MEMBERS NOTICE BOARD 

The committee of Lightcliffe Stray have asked us to exhibit our paintings at their next 'Day on the Stray' on Sunday 1st September 2024 1-5pm. 

Jo Brown's watercolour was voted 'Best in Show' at the annual open evening.

Beginning at the open evening the first Thursday in September we will be starting our meetings at 7pm and finishing at 9pm.

The event on The Stray was highly successful with visitors complimenting us on our stall and the quality of the paintings for sale.  We made £146 on the tombolla and sold 5 paintings.  We gave 10% to the organisers to be used to improve The Stray.

The next event will be on Sunday 3 September at The Stray, Lightcliffe, from 2-6pm.  Members can submit paintings for the display boards and there will be a demonstration by Mathew Evans and of course a tombola. 

Thanks to everyone for making the Brighouse Gala a success. We had a really good turnout with many painting being sole and the tombola was also successful.

Thanks to everyone for making the Christmas party a great success.  The quiz, raffle and supper were especially well organised.  Happy Christmas and successful New Year to everyone.

At the AGM existing committee members agreed to continue with the exception of Margaret Clements, library notice board organiser.  Helen Summerville is now in charge of the notice boards at Brighouse and Elland libraries.  Sue Smith is going to continue organising demonstrators but will stand down at the end of August 2024. This gives her time to train someone else up.  We need more members so if anyone can help with this it would be great. Duncan said we had had a good year with everything ticking over nicely and Steph said the finances are healthy.  It was decided that from September 2022 we are going to start meetings at 7pm until 9pm.

The Annual General Meeting is to  be held on 13 October at 7.30pm.

After a successful Annual Open Evening Helen Sumervile was awarded the Marion Nash memorial trophy for her fabulous watercolour which was voted best in show by art circle members.

We have now finished holding the outside painting sessions for 2022.  We've had some lovely venues and been lucky with the weather.

The 2021 Christmas party was a great success and enjoyed by one and all.

We are able now to meet on Thursday evenings at 7.30 and hope to be able to move forward.  Everyone is welcome to come along and join us for the friendly meetings.

At the 2021 Annual General Meeting Duncan remained as Chairman and Jo is the new vice chairman.  Arrangements were made for the coming season.

The weekly outside painting sessions are still continuing, check emails, facebook or contact on brighouseartcircle@yahoo.co.uk

We are presently closed due to renevation work but should be finished shortly.

There has been a problem with the website so unfortunately we have lost losts of items from 2020 onwards, including the picture of the week.  Hopefully some of this will be restored.

Congratulations to Moira Spencer and Chris Stocks who jointly were voted best in show at the 2018 annual open evening.

 Congratulations to June Johnson for winning the Colin Scholey annual award at Norwood Green Art Circle in December.

Congratulations to Barbara Goodall for winning the glass painting in the Christmas raffle.  it was made by members at a recent glass workshop.

Congratulations to Sue Smith for winning the 'Best in Show' at the Mytholmroyd exhibition with her pastel painting 'My Best Side' in October.

Congratulations to Derrick McDermott for winning Best in Show at the September  open evening.

Congratulations to Brian Edwards for winning the raffle at the  open evening.  It was a painting kindly donated by David Newbould which he painted at a demonstration.

Congratulations to Sue Smith and Chris Stocks who were joint winners of 'Best in Show' at the annual exhibition 2015.

We now have a facebook page  

Congratulations go to Brian Edwards for his acrylic cat painting which was voted 'Best in Show' at the annual open evening.  Brian was presented with a gift voucher and certificate.

We now have a new projection system for use in our demonstrations.  Everyone will be able to see the demonstration on the large screen.

We are holding a permanent exhibition at Number Seven Martin Street, Brighouse. This is a beautifully renovated building and the paintings are hung in the lovely modern reception area.

Congratulations to Sue May and Sue Tag with their winning entries into competitions.  Sue May won artist of the year with her collage in the SAA Paint magazine competition and Sue Tag won second prize at the Southowram craft show.

If you would like your art work to appear on this website or the SAA website, either for sale or just to show off, then email a photo to brighouseartcircle@yahoo.co.uk   Please include size, medium and if they are for sale, please include price.

Congratulations to Brian Edwards for his best in show 'Flatford Bridge' painting and Sue Smith for her second best in show 'Got Ya' in the recent exhibition at Smith Art Gallery.  Brian's is going to be published in Leisure Painter later in the year.  

Thanks to Gwen Hawdon who has donated a large amount of fantastic art books.  They are all in lovely condition and will be a great asset to our library.  Thanks again to Gwen, the books are really appreciated.