November 2020 Patrons: Sam Nhlengethwa, Conrad Theys, Hayden Proud

www.sasa-artists.co.za SASA NEWSLETTER www.facebook.com/SASArtists http://sasartists.blogspot.com November 2020 Patrons: Sam Nhlengethwa, Conrad Theys, Hayden Proud

President: Audrey Innes - [email protected]

Secretary: Nicole Riedler – PO Box 2574, Clareinch, 7740. 071 496 1029 [email protected] Treasurer: Mike Forrester – PO Box 2574, Clareinch, 7740. Tel 021 761 6357 [email protected]

 Diary NOVEMBER Monday 16 Plein Air Outing: Chart Farm Saturday 21 Art in the Park: Rondebosch Park Monday 30 Members’ Exhibition, Kirstenbosch Thursday 26 Monthly Meeting at the Athenaeum – Eleanor Palmer and end of year Party DECEMBER Wednesday 9 Closing of Members Exhibition, Kirstenbosch JANUARY Thursday 28 Talk/Presentation with Dave Buckley

Dare to risk public criticism – Mary Kay Ash

 Letter from the President Dear Members, Thankfully the sun is out! Until it rains again – let’s hope Big shout out to our members who have been featured the temperature doesn’t drop too far down the in the SA Artist magazine during this year. Sue Paulson thermostat just yet. and Ali-Lauren Melk are featured artists in the latest magazine (issue #55). This year alone other artists who I’m very much looking forward to our final and ‘LIVE’ have appeared on the pages include Karen Burns (who Members Meeting on 26 November and seeing those was featured on the cover), Joanna Cooke, Sonja Frenz, who feel safe enough to venture out. We will be doing Jeremy Day, Willie Jacobs, Di Metcalf – the list goes on our utmost to ensure sanitizing and social distancing and on…. measures are adhered to and would be thankful of you doing the same. This does mean that the attendance book and Library facilities will operate differently. So please bear with us as we try to accommodate everyone (most of the people most of the time). You’ll read more about the evening further along in the newsletter.

Am I tempting fate by saying I’m so glad the Zoom Meetings are thankfully over and done with? It was great having the facility (and being able to have tea whilst watching the demos) but I much prefer the real thing, the buzz of the people, the chatter around the So now let’s hope that the weather holds well for our tea table afterwards. Art in the Park on 21 November. This is followed by our Members End of Year Exhibition in Kirstenbosch. Oh so Absolutely loved Yvonne’s presentation, there’s always very excited. Please see more about this below and so much helpful information and advice generously note that the dates I mentioned on the Zoom Meeting imparted by our presenters. Can we ever be more are different (I got too excited and jumped the gun thankful? I really want to do one of those Expedition before everything was confirmed in writing). Liz gave trips (not as crew mind…). By now you will all have me a right telling off! received the email with the link to the video, but we’ve also included it in this newsletter. One can never have Until then, be generous, be creative and above all, be enough links, I say. kind.

Audrey Innes

Page 1 of 9  SASA Programme - Member News and Happenings We invite you to send your own information which can be included in the newsletter. You are also welcome to let us have information on your on-line art courses, art related products and workshops. If you have any news you would like to share, email [email protected]. We have included a list of art teachers at the end of this newsletter, so if you would like your name added to the list, please email Chris at the same address.

This is your last newsletter for the year. This has been a chaotic year for all of us, so even though it seems a bit early, remember to mask up, sanitise and above all, keep safe. If you’re driving, be aware, arrive safe and sound and enjoy the festive season.

We welcome a new member this month. Riana Wagener from Somerset West.

Please let us have any change of personal information so we can continue to communicate with you. If your email or contact details change, please email [email protected] so that we can continue to keep in touch with you.

Please note that the telephone number for the the best communications method – so if you secretary has changed to 071 496 1029. The old have a query or need an answer quite soon, Telkom number of 021 671 8941 is no longer email [email protected] or operational. Please remember that email is still [email protected].

