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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 24th June 2024

A reminder of this week's
Thursday on location
27 June - Wareham Quay and Town, BH20 4LP

Parking charge.
Meet at 10.00 on quay.
Lots of interesting views from the tow path; bull rushes, foliage, leisure craft etc. Alternatively, the bridge, and busy quayside with boats, and the old town.
Facilities: Parking, cafe and toilets.

Weekend 29, 30 June - 'Art in the Park' at Upton Country Park

‘Art in the Park’
Invitation to all to come and join us in this En Plein Air event to celebrate our 100th Birthday this year!

See HERE for more details.
Highlights include:

Big prizes to be won (sponsored by Daler-Rowney).
We have award winning-plein air artist Felicity House with us as guest and judge for the weekend.
Past Sky Arts ‘Landscape Artist of the Year’ participant Dawn Goodson will be with us.
Exhibition of work in Upton House on the Sunday, open to the visiting public.
Car parking concessions are available, enquire at registration at the Welcome Centre.

We hope you can make it and are able to join in the fun!

Chair's note
The PEDAS Centenary is proving to be a very active, exciting and enjoyable year!
Did you read last week’s PEDAS Weekly about the success of our DAW exhibition Celebrate! Thankyou to everyone who participated and congratulations to those who sold during what was a very successful exhibition. I had only limited chances to visit DAW venues, but several were bemoaning the lack of visitors and sales. Our results do not echo that!
The member’s cream tea event was a great opportunity for those who ventured across the water. An insight was gained into the JLP holiday property which is the Castle and its grounds, as well as the opportunity to spend some time on the famous Brownsea Island. Relaxed time in each other’s company was enjoyed, while also having the opportunity for some en plein air art. We did not choose the best day weather-wise but I do not think that spoilt this one off opportunity.

Now, the Lighthouse exhibition has been launched and what an exhibition it is!! Full marks to the organising team led by John Biggs, and of course they would not have been able to achieve this without the help and participation of so many others; current members, past members and non-members, who all willingly engaged in helping to track down and borrow precious paintings, timely ripped from owners’ walls. As a result, we have been able to offer a representation of the illustrious history of this long standing and highly acclaimed Dorset art society! We should all be proud of what has been achieved. It is an historical milestone for PEDAS and will never occur again, I will wager! Our thanks to the selectors, Frances Hatch and Martha Earley who did a great job in their inclusion of a wide range of work by current members both new and old.
The launch party was very successful. As well as the presence of the Mayor and his wife, seeing many past members with the opportunity to catch up was also precious. It really brought the ‘club’ together and strengthened our ties. The Mayoral couple were truly impressed with the quality of work on display and they stayed chatting for a long time.

Lastly, the next event!!
The coming weekend brings our community event in Upton Country Park, ‘Art in the Park’. Again this demonstrates the reputation and standing of our society:

Felicity House willing to attend as guest artist and judge.
Daler-Rowney willing to donate £300 worth of art materials as prizes
UCP management willing to partner with us for this event and also to offer car parking concessions.

Please do help us to publicise this event and please attend yourselves. Bring family and friends for a great day out and spread the word. Other local art societies have been invited and there is a frisson of excitement mounting!
Wishing you all well!
Jacqui Gush

Silent Auction of Penny Wilton's work
Message from Penny's son, Ed, who is organising a silent auction of her work for charity. Click here

Message from Chris Warner
Good Morning Fellow Members. Would you like some sunny months in a sunny ideal! Join me in sunny Andalusia in a joint ownership villa? We could bring out fellow artists/family etc. So please, any interested parties contact me to discuss in greater detail.
Regards & best wishes, Chris W.
Chris's phone

DACA Newsletter June 2024. Follow this link: DACA newsletter June 2024 (mailchi.mp)

Jeremy Gardiner, 'Turning the Tide' Follow this link: Jeremy Gardiner | Turning the Tide | Invitation to Private View (mailchi.mp)

Committee Contacts: Here

Thank you to anyone who has sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 17th June 2024

A reminder of this week's
Thursday on location
20 June - Alum Chine, Tropical Gardens, 34 West Overcliff Drive, Bournemouth BH48AF

Tropical gardens with benches, beach and sea.
Alum Chine is the largest of four Chines within Bournemouth. It offers shaded paths and tropical garden on the cliff face.
With a relaxed atmosphere, this is a wooded chine with magnificent sea views. The tropical gardens have their origins in the 1920s, and provide an ideal area for painting and contemplation.
Toilets and cafe on the beach.

Celebrate!
A review by Helen
It was an honour to be present at the opening of ‘Celebrate!’ and to see the wonderful and diverse work that was on display.

Having set the project a few months ago with a brainstorming session, the topic was interpreted individually and imaginatively, evolving into a celebration of art and creativity of the Poole and East Dorset Art Society in their centenary year, an amazing achievement and one that must be congratulated.

It is without a doubt that the celebration was the collaboration of skills and artistry and the coming together of the spirit of the society, its individuals and the pride that everyone felt on the day to exhibit their work, one that has endured 100 years.

All the hard work of the organisers and artists involved, demonstrated the strong foundations of the society, one that has a firm grounding for the continuation of the group that will support the future artists who will be proud to be members.

It was a great sadness that Denis had passed away a few weeks before, his own centenary year, but I am sure he was there in spirit with a twinkle in his eye and filled with pride for his friends and colleagues.

