Black Dog Arts Newsletter January 2025
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Happy New Year
AGM
The AGM was held Sunday 27th October 2024, it was well attended and there were a few changes to the committee. We would like to welcome Jenni Birch who is returning as our new treasurer and thank our outgoing treasurer, Carol Weaver, for her excellent contribution. Georgina Johnson has rejoined the committee and Issy Coe is taking a sabbatical and we look forward to her return in the near future. Marlene Jervis, ex- chairman and one of our longest serving members, has left the committee and we wish her well in her retirement.
It was decided to waiver subscriptions for existing members until October 2025.
Committee Members: Mary Sprake - Chairman, Jenni Birch - Treasurer, Karen Leah - Membership Secretary, Carol Weaver - Minutes Secretary.
Bobbie Watchorn, Diana McKenna, Lin Johnson, Sarah Brown, Georgina Johnson.
Autumn Exhibition - Our best yet! We took around £2,500 and had almost 1000 visitors.
Workshops
Paul Zawadzki’s creative painting workshop was well attended and a great time was had by all - Thanks Paul.
Pastel Workshop
There will be a pastel workshop on Saturday 1st February at Mettingham Village Hall 10 - 4. This will be run by Issy Coe. The cost will be £20. Please bring your lunch and your own materials although Black Dog Arts does have some pastels for you to use. Paper will be for sale if required. Please email [email protected] or call Karen on 07443 912973
Issy will also be running courses at Flatford Mill in 2025 – see details below:
From Issy Coe:
" I am delighted to be joining the team of Course Tutors at Flatford Mill (Field Studies Council) for 2025. Three of the courses I shall be running are now up on the website. Why not book up and immerse yourself in art for a few days at this amazing location, which has inspired artists for generations.
Oil Painting for Beginners
https://www.field-studies-council.org/courses-and-experiences/static-courses/oil-painting-for-beginners/
Further Your Oil Painting Skills
https://www.field-studies-council.org/courses-and-experiences/static-courses/further-your-oil-painting-skills/
Pastel Landscapes
https://www.field-studies-council.org/courses-and-experiences/static-courses/pastel-landscapes/ "
Many thanks, Issy
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Wet Felting Workshop
Georgina will be running a wet felting workshop on Sunday 9th March at Mettingham Village Hall. 10 - 4. The cost will be £20 including materials. Please bring your lunch and a bar of soap if you wish to make a felted soap. Contact [email protected] to book
Di McKenna’s popular art class is held on Mondays 2 – 4.30pm at Mettingham Village Hall. £16 per session Contact [email protected] to book
3rd Wednesday in the month – Screen printing with Jackie Linney 10 – 3 at Mettingham Village Hall. £34 per session. Contact [email protected] to book.
We welcome any suggestions for future workshops.
Please let us know if you are running any classes or are taking part in any local exhibitions or workshops so we can include them in our next newsletter.
For those who are not yet members, here’s a little bit about us.
Since the conception of Black Dog Arts in 2007 we have been consistent within the town in encouraging local artists to exhibit at street fairs, at the garden art trails and at stand alone exhibitions.
It is our aim to provide an all inclusive forum for local people to participate in and enjoy the arts in all its forms.
We welcome all ages and you do not need to be a Bungay resident.
We have a small membership fee of £12 per year and put on several workshops as well as exhibitions.
If you are not a member and wish to join us, a form can be found on the website. https://www.blackdogarts.org/ Alternatively, contact Karen Leah (membership secretary) 01986 892599, or message our facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/blackdogarts
NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2024
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Black Dog Arts Newsletter September 2024
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Firstly a huge welcome to all our new members – thank you for joining us
Exhibition Update
We had an amazing week at St Mary’s Church with nearly 1000 visitors enjoying the display, a whooping £2260.00 in sales, fantastic feedback and 17 new members.
A massive thankyou to everyone who contributed to setting up, stewarding, taking down, lending easels etc., and of course, to all the exhibitors.
Next Exhibition
Our next exhibition will be 25th November to 2nd December 2024 at the same venue. This time we are considering including artistic handcrafted gifts as this is the month before Christmas. Further details and entry form to follow.
Workshops
Suggestions for future workshops welcomed.
Paul Zawadzki Workshop - Paul will be running a creative painting workshop on 26th October, 10 - 4pm, £30.00 at Mettingham Village Hall. Spaces are limited! Contact [email protected] to book
This workshop is about artistic exploration and having fun with a relaxed and reactive approach using spontaneous and unpredictable ways of working to produce a finished piece. Some materials will be provided. Tatty clothes a must as this is hands on and will get messy! Book early as this is going to be popular.