 2021 Membership Fees Membership fees are due in January • Student Members: 220 of every year. 2021 will see no increase in fees and they will remain The joining and lapsed member fee will remain at R100. at R320 for ordinary members and Please remember that the library (which hopefully will R220 for country and student be open from January for our regular monthly members. Your membership fee meetings) will function only on membership numbers payments ensure the continuation and no items can be taken out without your new and health of the oldest society in the number. country. Once payment is made, a new 2021 membership card You can make payment via the internet to SASA will be made on request. This is to avoid unnecessary Nedbank Constantia, branch code 198765, account costs in printing cards that are not collected. You can number 1088006981. collect your card at any SASA meetings or exhibition. We have been notified by the banks that they will no Country members’ cards will be posted to them. longer be issuing cheques. We would therefore ask You will need to present your 2021 membership card that payment be made via eft. If this is not possible, when claiming your discount at the participating art cash payments can be made at the monthly meetings. shops, so please ensure that you collect your card at the Email proof of payment to [email protected] monthly meeting. All the art shops will only give the and please use your name as the beneficiary reference. discount to paid up members. Remember it is • Members: R320 important to renew your membership timeously, especially if you are taking part in our exhibitions • Country Members: R220 .

 SASA Programme - What’s on Monthly Meetings SASA Monthly Meetings are held at the Athenaeum, Boundary Terraces, off Campground Road, Newlands, on the last Thursday of every month at 19h00. Entry is R10 for members and R20 for guests, including refreshments. We encourage you to attend these meetings, find out what’s going on in your society and connect with your fellow artists.

Page 2 of 9 Thursday 29 October: Watercolour and Sketchbook demo with Yvonne Ankerman: Report Back: Thank you, Yvonne, for a great talk. This was a timely reminder and inspiration for all of us to get our sketching materials together and ‘get out there’, even if it’s just in the garden, and start filling those sketchbooks that have been gathering dust during the lockdown. For those of you who missed the talk – not to worry. You can watch it by clicking on the link https://youtu.be/0yBOUJ9g-Vw

Thursday 26 November: Eleanor Palmer competition and End of Year function: We are really It is an open subject competition in any medium and looking forward will follow the same procedures as our other in-house to connecting competitions. Remember, you must be there to enter. again with our The artwork will be displayed in the main hall and a fellow artists and limited number of people at a time will be allowed to members. view the work. Each member is invited to submit one artwork of their choice. Remember to wear your masks Combined with our social evening, we mark the end of and to use the the SASA calendar for the year and look forward to a sanitisers made available. more ‘normal’ 2021. The Eleanor Palmer competition has traditionally been We have a few rules for the Eleanor Palmer sponsored by the late Eleanor Palmer, who was a long- Competition: (Please read carefully, to avoid standing member of the society. disappointment.) These are in place so everyone has a fair chance at winning the trophy. • Only paid-up members and honorary members may participate. • Entrants must be present on the evening. • One entry per member. • Work may be in any medium and does not have to be framed. • Our standard copyright rules apply, and if in doubt, please contact [email protected] for clarity. Work may not be copied from any source material (eg, the internet or publications such as magazines) except for where the artist is the author/owns the copyright to the image or has been given permission in writing by the author. • Work submitted must be the original hand-made work and cannot be a photographic or electronic reproduction. • Work entered may be exhibited at a future SASA exhibition.

Each work will be allocated a number, and voting will Every year, we ask the members to bring a plate of be by those members who are present. The Italian snacks for the evening. This year, however, your Artshop have donated gift vouchers and a few council will be doing the catering, so just come along ‘surprise’ gifts for the evening and the winning and enjoy the company of fellow members. Wine, fruit paintings have the opportunity of having their work juice, tea, coffee will also be provided. All partners, displayed in the window of the Italian Artshop for one friends and family are very welcome to come along as month over December. Thank you, Skye. And also guests, but please note that only members may cast thank you to Linda and Greg of Artland, for the votes in the competition. donation of canvases to the winners. We will also be holding our quiz for the evening, so start swotting up on your art knowledge!

We’re looking forward to a really great end of year evening and hope to see you all there.

Page 3 of 9  Plein Air Outings Wednesday 21 October : Greenpoint Urban Park: Report Back: Our Plein Air outing to Greenpoint Urban Park was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone who attended. The weather was pefect, cool but sunny and no wind. There were lots of waterfowl about, and the waterlilies blooming above multicoloured leaves in the water were so picturesque. Artists settled down with their new versa-brollies and sketchbooks and had a happy morning enjoying being together outdoors.

