The Newsletter for the Friends of the New English Art Club ISSUE 22 April 2 015 The Summer Exhibition
rom 2015, early Summer means New English time. This year our annual Fexhibition moves its date from November/ December to sunny June. Submissions for the public send-in opened the day after our 2014 show closed in early December, so we hardly had time to draw breath before planning started in earnest for this year. As I write this, we have finished the first phase of selection and are looking forward to seeing members’ new work arrive in the gallery. When you receive this newsletter, you will also have our catalogue, which illustrates one work by each exhibiting member artist. Many more paintings may be seen online at www.neac.co.uk and may be purchased through the website. The exhibition opens to the public on Thursday 18th June, but as a Friend, you will have an opportunity to visit the show for the Private View on Wednesday 17th June. We also look forward to seeing many of you at our Friends’ and Members’ event ‘First Bite’ on the evening of Monday 15th June. We have more prizes than ever to award at this year’s show, and are particularly grateful to our prizegivers. TheRoboz prizeof £5,000 is in its second year, and the Doreen McIntosh Prize, also of £5,000 will again be awarded. ‘A Day Dream’ by June Berry This year sees the introduction of the £4,000 Haworth Prize for a young northern landscape I think this figure is a symbol for myself. I can spend a lot of time looking out of the window painter, and the shortlisted entries will be shown or day dreaming and thinking about paintings that are still in my head. The landscape in theexhibition alongsidethewinning painting. represents the views from my studio windows in the depths of rural France and the still life Details of all theprizesareto befound in the represents the flowers and special objects connected with the place where I have worked catalogue, and last year’s winners are listed on for several months of the year for over forty years. It is all very nostalgic! page 8 of this newsletter.
Albany celebrates 50 years
It’s always good to havean opportunity to artists including thelateKyffin Williams RA, for celebrate with friends, and this year sees a whom she was Welsh agent for the last 25 special celebration as Mary Yapp marks 50 years of his life. Amongst other artists, the show years since she established the Albany Gallery will feature new work by Diana Armfield, Ken in Cardiff. We are delighted that Mary has Howard, Peter Brown and Jane Corsellis. chosen to mark the occasion with an exhibition Works by Selected NEAC Artists runs from of paintings by about thirty of the current 10th September – 3rd October 2015 membership of the New English. As well as a Albany Gallery 74b Albany Road, Cardiff continuing relationship with the NEAC over the CF24 3RS Tel: 029 2048 7158 Peter Brown Between the hail showers, years, Mary has shown work by many notable www.albanygallery.com Pen y Lan Road, Cardiff
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A wonderful gift to the NEAC fell through my letterbox a couple of weeks ago in the shape of a sepia photograph of thelast NEAC selection committee to be held at the old Egyptian Hall in 1904. It is a well-known image resonant of an era when a generation of painters came together to exhibit under the banner of the New English. Hands in pockets, Augustus John strikes a bohemian pose, rather at odds with someone’s top hat on the table in front of him. Seated on the table is William Rothenstein with Roger Fry sitting on a chair beside him. The other man in a hat is Muirhead Bone, who made a finedrawing of thedemolition of theEgyptian Hall, also in the possession of the New English. He in turn looks over the shoulder of Philip Wilson Steer. The space looks quite cramped, perhaps always the fate of selection committees, and thefloor behind thesimpletrestletableis strewn with litter. We don’t know the identities of the anonymous porters bringing in a procession of paintings, and there are no women.
No top hats on displaybut although these images are separated by 111years, the similarities are striking. Members of the 2015 selection committee looked at about 1,000 works from the public submission to choose about 100 to hang alongside members’ paintings in this year’s exhibition.
through simplicity of colour and form.Though anatomy, life and general drawing, graphic New Members someof my paintings aredonerelatively design, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics, quickly, most takea long timeand changea lot and all these disciplines had drawing as a James Bland in the process. They might be cut down, re- starting point with a sketch book being my stretched, scraped back or painted over. I also visual diary. I keep the Camberwell practice of My work incorporates diverse like the idea that a painting should tell a story. drawing every day so a sketch book is my approaches to style and subject Some influences include Piero della Francesca, constant companion. Drawing is thestart of my but always begins in drawing Fra Angelico, Paul Klee, Gwen John, Keith creative process, making me look and assess. and painting from life. My aim is Vaughan and Euan Uglow. Then composition and colour come into play, to find an image that resonates and hopefully, I end up with a work which has Nick Tidnam gonesomeway towards my original intentions.
