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.

 
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

Christmas Open Evening

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. 

October / November 2011 Newsletter

Click HERE to see the latest Newsletter.

AAG Newsletter Aug/Sept 2011

ARLINGTON ARTS GROUP NEWSLETTER

NEXT AAG Committee MEETING: - Monday 8th August, 7.30pm at Pickhams.
All welcome.

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.

By Ivy Dunk

“Artists of the Month” 

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.

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 Carr

By 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

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.

3rd Prize Winner

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

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.

Want to print out and display one of our posters?

poster 1 poster 2 poster 3

Full programme of Arlington Arts Festival events

Follow this link to see the updated programme of events for Arlington Arts Festival, 8-10th July
http://arlingtonartsfestival.blogspot.com/p/arts-festival-programme.html

June/July Newsletter ready

You can view and print the latest newsletter from here:
June/ July 2011 Page 1
June/ July 2011 Page 2

“Artists of the Month”

“Artists of the Month”
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.

April - Claire Carr
Claire kindly volunteered to be our first ever ‘Artist of the month’ and brought in examples of her work to show us and to talk about.  Claire has done commissions in the past and does some very unusual painted dolls, none of which we had seen before so we had a chance to view these and find a bit more about how Claire works. You can see more of Claire’s work on her website
http://clairecarrartist.yolasite.com

May - Richard Brown
Richard unwittingly volunteered to show his works to us in May. He gave us a very informative introduction about his main artistic influence which was his geat uncle, the portrait painter R G Eves and showed examples of his portraits. We looked at various recent pieces of Richard’s work including his winning entry in the 2010 Paint me a Bluebell competition.

Painting Demonstration - Colin Merrin

 Thursday 30th June, 7-9pm, Arlington Village Hall

Colin Merrin was born in London and studied at Maidstone College of Art, Kingston University and the University of London, Institute of Education. Primarily a landscape and figurative painter, he strongly believes the process of making paintings to be at least as important as what they represent. It is the abstract and expressionist elements; the manipulation and physicality of paint and colour and the qualities of light and mood that interest him. Whilst based in London, the urban landscape dominated his work. Nevertheless since 2007 he has lived and worked in Sussex and recent paintings have reflected more rural themes.

£6 per person, all welcome. (£5 AAG members) Please call or email to book your place.

http://www.colinmerrin.co.uk/index.php

Artist Demonstration - Vivienne Walkington

Artist Vivienne Walkington will be demonstrating her watercolour technique at Arlington Village Hall on Thursday 19th May, 7-9pm.
All welcome. £6 visitors (£5 AAG members). Refreshments available.
Please call or email to book your place. Contact us.

See Vivienne's website here.

Portrait workshop a successful evening.

Portrait Workshop with Juliette Dodd and model, Sharon Dinnie.
This was a very enjoyable evening. Juliette not only completed a quick likeness of Sharon in 15 minutes at the same time as showing us how to start a portrait, but also kept us entertained and laughing throughout the evening.