Essex Art Club

John Tookey at the Mall Gallery

John had a picture accepted at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours exhibition at the Mall Gallery.

'The Lister Sisters'

at Wanstead Library, 14-28 June

Wanstead Library will be holding an exhibition which will include some rarely seen water colour paintings by Edith Lister (1858-1950) who was made an honorary EAC member for the last few years of her life. Walter Spradbery described her work as "spontaneous, limpid and beautiful". The exhibition will be about the three talented Lister sisters who lived in Leytonstone and

were nieces of Lord Lister.

Edith bequeathed a number of watercolours to the EAC and they are stored at the library, where a few are occasionally displayed. If anyone has any memories or paintings connected with Edith Lister which would make an interesting addition to the exhibition, please contact Sandy Connor, who will be assembling material for a display case.

email: sandtone@ukonline.co.uk or tel: 01728 688 191.

Subscriptions

Subscriptions were due on 1st January.

Membership cards have been sent out. If you have not received one it may be because you forgot to pay your subscription. Please contact the Hon.Treasurer.

Essex in Mayfair

The application form and submission details are included with the latest newsletter. Please remember that only members who paid their subscriptions by 7th March 2010 may submit work. Please remember the rules about framing and the definition of prints which have been circulated in the past and are present in the members' section of the website. These will be strictly applied. The password for the members' site is shown on your membership card.

Society for Women Artists

Valma Cheffins has had three pictures accepted and Belinda Tong has had four pictures accepted for the Society for Women Artists Exhibition at the Mall Gallery. The exhibition runs from 1st July to the 10th July, closing at 1 pm on the final day.

Wanstead Art Trail

The first Wanstead Art Trail is being launched in September, and all members of the Essex Art Club are eligible to take part.

Although many club members live outside the area, the Wanstead-based group is considered very much part of the local art scene. But there's not much time to lose – applications close on May 21, although work doesn't have to be ready until late this summer.

This community event has been started by volunteers to encourage artists, and is supported by the Wanstead Society to help boost the high street. It will feature artists from outstanding professionals to enthusiastic amateurs and include photographers, sculptors, mosaic and stained-glass artists. EAC members who would like to show something different from their usual artwork (eg perhaps art ceramics or mixed-media pieces) are welcome to do so, depending on finding suitable space. Varied work will make the trail more exciting, and whatever the medium, accomplished work will stand out. Participants will have to approach participating shopkeepers/businesses themselves at a later stage, and can put prices on their own art or just offer work for display. Unfortunately, craftwork cannot be accepted for this event.

The trail is being launched on Sunday September 19, the day of the Wanstead Festival and the farmers' market. It runs until the end of the following Sunday, 26th. To date, more than 40 local shops and businesses plus Wanstead House community centre have agreed to display artists' work, and the event will involve local walks and an exhibition by schoolchildren in Wanstead Library.

This event will also help publicise local art groups and classes, and should enable artists to meet other like-minded individuals. We hope the result will be a more vibrant artistic community, a livelier high street and a network that will lead to further events. Artists need places to show and sell their work.

For further information or to apply please contact volunteer organiser Donna Mizzi at donnamizzi@btinternet.com or 0208 989 9881.
If possible, please email. All EAC members who applied to Donna earlier this year, are on the registered list.

Email Address

The email address for Derek Springham given on the membership card will no longer work. Please use

dgs@derekspringham.co.uk

The Pleasure Principle:

A New Sarah Harvey Exhibition

Sarah has a new solo exhibition at the

Sesame Gallery, Islington from 4th March to

8th April 2010. The gallery is open Tuesday

to Saturday from 11am to 6.30pm (but hours

subject to change, so please phone to check

if travelling far). Private View Thursday

4th March 18.30 - 20.30. Please RSVP to

the gallery.

Sesame Gallery

354 Upper Street Islington N1 0PD

(3 min. walk from Angel station).

020 7226 3300

info@sesameart.com

Sarah Harvey Selected for Residency

at the Williams Art Foundation

Sarah has been selected by Myriam Blundel Projects

for a prestigious place on the Winter Residency

Programme of the Williams Art Foundation. She will

spend three weeks at Pourrières in the South of France.

Sidney Cardew Wins the Ranelagh Press Award at the RSMA Exhibition

The 2009 Royal Society of Marine Artists Exhibition seemed a particularly good one to me. Sidney Cardew showed six pictures of which five had sold at my last visit. He also won the Ranelagh Press Award.

Katie Sodeau Wins President's Medal at the Society of Equestrian Artists

Katy Sodeau, a full member of the SEA, showed six pictures at their exhibition at the Mall Galleries. Congratulations to Katie who won the President's Medal and had sold a picture when I visited on 29th July. Exhibition open 28th July to August 2nd 2009.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Peter Hunt has had his picture 'Bellagio, A Room with a View' accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009. Congratulations Peter. Has nobody else had a picture accepted?

Peter Hunt: Bellagio, a Room

with a View.

Sarah Harvey in Singapore

Sarah Harvey lived and worked in Singapore for 3 months in 2009 and had an exhibition with Collectors Contemporary Gallery. She is now back in the UK working towards her next exhibition in March .

Drawing and Painting Still Life

Tuesday 20th April  – Tuesday 18th May 2010
6.30 - 8.30 pm.    £25

The course concentrates on developing the observational skills needed in creating Still Life work. We will look at the ways different artists have approached this genre, and try out their methods for ourselves.

Tutor: Evelyn Rowland

Booking only through Pauline Guest at West Hatch High School

Tel 020 8504 8216  

email pguest@westhatch.essex.sch.uk

Keith Webb Solo Exhibition January 2010

A solo exhibition of paintings 'Abstraction' by Keith Webb is to be held in the foyer of the Queens Theatre, Billet Lane, Hornchurch, Essex RM11 1QT from 4 - 16 January. Details on Keith’s website: www.saa.co.uk/art/keithjohnwebb.

Any enquiries to Keith Webb, tel: 01708 222997.

Keith Webb: Exploration