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Saturday, 14 January 2012
CORRECTION - January / February Newsletter
We
get to see what members work on at the Thursday Art Evenings and at
exhibitions, but it is great to see all the other work they do and have
done in the past. 
Monday, 9 January 2012
Hailsham Shop Windows - space for artists.
There will be a changeover of artists displaying work in the empty shop windows in Hailsham High Street on 29th January.
If you would like to show work for approximately 8 weeks in a shop window exhibtion, please do get in touch. You would need to provide your own stands / easels, display your own work, insure your work for the exhibtion duration (29th January to 24th March), and collect your work when asked - if the shops are let during the exhibition time, you will be asked to remove your work, possibly at short notice.
This is part of the Hailsham Town Council's initiative for High Street Revitalisation in conjunction with the empty shop owners and the letting agents (Ross and Co). You may be asked to help clean up the interior of the shop when placing your work, if it has not already been done. You will be responsible for keeping the windows cleaned.
This is not a commercial venture - it is an opportunity to show your work and help the appearance of the High Street. Pictures in the windows must not have any prices on them - you can put your own contact details in the window if you wish or Gallery North will kindly handle all enquiries about your work (for a small donation) so you will need to provide a list of the work with prices and either a 'map' of the window or photos of the work for the gallery stewards. There will be no commission on any sales but pictures will have to remain in the windows once sold until the end of the exhibition.
If interested please email asap or call Josie at Hailsham Creative on 01323 840 048 or leave a message for Jenny at Gallery North (70 High St, Hailsham) on 01323 846 938.
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Paint me a Bluebell 2012
Paint Me a Bluebell.
SEE THE 2012 WINNING ENTRIES HERE
You can interpret the title as you like . Your entry can be painted or drawn in any medium and to any size but we need a 5 x 7" PHOTOGRAPH of your work to judge, not the original work.
You can interpret the title as you like . Your entry can be painted or drawn in any medium and to any size but we need a 5 x 7" PHOTOGRAPH of your work to judge, not the original work.
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 31st March 2012
All photographs will be displayed throughout the opening of the 2012 Arlington Bluebell Walk (opening dates to be confirmed on www.bluebellwalk.co.uk) and visitors will be asked to vote for the winners in each category. The ORIGINALS of all the winning entries will then be displayed during the Hailsham Arts Festival between 8th - 19th September 2012 (venue and exact exhibition date TBC).
Categories:
A - Under 8's (50p per entry),
B - 8 to 16 years (50p per entry)
C - 65 and over (£1 per entry),
D - Amateur (£1 per entry),
E - Professional (£2 per entry)
Please send you photographs (size approximately 5 x 7") with NO name on the front, to the address below. Mark your name, address, telephone, email and category entered on the BACK of the photograph and send with the appropriate fee for the category. Unlimited number of entries. Cheques payable to ARLINGTON ARTS GROUP. If you would rather, you can deliver entries in oerson to Arlington Village Hall on a Thursday evening between 7 and 9pm by prior arrangement.
All photographs will be displayed throughout the opening of the 2012 Arlington Bluebell Walk (opening dates to be confirmed on www.bluebellwalk.co.uk) and visitors will be asked to vote for the winners in each category. The ORIGINALS of all the winning entries will then be displayed during the Hailsham Arts Festival between 8th - 19th September 2012 (venue and exact exhibition date TBC).
Categories:
A - Under 8's (50p per entry),
B - 8 to 16 years (50p per entry)
C - 65 and over (£1 per entry),
D - Amateur (£1 per entry),
E - Professional (£2 per entry)
Please send you photographs (size approximately 5 x 7") with NO name on the front, to the address below. Mark your name, address, telephone, email and category entered on the BACK of the photograph and send with the appropriate fee for the category. Unlimited number of entries. Cheques payable to ARLINGTON ARTS GROUP. If you would rather, you can deliver entries in oerson to Arlington Village Hall on a Thursday evening between 7 and 9pm by prior arrangement.