Well done everyone, and I look forward to your next venture, one that will be equally as exciting.
Helen

Some figures for 'Celebrate!' from Pam, our Treasurer...

We had 1564 visitors, we took £1525 on the sale of 19 artworks, and £405 on greetings cards.
101 framed works were entered, 48 Browser pieces entered, and 7 3D works were entered. Commission at 15% = £228.75, of which £152,5 goes to the Gallery Upstairs (10%).
The Dorset Art Weeks exhibition in 2022 (the last one), artworks made £1190, so in comparison this was a very good exhibition.

PEDAS100Ex at Lighthouse
“Poole and East Dorset Art Society: 1924 to today”
Your CVs please
Message to participants of the PEDAS centenary exhibition at Lighthouse.
The committee are asking you to email your artist CVs to our website: to publicity@pedas.org.uk . See example below, or look at
OUR ARTISTS - Poole & East Dorset Art Society (pedas.org.uk) on the PEDAS website for the kind of examples we need. Normally 200 words about you and your art plus two images only of you and/ or your art. If you wish, include contact details eg email or social media or your website etc only. No personal details. Thank you.

Example of cv shown, click on to enlarge.

Click on Invitation to enlarge, can be saved and emailed to friends

Help us publicise. Click on to enlarge, can be saved and emailed to friends

News from other artists and art groups:

Sherborne Open Art Exhibition.

The poster is here with the exhibition dates and our website address for entries and more details. There is online entry but there is also submission with no pre-entry on the hand-in days, 12th (p.m.) and 13th (a.m.) July so it’s possible to just turn up and enter.

This is a truly open judged exhibition, welcoming to amateurs and professionals alike and we expect to hang about 400 works.

With best wishes,
Mark Pender
The Sherborne Open Art Exhibition
Sherborne Open Art Exhibition – Sherborne Arts

Message from Dawn:

Rhiannon is my granddaughter who is putting on this play A Midsummer Night's Dream in aid of CHARITY. Details on the poster. Do attend if you can.

This is the link to Lighthouse for the play to buy a ticket..
https://www.lighthousepoole.co.uk/event/a-midsummer-nights-dream-abridged/

The link allows you to purchase tickets at £15 .

Click on poster to enlarge

Click on Invitation to enlarge, can be saved and emailed to friends

'ART in the PARK' at Upton Country Park
Saturday-Sunday 29th – 30th June

Help celebrate this Centenary event - Sponsored by Daler-Rowney.

We hope to get GOOD support from PEDAS members', also we would appreciate help with STEWARDING the event. If you would like to help for a few hours, please email: contact@pedas.org.uk

Thank you

Committee Contacts: Here

Thank you to anyone who has sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 10th June 2024

As Celebrate! draws to a close, please remember to collect any unsold work from the Gallery on Tuesday 11 June, between 10am and 12. Please remember to sign your work out. Thank you all for taking part.
Next week we will have the figures to report, and there will be a review from Helen.

A reminder of this week's
Thursday on location
THURSDAY 13 June - Brownsea Island Cream Tea
Organised by the centenary team and needs to have been booked in advance, a unique opportunity to visit Brownsea Castle. Ferry trip, cream tea, a tour and talk by a historian and then time at leisure to paint and wander around.
Departing Poole or Sandbanks, as arranged.

PEDAS100Ex at Lighthouse
“Poole and East Dorset Art Society: 1924 to today”

You will have received an email for each of your selected pieces. Only selected items will have been informed.
Handing-in morning is Monday 17th June from 10am -12.30 at the front entrance of Lighthouse.

Invitation to Launch Party
Please invite your friends to the Launch Party for this exhibition, which will be held on the top floor of Lighthouse, on Saturday 22nd June 11am - 1pm. Please spread the word. See the digital invitation shown, which can be clicked on to enlarge, and can be saved and emailed to friends.

Click on Invitation to enlarge, can be saved and emailed to friends

'ART in the PARK' at Upton Country Park
Saturday-Sunday 29th – 30th June

Help celebrate this Centenary event - Sponsored by Daler-Rowney.
We hope to get GOOD support from PEDAS members', also we would appreciate help with STEWARDING the event. If you would like to help for a few hours, please email: contact@pedas.org.uk
It is a two day event and on Sunday the rolling exhibition of finished work will be displayed in Upton House. Park publicity will advertise the exhibition as a separate event to draw in visitors.
Key features include:

Concessions to car parking
Felicity House as our guest Tutor and judge for the presentation of prizes. She will also undertake her own painting and talk to participants to offer support.
Exhibition on Sunday in Upton House
Excellent prizes sponsored by Daler-Rowney.
Everyone is welcome, however we are placing less emphasis on children this time to make it more of an adult event with hopefully some good artwork to exhibit.

How you can help:

Free up the dates and come along and join in! It’s a sad reflection that we have had more artists from other societies than PEDAS members participating in the past. It should be a fun weekend!
Spread the word and help us with publicity. Bring along friends and family.
We will need some help with stewarding this event. We would be grateful for your offers to help. One half day session on either the Saturday or Sunday would be really helpful, otherwise it can’t run.

We have a ‘great deal’ to offer to you and everyone in our community. Please help to spread the word. Publicity and full details of how it works, is below.

Click on poster to enlarge, can be saved and emailed to friends. Put on social media.

