Well done!

Thank you all for the input for our AGM, a really positive meeting. There are exciting plans to be made, the most immediate change is that we will not be meeting at the hall on the 3rd Thursday of each month. The idea is to have an outing, or meet elsewhere so please let me have your ideas as soon as possible. A couple of suggestions to consider: Thursday 17th March, Botanic and Tribal art by Joy Adamson at Pashley Manor Gardens in Ticehurst, 5-8pm, £3 ; Thursday 21st April, Monk's House Twilight Tour, Rodmell, Lewes, 7-8.15, £15 advanced booking essential.
We also hope to start some Saturday afternoon workshops in Hailsham so watch this space!

In the meantime, please help to spread the word about the group.

Have your say

Have your say in the future of Arlington Arts Group. Either come to the AGM this Thursday, 10th March 2016 (7-8pm Arlington Village Hall) or let us know your thoughts in advance.

Do you want the group to continue to meet weekly?

Would you like more or less tuition?

Do we need to change the Aims and Objectives of the group?

Just Art Show

more details on the Art & Craft show page http://arlingtonartandcraftshow.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/art-show-at-heffle-cuckoo-fair-2016.html

Art Group news, membership , art shows and AGM

Art Shows

Please could you have a look at the questions below and email me your answers or tell me at the next meeting.
We are committed to 2 art shows, one in Heathfield alongside the very popular Heffle Cuckoo Fair  in April, one in Arlington  in July alongside the Arlington weekend (live music, picnic). Both events were extremely well attended last year (see details of Heffle Just Art Exhibition 2015 )

You can view all of the points for discussion via this LINK or just answer these 3 questions:

1. Are you willing to exhibit some of your art at one of these shows?
2. Would you like to sell your work?
3. Are you available on 16th April and / or 15/16/17th July?

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MEMBERSHIP

Annual membership fees are now due of £10 per person. All members are covered under the groups SAA Public Liability insurance and can purchase art materials from the SAA at SAA member's rates through the group.

Arlington Arts Group - MEMBERSHIP

£10 payable annually, 1st Feb

Name

Address

Telephone / Mobile                                                                                   

Email

Would you like a Loyalty Card for the Thursday Evening Art Sessions?  Y  /  N

This will entitle you to half price entry to group Demonstrations / Workshops with sufficient stamps.

Note: Regular attendees to the Thursday Art Sessions with a loyalty card may pay their renewal fee in 2 instalments of £5, one in February one in August.

Any comments:

Please make cheques payable to Arlington Arts Group and return to us at one of the art sessions or post to AAG, Pickhams, Hayreed Lane, Wilmington. Polegate, BN26 6RR

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February Dates

• Regular art sessions, 7pm at Arlington Village Hall on 4th, 11th and 18th.
• Demonstration/ Workshop on 25th Feb with Ben Ecclestone. 7pm: Wet pastel painting. £5 per person. If you have an Arlington Art Group loyalty card the cost is reduced to £2.50 if you have 4 points. 
  Ben says "This includes print-offs from pastel to form colour beginings that people could develop later in full-blown paintings if they wished at a later time. For this folks need to bring some water colour paper with good cotton content ie Saunders Waterford NOT , preferably 90lbs or Bockingford NOT 90lbs.  A variety of SOFT pastels ( not chalk or oil pastels), a small domestic plastic washing-up sponge, a water bowl large enough to wash-out the sponge, masking tape and a variety of sheets of paper for print-offs ( these can be whatever people have but for fun it would be good to bring along a variety of types and maybe colours).Some kitchen towels will be handy. Everyone would need to have some idea of a subject to work on and I suggest something not too complicated and with bold colours." Note: we have some chalk pastels in the art store but they are quite hard so bring your own if you have them

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March dates

• Regular art sessions, 7pm at Arlington Village Hall on 3rd, 10th alongside AGM, (not 17th), 31st. £5 / members £2.50
• Demonstration/ Workshop on 24th March with Juliette Dodd. 7pm. Portraits in pen & wash.  £5 per person. If you have an Arlington Art Group loyalty card the cost is reduced to £2.50 if you have 4 points. 
  Juliette says "The members can split into small groups or 3 or 4 and draw each other, always a fun thing to do." Note: We have a large selection of pen nibs and some pen holders, bamboo quills and quite a few bottles of inks thanks to Maureen. 