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Jackie Holmes will be holding a Christmas Decoration workshop, you will be making smocked and embroidered Christmas baubles, these are so cute! See pics below. 9th Nov. 10 till 3 pm, £25.00 at Mettingham Village Hall. You will be provided with a kit containing smocked material, beads and everything else required.
Contact [email protected] to book.
Di McKenna’s popular art class is held on Mondays 2 – 4.30pm at Mettingham Village Hall. £16 per session Contact [email protected] to book
3rd Wednesday in the month – Screen printing with Jackie Linney 10 – 3 at Mettingham Village Hall. £34 per session. Contact [email protected] to book
Coming soon – felt workshop.
What’s On
Fisher Theatre Gallery
In this exhibition of recent paintings by Eye-based painter Colin Latter, the everyday objects of his home and studio that form such key part of his works’ subject matter – old armchairs, tubes of paint, 60s Dansette record players and transistor radios, antique lamps, old mugs, materials – are painted with a love and vibrancy that makes them seem very much objects alive in the present moment – “the life of the still-life” as the great metaphysical painter De Chirico once memorably put it.
There is, of course, rather more to it than that: Colin’s father, a typographer and gifted amateur painter, died when Colin was only 4 in 1965, and many of the tubes of paint depicted are in fact the antique ones bequeathed to him by his father, as too are many (though by no means all) of the objects he paints.
Self-taught, like his father, it comes as no surprise perhaps that among his key artistic inspirations have been the Charleston painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and the French Fauvist, Henri Matisse, all artists for whom making the familiar, personal and everyday into something living and transcendent, had become the reason for painting.
With a wealth of marvellously gifted printmakers and graphic artists connected with the region, and the huge variety of techniques and styles to hand, making the final choices for this exhibition has not been easy.
But, from Dom Theobald’s exuberant coloured etchings on landscape themes to Josie Molloy’s bold, spare, Bauhaus-inspired screenprints, Pam Smy’s rich and often mysterious illustrations for children’s books and Liz Taunt’s subtle and playful collographs and drypoints on abstract themes, to Vanessa Lubach’s intricately-carved and multi-layered linocuts on landscape and natural history subjects and Laura Winstone’s ceramic collages and children’s illustration, there will, for sure, be lots of wonderful visual surprises. And all just in time for Christmas..
Please let us know if you are taking part in any local exhibitions or workshops so we can include them in our next newsletter.
For those who are not yet members, here’s a little bit about us:
Since the conception of Black Dog Arts in 2007 we have been consistent within the town in encouraging local artists to exhibit at street fairs, at the garden art trails and at stand alone exhibitions.
It is our aim to provide an all inclusive forum for local people to participate in and enjoy the arts in all its forms.
We welcome all ages and you do not need to be a Bungay resident.
We have a small membership fee of £12 per year and put on several workshops as well as exhibitions.
If you are not a member and wish to join us, a form can be found on the website. https://www.blackdogarts.org/ Alternatively, contact Karen Leah (membership secretary) 01986 892599, or message our facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/blackdogarts
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Black Dog Arts Newsletter July 2024
www.blackdogarts.org
Since the conception of Black Dog Arts in 2007 we have been consistent within the town in encouraging local artists to exhibit at street fairs, at the garden art trails and at stand alone exhibitions.
It is our aim to provide an all inclusive forum for local people to participate in and enjoy the arts in all its forms.
We welcome all ages and you do not need to be a Bungay resident.
We have a small membership fee of £12 per year and put on several workshops as well as exhibitions.
If you are not a member and wish to join us, a form can be found on the website. Alternatively, contact Karen Leah (membership secretary) 01986 892599, or message our facebook page.
What’s on:
Black Dog Arts Exhibition
Our exhibition this year will be held between 10th and 16th August with a preview on the 9th. The exhibition will be open to all members and to non-members with an additional charge. Details can be found on the website.
Paul Zawadzki Workshop - Paul will be running an experimental oil painting workshop in October. Details to follow
Di McKenna’s popular art class is held on Mondays 2 – 4.30pm at Mettingham Village Hall. £16 per session
3rd Wednesday in the month – Screen printing with Jackie Linney 10 – 3 at Mettingham Village Hall. £34 per session.
Drop in draw and paint sessions – coming soon. Felt workshop – coming soon.
www.blackdogarts.org
Since the conception of Black Dog Arts in 2007 we have been consistent within the town in encouraging local artists to exhibit at street fairs, at the garden art trails and at stand alone exhibitions.