Click on to enlarge, can be saved and emailed to friends

'Art in the Park' at Upton Country Park is sponsored by Daler-Rowney

image for illustration only

Committee Contacts: Here

Thank you to anyone who has sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 3rd June 2024

A reminder of this week's
Thursday on location
THURSDAY 6 June - Shore Road, Sandbanks BH13 7PS
Meeting point: end of road by the beach, 10 am.
Scenic views of Brownsea Island and the Purbeck Hills in one direction and Poole Bay and sandy beaches in the other.
Cafe & toiltes.

PEDAS100Ex at Lighthouse
21st June to 27th July, 2024 (collecting work on 29th)
“Poole and East Dorset Art Society: 1924 to today”

Selection is done!
Congratulations to all of you for coming up with a fascinating array of art.
Our selectors, Martha Earley, at Lighthouse, and Frances Hatch have made their selection and we have 125 paintings for the walls of Lighthouse plus 11 sculptures.
If one or more of your nominations has been selected, you will be told by email in this coming week. You will receive an email for each of your selected pieces. Some of you might already have heard.
Only selected items will be informed. If you do not get an email, I’m afraid yours were not selected.
You will be asked to send a confirmation note to Linda Honeyborne when you receive the email.
MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER ETC., these things can sometimes go astray.
Handing in day at Lighthouse is Monday 17th June

Brownsea 13 June 2024 - FULLY BOOKED

I confirm that whatever preference you put on your form (Poole or Sandbanks) that is what you have been given. Most people I have spoken to personally as some of the email addresses I could not understand. The times have changed a little bit for the Poole and Sandbanks Ferry and I am confirming with John Lewis tomorrow.

I will email everyone personally next week and let you know the times of the ferry you are booked on.

Some people have still not paid by BACS or cheque, can you please do this tomorrow at the latest or I cannot guarantee your place.
Please contact me if you have any queries as I am the only person with the list of people and information.

Carole Gadsby 07894791927 or carolegadsby@gmail.com

'ART in the PARK' at Upton Country Park
Saturday-Sunday 29th – 30th June

We are running this community event as part of our Birthday celebrations. This is an exciting variation on our past formula and will be fit for our special Centenary celebratory events!
Publicity for the event has already started, and if you are members of other art societies, hopefully you have also received an invitation through them.
We hope to get GOOD support from PEDAS members for this event.
It is a two day event and on Sunday the rolling exhibition of finished work will be displayed in Upton House. Park publicity will advertise the exhibition as a separate event to draw in visitors.
Key features include:

Concessions to car parking (50 free parking places for 4 hours!)
Presence of Felicity House as our guest Tutor and judge for the presentation of prizes. She will also undertake her own painting and talk to participants to offer support.
Exhibition on Sunday in Upton House
Excellent prizes sponsored by Daler-Rowney.
Everyone is welcome, however we are placing less emphasis on children this time to make it more of an adult event with hopefully some good artwork to exhibit.

How you can help:

Free up the dates and come along and join in! It’s a sad reflection that we have had more artists from other societies than PEDAS members participating in the past. It should be a fun weekend!
Spread the word and help us with publicity. Bring along friends and family.
We will need some help with stewarding this event. We would be grateful for your offers to help. One half day session on either the Saturday or Sunday would be really helpful, otherwise it can’t run.

We have a ‘great deal’ to offer to you and everyone in our community. Please help to spread the word. Publicity and full details of how it works, is below.

Click on poster to enlarge, can be saved and printed or emailed to friends

Click on 'How it Works' to enlarge, can be saved and printed or emailed to friends

News from other artists and art groups:

Committee Contacts: Here

Thank you to anyone who has sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 27th May 2024

A reminder of this week's
Thursday on location
Thursday 30 May - Wimborne Minster BH21 1EB
10 am meet at the entrance to the Minster. We have permission to paint inside the Minster. I suggest we don’t use use oils or acrylics but watercolour should be ok as well as any dry media. Here is an extract from the email giving us permission:

"Please note we are a busy and active church, with tourists coming to visit, people coming in to light candles & pray, etc. I also need to tell you we have a funeral service the afternoon of May 30, at 2. The verger will be preparing the church for the service during the morning. We're happy for you to paint as long as it doesn't interfere with the other activities in the Minster.
We open to the public at 10. I suggest that you come at 10 and paint until 12:30. The verger on duty Thursdays is Martin Smith, who is copied on this e-mail."

Wimborne is a town with character. Facilities: toilets, cafes, plenty.

Sunday afternoon session
Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, BH14 8JX
Please arrive in good time for 2.30 start, finish 4.30
2nd June 2024 - Janet Wildey, 'Animal portraits the fun way'
With a focus on animal portraits, Janet will lead us in a session exploring interesting textures that can be applied to animal portraits or any other subject.
Materials:
Stretched watercolour paper or acrylic paper if working in acrylic paints
Paper to collage such as newspaper, wallpaper, bits of old paintings etc.
Some items to make marks with such as bubble wrap, cardboard from empty toilet roll, textured wallpaper etc.
PVA glue or Pritt Stick
Watercolour paints or acrylics
Watercolour pencils, brushes, table covering.
Reference from which you would like to work.