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Arlington Arts Group AGM Agenda

Arlington Village Hall - committee room

Thursday 10th March 2016

7pm - 8pm

(usual painting session in main hall from 7pm for those not attending AGM)

1. Those present / apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting
3. Matters Arising
4. Annual Reports - presentation by Officers of the Committee 
5. Accounts - presentation by the Treasurer
6. Election of Committee / Officers
7. The constitution
8. Any Other Business 
9. Date of the next Annual General Meeting

We have not had competitions, themes or Artists of the Month for a while - can you let us know if you want any of these formats to be resurrected or if you have any other suggestions for items of interest for our weekly sessions. Also, we did try to arrange some outdoor painting sessions last year - let us know if you would like to do any this year and what days suit you best.

William de Wilde

For William's session on Jan 28 th he will be covering acrylic and watercolour paintings of plants and botanical drawings. Bring your choice of medium and you might like to bring some reference (bits of plants, pot plant, photos of flowers etc). Start 7pm, finish 9.30pm. £5 or £2.50 with 4 points on your AAG loyalty card.


Apparently the road through Arlington village is closed (actually closed, not 'closed') until Wednesday 27th Jan for water mains works so it should be open again for Thursday evening. If not, you can access the hall from the Berwick direction or follow the diversion from the Hailsham direction via Tye Hill Lane.

Road closed

I have just heard that the road through the village is closed but you can get to the hall via Tye Hill Lane, past Bates Green / the Bluebell walk.

4pm today, Thurs 7th Jan, there are no floods on the road through Arlington village.

If it does rain heavily, be aware that water can accumulate on the sharp bends into and in the middle of the village, between Berwick and the village, at the junction of Bayleys Lane and Thornwell Road, on the Michelham Road and surface water can build up on Arlington Road West.

January Newsletter

Happy New Year to you all! The art sessions at Arlington Village Hall start again this coming Thursday, 7th Jan. If you haven't been for a while, please do join us, we'd love to see you. You can work on your own projects or, if you need some inspiration, the suggestion is to create a picture for a place  - for January the place is 'The Kitchen'. Regular art sessions are untutored, bring your own materials but we do have some to borrow. £5 per person (or £2.50 for Arlington Art Group members - membership is £10 per year renewable in February). Refreshments provided. 7-9pm, Arlington Village Hall. January dates: Regular sessions on 7th (NOT the 14th) and the 21st. Demonstration/ Workshop on 28th Jan with William De Wilde. http://williamdewilde.org/ £5 per person. If you have an Arlington Art Group loyalty card the cost is reduced to £2.50 if you have 4 points.  February Dates: Regular sessions on 4th, 11th and 18th. Demonstration/ Workshop on 25th Feb with Ben Ecclestone (TBC).  ART CLASSES I will not be running regular classes this year but there will be some at Gallery North in Hailsham run by Jennifer Bisset and I will be doing a short course in Arlington in the Summer (dates TBA) plus a one day workshop next Saturday, 9th Jan, in Horam. Details of all of these, and others, will be on the Arlington Art Group websitehttp://www.arlingtonartsgroup.co.uk/ Regards Josie  01323 485153

Josie Tipler workshop

Creating movement using mixed media. Art workshop.

Sat 9th January, 10am - 3pm.

A one day art workshop with Josie Tipler in the Cartlodge at Horam Manor Farm in Horam.
We will cover various ways to get a sense of movement into your paintings. Use whatever medium you like, I favour acrylics as a mixed medium with anything else including collage (use PVA glue)
Bring tracing paper, sketching paper and pencils plus whatever you would like to use for a final piece – canvas board or stretched canvas, mount card or heavyweight paper. Gouache and pastel on top of acrylic works well but bring whatever medium you like.

Subjects can be anything from a windy day to birds in flight or the human figure, bring a photo that inspires you.

Cost is £27.50.
Booking in advance is essential as space is limited:
07757 020547 or thecartlodge@gmail.com

Bring packed lunch or visit the Lakeside Cafe

Jennifer Bisset

Painting Classes at Gallery North

Beginners   Refreshers and  Experimental

Friendly, fun and informative painting sessions with

Scottish artist Jennifer Bisset in Gallery North, Hailsham.