Drawing has been the connecting link from my early childhood right through to Art School; looking and drawing in order to understand shape, form, colour and texture. At school I was encouraged to look more widely at artists’ drawings and how they were used, so a big thank you to James Riddock, my art teacher.
Every day at Camberwell there were stimulating James Bland Full Moon and challenging classes in architecture, Nick Tidnam Winter Landscape
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Member artists tell us about some of the paintings in the NEAC Annual Open Exhibition 2015
Melissa Scott Miller Pamela Kay Michael Fairclough Bloomsbury back gardens Two Tea Bowls of Primroses At Sea – Dusk I painted this from the bathroom window of my Every year I look forward to the first flowers of It was thelast of onesequenceof ninepaintings, friend Comfort’s flat in Percy Circus. spring and the early primroses. These delicate, part of several series which were provoked by a It was quitedifficult, I had to balancethe almost ghostly flowers are deceptively subtle to Channel crossing. Other series in a similar vein canvas on theedgeof thewashbasin, but I paint. “Much moredifficult than you think” John are ‘Sea Passage’ and Dog-Watch’, each wanted to get as much in as I could. The Ward oncesaid to me,and hewas right. Each developing the theme of the fading of light until childrenareComfort’s fivechildren, thelittleboy year, it is important to see them as if for the first thefinal ‘Dog-Watch’ paintings arevirtually on thebikeis actually 16 now, my son’s best time, and collecting a range of pots, jars and black and very simple – except that they are friend, but I painted him as I knew him when we bowls to put them in, gives a fresh set of ‘props’. actually deeply colourful and full of texture! first met, and as I remember the many lovely The two Chinese tea bowls are old friends that I children’s parties that happened in that garden. found, chipped and dusty in the shop at the The same cat appears three times in the Museum in Singapore, years ago. I recently painting, he always seemed to be there, returned to the Museum but it had been greatly through themonth it took to paint. enlarged from the old colonial building it used to be, and the shop, no longer a treasure house of local antiques, but an expensive boutique. Buy it when you see it is the best advice to any still life painter!
Michael Fairclough At Sea, DuskIX
Michael Whittlesea Melissa Scott Miller Bloomsbury BackGardens Winter Evening This garden is formal but a bit neglected, it Julian Bailey snowed lightly, everyone chose to go for a Windy Pier, Weymouth walk, but I stayed in the conservatory and The gouaches I do are painted in my studio, thought I would paint the view of the garden. usually based on pencil sketches that I make on Desperation took over as it got darker and the spot, out in the open. They are completed darker. I stopped being careful about the with many layers of paint, and constant Pamela Kay Two Tea Bowls of Primroses painting, for methat’s a good thing, and it was revisions, until things fall into place in a way becoming so dark, I couldn’t see how it was that I feel makes for a good resolution. Jenny Wheatley going. I thought, well, it's rather like a diary of Gouache is endlessly malleable, so long as you View of the Islands that afternoon, for better or worse. Everyone let the paint dry fully between layers, and the This painting was inspired by regular visits to the returned, so I stopped. (Difficult to describe the colour is an absolute joy to use. isles of Scilly and is a composite of drawings way I work, but uncertainty and not knowing that have come together to try to create the how it’s going to work, if at all, it’s what domestic French-inspired interior with the tranquil happened that day). view over the islands that I love so much.
