venue offering a large exhibition space with excellent natural light. Refreshments are always available which encourages our visitors to relax and enjoy their time at the exhibition. For our 2019 exhibition see Exhibition 2019. Our annual Exhibition 2020 was online to avoid any face-to-face contact for both our members and our guests. Painting Days
Our painting days are arranged for several dates each year in the area around Lechlade on Thames. We choose venues which offer some indoor cover, incase the weather does not cooperate, and with facilities to prepare drinks, have some lunch and socialise. Sometimes a cafe is available. The day begins at 10.00am and we often work until 4.00pm, especially if the weather is good. Recent favourite locations have been Buscot Park, Buscot village and Coleshill village. We have not been able to hold any painting days this year. Workshops
Our workshops are run by talented and professional artists often following on from a demonstration at a monthly meeting. These workshops offer members the opportunity to work in the style of a well-known artist in a particular genre. Workshops are based on demand and the interest of our members to incorporate new methodology, materials and ideas into their work. Workshops are very popular and numbers are limited in each session, generally to not more than 12 participants. Open Studios
These are occasionally arranged and allow visitors to see us at work in a friendly and welcoming environment. In September 2019, we participated, as a collective of 12 artists, in Swindon Open Studios. For more details: Swindon Open Studios Sept 2019. The Pavilion
The Pavilion is next to the New Memorial Hall, Oak Street, Lechlade, Gloucestershire GL7 3AY |
Header picture: Acrylic painting "Beech Trees in Autumn" © 2020 Robert Marchant
PAINTING DAYS
No Painting Days are scheduled at the moment. Dates and venues will be advertised here, and at the Thursday Group meetings, when they become available.
WORKSHOPS
Further workshops were being planned for later in 2020. However, the Coronavirus pandemic has caused a delay. As soon as dates and details become available, they will be advertised here and at the Thursday Group meetings. As mentioned in the January 2020 Newsletter, Roger Jones's watercolour workshop in February was the first of several experimental workshops which will not be based on a previous demonstration. Future subjects will include ceramics, print-making and life drawing.
If you have an idea for a specific workshop, or are interested in arranging one, please contact Brian Britton (Secretary) - see the Contact page. Workshops will be dependent on space and numbers. Members will be given priority.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)
Lechlade Art Society AGM for the year ending 30th June 2020
Dear Members
Like many organisations, our AGM will be different this year. Instead of having our normal July meeting in the Pavilion, we will be holding a “virtual” AGM, using Zoom video conferencing, with only the members of the committee present.
The Report of the Chair (Sharon Ellis) and Treasurer (Val Mackenzie) follow. If you would like to submit a question about either of the Reports, or any other Society matter, please do so by email before 11th August 2020. Please send your question by email to our Chair, Sharon Ellis: sharonrellis@hotmail.com
Like many organisations, our AGM will be different this year. Instead of having our normal July meeting in the Pavilion, we will be holding a “virtual” AGM, using Zoom video conferencing, with only the members of the committee present.
The Report of the Chair (Sharon Ellis) and Treasurer (Val Mackenzie) follow. If you would like to submit a question about either of the Reports, or any other Society matter, please do so by email before 11th August 2020. Please send your question by email to our Chair, Sharon Ellis: sharonrellis@hotmail.com
LAS AGM - Chairman’s Report - Year Ending 30th June 2020
Welcome everyone to Lechlade Art Society’s Annual General Meeting for the year ending 30th June 2020.
Owing to the current pandemic situation, our AGM this year has been adapted to overcome the need for the social distancing which currently prevails. It is for this reason that your committee have all confirmed that they are prepared to stay on in their current roles. We are meeting as a committee via a video link and the members of the Society, although not physically present at this meeting, will have an opportunity to raise questions to the Chair which will be answered via our website.
The first part of our financial year, following our AGM of 2019, began with our usual programme of monthly demonstrations, workshops, weekly painting sessions, the Annual Exhibition and our Christmas Lunch. We also participated in the Swindon Open Studios event, when several of our members exhibited and demonstrated their work at the Pavilion in Lechlade.
However, any further activities came to a grinding halt in March 2020 when the whole world was seized by the Covid 19 pandemic and Lockdown, which threatened to put paid to all the other Art Society activities planned for the rest of the year.
Like many organisations, the Society had to learn to compromise and adapt. Consequently, our regular committee meetings still went ahead but by using a video link called Zoom. By this method we were all able to contribute to each meeting, but safely within our own homes.