 Watercolour, Acrylic, Inks and Oils

take your pick or try all

It's an adventure in technique, style and medium

Classes will start on

 Tuesday January 5^th at 7pm till 9:30pm

Please email or phone for more information

jenniferbisset1@gmail.com

mobile   0789 628 3145

Check out my website to see some of my work

www.jenniferbisset.com 

Season's greetings!

The Christmas season is upon us so we will be having an open evening on Thursday 17th Dec in the hall with drinks and nibbles. You can do some painting if you like or just have a nice sociable evening, members are welcome to bring along examples of their work to display (and sell if you like!). Open to all, free, please do invite friends, bring your own alcoholic drinks or we are providing soft drinks. If you would like to bring some food to share, please get in touch with Hazel to find out what is needed. 7 til 9pm.

There is a slight change to our dates for January: Jan 7, (not 14), 21, 28. William de Wilde will be returning on 28th Jan to do either a demonstration or a workshop, details to follow. 

It would be helpful to know if you prefer to have workshops or demonstrations with visiting artists - have there been any that you have particularly enjoyed? Do you have any suggestions? Please let Camilla know.

November & December Events - Dates for your diary

Arlington Art Group - Art Sessions

Arlington Village hall, Thursdays, 7-9pm, £5 (£2.50 AAG members). Bring your own materials and projects to work on.

Please note, there is NO SESSSION on 19th Nov but there is a Parish council meeting in the hall if anyone is interested in attending, where the local road issues and proposals for house building in the parish will be discussed.

Next art session will be on  26th Nov, Bob Sparkes will give a short Demo and a WORKSHOP - details not known yet, but I will put them on the website if/when I hear. Otherwise, I suggest bringing board or canvas and acrylics or whatever medium you wish to use. Bob does bright and bold abstracts with an architectural feel. £5 or £2.50 with active LOYALTY card

December art sessions on 3rd and 10th. Our Christmas social with nibbles, drinks and hopefully some music will take place on 17th, we then break until the new year.

Other Events Kate Osborne, who gave us a lovely demonstration of one of her watercolours, has sent us this invitation:  T N Lawrence Open Studio 15 Kingsthorpe Road Hove BN3 5HR November 21st/22nd 28th/29th December 6th 12th/13th 11am to 5pm Private View 20th November 7-9pm You are cordially invited to drinks and nibbles!  Heffle Cuckoo Fair - Christmas market. Some of the group took part in the Heffle cuckoo fair in the spring so may be interested in this new event on 21st November.  at Punnetts Town Village Hall, Nr Heathfield, TN21 9DS. All the stalls will be in the main hall and tables will be provided (size 1.7m x 0.6m). The event will be open to the public from 10am – 4pm. Setting up of stalls commences at 9.15am. The stalls will cost £15 each. There will be refreshments on the day including bacon rolls, tea, coffee, sausage rolls, mince pies, cakes etc. In aid of Demelza Children’s Hospice. Also on 21st November is a Life drawing workshop up at the Cartlodge at Horam Manor Farm in Horam which may interest some of you. Cajun dance in aid of Gallery North funds, Friday 27th Nov, 7pm, Herstmonceux Village Hall. Tickets £5 from the gallery or on the door. See website for details. The current gallery exhibition, Father and Daughter, continues until 19th Dec. Christmas in Arlington. There is a lot happening in the village this year including a  craft fair on 28th Nov (with cake stall!), screening of the historic village production, The Infant King, a Festival of Stars and more. See Website for full details. 28th/29th November and 4th/5th December is Eastbourne Artists Christmas Open Houses The Arlington Village library, which includes quite a few art books, is now housed at Bates Green Farm, home of the annual Bluebell Walk, in the book room. This is a temporary home and is open on Fridays and Saturdays when the farm shop is open. Please do visit. Classic Cabaret in Hailsham. The Dicker Players return with their annual cabaret but this time the venue is the delightful Hailsham Pavilion. Tickets £10 from the pavilion box office. Only 2 performances - 11th and 12th December, 7.45pm. Adults only, an evening of hilarity with comedy sketches and songs with live band.Website

Finally.... As some of you may know, I recently had the good fortune to be given a wonderful commission and the opportunity to travel to New York for 2 weeks. There are some photos on my blog page but I would like to give a short presentation about the project at one of the art sessions early in the new year, so keep an eye open for updates. Josie's blog.