The North of England Art Club

Home

Bolbec Heating Update

New heating system now fully operational.

Club Management

The extra pressures on your Council this year have increased the work a great deal, and have prevented us from up some good initiatives. It has become apparent that we need a new way of managing the club which involves more people which will not only be fairer but will enable a pool of experience to build up which is in the long term interests of the club when existing members stand down. People are usually willing to help with tasks when asked, but at present this is on an ad-hoc basis with no named person taking overall responsibility. We are proposing a number of sub-groups, each headed by a Council member, but with three or four other members from the club.

These are:

Exhibitions - John Fulthorpe

Events - Joe McGregor and Steve Telford

Communications - Malcolm Smith

Catering and Housekeeping - No Council member, but Irene Ayre has offered to lead on catering and at present Maureen Henricks, Isobel Taylor and Maureen Brown are sharing other tasks, but it would be helpful to have more members involved.

In addition Angela Harper has offered to be secretary, Wendy Ranade will continue as Chair, Bruce McNiven as Treasurer and Roly Burn as Membership Secretary.

Bywell Arts Fair

The club has been invited to submit pictures to the Bywell Art Fair this year. It will take place in June - precise dates to be confirmed.

Bywell is a village near Stocksfield in the Tyne Valley. The fair is run by the two parishes which serve the area and the pictures will be hung within the church premises.

This is a well established and successful event.

There will be a standard commission to the organisers plus a small hanging fee. We have been invited to submit up to 50 items which is quite a challenge and contributors should prepare up to 5 or 6 items each. There may be a pre-selection since the NoEAC will be featured as the contributing organisation - dependent on overall numbers.

More detailed information will follow in due course.

NoEAC Committee.

Studio use on Saturdays

As part of our continual involvement with the Centre for Lifelong Learning, there will be another series of weekend courses run by them this spring and summer.

The full list of dates is as follows:

Saturday March 13th and 20th

Saturday 8th and 29th May

Saturday 14th August

Saturday 4th September

Tutor: Lional Playford

At the moment no additional Club activities are scheduled for these dates but the monthly portrait sessions would be affected in some circumstances. John Liddle will provide information for regular attenders.

Thursday Evening Life Classes

The first session is Thursday 18th March - 7.00 -9.00pm

For further info. please contact Adrian Swales

Workshops

Saturday, 15th May

Pastel Workshop with Clare Money 11am - 3pm

An oil painting workshop is planned with Walter Holmes - details and time to be announced.

See club notice board for more details.

CLUB NEWS