Tuesday 27th May to Sunday 1st June 2025 Abbots Leigh Village Hall.
£40 for your own panel or share one with a friend. Alternatively enter 1-3 paintings at £10 each and we will curate them for you. Special Spring discount with only 25% commission and we are accepting unto 25 prints per member for just £5 and 20% commission. Large works at £10 each are welcome and we will display on specialist art posts.
Closing date for entires is Sunday May 11th. Hand in Tuesday 27th and Collection Sunday 1st June.
Contact exhibitions@cliftonarts.org. Entry forms can be submitted from early March.

I am just back from a short trip to Cairo and Alexandria. I saw a lot of amazing ancient artefacts and some more contemporary art in the new Alexandria Library.

I thought you might be interested in this Roman Mosaic from Alexandria. So like the HMV label dog ‘Nipper’, the statue of which is on a building in Park Row at the junction with Woodland Road.

This is an excuse to publicise the upcoming Mosaic Workshop in January. It will be a great chance to sample this ancient medium. All materials will be provided – all you need bring is your own inspiration.

Wishing you all best wishes for Christmas and 2025.

Fergus

The Art Fair which finished on Saturday seems to have been a real success. We will get details of the numbers attending and the sales in due course. I thought it was a great exhibition which amply displayed the varied talents and styles of Club members. I heard lots of positive comments from people attending whenever I dropped during the week. I would like to thank all those who contributed: the artists, the stewards, those who helped set it up and dismantle it in what seemed like record time – but especially Fiona Hallworth and Lea Aldridge for the immense amount of work they put into the organisation and smooth running.

Secondly, I want to give you advance notice of the AGM. It will be on Thursday April 17th at Redland United Reformed Church between 7pm -9pm. More details later, but put it in your diary.

Fergus Macbeth

While I was in London I also went to Kew Gardens. I again visited the gallery which houses an extraordinary collection of 800 botanical and landscape paintings by the 19th century traveller and painter Marianne North. Next door in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery is an exhibition of extraordinary porcelain ceramics by Felicity Aylieff – Expressions in Blue. See the photo above. https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-on/felicity-aylieff

Fergus Macbeth

The Squares competition is complete with more than 80 entries and some arriving still! The standard and range of work as ever was excellent and our adjudicator from the RWA,

Some pictures from the Rock House gardens (28th February 2023) You must be logged in and have a current membership to view this content.

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