Monday 16 November: Chart Farm, Newlands Always a favourite, the rose garden is open and of course, so is the restaurant for coffee and a bite to eat. Meet in the parking area at about 9am. It is a beautiful area for painting; scenic landscape vistas, some old Cape Dutch Architecture amongst fabulous rose and flowering gardens. The View Coffee shop will welcome you with some very tempting treats around tea or lunchtime. Directions: Take the M3 through Bishopscourt until you see the Trovato link turn off. Go down the slip road and take the first turn right in the direction of Wynberg Park. Drive past the park and under the motorway bridge and we are the first turn on your left on a dirt track. Please let Sonja know if you will be going (also for safety reasons) by emailing her at [email protected]. Along with your painting paraphernalia, please don't forget water, food, a sunhat, sunscreen, your new brolly and maybe a windproof jacket. If you would like to be included in the impromptu sessions, you can email Sonja to have your name added to the Whatsapp group.

 Library

Good news for our library users. The library will be open from 5pm on Thursday evening 26 November for our end of year function and Eleanor Palmer evening. All those with outstanding library items will have been notified by Carrie, but if you need more information, please contact her at [email protected] You can also take this opportunity to take out items and these you can keep until the January meeting or until we open again on a regular basis.

Page 4 of 9  SASA Exhibitions Art in the Park: Saturday 21 November: There’s still space available at our next Art in the Park scheduled for Saturday 21 November. We’ve had a wonderful response already and after the months of lockdown, it will be great to get out and exhibit all that work that’s been created over these last few months. All the rules about social distancing, masks, etc, will need to be adhered to, and will be well worth the effort to get our artwork on display again. For those of you who have already booked, all the relevant information as well as your stand numbers have been sent out. If you haven’t received your booking confirmation, please urgently email [email protected]. Rondebosch Park is on the corner of Sandown and Campground Roads in Rondebosch and remember you can put up work that has been on previous SASA exhibitions for AIP, but it must be your original artwork. Printed work in the form of postcards, greeting cards, etc are fine provided original artwork is also available, the emphasis being on Art in the Park. The cost of the stand is R150 and payment can be made to SASA Nedbank Constantia branch 198765 account number 1088006981 - please use your name as the beneficiary reference. We will also be promoting the event in the newspapers, radio and through street posters. An invitation will also be sent out to our VIP buyers, so we are expecting a great turnout. You can arrange with a fellow artist to share a stand with you provided your friend/artist is a member of an official art group.

Members End of Year Exhibition: 30 November - 9 December: Kirstenbosch: Really good news! The Richard be put down. Once we have Crowie Hall at Kirstenbosch is a final tally, we can let now open again for exhibitors and everyone know how many we have been allocated time from works of art they will be Monday 30 November to allowed to exhibit. There’s Wednesday 9 December. not much time, so let us know by latest 20 November. This exhibition will be open to all We will then let everyone members, but you need to let us have the details, number of know if you are going to take part. works, conditions of entry Email Nicole at secretary@sasa- and entry form, etc. artists.co.za and your name will

Page 5 of 9  Workshops, Classes and Information Your 2020 membership card will allow you to claim your 10% discount from the following art shops: Deckle Edge in Woodstock, The Italian Artshop in Rondebosch, Brush and Canvas in Claremont, The Art Shop in Hermanus, Artland in Claremont, ETH Canvases in Woodstock, Truly Fantastic Canvases in Muizenberg and Oxford Framing & Art Supplies in Gardens Centre and West Coast Mall. Also 5% from Art Source in town and Creative Arts Atelier in Durbanville.

There was an overwhelming response to the task to display this vast amount of work. The art is Zeitz MOCCA invitation and over two thousand grouped together according to subject which makes entries were submitted. The exhibition opened for easy and enjoyable viewing. Within each group, on the 22 October and is running until the 10 children’s art to more "sophisticated" pieces of January 2021. The curators faced the daunting artworks were included. .

Art South Africa Exhibition now on in Table Bay Mall. Paintings by professional artists will be on view till end January 2021. For more information contact Glenda Chambers at 082 222 2820.

Art Portfolio are now exhibiting at the Richard Crowie Hall at Kirstenbosch. A number of SASA members’ works are on display and the exhibition will run until 19 November.

