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The Opening in Oriel Q of a Retrospective of Elizabeth Cramp's delicate and beautiful work
For more information on the Exhibition and catalogue link here to : Oriel Q










Ann Byrne-Sutton's new book of poetry  'Come Back to Avalon'  published by Starborn Books a week before Christmas is now available from

Seaways Bookshop, Fishguard
Seaways Bookshop, Fishguard

is selling artists' materials. They  sell sheets of watercolour and cartridge paper and they say virtually anything can be ordered, adding, "at the moment, we can get very reasonably priced easels".
Seaways will be open all Sundays up to Christmas 11am - 4pm and, of course, the other 6 days 10am - 5pm
For Sale
Carole King and Glenn Ibbitson are featured in the December edition of Artists and Illustrators magazine
 
FISHGUARD MARKET HALL MURAL
The official opening for the renovated ceramic mural
 
A few years ago when the Town Hall  was rebuilt the ceramic mural in the market hall was carefully protected from the general upheaval so that at the end less than a dozen tiles had been lost. Len Rees & Denys Short, who helped on the making of the mural in 1989, have with the assistance of the Facilities Department  of the Council  done what they can to  to fill in those gaps.

The mural was made to commemorate the Music Festival's 25 years of music making and the Visual Arts Sub committee planned the basic design and oversaw its construction.  Children from the three local junior schools  and the infants school  painted the majority of the tiles , supervised by artists from the 'Pioneers', a Cardiff based artist group.The tiles were taken from the schools and fired in Len Rees's kiln before being assembled in the market hall.
There was a 'proper' unveiling with children from all four schools attending and  those who had helped went home with a mug made specially for the occasion. Many of those children  will have children of their own now going to the same schools.
Unfortunately  all the information on the making of the mural, how it was paid for and the history of all the incidents depicted in the mural has been lost.
But Len  still  had some of the blank tiles and  we have been able to recreate the lost details and hope that they will settle in nicely so that no one will notice.
It will be good to see the mural complete again.

Logo designed by Barbara Price for the new Junior School, Ysgol Glannau Gwaun, Fishguard
   


Stained Glass Commission
Linda Norris has recently been commissioned by Cadw to make three stained glass windows for the Royal Chapel at Conwy Castle in Gwynedd.
This project is a collaboration with Pembrokeshire stained glass artist, Rachel Phillips.

You can follow Linda’s progress on her blog .http://www.linda-norris.com

Sarah Hope has been shortlisted for Artists & Illustrators Magazine's  'Artist of the Year 2011'

To view the shortlisted paintings and vote go to http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/page/portrait-vote-page
Sarah's painting is at the very bottom of the page
Scroll down the page to see my painting and at the very bottom of the page is where you can vote for your choice.
 
Sarah Hope has  two drawings included in the UKCPS 10th Open International Annual Exhibition Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, London, SW1H 9NH   19th September – 1st October 2011.  'Meeting Herbert'
 Sarah has an artist's blog on her website which includes info about the trip to London http://www.artist-sarah-hope.co.uk/category/artist-news/
Photos below: receiving the Highly Commended Prize from Philip Glennister,'Meeting Herbert', Gemma'
   
Norman Round has had 3 pieces accepted for the
Royal Society of Miniature Painters Sculptors & Gravers exhibition. The Mall Galleries, October
Patron HRH Prince Charles
Three of Norman's miniature paintings were in the 'Half a Foot' Exhibition in Fishguard Library Last Christmas
The list of artists whose work has been selected for the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition
has been released and Andie Clay has had two paintings chosen.
From the registration numbers it appears that over 3055 works were entered in the Open
Submission but only 264 works were selected for the exhibition.
The two paintings were selected by John Pluthero (Art Collector) who is the Chairman of Cable & Wireless
Worldwide, and founder of Abstract Critical.
The exhibition will be at The Mall Galleries in London from the 10th to the 20th of November.
http://www.discerningeye.org