Julian Bailey Windy Pier, Weymouth Jenny Wheatley View of the Islands Michael Whittlesea Winter Evening
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LONDON, SURREY, MIDDLESEX 16.04 – 02.05 Pamela Kay, Salliann Putman and Judith Gardner in a four artist show Russell Gallery 12 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, London SW151JP 020 8780 5228 www.russell-gallery.com 16.04 – 01.05 Ryder, Peter Brown, Coates, Jason Bowyer, Bond, Cobley, Kuhfeld, Morris, Scott Miller, Sullivan, Worley, Todd in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition Mall Galleries The Mall, London SW1Y 5BD 020 7930 6844 www.mallgalleries.org.uk 17.04 – 30.04 Patrick Cullen SOLO SHOW Highgate Gallery The Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, London N6 6BS [email protected] 08.05 – 17.05 Michael Kirkbride SOLO SHOW of watercolours Avondale Gallery Avondale Avenue, London N12 8EN (check opening times before visiting) [email protected] 21.05 – 07.06 Peter Clossick and Julie Held in TWO ARTIST SHOW ‘Connections’ The Lovely Gallery 140 Sydenham Road, London SE26 5JZ 0203 686 1328 www.thelovelygallery.com 08.06 – 16.08 Green, Howard, Armfield, Dunstan, Cuming and others, RA Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD 020 7300 8000 www.royalacademy.org.uk 17.06 – 27.06 NEAC Annual Exhibition Mall Galleries The Mall, London SW1Y 5BD 020 7930 6844 www.mallgalleries.org.uk 18.06 – 26.06 Julie Held SOLO SHOW ‘Living Memories:A Life Living in Portraits’ London Jewish Cultural Centre Ivy House, 94 – 96 North End Road, London NW11 7SX 020 8457 5000 www.ljcc.org.uk 02.07 – 19.02 Frood, Worley, J Williams, Bailey, Wheatley and others in Summer Exhibition Russell Gallery 12 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, London SW151JP 020 8780 5228 www.russell-gallery.com 14.09 – 30.09 Louis Balaam SOLO SHOW Cadogan Contemporary 87 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3LD 020 7581 5451 www.cadogancontemporary.com 24.09 – 10.10 Richard Pikesley SOLO SHOW Russell Gallery 12 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, London SW151JP 020 8780 5228 www.russell-gallery.com 29.09 – 21.10 Pamela Kay in group exhibition Llewellyn Alexander Gallery 124 – 126 The Cut, Waterloo, London SE1 8LN 0207 620 1322/1324 www.lapf.co.uk 13.10 – 06.11 Peter Clossick, Julie Held in London Group Annual Open Cello Factory 33 – 34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London SE1 8TJ www.thelondongroup.com OCTOBER TBA Peter Brown, Patrick Cullen, Ken Howard Exhibition of their 2015 trip to India Indar Pasricha Fine Arts 22 Connaught Street, London W2 2AF 020 7724 9541 www.indarpasrichafinearts.com 15.10 – 31.10 Bob Brown, Francis Bowyer, Coates, Jackson, Pikesley, Putman, Rizvi, Judith Gardner, Parfitt, Hardaker, Halliday, Gilbert and others in the Small Paintings Group Exhibition Russell Gallery 12 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, London SW151JP 020 8780 5228 www.russell-gallery.com 05.11 – 21.11 Jason Bowyer SOLO SHOW Russell Gallery 12 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, London SW151JP 020 8780 5228 www.russell-gallery.com 20.01 – 06.02 Ken Howard SOLO SHOW Richard Green Fine Paintings 147 New Bond Street, London W1S 2TS 020 7493 3939 www.richard-green.com
SOUTH, SOUTH EAST, EAST ANGLIA 12.06 – 09.09 Louise Balaam in 20th Anniversary Exhibition Fairfax Art Gallery 23 The Pantiles (Lower Walk), Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 5TD 01892 525 525 www.fairfaxgallery.com 12.06 – 17.06 Richard Bawden will be the featured artist in an exhibition of paintings, prints and design Aldeburgh Gallery 143 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AN 01728 452772 www.josephvalentine.co.uk 13.06 – 05.07 Kelly and others in Summer Exhibition Thompson’s Gallery 175 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AN 01728 453 743 www.thompsonsgallery.co.uk 16.07 – 22.07 Louise Balaam in Josephine Harpur’s exhibition Aldeburgh Gallery 143 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AN 01728 452772 www.josephvalentine.co.uk 19.09 – 15.11 Peter Clossick in ‘Arborealists’ National Trust Mottisfont Abbey Romsey, near Romsey, Hampshire SO51 0LP 01794 340757 Email:[email protected] 01.10 – 04.10 Balaam, Gardner, Pikesley in Josephine Harpur’s exhibition Cambridge City Arts Fair The Guild Hall, Market Square, Cambridge CB2 3QJ www.josephineharpur.co.uk
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WEST FROM LONDON AND SOUTH WEST 10.07 – 31.08 Richard Bawden Watercolours and prints Gallery Nine 9B Margaret’s Buildings, Bath BA1 2LP 01225 319197 www.gallerynine.co.uk 04.10 – 29.11 Carpanini , Balaam, Sidoli and others in the Open Exhibition Royal West of England Academy Queen’s Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PX 01179 735 129 www.rwa.org.uk 07.11 – 28.11 Peter Clossick in ‘Camberwell School of Art’ Belgrave Gallery 22 Fore Street, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1HE 01736 794888 www.belgravestives.co.uk