We can not return photographs. It is a condition of entry that your original work is available to display between 8th ad 19th September 2012 in the event of you being a winner. Prizes for the winner in each category of either Art materials or vouchers will be presented at the exhibition of the winning entries where photographs will be taken of all winners with their work. It is a condition of entry that you consent to images of your work being used on the Bluebell Walk website and printed literature where this relates to the Art Competition and on the Arlington Arts Group website and
to
promote future competitions run by the Arlington Arts Group and
published in the Arlington Arts Group Newstetter. All entries must be
photographs of your own work which must be original, not copies of the
work of other artists or photographers.
send photos of your Paint me a Bluebell entries to:
AAG Bluebell Competition c/o Magpie Cottage, Hayreed Lane, Wilmington, Polegate, BN26 6RR
Enquiries 01323 485153 or by email
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Art Evenings start this week
The first Art Group session of 2012 is on Thursday 5th January, 7-9pm at Arlington Village Hall. All are welcome - if you got some art materials for Christmas and need some inspiration to get you started, pop along! Informal and untutored, £2.50 to include a drink, bring your own materials.
Each week we have a suggested theme - this week it is 'Shiny and New' - which you can ignore if you like and do your own thing. We have magazines and books for inspiration and everyone is happy to share their own tips and suggestions. A small group, our numbers vary from 10 to 20 ish each week and we have members who work in watercolours, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, oils, pencils, print so there is always plenty of inspiration!
There is an annual membership fee if you would like to come on a regular basis (due in February, amount TBA but around the £10 mark so not extortionate!) which entitles you to a discount on our exhibition entry fees and on materials form the SAA, plus you are covered by the SAA PL Insurance at group events.
Check here for future session dates..
Each week we have a suggested theme - this week it is 'Shiny and New' - which you can ignore if you like and do your own thing. We have magazines and books for inspiration and everyone is happy to share their own tips and suggestions. A small group, our numbers vary from 10 to 20 ish each week and we have members who work in watercolours, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, oils, pencils, print so there is always plenty of inspiration!
There is an annual membership fee if you would like to come on a regular basis (due in February, amount TBA but around the £10 mark so not extortionate!) which entitles you to a discount on our exhibition entry fees and on materials form the SAA, plus you are covered by the SAA PL Insurance at group events.
Check here for future session dates..
Sunday, 27 November 2011
December looms
We are nearly into December and that busy social calendar so there is only one more Art Session at Arlington Village Hall before the New Year. This Thursday, 1st Dec, the suggested theme is A Study in Scarlet - make of it what you will. The inspiration for the theme is (from Wikepedia)
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the story in 1886, and it was published [on 1st Dec] the next year. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his sidekick Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
The following week, on 8th December, we will have our Christmas Open Evening open to all visitors, with live music, festive nibbles and drinks. Free entry. Regular attending artists will put a selection of their work on show and some of it may even be for sale. Please do pop in any time between 7 and 9pm. Jim Tipler will play guitar and Lawrie Skinner will play accordion - there may be a hint of a festive theme to the music...
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the story in 1886, and it was published [on 1st Dec] the next year. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his sidekick Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
The following week, on 8th December, we will have our Christmas Open Evening open to all visitors, with live music, festive nibbles and drinks. Free entry. Regular attending artists will put a selection of their work on show and some of it may even be for sale. Please do pop in any time between 7 and 9pm. Jim Tipler will play guitar and Lawrie Skinner will play accordion - there may be a hint of a festive theme to the music...
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Evening Art Sessions in November
Thursday evening sessions at Arlington Village Hall (7-9pm)
17th November - THEME: “Mathematics” (August Ferdinand
Möbius, German mathematician, born this day 1790)
24th November - THEME: “Natural Selection” ( ‘Origin of
Species’ by British naturalist Charles Darwin, published in
1859) .
Artist of the month is Camilla Pennant who will
bring in a selection of her work to show off.
17th November - THEME: “Mathematics” (August Ferdinand
Möbius, German mathematician, born this day 1790)
24th November - THEME: “Natural Selection” ( ‘Origin of
Species’ by British naturalist Charles Darwin, published in
1859) .
Artist of the month is Camilla Pennant who will
bring in a selection of her work to show off.