                 Land Marks: Vale Land Marks: Quarry
The Contemporary Art Society for Wales (CASW) has just unveiled its new purchases of contemporary art work collected for the Welsh Nation and each has already been allocated to a permanent home to ensure they remain within Wales. Two paintings by Sonja Benskin Mesher - entitled "Turning the tide red" and "Turning the tide red 11" - will be placed on loan with Velindre Oncology Hospital in Cardiff.
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'Chapel and Tip' c 1959,  by Denys Short (1800mm by 1200mm) is part of the permanent exhibition in the new 'Derek Williams Contempory Gallery', The National Museum of Art, Cardiff
Linda Norris has just received a Research and Development grant from the Arts Council of Wales to develop new work based on archaeology, oral histories and the human shaping of the Pembrokeshire landscape.
Also, she has been offered a place on the glass master-class with American glass artist, Michael Rogers
You can read more about this on her blog   Linda Norris blog.
Tenby Museum has been successful in their bid for Denis Curry's bronze sculpture "Celtic Eagle" and a watercolour "Study for Juvenilis" from the CASW collection. So they will be in their permanent collection on view at the Tenby Museum/Gallery
Denis Curry will have an exhibition in the Gallery  'Sea-Change' starting September 9th
see 'OtherEvents' for details

 Aberjazz now has a blog see:- http://aberjazz.blogspot.com/
   Both Andie Clay (3 paintings) and Sarah Hope
had work selected in the
150th Celebratory Exhibition of the Society of Women Artists at The Mall Galleries in London.
      Her Royal Highness, Princess Michael of Kent which officially opened the exhibition on Wednesday 29 June .
Andie Clay was presented with the ST. CUTHBERT'S MILL AWARD
for her painting ‘Rhythmscape’

      The exhibition runs from Thursday 30 June to Saturday 9 July.
      http://www.society-women-artists.org.uk/
Opening of Barbara Price's Exhibition in Trefin Mill
See OtherEvents for details of Exhibition

   


             
     The poems chosen for the Summer Exhibition in Tregwynt Mansion are now available from the website.
See ArtsfestCalendar
Update from  Iwo Zaluski and the Standing Stones  (see film clip on www.youtube.com) which we supported in order to raise money towards their forthcoming tour

'We came back from the StandingStones' Polish trip last week. It was fantastic. They gave 4 concerts in Iwonicz-Spa and Sanok, both in the Carpathian Mountains of south eastern Poland, including an open air concert in the central square of Iwonicz-Spa. They had a Standing Ovation at their last concert. The kids had a lovely and formative time, it was a great opportunity for them.'

   

The Standing Stones in Poland

The five members of the Standing Stones, Ben, Luke, Ella, Elena and Gwyn spent the last week of their Summer Term not at Ysgol Dewi Sant, but in the Carpathian Mountains of south eastern Poland. Their manager and musical director Iwo Zaluski had arranged a series of concerts in what used to be the lands of his forefathers, specifically the spa town of Iwonicz, which was founded by Iwo’s musical great-great grandparents Karol and Amelia Zaluski back in 1837. The Stones’ repertoire included some of their compositions, which went down well among both the locals and visitors taking the waters of this, one of Poland’s prettiest and most popular health spas.
          The Stones’ concerts went under the heading of “The Eagle and the Dragon”, these being the symbols of Poland and Wales respectively, as they also played some Welsh numbers, thus bringing a taste of Wales to Poland. When not performing, the group went sight-seeing, shopping, riding, swimming, bowling, walking, high ropes coursing and exploring.
          The Stones’ first gig was and open-air afternoon concert on the grandstand in Iwonicz’s packed central square, surrounded by cafés serving ice-cold Polish lager, and ice-cream and soft drink stalls, for the temperature reached the high 30s.
          Their second concert took place in Iwonicz’s atmospheric old timber church, which was packed to capacity by a public eager to hear the young group from distant Wales.
          The third concert was held in the plush House of Culture in the nearby town of Sanok, not far from the Ukrainian border, and their last gig was in the Concert Hall of Iwonicz, which was attended by the Mayor and the Spa Director, as well the Society of the Friends of Iwonicz, all specifically anxious to hear the music that had originated in the town! Their final encore, “All that Jazz” from “Chicago” brought the house down when the audience leapt to their feet and clapped along.
          A Standing Ovation for the Standing Stones!
          After the concert the Mayor invited everyone involved, including the 12-strong Standing Stones party, to dinner in a private room of the excellent Zdrojowa Restaurant almost next door, in which toasts, in Polish, Welsh and English, were drunk in both wine and fruit-juices, with pledges to do this again soon.
          The whole trip was filmed, and a DVD and a CD will be forthcoming in the autumn.
          After a hot and hectic week, the Standing Stones party flew home to Bristol, and only got home in the early hours of the last day of term. Needless to say, they did not go in to school that day.