Lichfield Society of Artists

Autumn Exhibition 2008

Our autumn exhibition was opened on Saturday 4^th October by Colin Whittock, well-known cartoonist with the Birmingham Evening Mail.
The opening was well attended and included representatives from the local council and diocese. As always the standard of the exhibition was exceptional and, again, we had many new members displaying their work.

The judges made awards to the following:

The Jack Ballinger Memorial Award
Peter Valentine: ‘Venice II’
The Michael Fabricant Award 
Geoff Birkbeck: ‘Great Gable from Wasdale Head’
 The Armour Brown Award
Sandra Jones: ‘In the Hedgerow’
The Sybil Clarke Award
Keith Leonard: ‘Finishing Touches’
The Drawing Award
Carole Collier: ‘Mother Love’
The Watercolour Award

Andrea Fisher: ‘Autumn on the Chase’

The Pastel Award
John L. Wood: ‘Sometimes in an Evening Light’
Most outstanding Art Print
Pat Brennan: ‘Daybreak’
Most outstanding Ceramic or Pottery
Janet Cottrell: ‘Artist and Model’
Most outstanding Craftwork
Henrietta Ellis: ‘Blue & Cream in Lichfield’

Commendations were awarded to:

   Maggie Wilcox            Maureen Hughes
   Dennis Harper            Chris Watkins
   Maria Mallender          Andrea Fisher

The Public Vote for ‘Best Work in the Exhibition’ was well supported with 143 votes.

1^st with 23 votes was Dennis Harper with ‘Shepherd’s Cottage’

Society member to create new sculpture

SOCIETY MEMBER TO CREATE NEW CITY SCULPTURE

  For over half a century, perhaps even longer, Lichfield has been without any new public sculpture, but now it will soon happen as part of a £70,000 cash injection.

Designs for a bronze sculpture, titled "The Formation of Poetry" created by Society member Peter Walker, are expected to be part of the Samuel Johnson Tercentenary Sculpture Project, and will be on show soon.

The sculpture, which has been designed with the help of art students from the Friary High School, will be the first of three sculptures planned for 2010-2011.

A Community arts project, planned for the City throughout 2009 will be part of the celebrations culminating in the Johnson birthday celebration week-end, next September.

Members will recall seeing Peter's bronze sculpture "Icarus" during our Autumn exhibition, and we congratulate Peter on this very important commission. Our Society will also be contributing to these celebrations, and details will be published in the New Year.

Find out more http://www.welshartsarchive.org.uk/galleries/peter_walker.htm

Painting evening Masterclasses

THE PAINTING EVENING ‘MASTER CLASS’

Colin Clifton ran the first of our acrylic ‘Master Classes’ at the October painting evening.  We were joined by 9 members for this trial run, which was a great success. None of the group had used acrylics before and had a great time learning new techniques. The ‘students’ were very quick to raise hands for ‘can we do more please’. So, with the agreement of Colin, the master classes will continue to run alongside the members’ painting evenings for the next six sessions.  Our next date is 26th November 2008, 7.30pm – 10.00pm.

We can take up to twelve members at one time and we already have six places reserved. If you want to join in the next session, see Jan Leytham-Gain at the November demo evening and give her your £2 deposit or phone either Jan on 01543 252122 or Colin on 0121 353 6296 to reserve your place.

PLEASE remember, if you DON”T want to do the master class you can still come along with your own artwork for the usual £1 for the evening, that includes tea, coffee and bics for everyone! We look forward to seeing you there.

Got any suggestions of what media you’d like to try? Talk to Jan Leytham-Gain and she’ll see what we can do for a Master Class for you!

 

Competition Winner

Website Competition

The winner of the Lichfield Society website competition with the title/theme ‘Lichfield Cathedral Inside or Out’ is John Walton, congratulations! John will receive as his prize a twelve months free member’s gallery web-page spread.

Thank you to all the members who contributed work for this competition.

The competition was originally planned to run from one March to the next but due to the website re-vamping and other factors it will now run from one Autumn Exhibition (where the winner will be announced) to the next.

The title / theme for the next competition will be ‘My favourite Things’

All entries are to be sent to Pat Brennan. Address in your year book. Please, please when you send photographs make them as large as possible, or send them in digital format on disc or even a zip file via e-mail. The entries will be displayed on our website until the next Autumn Exhibition where the winner will be announced

All this information will be in the next newsletter and announced at the meetings.

Display Cabinet

 

Display Cabinet

We are taking out of the Garrick the glass display cabinet and looking for a temporary home to store this in. If you have space in your garage or house for this, it is approximately 4ft wide x 3ft deep and stands 4ft high, please contact David Leytham on 01543 252122.