Monday, 31 October 2011
COMPETITIONS
Thursday Evening Art Session Challenge
The theme for the Thursday Evening Art Session on 3rd November is 'Gunpowder, Treason and Plot'. This is a competition week so everyone who comes to the session and works on a piece on this theme can enter their work into the competition. At 8.50, everyone present will be given 3 votes to cast for their favourite entry/entries. The entry with the most votes will be the winner and the artist will receive a prize plus their picture will be published in the next Arlington Arts Group Newsletter.
The Thursday Evening Art Group is held at Arlington Village Hall from 7-9pm and is open to all ages and abilities. Bring your own materials. £2.50 per person (£1 for accompanied children under 16)- refreshments available.
Paint Me a Bluebell.
You can interpret
the title as you like . Your entry can be painted or drawn in any medium
and to any size but we need a 5 x 7" PHOTOGRAPH of your work to judge, not the
original work.
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 31st March 2012
All photographs will be displayed throughout the opening of the 2012 Arlington Bluebell Walk (opening dates to be confirmed on www.bluebellwalk.co.uk) and visitors will be asked to vote for the winners in each category. The ORIGINALS of all the winning entries will then be displayed during the Hailsham Arts Festival between 8th - 19th September 2012 (venue and exact exhibition date TBC).
Categories:
A - Under 8's (50p per entry),
B - 8 to 16 years (50p per entry)
C - 65 and over (£1 per entry),
D - Amateur (£1 per entry),
E - Professional (£2 per entry)
Please send you photographs (size approximately 5 x 7") with NO name on the front, to the address below. Mark your name, address, telephone, email and category entered on the BACK of the photograph and send with the appropriate fee for the category. Unlimited number of entries. Cheques payable to ARLINGTON ARTS GROUP. If you would rather, you can deliver entries in oerson to Arlington Village Hall on a Thursday evening between 7 and 9pm by prior arrangement.
All photographs will be displayed throughout the opening of the 2012 Arlington Bluebell Walk (opening dates to be confirmed on www.bluebellwalk.co.uk) and visitors will be asked to vote for the winners in each category. The ORIGINALS of all the winning entries will then be displayed during the Hailsham Arts Festival between 8th - 19th September 2012 (venue and exact exhibition date TBC).
Categories:
A - Under 8's (50p per entry),
B - 8 to 16 years (50p per entry)
C - 65 and over (£1 per entry),
D - Amateur (£1 per entry),
E - Professional (£2 per entry)
Please send you photographs (size approximately 5 x 7") with NO name on the front, to the address below. Mark your name, address, telephone, email and category entered on the BACK of the photograph and send with the appropriate fee for the category. Unlimited number of entries. Cheques payable to ARLINGTON ARTS GROUP. If you would rather, you can deliver entries in oerson to Arlington Village Hall on a Thursday evening between 7 and 9pm by prior arrangement.
We can not return photographs. It is a condition of entry that your original work is available to display between 8th ad 19th September 2012 in the event of you being a winner. Prizes for the winner in each category of either Art materials or vouchers will be presented at the exhibition of the winning entries where photographs will be taken of all winners with their work. It is a condition of entry that you consent to images of your work being used on the Bluebell Walk website and printed literature where this relates to the Art Competition and on the Arlington Arts Group website and
to promote future competitions run by the Arlington Arts Group and published in the Arlington Arts Group Newstetter. All entries must be photographs of your own work which must be original, not copies of the work of other artists or photographers.
send photos of your Paint me a Bluebell entries to:
AAG Bluebell Competition c/o Magpie Cottage, Hayreed Lane, Wilmington, Polegate, BN26 6RR
Enquiries 01323 485153 or by email
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Friday, 28 October 2011
Hailsham Shop Windows - update
There will be a changeover of artists displaying work in the empty shop windows in Hailsham High Street on 11th November.
If you would like to show work (we are particularly keen for large works to go on show) for approximately 8 weeks in a shop window exhibtion, please do get in touch. You would need to provide your own stands / easels, display your own work, insure your work for the exhibtion duration (11 th November to 11th January), and collect your work when asked - if the shops are let during the exhibition time, you will be asked to remove your work, possibly at short notice.
This is part of the Hailsham Town Council's initiative for High Street Revitalisation in conjunction with the empty shop owners and the letting agents (Ross and Co). You may be asked to help clean up the interior of the shop when placing your work, if it has not already been done. You will be responsible for keeping the windows cleaned.
