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Newsletter January 9th 2006
Issue 02

Haydon Artists' Society goes from strength to strength. and this was shown at our belated AGM in November when we had 28 members present. It was good to talk about the future and see that the aims of the society are still on track.

Our meetings on Thursdays are well attended with an average of 23 members coming along. The Tuesday group is proving very popular with the membership up to 14. We have decided thath the limit will be 20 because of the size of the room. Of course if we have more people wanting to join then we will have to consider what can be done as we do not want to turn anyone away.

We held our pre Christmas exhibition in the North Swindon Library. The paintings were very varied and everyone thought the standard was excellent. It’s interesting to see how we have all developed and changed over the past three years. Unfortunately, for the first time, we had a painting stolen. The small painting of a pot of geraniums was very pretty and it was the first time the artist had had her paintings framed and exhibited so it was upsetting for all of us.

The Manor in Haydon Wick was the venue for our Christmas Dinner when 27 of our members enjoyed a really good meal. This was the third year we have met for a Christmas celebration and once again it was a great success.

In February we are having a day workshop when Carol Kibble, who is a pastelartist living in Goatacre, will be showing us how to paint portraits. We have had so much interest shown in this workshop that we are asking Carol to do more workshops for us.

We are very excited about our web page which has been designed by one of our members, Paula Dagnall. It is an interesting site as it gives information about the groupand an insight to what happens at our meetings. We have a section which changes regularly and features a different member who gives an insight into their work and tells how they started painting. We hope this will encourage other people to have a go.

Now we are looking forward to a new year and are planning to make it as interesting as we can. Some of us are considering spending a week at the Marlborough summer school and others thinking of going on day workshops to improve techniques and try new ways of working. What ever we do we are sure to continue to enjoy our painting at our weekly meetings and hope that we will have new members who will come along and join us.

Meetings are on Thursdays from 7pm to 9pm at North Swindon Library and on Tuesdays from 10am to 12 noon at the Haydon Wick Council Offices.
Beginners are always welcome and although these are not classes there is usually some one who will help to get you started.

For more information come along or call

Barbara Moody on 01793 722410 e mail barbara.moody@virgin.net
Margaret Freeman on 07778577873
Bez Suter on 01793 531360

 

 

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