Haydon Wick Parish Council issue a Newsletter in the

Spring, Summer and Winter of each year.

We have an article published in each newsletter and reproduced here is the article featured in the last newsletter.  For those of you who do not receive the Haydon Wick Parish Council Newsletter some past articles can be viewed via the links below.

 

Winter 2010

As usual the summer has gone very quickly and we are very happy to have had another five people join us. We realise it is not always easy to go into a room full of people you don’t know, wondering if your work is good enough or in some cases too good, but we hope that when people come they find a warm welcome and are encouraged to do whatever art they feel happiest with. During the evening we stop work and have a cup of tea, coffee or hot chocolate and biscuits and chat about the work going on (or anything else). We pay for these refreshments by having a monthly raffle which is organised by Maureen Kerner.

 We are busy getting ready for our exhibition, which will be over by the time this newsletter is published. The rule is that we have all new paintings for this exhibition so we are busy. We are very pleased that Rex Barnett and Mrs Barnett, mayor and mayoress of Swindon, are going to be present at our preview evening. Our yearly visit to Art in Action in Oxfordshire was once again a great success. It was wonderful to see the different artists and craft people showing how they produce their work. The weather wasn’t too bad this year and we all decided that a day isn’t long enough to see all there is to see. One of our members has already been on a glass bead making course in Leicester after seeing some of the beautiful jewellery. Many of our members have the same two problems with their work. The first one is starting paintings and never finishing them. We put them in folders ready to be finished at some point in the future but needless to say most of the time they are never finished. The second problem is what to do with all the finished paintings. You can only hang so many in your home, and only give so many away as gifts. One of our members has come up with the idea of having a stall on Children in Need day and selling off as many paintings as we can and giving the money to Children in Need. So please look out for us and any support you can give will be most welcome. I usually end this winter newsletter by saying Happy Christmas from all the group and if you have painting equipment given to you, you may think about coming to join us.  So, Happy Christmas and we look forward to seeing some of you in the New Year.   We meet on Tuesday mornings from 10 am to 12 noon Haydon Wick Council Offices, and on Thursday evenings from 7pm to 9pm in the North Swindon Library.  If you would like any more information about the group please look at our web site or call 

Barbara Moody on 01793722410       or

Bez Suter          on  01793531360

 

 

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