The Cape Gallery is currently exhibiting ‘Extensive gave artists the ability to view the world around them Landscapes: New Horizons - Memoirs Of The Past’ both from different perspectives. Included in the list of to view online and in the Gallery From 5 November artists exhibiting are SASA members Leslie Charnock, 2020. Doors open at 10 am and close at 4 pm. Jeremy Day, Mandy McKay, Drummond Murphy, Landscape paintings form the core of many South Frederike Stokhuyzen and Dale Elliot. Contact the African art collections. From the impressionists love for gallery on 021 423 5309 painting 'en plein air,' recording a landscape as it appears in one exact moment in time, to the advent of new technologies that

Beth Lowe is extending an invitation to her exhibition to be held at her home, 4 Oyster Close, Kommetjie on 16 and 27 November from 9 – 5pm. Contact 084 951 0709.

Truly Fantastic has just received its fresh linen from Belgium, primed by Claessens which is arguably the best in the world. Order now: 021 785-1161 or email [email protected]

 SASA Online Gallery The cost of having your work Please remember that the money paid towards the included in the SASA Gallery gallery goes to promoting the site online. will remain at R100 per year. For more information and how to get onto the gallery, This will include the cost of visit our website at www.sasa-artists.co.za. You can uploading a maximum of five also email Libby Harrison at [email protected] artworks submitted and no additional charge will be and she will be happy to assist you. made for up to five changes during the financial year.

Page 6 of 9  Did You Know?

 Extract from the book Incredible Tretchikoff: Life of an Artist and Adventurer By Boris Gorelik enthralling story of this flamboyant artist from his Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913–2006) lived a life as humble beginnings to the spectacular highs and lows of colourful as his instantly recognizable paintings. Born to his later career. a deeply religious Siberian family, he fought poverty, tragedy, captivity and near death to become one of the During World War II, Tretchikoff and his family were most celebrated artists of his time. Loathed by the living in Singapore. They were evacuated, separately, as critics yet loved by the the Japanese forces advanced. His wife Natalie and public, he enjoyed daughter Mimi reached Cape Town safely, but the ship phenomenal success in Tretchikoff was on was bombed by the Japanese and he Britain, Canada and the and the other survivors became prisoners of war on the United States. At the island of Java. height of his fame, After being released on parole, Tretchikoff lived out the reproductions of his work rest of the war in the capital city, Jakarta, were he met were hanging in millions of his most famous muse, Leonora Moltema, whom he homes across the world-- called ‘Lenka’, the Russian diminutive of ‘Lena’. The most famously, his daughter of a Balinese woman and a Dutch man. painting popularly known as “The Green Lady,” one Leonora became Tretchikoff’s lover and sat for some of of the bestselling art prints his best-known works of ever. Though the 1940s, including the The Tropical Flower signed, dated ‘1945, Java’, and dedicated ‘To Lenka’; he iconic portrait The Red inscribed with ‘To Lenka, who was, to me, as is this subsequently Jacket (see picture right) canna, the tropical flower’ on the reverse fell out of which was sold in London PROVENANCE: Estate Leonora (Lenka) Moltema- favour, in in 2012 for a record sum. Schmidt Leonora encouraged him From Strauss catalogue recent years his pictures to continue painting have been rediscovered by young, kitsch-hungry, retro- throughout the war so loving fans. Coinciding with the centenary of his birth, that he could hold an September 2013, Incredible Tretchikoff tells the exhibition when the

Page 7 of 9 conflict was over. As a result, he was able to hold a successful exhibition not long after he was reunited with his family in Cape Town in 1946. Leonora also had something to remember him by. For the rest of her life, his painting of Javanese red cannas (Canna indica) adorned her living-room wall, as can be seen in the Yvonne du Toit documentary Tretchikoff Unlimited (2012). Working with British war crimes investigators after the war, Leonora was involved in identifying and tracking down Japanese war criminals among the 700 000 surrendered military personnel in Southeast Asia. According to Leonora’s obituary in The Times of London, by the autumn of 1946 she commercially successful painters of the twentieth was the head of the central war crimes registry in century. He and Leonora met up a few times over the Singapore. Leonora married Theo Schmidt and they years in Switzerland or in London and the last time they moved to Hilversum in the Netherlands in 1954 where saw each other was in Cape Town in the 1990s, when they worked together in the pharmaceutical company Yvonne du Toit arranged a visit. Leonora, Tretchikoff’s they founded. Tretchikoff became all that Leonora Indonesian muse survived him by seven years. She hoped he would, and more: one of the most passed away in 2013, at the age of ninety-nine.