Janet was originally a graphic artist, then a portrait artist and art teacher. She now paints, demonstrates and exhibits to raise funds for the Poole, East Dorset and South Wiltshire RSPCA of which she is a Trustee.
https://janetwildey.weebly.com

Thursday 13 June 2024 – Brownsea Island
We still have 15 spaces on the above and because of cancellations 4 sailings from Poole. Apart from the Cream Teas and the talk by a historian please note that this is a unique opportunity to look around inside the castle and its grounds which are not open to the public. And an opportunity to draw and paint.
Please email me if you are interested - it is now open to everyone not just members. If you belong to other societies please let them know of this opportunity which is so unique.
Click here for form
Carole Gadsby
Carole's contact details

PEDAS100Ex at Lighthouse
21st June to 27th July, 2024 (collecting work on 29th)
“Poole and East Dorset Art Society: 1924 to today”

Great response from Members
Thanks to all Members who sent in nominations for the Lighthouse exhibition. Our selectors are currently sifting through over 200 photos of art works sent in by you.
As well as your own best paintings and sculptures, you tracked down some fascinating pieces. We have a huge range of works from the last 40 years of PEDAS, some of which have never been seen and some we haven’t laid eyes on for decades.
I have no doubt the judges will have a hard time deciding. They have been asked to select 45 pieces for the ground floor gallery and around 75 for the top floor.
We should know the result by Friday 31st May and we will let you know by email, as soon as possible after that.

Only selected items will be informed. If you do not get an email, I’m afraid yours were not selected.

John Biggs

A4 poster, can be saved and printed or emailed to friends

News from other artists and art groups:

DACA May newsletter, click on logo to open

Tony Paul's open studio, click on image to enlarge

Abbotsbury Festival of Landscape Art, 10th - 16th June

Watercolour classes and Zentangles with Joan Lilley
Hello everyone,
One of Broadstone's very experienced and highly qualified artists is offering a couple of improvers watercolour classes on flowers, in June and July along with another class on Zentangles. (Please Google for more info on this.)
I attended Joan Lilley's 5 classes earlier this year and found them very helpful and enjoyable.
Joan still has spaces in these classes so if any of you would be interested in coming along please click on classes below for details and application forms. Joan lives in Colehill.
Regards, Gill Mullen (Broadstone Art Society)
Rose Painting Class June 2024
Hydrangea Painting Class July 2024
Zentangle Classes 2024

Committee Contacts: Here

Thank you to anyone who has sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 20th May 2024

A reminder of this week's two en Plein Air days
A special additional En Plein Air fixture is being offered to PEDAS members

MONDAY 20th May - Bournemouth Natural Science Society, 39 Christchurch Road BH1 3NS
Special arrangements have been made to visit on Monday 20th. If the weather is good, we could meet in the front garden, where there are exotic trees, from 10 am.
There is parking in the front although the car park isn’t huge. The museum has toilets but no cafe, so we suggest members bring a flask and a sandwich.
There is a room where we can sit at tables and paint as well as eat lunch. On our last visit they kindly put some specimens out on the tables for us to draw. Free venue.
Please note: Watercolour is ok but not oils or acrylic paint.
Bournemouth Natural Science Society: Home Page (bnss.org.uk)

THURSDAY 23 May - Sandy Hill Arts, Sandy Hill Lane, Corfe Castle BH20 5JF
Meet from 10am, park in the National Trust Car park and walk to the Boilerhouse Galleries, housing a number of local artists set in beautiful grounds next to Corfe Castle Station.
Toilets, cafe.
https://www.boilerhousegallery.co.uk/

Submissions for 'Celebrate' exhibition on Wednesday this week

Submissions on Wednesday morning 22nd May
Members, click here for Entry form and t's and c's
Exhibition opens on Friday 24th
Private View on Saturday 25th May from 11am in the Gallery. Leader of BCP Council Vikki Slade will be opening our exhibition
Personal crit from Helen Talbot on your work after opening on Saturday.
Dorset Art Week starts on Saturday 25th
We need your help with publicity - poster and invitations to the Launch Party in different forms are shown here, can be clicked on and saved to send to friends

Single invitation to Launch Party suitable for sending as attachment to an email or use on social media. Click on, save & send

2 x Launch Party invitations, click on & save for printing out and cutting in two and handing to friends

A4 poster, can be saved and printed or emailed to friends

Committee Contacts: Here

Thank you to anyone who has sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 13th May 2024

A reminder of this week's
Thursday on location
Thursday 16 May - The Cake House, East Creech, Wareham BH20 5AP
Meet at the Tea Rooms from 10am. We have been asked to use the car park opposite and to park behind the barn, it’s obvious when you get there.
There is a lovely garden to sit and paint as well as an indoor area if the weather is bad. There are paddocks at the back with a pony, donkey, rhea sheep and chickens so there’s plenty to keep us busy.
East Creech is a tiny hamlet nestled in the foot on the Purbeck Hills, with thatched cottages and a lake.
Home (thecakehouse-eastcreech.co.uk)

CELEBRATE!
Just a heads up for 'Celebrate', our next PEDAS exhibition at the Gallery Upstairs, as part of Dorset Art Week.
For full details and Entry Form Click Here
Hand-in is Wednesday 22nd May. The launch party will be on Saturday 25th May from 11am and we will have the Leader of the BCP Council, Vikki Slade to formally open the exhibition. Helen Talbot will also be there to offer informal personal crits of your work if you would like feedback from Helen.

On this its 100th anniversary, PEDAS celebrates the artists and achievements of your historic Art Society; a highlight of our centenary festivities is this exhibition. The idea of ‘Celebrate!’ is that it should be a vibrant, lively reflection of the club, its people and the locality. For it, Helen suggested members might wish to research art movements from the past 100 years. Still struggling for ideas? See projects page for Helen's suggestions
You will see notes there on creating an Artist's Book and keeping a sketchbook. We would love to show some of your Artist's sketchbooks that celebrate our society and location.