NORTH OF ENGLAND 15.05 – 24.05 Francis Bowyer in British Art Portfolio Sicily Oak Gallery Croxton Green Lane, Chlmondeley, Malpas, Cheshire SY14 8HG www.britishartportfolio.co.uk
WALES 10.09 – 03.10 Selected NEAC artists in 50th Anniversary Exhibition Albany Gallery 74b Albany Road, Cardiff CF24 3RS 029 2048 7158 www.albanygallery.com
NEAC June workshops For the latest news about NEAC Drawing School events, visit www.neac.co.uk
In conjunction with the NEAC Drawing School, the following Tuesday 23 June, 10.30am - 4.00pm workshops will take place in and around Mall Galleries. To book your Learning Centre, Mall Galleries free place, please email:[email protected]. Early booking Melvyn Petterson will hold a workshop which will advise on all is advised as places are limited to 25 participants per event. aspects of printmaking. He will be demonstrating with various Friday 19 June, 11.30am – 4.00pm media, techniques and tools, giving an invaluable insight into his artistic practice. Bring painting and drawing materials. Learning Centre, Mall Galleries Charles Williams will lead a watercolour workshop, painting directly Wednesday 24 June, 10.30am - 4.00pm from the model. Having recently published his book ‘Watercolour: Learning Centre, Mall Galleries How To Paint What You See’, Charles will be offering sound Alex Fowler will hold a still life drawing and painting workshop technical advice on this most challenging of mediums. Bring exploiting the unique light and layout of the Mall Galleries’ Learning watercolour paper, paints and brushes. Centre. There will be a choice of subjects with the emphasis on Saturday 20 June, 10.30am – 4.00pm developing compositional acumen and observational skills. Bring painting and drawing materials. Meet at Mall Galleries
Sarah Spencer will lead a ‘Plein Air’ workshop, which will entail drawing and sketching in Trafalgar Square in the morning, and painting in St James’s Park during the afternoon. The emphasis will be on information gathering and visual note taking. Bring painting and drawing materials.
Monday 22 June, 10.30am – 4.00pm Meet at Mall Galleries
Julie Jackson will hold a workshop which will explore the relationship between figure and landscape. Initially, you will sketch from examples in the NEAC exhibition, where a figure/landscape dynamic has been expressed, and afterwards, you will draw on location in St James’s Park and environs. The aim is to develop notational work which could inform future paintings and improve compositional skills. Bring painting and drawing materials. Alex Fowler Karn’s Geranium and Three Lemons
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PAINTING TRIPS ABROAD
Paint the Gardens, Castles and Chateaux in Normandy with Pamela Kay 10th - 16th June 2015 Normandy is a haven for artists with some of France’s best kept secret and famous gardens including Monet’s at Giverny and ruined castles and turreted chateaux along the banks of the Seine River and towns with pretty half-timbered houses. Contact Spencer Scott Travel for more details Pippingford Manor Pippingford Park, Nutley, East Sussex TN22 3HW 01825 714310 www.spencerscotttravel.com also see Pamela’s website www.pamelakayprints.com
Ken Howard will host a painting holidays in Venice this year from 29th August – 12th September. For more details, see the Spencer Scott Travel website http://www.spencerscotttravel.com or ‘phone 01825 714310. Anthony Green PinkDecorative Picture
James Bland is to host a painting holiday with Arte Umbria from 10th – 17th July. Visit www.arteumbria.com for more details. He is also teaching a two day course in narrative figure painting at the Art Academy, Mermaid Court, 165a Borough High Street, London SE1 1HR www.artacademy.org.uk . James has a new website of his own at www.jamesblandpaintings.com
Jenny Wheatley will be teaching in Cumbria, Cyprus, Cornwall and Siena this year. For full details and downloads, go to Jenny’s website, www.jennywheatley.co.uk
PAINTING AND DRAWING CLASSES IN THE UK
Paul Curtis is teaching three courses in Derbyshire in 2015. ‘Get it into Perspective is a one day course on Saturday 27th June, at the Art Room, Barlow. Also at this venue is a day on Landscape Painting in Paul Newland Edge of Town Autumn on Saturday 19th September. Landscape Painting in July runs from 15th – 17th July at the Winnerof theZsuzsi Roboz Prize2014 Nightingale Centre. For further details of all of these courses go to www.fieldbreaks.co.uk
Melissa Scott Miller teaches at the Royal Drawing School; ‘Animals in Art’ runs from 27th April – 4th July on Tuesdays. Her course at Heatherley’s, ‘Painting the Urban Landscape’ runs from April 24th – July 10th on Fridays.