This is not a commercial venture - it is an opportunity to show your work and help the appearance of the High Street. Pictures in the windows must not have any prices on them - you can put your own contact details in the window if you wish. Gallery North will kindly handle all enquiries about your work so you will need to provide a list of the work with prices and either a 'map' of the window or photos of the work for the gallery stewards.There will be no commission on any sales but pictures will have to remain in the windows once sold until the end of the exhibition.
If interested please email us asap.
If you would like to show work (we are particularly keen for large works to go on show) for approximately 8 weeks in a shop window exhibtion, please do get in touch. You would need to provide your own stands / easels, display your own work, insure your work for the exhibtion duration (11 th November to 11th January), and collect your work when asked - if the shops are let during the exhibition time, you will be asked to remove your work, possibly at short notice.
This is part of the Hailsham Town Council's initiative for High Street Revitalisation in conjunction with the empty shop owners and the letting agents (Ross and Co). You may be asked to help clean up the interior of the shop when placing your work, if it has not already been done. You will be responsible for keeping the windows cleaned.
This is not a commercial venture - it is an opportunity to show your work and help the appearance of the High Street. Pictures in the windows must not have any prices on them - you can put your own contact details in the window if you wish. Gallery North will kindly handle all enquiries about your work so you will need to provide a list of the work with prices and either a 'map' of the window or photos of the work for the gallery stewards.There will be no commission on any sales but pictures will have to remain in the windows once sold until the end of the exhibition.
If interested please email us asap.
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Monday, 1 August 2011
AAG Newsletter Aug/Sept 2011
ARLINGTON ARTS GROUP NEWSLETTER
NEXT AAG Committee MEETING: - Monday 8th August, 7.30pm at Pickhams.
All welcome.
All welcome.
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| 1st Prize Winner |
Thursday Art Evenings
7 - 9pm in Arlington Village Hall - £2.50 regular session (for demonstrations and other events, please check.)All welcome - no need to come every week. Bring your own materials / equipment. You can carry on with your own projects or take up the ‘suggested challenge’ each week as you wish!
4th August - “Time”
11th August - “The Eyes Have It”. Artist of the month.
18th August - “Gardens” in the marquee and garden of Pickhams (hall booked)
25th August -“Sunshine”
1st September -“Seasons”
8th September - “The Workshop” - Competition
15th September - (Hailsham Arts Festival) “Seascapes”.
22nd September - “Tropical”. Artist of the month.
29th September - “Birds”
Group pictures - all pieces of this are now finished and handed in - we will have these assembled and ready to display at our next event.
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| By Ivy Dunk |
We get to see what members work on at the Thursday Art Evenings and at exhibitions, but it is great to see all the other work they do and have done in the past.
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| Ivy Dunk |
June - Ivy Dunk
Ivy brought in a large selection of her works including watercolour and pastel landscapes & buildings and of course her chalk pastel animals pictures. It was great to see so many of the pictures that Ivy works on at the Thursday Evening sessions, finished and framed.
July - Brenda Carr
Brenda studied Art at college as a student and has mainly used watercolours for years but has recently started using acrylics to great effect. Her work was on show at The Old Oak as part of the Arlington Arts Festival and in both the Arlington and Wilmngton Art Shows. Brenda frequently sells her work, allotments and local scenes being the most popular subjects
What’s Next?
August
Berwick Produce Show - We will have a small marquee to show off our work at the Berwick Produce Show (Saturday 27th, 2-5pm) - if you are local to the Berwick or Arlington area and are around for the day to help set up and / or steward please get in touch if you would like to show some of your work.
September
Hailsham Arts Festival - Hailsham Town Council are trying to arrange empty shop space for artists to show work, particularly during the Art Trail week, 9-19th September This would not be like our pop-up gallery last year but would be window space inside empty and locked shops. Artists would be responsibe for displaying their own work (and arranging how to display it) and would need to arrange key collection via the Town Council. There is the distinct possibility that this would extend beyond the festival week. Again, please get in touch if you are interested.