Help!
We need volunteers to help with hanging the exhibition on Thursday 23rd from approx. 10 am – 12.30.
If you are able to help it would be greatly appreciated - please contact publicity@pedas.org.uk

Help us publicise. Click on poster and save to print or add to social media or email to friends.

Brownsea Island Cream Tea – Thursday 13 June 2024
We now have 35 for the above event, so 15 more spaces available. You can now invite friends and family and other societies to join us. However they must email or ring me first to make sure we have a place and then they can pay either by cheque or BACS. New form here

Carole Gadsby
Carole's contact details

Charity Art Sale, works by Penny Wilton

News from other Art Groups

Click on poster for details of this event

CADArts Garden Party

Committee Contacts: Here

Thank you to anyone who has sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 6th May 2024

A reminder of this week's
Thursday on location
Thursday 9th May - The Museum of East Dorset, 29 High St, Wimborne Minster BH21 1HR.
This used to be the Priest House Museum. It’s in the High Street. We meet in the foyer at 10am and PEDAS will pay the entry fee for all members. Dry media only as per the Russell Cotes. The museum has a lovely cafe in its garden.
Home - Museum of East Dorset

Message from John:
Your last chance to exhibit at Lighthouse!
Nominations close on 10th May.
Forms at top of this page.

Brownsea Island Cream Tea – Thursday 13 June 2024
We still have 15 spaces for MEMBERS ONLY on the above trip however we have the allocated 25 sailing for Poole so it will be travelling by boat from SANDBANKS only. If we haven’t reach our required 50 by Saturday 11th May we will be opening it up to friends and family. First come first served and then a waiting list.
New Form Here, depart Sandbanks only
Carole Gadsby

News from other Societies

Poundbury
At Art in Poundbury they're looking forward to sunnier times, and would like to invite PEDAS members to our next ‘en plein air’ event in Poundbury.
'Art in the Squares 2024' - Saturday 22nd June 10am to 5pm
This is an ‘open to all’ outdoor painting event taking place in squares and other locations across Poundbury.
Download Information Sheet
Art in Poundbury – A fabulous new exhibition space for all our Dorset

Last year's event

May demonstration at Ferndown Art Society

Committee Contacts: Click here

Thank you to anyone who has sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 29th April 2024

A reminder of this week's
Thursday on location
Thursday 2nd May - The Russell Cotes Museum and Gallery, East Cliff Promenade, Bournemouth BH1 3AA
We will meet in reception at 10am and the entry fee will be paid by PEDAS for all members. Anyone arriving late may have to pay for themselves!
The Russell Cotes only allow us to use dry media inside the gallery so no paints please. Pen, pencil, coloured pencils and pastel pencils are all ok. There are sketching stools available in the gallery. There’s a nice cafe and toilets. And the gardens for plein air.
Home - Russell-Cotes (russellcotes.com)

Some info from David about our plein air season
As a general rule, we meet on Thursdays at 10.00. There is an exception on Monday 20 May when we visit the wonderful Bournemouth Natural Science Society in Christchurch Road. There is no admission fee and they do allow watercolour as long as you are careful. The Brownsea Island cream tea on 13 June is organised by the centenary team and needs to be booked in advance, (Form here).
There is a What’s app group for plein air where you can ask about venues, parking, cafes, toilets and anything else you need to know. Please message me on 07947002169 if you would like to be added to the group. I look forward to seeing you all in the great outdoors! David Roberts

Sunday afternoon session
Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, BH14 8JX
Please arrive in good time for 2.30 start, finish 4.30
5th May - Helen Talbot, 'Celebrate!'
Helen will lead the session.
Bring along any paintings or other artwork you have been working on towards the Dorset Art Weeks exhibition, 'Celebrate!' for discussion and advice.
(Hand-in date for the exhibition is 22nd May).
Members, click here for Entry form and t's and c's

Check out the projects page for more information from Helen on this topic:
PROJECTS - Poole & East Dorset Art Society (pedas.org.uk)

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Dennis - Memories and Tributes
We have opened a page for your tributes and memories of Dennis.
See Dennis - Tributes & Memories - Poole & East Dorset Art Society (pedas.org.uk)
Send your messages to publicity@pedas.org.uk

Committee Contacts: Here

Thank you to anyone who has sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 22nd April 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session
Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

24 April - DVD to introduce PEDAS Plein Air season

For many, painting on location is the most exciting way to paint.
Come and watch a DVD on En Plein Air painting in preparation for PEDAS's plein air season which is about to start!
Also discussion and tips.

Message from Pat about the meeting at her house
Hi Folks, With reference to my note in last week's bulletin re help with submissions to the Lighthouse, we have had to change the date to Friday 3rd May 2-4pm. If you are interested and have not yet contacted me please do so by Friday 24 April so we know what we are dealing with. My contact details are here
Pat

Message from Suki
Hello, My daughter (she works at Mccarthy & Stone) is organizing an event in which Charlie Dimmock will do a potting demonstration and talk about plants. There will be prosecco and canapés.
It's at Stour gate, Barley place Blandford St Mary, DT11 9GN on the 21st May from 1:30 till 2:30. The lounge is quite small so you need to book individually on 0800 1533087
Suki

Message from the Chair
Our Centenary year was launched with a bang last night! A full evening was enjoyed by all and the Miramar did us proud. We enjoyed lively music from a group of singers, who were very enthusiastic and utterly professional in their rendition.