Alex Fowler teaches painting at Chelsea Fine Arts, 15 Lots Road, SW10 on Tuesdays 10am-4pm for ten weeks during term time. Portrait, Life Painting, Interiors and Still Life Painting all offered. For further information please contact Alex at [email protected] or 07903311563.
Louise Balaam will teach at a Landscape Painting Workshop at The New School of Art, Lewes, Sussex on 6th & 7th June. Visit www.tnsoart.com/art-classes/ or ‘phone Camilla Cannon 07961 080897 for more details. Jason Bowyer A Small Self 11th – 13th September Anthony Green will open his studio together with Mary Cozens-Walker and Kate Green by appointment only through Whitcombe Associates [email protected]
Paint in Walberswick and Dunwich with Francis and Jason Bowyer. 11th – 13th July and 15th – 17th July. For further details contact [email protected] or [email protected]
Judith Gardner will be teaching at Art in Action this year. ‘Light, Mood & Atmosphere’ will run from 29th – 31st August and again from 1st – 2nd September. Courses may be booked through www.artinaction.org.uk Waterperry House, Waterperry, Near Wheatley, Oxford, OX33 1JZ 7980 Michael Cooper Downland Fields 091297 [email protected] Winner of the Doreen McIntosh Prize 2014
STOP PRESS
Congratulations to Jason Bowyer who has been awarded The Prince of Wales’s award for Portrait Drawing at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
Toby Ward has been asked by Westminster Abbey to make a body of work recording a number of developments taking place over the next three years. There is to be extensive development in the triforium and a certain amount of new building work at the Abbey for the first time since Nicholas Hawksmoor’s towers in the mid -18th Century.
Salliann Putman Landscape Layers 5 Winnerof theNEAC Critics’ Prize2014
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‘Living Memories: A Life Living in Portraits’
Julie Held’s exhibition ‘Living Memories: A Life Living in Portraits’ is at Ivy House in Golders Green from 18th May – 26th June 2015.
This exhibition will focus on portraits of artist Julie Held and her family, painted throughout her career. This will include a series of paintings and drawings of her father Peter, who remains one WilliamBowyer ChiswickEyot Under Snow of her favourite models, as well as paintings that deal with the illness and death of her late mother Gisela, who passed away almost 40 William Bowyer 1926-2015 years ago when the artist was aged just 18.
any of you will already know that On show for thefirst timewill bea seriesof William Bowyer RA NEAC RP RWS paintings that Held paints on her mother’s Mdied on 1st March this year. significant birthdays, showing how she imagines her mother would have been had she lived. Bill will be remembered with great affection by all of us who knew him. He steered the New Julie Held studied at Camberwell and the Royal English for thirty years from 1968 –1998 as our Academy Schools. Her work is held in a Honorary Secretary before we changed the title number of public collections, including Nuffield to President. He inspired and led the ambition College, Oxford, New Hall, Cambridge, The to see the New English as artistically and Open University and the Ben Uri Museum financially independent, and built a strong Collection. She has had solo exhibitions in a foundation for thosewho havefollowed.A fine number of galleries in London as well as in and distinctive painter, Jason tells me he painted Prague, Leipzig and Hamburg. right up to the end. We will miss him very much and our thoughts go out to Vera, Jason, Francis A series of talks and workshops will take place and Emma and their wider family. at Ivy House during this exhibition. See the Exhibition Diary pagefor moreinformation. As a painter, Bill’s life and work were always inextricably linked. He was the Bevin Boy who painted Arthur Scargill, the cricket fanatic who
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painted Viv Richards – both for the National Portrait Gallery, and will always be remembered for glorious paintings of the Thames at Strand-on-the-Green and close to his home in Chiswick, and also, in later years, for wonderful pictures of the Suffolk coast around Walberswick, where the family made their second home.
