Painting Day

Saturday 20th October 2007
10.00-16.00
in Kensey Hall
Truro High School

Vincent Rymer has gone to sunnier climes, so cannot do the proposed workshop. So we are going to have a self-help workshop instead. Bryan Dawkins has offered to be on hand to give advice and several other experienced members has also declared an interest. Bring your materials and problems with you. Bring your own refreshments. We may be able to provide tea and coffee, but arrangements are still embryonic. If you have an interesting object to include in a still life please bring it. Charge for the day: JUST £5 to cover expenses. But please let Jan Lobb know if you are proposing to come.

If it is a success, we'll make it a regular event.

CHACEWATER GARDEN CENTRE

Coming up Saturday 6th October to Sunday 28th October 2007, at Chacewater Garden Centre, there will be an exhibition of members' works. Do you love gardens and flowers? Do you love Cornish scenery? Do you love boats? Do you love animals? All tastes will be catered for by the combined talents of Truro Art Society members.

52nd Annual Selected Exhibition

NOW RUNNING, UNTIL SATURDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER, in the Stables, Trelissick Gardens (a beautiful National Trust venue and well worth a visit on its own) is our 52nd Annual Selected Exhibition. Entry is free.

Forty members of the Society have produced a wonderful collection of pictures and ceramics. Paintings are in a variety of media: watercolours on paper, acrylics and oils on canvas and on board, pastels on paper and on suede, inks, collage. You name it, somebody has tried it. There are framed pictures at sizes and prices to suit all pockets: from £395 for a large, dazzling panorama of a Brittany Harbour by Bryan Dawkins to £20 for a gentle little watercolour of a Bleak Day by Ian Haile. Ceramics range from £185 for a a witty stoneware ram ("I Used to be a Lamb") by Helen Savage to £28 for a bowl by Janet Burke. In between there are plenty of moderately priced framed pictures and ceramics on display, with a great selection of unframed pictures in the browsers.

At the Preview a ballot of favourite paintings produced two winners: Congratulations to Barry Pettit for his pastel "In Kennall Vale" and to Paul Hoare for his watercolours.

This year's artists are:
Charles Ash
Elaine Allcock
Ann Brooks
Eileen Bruce
Barbara Bullen
Janet Burke
Lynette Burleigh
Daphne Charlton
Eric Dare
Bryan Dawkins
Julie Ford
Vivienne Fraser
Pamela Glasser
Bill Glover
Rita Glover
Ian Haile
Molly Hawkey
Paul Hoare
Bob Humphries
Joan Humphries
Arthur Jordan
Jennifer Lilley
Jo Meldrum
Gerald Morse
Barry Pettit
John Pedler
Martin Perman
Heather R. Phillips
Sara Pound
Christina Rayson
Sharman Rowe
Helen Savage
Rosemary Inglis Simpson
Yaso Sivathondan
Karen Smith
Tom Wong
Clive Wood
Pat Wheeldon
John Wroughton
Cynthia Young