Our speaker, Roger Zogolovitch, reminded us never to underrate amateur creativity and the joy of being immersed in original and personal creative endeavour, with no judgement. He described amateur work as analogue in the face of the mass digital world.

Having informed members of Dennis Hill’s recent passing it was wonderful that his daughter Sue, along with his 2 friends, the Richardsons, who had originally booked, were still willing and able to attend, and his godson took Dennis’s place.
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Photos by David Marshall
[Apologies, David, if they're a bit pixelated - reduced for slideshow-Ed]

Roger Zogolovitch's has kindly given us a copy of his talk.

"I stand before you ‘dazed and confused’ – I am an architect and developer – I make buildings – what could I possibly add to your 100th year anniversary – I ask ?
I could say that its my own fault when I labelled my activity ‘Development as Art’ – your president John Biggs jumped at that and thought I would have something to say at this momentous celebration of your society’s 100 year anniversary. I am honoured to be part of your celebration

What a splendid occasion, we have all enjoyed. The ambiance and atmosphere of this perfect dinner event.

For me as an amateur – I like to say ‘Sunday’ painter, as I sit and make drawings and paintings of restaurant tables when travelling – only because ‘I am greedy and get frustrated with the wait’. Continue reading

DENNIS HILL
Dennis joined PEDAS in the early 1960s and became a key member of the club, serving as Treasurer for some years. We all knew him as a very generous, gifted and prolific artist. Born in 1924, we were intending to celebrate both the club’s centenary and his own 100th birthday.

Dennis described his early years: “When I was seven, I started reading avidly any book or magazine on painting I could lay my hands on. I came across the magazine called The Studio which must have been the forerunner of The Artist.
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We will be opening a 'Personal Recollections Page' for your memories of Dennis. Send messages to publicity@pedas.org.uk

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 15th April 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session
Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
17th April 2024 - Expressive Watercolour Painting Workshop with Diane Roberts

Dear Participants,
Welcome to the expressive watercolour painting workshop! During our time together, we'll explore the art of using sketchbooks and drawing imagery directly onto watercolour paper to create vibrant and dynamic artworks.
In my teaching career, I've noticed that many individuals struggle with working from sketchbook imagery.
While some may prefer using secondary sources like photographs or digital imagery, I've found that relying solely on these methods can inhibit spontaneity and the flow of creativity.
Read more...

Message from Pat regarding help with Lighthouse submissions
Hi Folks,
It has come to our notice that some Society members are unsure about submitting work on line for possible selection for the Lighthouse exhibition.
To help with this, Linda Honeyborne has kindly agreed to assist on FRIDAY 3rd MAY, 2-4pm (Note date change!) at my house in Lilliput.
You would need to bring your art work for photographing and the necessary information to complete the submission form/s.
Since we are unsure how many people might take advantage of this could you email me or phone by return if you are interested.
Click here for Pat's address and contact details.
No doubt we will all get into the 21st century sooner or later!!
Tea, coffee, biscuits, cake will be available as there may be a bit of sitting around depending on the take up!!!
Pat Burnham

TripAdvisor
The Gallery Upstairs is now on TripAdvisor:
The Gallery Upstairs (Poole, England): Hours, Address - Tripadvisor

Please visit the tripadvisor website and write a review about the gallery. We want to do all we can to encourage visitors to our exhibitions and to promote this wonderful community resource.

Centenary Dinner Friday 19 April 2024
A reminder that we have now confirmed everything with the MIRAMAR HOTEL and with the exception of the Vegetarian option the menu will remain the same. They have noted everyone’s dietary requirements and are being very accommodating.
The Vegetarian option is now Mushroom Stroganoff, Saffron rice and seasonal vegetables.
We're looking forward to a wonderful evening.
You are invited to 'Dress to Impress'

The long awaited 2024 PEDAS Holiday has arrived!
Dear Members and Friends,
2 – 6 October (4 nights). Staying in Canterbury - Approximately £550.00
Visits to:
Petworth House or Tudely Church near Tunbridge Wells for Chagall window
Margate, Turner Gallery
Folkestone, Sculptures from previous Triennials or Rye and Dungeness, Derek Jarman’s garden
Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
Charleston Farmhouse, home of Bloomsbury Group
All I would like at the moment is an email letting me know if you are interested so I have an idea of numbers.
Carole Gadsby – carolegadsby@gmail.com

Petworth House

'Celebrate!' entry form, terms & conditions

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 8th April 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
10th April 2024 - Still Life

Members are asked to bring along a still-life object to draw and/or paint. The theme will be figures - so busts, figurines, plates with figures painted on etc. Perhaps incorporated with other still life items.

Bring materials of your choice.

Centenary Dinner Friday 19 April 2024

We are pleased to say we have now confirmed everything with the MIRAMAR HOTEL and with the exception of the Vegetarian option the menu will remain the same. They have noted everyone’s dietary requirements and are being very accommodating.

