NEWSLETTER OF THE VIRGINIA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY http: //www.virginiawatercolorsociety.org Number 137 June/July, 2019 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE worked on. This is an ongoing project. Like all volunteer run organizations, the VWS depends Welcome to the summer painting season! Whether on its volunteers to survive and thrive. We serve YOU. If you feel you have vacation traveling in your plans or staying home re- that the time has come for you to serve VWS, there are many laxing in your plans, I hope everyone will have a productive opportunities to do that. Vacancies exist on the standing board summer with watercolor creativity. And, of course, time with and the area representative board as follows: family and friends is a necessary ingredient to a good summer • Treasurer (Lynn Hosegood has stepped down to become as well. Program Director For those of us who were able to attend our 40th An- • Co-Editor of the Waterlogue (Jack Frable is stepping down) nual Exhibition in Lorton, or who were able to take John • Historian (Jane Frank is stepping down) Salminen’s workshop, it was a very memorable weekend! • Congratulations to all those whose work was selected and Area rep for Northern Virginia (Debbie Conn is stepping double congratulations to all those who received awards! It down) • was, and is, a magnificent show. Since the show will be up for Area rep for Williamsburg 3 months, there is still plenty of time to see the show or bring Another position that we are looking for is someone to out-of-town visitors to see the show. Kudos to co-chairs Tam- become the “expert” on Call for Entry, the system of entering my Wiedenhaefer and Amy Arons, and the entire exhibition our annual exhibitions that we have committee, who did a fantastic job. I especially enjoyed the used for the past 2 years. Cafè, as it is focus on the 40th anniversary which included specially made known, is a system that many arts or- paintbrushes inscribed with 40th anniversary –Virginia Water- ganizations are using and it has made color Society, and the pins, credit card holders, goodies from entering our exhibitions online very vendors, and much more. One very special detail that I loved easy, for most of us. We have deter- was the cupcakes with the 40th anniversary logo on it. I ate 3 mined that VWS will continue to use of them!! Eye candy and also delicious!! We will have about this system, but we need someone 13 months before our 41st annual exhibition 2020 in Rich- who will commit to being the Cafè ex- mond, so there is a lot of time to paint and get ready. If your pert for at least a 3 or 4 year term. painting was not selected for this year’s exhibition, please take Cafè will train you, so there will be free heart and plan to enter again. We all know the feeling of hav- instruction. This is a really essential ing a painting not selected for a big show. Keep painting and position and will make the running and keep entering organization of our future exhibitions so much easier Do you know who your area rep is? Do you know Many thanks and appreciation go to Lynn Hosegood, Jack who is listed or “assigned” to a particular area? For some Frable, Jane Frank, and Debbie Conn for their selfless work for time, there has been confusion about who is included in which the Virginia Watercolor Society over the years. Without the areas. In an ongoing effort to clarify this, I have been talking support and commitment of such “stars” the VWS would not to area reps and getting ideas on what to do about this. Al- exist. Cheers to all of you. though I have divided up areas into smaller ones, the consen- Best wishes for a wonderful summer! Paint on sus from most has been to combine areas into larger areas. Elaine Nunnally This would be easier for communication and for joining togeth- er within areas to share resources, workshop opportunities, The Deadline for the September/October Waterlogue is Sep- and exhibit opportunities. Although the particular areas (or districts) that have been suggested are not final, this is what tember 9, 2019. This issue should have important information we have come up with so far: Northern Virginia, the Valley, about the 2020 VWS Exhibition. Area Representatives and the Charlottesville, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Richmond, Williamsburg, Exhibition Chair please make note of this so you will have time Hampton Roads, Middle Peninsula, and Southern VA (including to gather and send information to VWS editor Jean Miller at SW, and out of state members). Please contact me with your [email protected]. ideas about this. A list of members in each area is being Page 2 GREETINGS FROM THE 2019 VWS EXHIBITION SPONSORS FOR THE 2019 VWS EXHIBITIONE COMMITTEE The 40th Annual VWS