We were all too aware of the problems that Lockdown presented to everyone, particularly socially isolating those of our members who lived alone and regarded the Art Society as an important link with the outside World.
Very much with that in mind, our April Newsletter contained a Members’ Art Challenge with art projects to engage, challenge and hopefully uplift people, although we realised that it was not for everyone!
Several more Newsletters have been published since then to keep everyone “in the loop” about our activities and plans, and the latest three editions have had a new look and content. They are more visually exciting – we introduced full colour and a very professional layout – many thanks to Zoe Hing for her expertise in this.
Our intention was to inform and entertain and the new look has been well received by the members. As a consequence of this, you will all know that we have planned a YouTube demonstration for September by Susan Neale who had previously been booked to come to Lechlade to demonstrate the techniques of Acrylic ink painting. This, we hope, will be the first of many demonstrations for the months ahead using the medium of the internet.
Future plans are for smaller size follow-on actual workshops operating with social distancing.
Our regular Thursday Painting Group at the Trout has resumed and we will transfer to the Pavilion in September as we have in the past.
The icing on the cake, I think, is that we will be going ahead with our Annual Exhibition – on this occasion it will be a Virtual Exhibition which will be available to view on our website for the whole month of September. It is taking shape already.
Finally I have people to thank.
I would like to thank all the members of the committee for their support and their dedication to the welfare of the Society, particularly during these strange times we are living through.
Last, and certainly not least, for the support and loyalty of our generous Patron Charles Lord Faringdon.
Sharon Ellis - LAS Chair
Welcome everyone to Lechlade Art Society’s Annual General Meeting for the year ending 30th June 2020.
Owing to the current pandemic situation, our AGM this year has been adapted to overcome the need for the social distancing which currently prevails. It is for this reason that your committee have all confirmed that they are prepared to stay on in their current roles. We are meeting as a committee via a video link and the members of the Society, although not physically present at this meeting, will have an opportunity to raise questions to the Chair which will be answered via our website.
The first part of our financial year, following our AGM of 2019, began with our usual programme of monthly demonstrations, workshops, weekly painting sessions, the Annual Exhibition and our Christmas Lunch. We also participated in the Swindon Open Studios event, when several of our members exhibited and demonstrated their work at the Pavilion in Lechlade.
However, any further activities came to a grinding halt in March 2020 when the whole world was seized by the Covid 19 pandemic and Lockdown, which threatened to put paid to all the other Art Society activities planned for the rest of the year.
Like many organisations, the Society had to learn to compromise and adapt. Consequently, our regular committee meetings still went ahead but by using a video link called Zoom. By this method we were all able to contribute to each meeting, but safely within our own homes.
We were all too aware of the problems that Lockdown presented to everyone, particularly socially isolating those of our members who lived alone and regarded the Art Society as an important link with the outside World.
Very much with that in mind, our April Newsletter contained a Members’ Art Challenge with art projects to engage, challenge and hopefully uplift people, although we realised that it was not for everyone!
Several more Newsletters have been published since then to keep everyone “in the loop” about our activities and plans, and the latest three editions have had a new look and content. They are more visually exciting – we introduced full colour and a very professional layout – many thanks to Zoe Hing for her expertise in this.
Our intention was to inform and entertain and the new look has been well received by the members. As a consequence of this, you will all know that we have planned a YouTube demonstration for September by Susan Neale who had previously been booked to come to Lechlade to demonstrate the techniques of Acrylic ink painting. This, we hope, will be the first of many demonstrations for the months ahead using the medium of the internet.
Future plans are for smaller size follow-on actual workshops operating with social distancing.
Our regular Thursday Painting Group at the Trout has resumed and we will transfer to the Pavilion in September as we have in the past.
The icing on the cake, I think, is that we will be going ahead with our Annual Exhibition – on this occasion it will be a Virtual Exhibition which will be available to view on our website for the whole month of September. It is taking shape already.
Finally I have people to thank.
I would like to thank all the members of the committee for their support and their dedication to the welfare of the Society, particularly during these strange times we are living through.
Last, and certainly not least, for the support and loyalty of our generous Patron Charles Lord Faringdon.
Sharon Ellis - LAS Chair
LAS AGM - Treasurer's Report - Year Ending 30th June 2020
The Treasurer's Report was emailed to members on 31st July 2020. Members without an email address should have received a hard copy by post. If you require a copy please contact Brian Britton (Secretary). See the Contact page.
The Treasurer's Report was emailed to members on 31st July 2020. Members without an email address should have received a hard copy by post. If you require a copy please contact Brian Britton (Secretary). See the Contact page.