The Vegetarian option is now Mushroom Stroganoff, Saffron rice and seasonal vegetables

We have just a few more days before we need to complete our booking so if anyone else is interested please complete the form and let us have payment by Wednesday 10 April at the latest. It is going to be such a wonderful evening and one not to be missed.
You are invited to 'Dress to Impress'

Carole Gadsby (carolegadsby@gmail.com)

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Cream Tea Brownsea Island Castle – Thursday 13 June 2024

We still have 20 places to fill on the Brownsea Castle Cream Tea event on the above date. We will give members until the 30th April to book, then we will be offering the remaining places to friends and guests. This is a unique opportunity to visit Brownsea Castle which is currently run by Waitrose. We will have a tour and talk by a historian and then at leisure to paint and wander around. (Form here)

Carole Gadsby (carolegadsby@gmail.com)

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Message from Abi about forthcoming Courses

Hi all,
I hope you are well and enjoyed the Easter break.
Here are some Art courses that I am delivering this coming term.

For WEA I am delivering two 3 hour courses with an observational still life theme at Springbourne Library Bournemouth on a Friday morning beginning 12th April: https://www.wea.org.uk/courses/arts-crafts/arts/12-april-art-practical-improvers-drawing-and-painting-still-life and afternoon: https://www.wea.org.uk/courses/arts-crafts/arts/12-april-art-practical-exploring-drawing-and-painting-still-life
I hope to incorporate a visit to Pallant House with these courses: https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/the-shape-of-things-still-life-in-britain/
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Message from Teresa Senior, from Ferndown Art Society

We have a busy month with our exhibition at Upton Country Park and then a watercolour demonstration with Teresa Rogers.

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 1st April 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
3rd April 2024 - The Mechanics of Exhibiting

John will answer any questions about making your online submissions for the Lighthouse exhibition (re item above).

Pam, Barry and David will demonstrate how to prepare a painting for our exhibition including mounting, framing, hanging with mirror plates, photographing and preparing portfolio pieces for the browsers.

Bring work you would like to photograph, and we will demonstrate attaching mirror plates and preparing a painting for hanging.

Sunday afternoon session

Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, BH14 8JX
Please arrive in good time for 2.30 start, finish 4.30
7th April - Lindsey Cole, 'Abstracting the Landscape' workshop.

In this workshop we will be discussing and exploring ways to abstraction, using parts of an image or past work you have created in your sketchbook. Please feel free to bring more than one old, unframed painting or past sketches to work from as your reference. This needs to be personal to you so bring your own work. You can work from a photo if you prefer.
For details and materials list click here

lindsey j cole (lindseyjaynecole.co.uk)

Dear Members,
You will now have heard that we will be transferring our Dinner on Friday 19th April to the Miramar Hotel in Bournemouth. As most of you will know, this is a delightful hotel of a superior standard.
The only difference we ask of attendees is that they travel to Bournemouth for this function instead of Poole.
Everything else remains the same, including your dinner choices.

Address
Miramar Hotel
East Overcliff DRive
Bournemouth BH1 3AL
There is plenty of parking at the hotel.

If this change seriously inconveniences anyone, please contact Carole Gadsby. However, we trust this change will suit everyone, as it is a lovely venue and we have been very lucky.
I would like to thank Carole Gadsby for her help in securing this fantastic deal after such an unexpected shock

Jacqui Gush
Chair

Message from Liz, can you help out?

Hi all, I had a call from Upton Community Centre. They are holding a flower show in August and are looking for someone to judge the art competition. Can anyone take this on? It is just local people's work and will need to be judged at 10 am on 17th August. No requirement to turn up for prize giving.
I did say I'm sure we can find someone!
Liz
Contact@pedas.org.uk

CAD Arts Newsletter April 2024: Read here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 25th March 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
27th March - Life Drawing

Wonderful opportunity to draw the life model. Life drawing can help you learn to observe, understand the figure and develop your visual understanding generally.

Session led by Trish Jubb.

Bring drawing materials.

A message from the Chair

It was good to catch up with many members at the AGM recently. Thankyou to those who attended. Apart from the important business of an AGM, which on this occasion was pretty straightforward, it was a great opportunity to share research that has been undertaken about the history of our Society over a 100 year period. Thank you to John Biggs and David Marshall for presenting this. What an excellent way to set the scene for the rest of this year! If you missed it, see our history page on the website:
https://pedas.org.uk/history.html

We are still hoping to follow this up with our Centenary Dinner on the 19th April. At the time of writing, we know that this will not now be at the Poole Quay hotel, but 4 days after the shock announcement, an alternative venue on that date cannot be confirmed. We apologise for this unsettling situation so close to the event. Watch for imminent updates. Let us hope this does not set the scene for other celebratory events during the year!

I trust we are all now preparing submissions for our two forthcoming Centenary art exhibitions, either by producing something new and exciting for ‘Celebrate’ and/or the Lighthouse, or dusting down previous work to submit to the Lighthouse as one of ‘our best’! We also need everyone to help in securing work from past artists. John’s team is on the case, but they need the cooperation from all members. Do you have original work from a past, or present, PEDAS member hanging on your wall, which you would like to nominate to hang in the Lighthouse for this prestigious exhibition? The forms for these submissions will soon be published in PEDAS Weekly.

Bookings for our Cream Tea event at Brownsea on 13th June are now open. Forms were published via PEDAS Weekly recently. Remember numbers are limited to 50.

Following the AGM we have a few changes to the Trustees and their roles. Sue Huskinson has stepped down and we thank Sue for everything she so efficiently and proactively achieved as Secretary for 2 years. Carol Cox has taken this role now and we welcome Freda Rhodes as membership secretary, taking over from Carol. Thank you to both Freda and Carol.

Have you helped PEDAS by completing a Gift Aid form? As we are a charity we can gain financially at NO cost to yourself as a taxpaying member. Contact Pam Marshall if you have overlooked this small action.