 Art Classes If you would like your name added to this list, please email [email protected]. Marion Langton FSASA offers workshops and classes in watercolour in the Somerset West area. She can be contacted on [email protected]. Lyn Northam FSASA holds her ‘beginner/ get back to it’ oil classes at the Newlands Scout Hall on Thursday mornings. Contact her at [email protected] Wyn Rossouw FSASA offers online classes in the Bergvliet area. These are 6 week courses, aimed at the beginner, specializing in both drawing and also watercolour. Her email is [email protected] Penny Steynor FSASA has watercolour classes during the week in her studio in Rondebosch. Contact her on [email protected]. Helen van Stolk - FSASA offers workshops (online and live-experiential) for artists exploring intuitive expressive creativity. For more informtion please visit https://www.helenvanstolk.com/workshops Laura Wenman SFSASA teaches drawing and oil painting technique classes for beginners to advanced students from her studio in Parklands. Tuesday mornings and Friday afternoons. Contact her at [email protected]. Elize Bezuidenhout holds regular portrait workshops in her studio in Durbanville. For more information and to find out times, contact Elize at [email protected] Linda Brilleman offers Decorative Painting Brushstroke classes in Tableview. She is an Internationally Certified Decorative Painting Brushstrokes teacher. Please contact her on [email protected] Karen Burns has classes on Wednesday mornings at the Newlands Scout Hall specialising in still life working from life. You can contact her at [email protected]. Glenda Chambers offers both morning and evening classes and regular workshops in watercolour and oil in the Blaauwberg area. You can contact her at [email protected]. Lesley Charnock teaches oil painting workshops: portraits, stil life, colour mixing and en Plein air workshops in the winter months only (May to November. Contact her on [email protected] or 082 424 1033. Jessie Colman runs Innovative and exciting drawing courses as part of the Bergvliet High School Adult Continuing Education Programme. Details on the website or email Jessie at [email protected]. Joanna Cooke offers classes in all media and a workshop which runs over six weeks where different mediums are explored each week. Students learn the basics of working pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolour and oils . Beginners and more advanced students all welcome; groups limited to 8 people. Contact Jo at [email protected].

Page 8 of 9 Rose du Preez offers "acrylic on canvas" art classes from her studio in Plumstead. Mornings, Tuesday (Beginners) and Friday 9.30 am-12.00, Evenings, Monday and Wednesday 7pm-9.30. Contact Rose at [email protected] Sonja Frenz runs workshops from her studio in Durbanville. Contact her on [email protected] for more information. Alyson Guy in the Hermanus area, has weekly art classes on Mondays and Tuesdays from 14h00-17h00 and Tuesday to Thursday from 10h00-12h30. Oil, acrylic, watercolour and pastel are covered. Contact [email protected]. Marcelle Lyons holds oil and watercolour classes, as well as workshops and courses in the Girl Guide Hall, Alma Road, Rosebank on Monday mornings. You can contact her at [email protected] Joanne McGilvray holds sculpture classes in Kalk Bay. The cost is R600 for 6 x 2-hour sessions, plus the cost of all material, firing, etc. Maximum of 3 pupils per class. Contact her at 082 443 3116 or [email protected]. Lynne Menge in the Milnerton area holds regular workshops and classes in acrylic in her studio. Contact her at [email protected] Melanie Meyer offers the new form of art class aimed at art skill development and personal growth experience. Small classes. Kenilworth studio. Friday and Saturday mornings. All media from inks to watercolours to oils to pastels and more. Beginners to advanced creatives. For more info contact Melanie at [email protected] Vicki Norcliffe offers portrait classes Monday mornings with a model. Please contact her at [email protected] Liz Pearson offers beginners oil painting classes every Monday and Tuesday morning in the Kenilworth area. Please contact her at [email protected]. Inge Semple holds watercolour classes in the Southern Suburbs. She also holds regular workshops. Contact her on [email protected]. Kim Watermeyer offers general art classes in a studio in Plumstead: including acrylic painting, drawing, linocuts, printing etc. Morning & evening classes. Beginners welcome. Contact: [email protected].

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The Dying Swan by Vladimir Tretchikoff

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