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.

Spring 2011

We have had another successful year which culminated in our Exhibition. The preview evening went really well and we were pleased to welcome family and friends of our members as well as the Mayor and Mayoress.  Our families are important to the group as they give the support and encouragement our members need.

 

The exhibition went very well and was well attended as it has been in previous years. As well as producing paintings the group are responsible for putting the whole thing together. We are fortunate to have Roy Leftwich who made all the screens and together with Richard Moody puts them all together so when the paintings arrive they can be hung without too much trouble. As in all groups everyone has an opinion as to where paintings should go but we work things out and this year we finished in very good time. We sold 15 paintings which is really good and had a raffle which helped pay for the room. Alan Walker won the prize for the painting voted most liked by the people who visited the exhibition. The painting was a pen and ink with watercolour of Lower Slaughter. As always we had a few new members joining us after the exhibition and this is very welcome. We had our school competition and had entries from Haydonleigh School. This year the subject was portraits and the youngest of the three winners was 4 years old. It was difficult to choose three winners as the paintings were so good.

 

Our web site is in the process of being updated and we hope to have information and also photos of the exhibition.

 

Christmas was again very enjoyable with the Tuesday group going out to lunch at the college where second year students, and their tutors, prepare a three course lunch. It was a really good meal and the students made us very welcome. The Thursday group again went to the Blunsdon House Hotel and we had a very enjoyable evening.

 

We have been sad to hear that Framework, the art supplies shop on Cheney Manor Trading Estate, is to close down. It has been run by Alan and Eileen Miller and their daughter Karen who is one of our members. We would like to wish Alan and Eileen a happy retirement and Karen good wishes for the future.

 

Despite the bad weather before Christmas we managed to keep going and didn’t have to cancel any meetings. We are all looking forward to our new year and perhaps trying new things. If you feel like coming along to see if it is the kind of group you would like to belong to please come and give it a try.

 

For more information please contact

 

Barbara Moody on 01793722410   or

Bez Suter  on         01793531360

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