These days, the NEAC presidency is for a maximum term of five years, a fact that caused Bill considerable amusement when set alongside his mammoth, thirty-year stint. As I write this, we are looking forward to our exhibition in June, wherewewill hang a group of Bill’s paintings, celebrating his life and work.
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Internationally renowned photojournalist Don McCullin has been a witness We are painting in Tasmania for seven weeks, of which two have been and chronicler to the disasters of war. Like Goya in the 18th Century, he spent travelling and doing family stuff in the Southern Highlands. The first has seen and recorded the darker side of human nature – of man’s week we had our English palettes going in the intermittent sun, and in the inhumanity to man and has not come out of it unscathed. second, weusedmoreearthy colours. Wecouldn't leavethehouseas the During our sittings, he would frequently recount stories of the tragedies weather was so unpredictable. It is a house of reflections with a dark he has witnessed. The difficulty was how to portray someone who is so interior, huge glass windows running the entire length, and stunning views obviously haunted by the past, without resorting to any clichés. The aim each side of the estuary and to the Cygnet sailing club nestled below the was for a compelling image; to try and achieve a compassionate and yet hills. Looking north there’s a fascinating oyster bed with ever changing psychologically penetrating study of the man, rather than just a literal colours and beds exposed at low tide, and Tom has done wonderful depiction, with all the attributes of his profession. quickies for his colour notes. I’m warming up and feel I need another Whereas a photograph is taken in an instant, a painted portrait is an seven weeks! The Tasmanians are so friendly, we've met some really accumulation of many moments in time. It is a slow and deliberate process interesting locals. Cygnet is an artisan village and one day when our old to arrive at resolution and completeness. Trying to contain and convey his beaten-up Volvo gave up the ghost, we were painting illegally on the restless vitality was a challenge, because, for Don, sitting for the portrait edge of some farm. Rescue eventually came by a delightful young man, a required an uneasy, enforced stillness, and initially, he likened the master knife maker, following in his father’s footsteps, who invited us to see experience to being “in the psychiatrist’s chair”. The observer had become his workshop. Today, I'm painting a colourful crayfish which was so the observed. expensive I hope to get some return! We're eating it tonight. Don’s complex inner world had to be hinted at or inferred. The We’ll have to come back next year as we need more time, although composition of thepainting is off-kilter, with thefigurecoming into the Tom’s achieved, en plein air 40 x 40, and plenty more. I have one picture from the right. He appears almost cornered, and has adopted a waiting in thewings! protective gesture, with a crossed arm and sidelong glance, as if looking Sarah Dempsey, our friend and sponsor, has been painting with us, into thepast. there has been an amazing flow of friends, yachties and relations, all fun. The chair provides rectilinear structure, and its high back frames his Favouritemeal: scallops at thelocal pub with hugeportions, washed head, in a way that is reminiscent of a photographic print. The heavy down with high tides of beautiful Tas wines. military trench coat seemed appropriate, partly because of its association with combat, but also because it too offers protection, as well as being timeless and sculptural in form. With winter, one has a sense of eternal sleep and Don has talked about his landscapes of Somerset as being reminiscent of battlefields. He may have retreated to the beauty and calm of Somerset, but cannot escape his Mary Jackson Tom painting towards Cygnet, Tasmania preoccupation with death. A paraphrase of PRIZE WINNERS AND PRIZE GIVERS AT THE one of his landscapes is NEAC ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION 2014 in thebackground. The Zsuzsi Roboz Prize (Awarded by Charlotte Sorapure Don McCullin The Teddy Smith and Zsuzsi Roboz Art Trust) Paul Newland
Mark your diaries now for the NEAC The Doreen McIntosh Prize Michael Cooper Annual Open Exhibition The Arts Club Charitable Trust Prize Christy Yates and Eigil Nordstrum First Bite event for Monday June15 Friends and members The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Prize Jane Corsellis Private View Wednesday June 17 See page 5 for details of free workshops running during exhibition The Dry Red Press Award Angela Bell Exhibition Dates Wednesday June 17 – Saturday June 27 The NEAC Critics’ Prize Salliann Putman
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