October or November
We would like to have another art show which would include our Secret Art Sale in aid of Chestnut Tree House. If you would like to show work and / or complete a small canvas to donate to the Secreat Art Sale, let me know.
December
We will have our usual Christmas Open Evening with music and nibbles.
COMPETITIONS
Ivy brought in a large selection of her works including watercolour and pastel landscapes & buildings and of course her chalk pastel animals pictures. It was great to see so many of the pictures that Ivy works on at the Thursday Evening sessions, finished and framed.
July - Brenda Carr
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| Brenda Carr |
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| By Brenda Carr |
What’s Next?
August
Berwick Produce Show - We will have a small marquee to show off our work at the Berwick Produce Show (Saturday 27th, 2-5pm) - if you are local to the Berwick or Arlington area and are around for the day to help set up and / or steward please get in touch if you would like to show some of your work.
September
Hailsham Arts Festival - Hailsham Town Council are trying to arrange empty shop space for artists to show work, particularly during the Art Trail week, 9-19th September This would not be like our pop-up gallery last year but would be window space inside empty and locked shops. Artists would be responsibe for displaying their own work (and arranging how to display it) and would need to arrange key collection via the Town Council. There is the distinct possibility that this would extend beyond the festival week. Again, please get in touch if you are interested.
October or November
We would like to have another art show which would include our Secret Art Sale in aid of Chestnut Tree House. If you would like to show work and / or complete a small canvas to donate to the Secreat Art Sale, let me know.
December
We will have our usual Christmas Open Evening with music and nibbles.
COMPETITIONS
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| Claire Carr |
Thursday Art Competition
Every now and then we will choose one of our weekly ‘suggested themes’ to be a competition. In July the theme was ‘Kitchen Sink’ and many rose to the challenge with 15 entries! Everyone had to vote for just ONE picture which was of course very difficult, but the winner was Claire Carr with her composition called ‘Women know your place’!
Paint me a Spring Woodland.
We had over 1000 votes for the entries in the competition while they were on show at this year’s Bluebell Walk. The winners were: Adult, Michael Gower who won a £25 voucher for art materials from Jacksons Art Supplies; Children: 1st prize, Farah Karimi ; 2nd prize, Charlotte Carig ; 3rd prize, Tyler Hammat- all won a selection of art materials thanks to Great Art and the SAA.
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| 3rd Prize Winner |
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| Michael Gower - winner, Adult |
Secret Art Sale - get your canvas!
This will be in aid of Chestnut Tree House, children’s hospice. We are selling small box canvases for £3 and inviting artists to return them to us for a Secret Art Sale before Christmas (date and venue TBC). Please ask for a canvas.
You can choose to have the cost of your canvas refunded on handing back the completed canvas or you can count this as an extra donation to Chestnut Tree House.
http://www.chestnut-tree-house.org.uk/
Summer Art Workshop & Open Studios in Wilmington.
You are invited to attend any of Josie’s Art Workshops in the marquee at Pickhams on Monday or Thursday mornings in August (10 - 1) for just £6 per session (£5 AAG Members / £1 Thursday Art Evening regulars).
8th August - Pencils - getting to grip with tones, shades and colours
11th August - Chalk Pastels - ‘painting’ with pastels
15th August - Watercolours - ‘drawing’ with the paintbrush
18th August - Acrylics - on canvas or canvas board
22nd August - Mixed media - anything goes!
25th August - Acrylics with Texture / mediums.
Please do get in touch to book a place if you are interested 01323 485153.
Josie will also be having Open Studios in the house on Saturday and Sunday afternoons in August from the 13th with collections in aid of Chestnut Tree House
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| 2nd Prize Winner |
Arlington ARTS Group - Membership
Annual membership is renewable in February. In addition to discounts at Pictures and Frames of Horam all group members are entitled to discounted rates at AAG exhibitions and events and are able to purchase from the SAA Catalogue at the membership reduced prices when ordering through the group.
We are STILL waiting to hear if we get the same 10% discount on Art materials in W H Smith as we do in Sussex Stationers.
Get in Touch if you’d like to join the group and are interested in taking part in or attending any of the Arts Group events. Take part in local group events and promote your own events and groups.
Deadline for submissions for the October/November newsletter is 20th September.
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