It is our aim to provide an all inclusive forum for local people to participate in and enjoy the arts in all its forms.
We welcome all ages and you do not need to be a Bungay resident.
We have a small membership fee of £12 per year and put on several workshops as well as exhibitions.
If you are not a member and wish to join us, a form can be found on the website. Alternatively, contact Karen Leah (membership secretary) 01986 892599, or message our facebook page.
What’s on:
Black Dog Arts Exhibition
Our exhibition this year will be held between 10th and 16th August with a preview on the 9th. The exhibition will be open to all members and to non-members with an additional charge. Details can be found on the website.
Paul Zawadzki Workshop - Paul will be running an experimental oil painting workshop in October. Details to follow
Di McKenna’s popular art class is held on Mondays 2 – 4.30pm at Mettingham Village Hall. £16 per session
3rd Wednesday in the month – Screen printing with Jackie Linney 10 – 3 at Mettingham Village Hall. £34 per session.
Drop in draw and paint sessions – coming soon. Felt workshop – coming soon.
Local Exhibitions
Please let us know if you are taking part in any local exhibitions or workshops so we can include them in our next newsletter.
Please let us know if you are taking part in any local exhibitions or workshops so we can include them in our next newsletter.
For information about exhibitions at The Fisher Theatre, please download the newsletter ( above)
Remember to renew your membership in order to receive future Updates
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Photos above are of our stall at the Christmas Street Market on 5th Dec.
Thanks to Sarah & Crew for their hard work.
A reminder: annual subs of £12 are now due. Anyone not paid up by end of December will be deleted from the mailing list. Sorry to those who have already paid.
NEWSLETTER November 2021
Hi everyone – at last some good news, we are now able to offer you some opportunities to join in what BDA has to offer over the next months.
Sun 5 Dec – we have a stall at the Street Fair outside the Three Tuns. We aim this to be a PR exercise to promote BDA and encourage new members. Unfortunately there will not be enough space to sell works but please bring along anything you have created at any of our sessions or workshops. There will be a rota for manning the stall, if you can spare a couple of hours please contact [email protected]
Sat 29th Jan 2022 One day pastel workshop
by John Patchett IEA www.john-patchett.co.uk
Title : “Beach Scenes and Big Skies”.
Ability level: mixed ability
Cost; £35 per person plus £5 for hall hire.
Tea and coffee provided.
Remember to bring your own lunch
Times; 9.30 am to 4.00
What will students need to bring?
Support board, soft pastels, a stick of medium or thick charcoal, pastel card (e.g. Raw Sienna, Yellow Ochre or Mouse grey), an old tea towel or cloth.
Optional; tissues, easel, wet wipes, masking tape, pastel pencils plus any reference images relating to the theme.
Materials; Reference picture(s) and some assorted soft pastels.
John will also have a small supply of Sennelier pastel card available @ £7.00 per sheet.
BDA has a supply of pastels which you can borrow and there will also be an option to purchase suitable pastel paper.
SAT 19th Feb 2022 – Lino Cut Cards with Issy Coe
Venue: MVH
Cost: £20 including materials: new cutter nibs, lino (soft), papers and inks
+ Loan of the cutter handles, rollers, inking plates, presses etc.
Bring a packed lunch
IN THE PIPELINE:
2nd April 2022 - Decorated Eggs
Cyanotype
Mosaic
Wet Felting
2nd April 2022 - Decorated Eggs
Cyanotype
Mosaic
Wet Felting
STILL ONGOING ARE:
Mondays 2 – 4.30 Art Class with Di McKenna @ MVH £14 per session
3rd Wed in the month – Printing with Jackie Linney 10 – 3 MVH £35 per session
To book your place on any of the above please contact [email protected]
BDA Committee:
Chair : Mary Sprake, Secretary & Membership Sec: Marlene Jervis, Treasurer Carol Weaver
Bookings: Terry Wright, Social Media Issy Coe, Facebook/Instagram Karen Leah
[email protected]
Mondays 2 – 4.30 Art Class with Di McKenna @ MVH £14 per session
3rd Wed in the month – Printing with Jackie Linney 10 – 3 MVH £35 per session
To book your place on any of the above please contact [email protected]
BDA Committee:
Chair : Mary Sprake, Secretary & Membership Sec: Marlene Jervis, Treasurer Carol Weaver
Bookings: Terry Wright, Social Media Issy Coe, Facebook/Instagram Karen Leah
[email protected]