Exhibition at the McGuire Woods Gallery at This year we were very lucky to have the generous the Workhouse Arts Center opened on Friday May 24th to a crowd support of many corporate sponsors. They generously do- of over 120 artists and guests. John Salminen, our Juror, Judge and nated cash and merchandise that were awarded to the win- Instructor, did a fabulous job of choosing many beautiful paintings ners, as well as local merchants who offered generous dis- that comprise a stunning show! The evening was fun filled with counts in order for the Exhibition to keep its costs down. camaraderie, good food and conversation. Saturday morning we had a lively Business Meeting with an Awards Luncheon at The Bis- When companies support us, it is nice to let them tro L’Hermitage in Occoquan. The food was delicious and the ambi- know weSue appreciate Egbert, what Nancy they Stark,have done Tracy for ourBudd organiza- ance was delightful. There, we presented 18 generous awards to tion. Please take the opportunity, when it presents itself , to the winning artists. The awards are posted online at: thank our sponsors and merchants. Let them know that you www.virginiawatercolorsociety.org/award-list.cfm?exhibYear=2019. not only like their products and services, but you appreciate We also announced four new Signature members of VWS, and pre- sented the accompanying certificates to Sharon Boyle, Penny Cham- their generous support of VWS. pagne, Nancy Harvey and Lorrie Herman. Sharon Boyle was present to receive her certificate; the others will be mailed to the artists. OUR CORPORATE SPONSORS FOR 2019 nd The show will hang until August 2 . You don’t want to miss the • Artist Magazine—the Artist Publishing Co. Ltd show! • Bistro L’Hermitage This year we had 218 artists submit 532 entries. All but 12 artists • Blick Art Materials entered via the Café entry system. A total of 80 paintings were ac- • Burke & Herbert Bank cepted to be in the show. Unfortunately, 4 paintings had to be re- jected due to failure to follow prospectus instructions. There is no • Cheap Joes joy for the receiving committee to turn away an artist and their • F.M. Brush Company painting. At the same time, VWS wants to put on a high quality ex- • Golden Artist Materials hibition. We respectfully request that for future exhibitions artists • HB Holbein Artist Materials read the prospectus instructions carefully and follow the rules as • KH Art and Framing written. • Leisure Painter Magazine –Artist Publishing Co. Ltd Please note that besides the usual closed days of Monday and Tues- • Meakum Group Financial day, the McGuire Woods Gallery will be closed for private events during public hours on the following dates: • Plaza Art July 13, 5pm-Close • Jack Richeson & Company July 27, 2pm- Close • Meakum Group Financial Because the Gallery closes occasionally for private events, they rec- • Plaza Art ommend that before traveling long distances it would be wise to • Wegmans call the Workhouse Arts Center at 703-584-2900 to confirm that the Gallery is open to the public on the date you plan to visit. We apolo- gize in advance for any inconvenience Best in show: Christopher Wynn’s “Offshore Respectfully submitted, Breeze Tammy Wiedenhaefer & Amy Arons 2019 VWS Exhibition Co-Chairs Exhibition Co-Chairs Page 3 Snapshots from Exhibition Opening and Luncheon Photos by Elaine Nunnally Page 4 Splashings Angela Fields, Roanoke Area Representative, reports: • Pat Carr, Judy Conner, Susan Egbert, Reveille Hamilton, Martha Rhodes, Suzanne Ross, Linda Ryan, Michele Walter, Krista Westman exhibited in Figuratively Speaking presented by the Soup Group in May in Westlake Library Gallery, Hardy, Virginia. The showing of humanity in a favorable positive light by portraitists was well received and will travel to Salem History Muse- um next. Contact Suzanne Ross if you include figures or portrait emphasis in your work. Meeting quarterly over soup, the artists plan to share one portrait each per annual show with the show traveling around the Commonwealth. If you have a venue, they are available. • The February 2019 issue of Watercolor Artist magazine featured the photo of the Virginia Watercolor Society Best in Show 2018 winner, “My Lovely Parrot Head”, by Vera Dickenson. It is included in an article entitled”21 Best Watermedia Paintings of the Year”. Congratulations on this national recognition for Vera and the Virginia Watercolor Society. Thanks to David Ea- kin for getting the painting included in the article. • Nancy Stark’s painting “Orange Crush, was awarded the Blick Art Materials Purchase Award at the 2018 National Watercolor Society’s 98th Open Exhibition. • Vera Dickerson has an article in Art of Watercolour winter issue#33. The title of the two-page article is “Three Approaches to Abstract Art”.