LECHLADE ART SOCIETY NEWS
Newsletter and Words of Art Issue 20 - September 2024
This issue includes Brian Britton (Chair) on the Annual Exhibition, member successes in high-profile London galleries, a workshop update and the Christmas Lunch.
View/download the magazine (pdf 4MB): Words of Art September 2024
Monthly Meeting Tuesday 10th September - Julia Sorrell
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 10th September 2024, 2.00 - 4.00pm, in the Pavilion. Julia Sorrell with give a presentation about her work and her recently completed painting "Dreams about Fantasy and Enchantment" in watercolour, pencil and gouache". Please be seated by 1.55pm. For more about Julia, see her website
Annual Summer Exhibition
The exhibition, which was open to the public from Saturday 24th to Tuesday 27th August in Lechlade's Memorial Hall, is now over but you can still view the photographs:
- Preview Evening (Friday 23rd August 7-8.30pm)
- Patron's Award
- Exhibits of 43 artists on display screens in the main hall
- "Little Gems" for sale in aid of the Prospect Hospice, Swindon
- Lechlade Library window display
- Promotion around the town
See Exhibition
Also a 360 degree view of the exhibition hall at Exhibition360
Michelle Ouzman
It is with regret that I write to tell you that sadly a member of LAS, Michelle Ouzman, died recently. Michelle had not attended LAS activities this year due to ill health. Michelle had a career in the RAF and since retirement was active as a Gloucestershire representative for the war graves commission and a counsellor for RAF personnel. I will send a card of condolences to her daughter Lauren and other members of the family.
Brian Britton, Chair, May 2024
Lechlade Art Society at Oxfordshire Artweeks 2024
Lord Faringdon, our Patron, kindly allowed the Society to have a week-long Open Studios event at Buscot Park. Buscot Park is in Oxfordshire so this enabled the Society to participate in Oxfordshire Artweeks which is a county-wide event throughout May. Ten of our members showed work and demonstrated their skills from Saturday 4th to Sunday 12th May inclusive, 2pm to 6pm every day. If you missed it there are photographs here:
Open Studios
Sad News, Email to Members sent 17 March
It is with profound regret that I write to you today to say that two members of LAS have recently passed away.
Yvonne Ayoub, although not a member for so very long, was beginning to get involved with the Society. She will be missed, especially by those members who knew her well.
Joan Tyrell was an active member of the Society, adding to her long list of other hobbies and interests. She regularly attended the Thursday Group meetings, workshops and even attended the February demonstration with her daughter and grandson. As her death was sudden, we do not have any further details.
We shall be sending a card of condolence to both families on behalf of us all at the Lechlade Art Society.
Brian Britton, Chair
Affordable Art - A Pop-up Art Sale in the Pavilion
A few of our members held a pop-up art sale in the Pavilion on Saturday 23rd
December from 10.00am to 2.30pm. After a rather slow start, it got much busier later. See the photographs here
Roger Jones at the ROI and RSMA London Exhibitions
The paintings which Roger Jones had selected by the Royal Society of Oil Painters (ROI) in 2022 and the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) in 2023.
Two Somerset Fishermen - selected by the ROI 2022
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Boats at Low Tide in N Wales - selected by the RSMA 2023
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Announcement - Ian Harrop
The Society has been informed of the recent death of Ian Harrop. Ian died from leukaemia (diagnosed earlier this year) at Cheltenham Hospital around 19th October 2023. Thursday Group members will remember him as a "regular" up until 2021.
The funeral will be private. Please respect the privacy of the family.
Brian Britton (LAS Chair) has sent a card of condolence on behalf of the Society.