Lastly, as the northern hemisphere turns on its axis towards the sun, we hope for more sun and warmth as Spring gathers force. With Easter and British Summer Time around the corner, we can turn our attention to our summer programme which commences in May, not long now!

Meanwhile, keep an eye open for up to date information on changes, bookings and activities. Warm wishes to all members for a very enjoyable Easter with family, friends or just your garden and/or your paints! May the weather be with you.
Best Wishes

Jacqui Gush

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 18th March 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
20th March - Watercolour DVDs

We will be showing a couple of DVDs by noted watercolourists: Robert Brindley RSMA - 'Mastering Greens in the Landscape' and Keith Hornblower FSAI - 'Loosen Up Your Watercolours'.

There may be time to do some practicing so bring your watercolours - brush, paper, table cover, water pot, pencil just in case.

watercolour by Keith Hornblower FSAI

Message from Norma about Pedas Centenary Video

Advice for would be documenters of workshops etc:
Please note we are celebrating our centenary and in turn celebrating our members and what we are about, what we are doing.
We want to make our video appealing exciting interesting. With that in mind videos and photographs of members working , creating, interacting, rather than just pics of members or tutors. Close up of hands creating, overview of a busy workshop end results etc . Think about what you would find interesting in a short video what would make you want to be part of our club. Please date all video and photos with your name. Type of workshop etc. Send to normarawlings11@gmail.com or my Facebook messenger or WhatsApp
Norma Jacqueline Rawlings on fb
WhatsApp is 07488233828.
If you can't do that then save on a flashdrive and give to myself or Steph Jones , David Marshall, or Jacqui Gush . If you have footage already of any of our projects pantos trips etc please pass to me again with dates your name and type of event.
Thank you. Norma

Hope these Centenary Celebration dates are in your diaries!

BAC Coach trip to Oxford
Details of pick up times/booking and itinerary are all in the document from Simon Merry, here.

This coach trip is offered to all BAC members and their friends or family. Please share with your other art networks so that we can fill the coach.
It is a really great day out for very little cost.
Saturday 20th April. Pick up at Poole or Ferndown and be driven in comfort to the convenient drop off in central Oxford at the Ashmolean Museum.
An opportunity for a perfect day out for just £20 for BAC members and £22 for non members and friends.
At the Ashmolean Museum there's a brand new major Exhibition of Great Flemish Drawings: BREUGEL to RUBENS which does require a ticket, but the rest of the Ashmolean Museum Galleries are FREE to view. There are some superb exhibits and an inspirational Modern Art Gallery of paintings, sculptures & ceramics.
If you'd prefer to see something different, a short walk from the Ashmolean is the astonishing Pitt Rivers Museum which is FREE to visit www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Also a short walk from the Ashmolean, through Oxford's historic streets is Christchurch Picture Gallery with wonderful paintings from Botticelli to Joshua Reynolds.
Please see the attached document for booking and details and any queries to Simon Merry simon.merry.art@gmail.com

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 11th March 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

13th March - Lyndsey Proctor in Napoleonic Costume

Unique opportunity to draw or painting a figure in Napoleonic clothing.
Members should be prepared to do a full length figure.

Bring drawing/painting materials of your choice.

News of Exhibition at Lighthouse, Poole

As part of a celebration of 100 years of Poole and East Dorset Art Society, we have been given the fantastic opportunity to exhibit work by PEDAS at Lighthouse, from 17th June to 29th July, 2024. This exhibition will tell the story of PEDAS and concentrate on the best of the last 40 years. The exhibition title is:
“Poole and East Dorset Art Society: 1924 to Today”

All Members are invited to nominate their own best three pieces, paintings or 3D, and also three more pieces by other Members. The final exhibition will be selected independently. So, you could nominate your own favourite paintings (or sculpture).

You could also nominate a favourite painting by a Member but you’d need to check the owner was willing to loan it for the exhibition. We can have around 50 pictures in the Ground Floor Gallery and even more in the Top Floor Gallery.

We will be rolling out the Forms and Guidance information by the end of this month and you’ll have until 10th May to make your nominations. So keep looking out for more news on PEDAS Weekly.

Special Dietary Requirements PEDAS Centenary Dinner

This is to remind those going to the dinner to let me (not the hotel) know if they have any special dietary requirements other than vegetarian as there is a vegetarian option on the menu. So far, I have only had one request from Norma. I need to let the hotel know when we give them final numbers and final payment.
Thanks, Carol
contact@pedas.org.uk

En Plein Air and Cream Tea
on Brownsea Island,
13 June 2024

Please see the form for full details. Please complete it if you would like to come for a Cream Tea and plein air painting at the historic Brownsea Castle on the above date.

Cost is £24.95 and we need full payment as soon as possible please. As we are limited to numbers places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Any questions please email carolegadsby@gmail.com

Part of PEDAS 100 Celebrations.

click the above for form and details

New tri-fold leaflets to promote the Gallery Upstairs

We all see, and pick up promotional leaflets for local visitor attractions when we are out and about visiting pubs or hotels , galleries, community centres or other visitor attractions in a different area. We thought, why are we not using this method to promote our own Gallery, which is a visitor attraction in our area of Dorset? So we are joining in.

We have just taken receipt of double sided tri-fold full colour leaflets which advertise our Gallery in Upton Country Park. Just in time for the new tourist season, we now have a lot of leaflets to distribute appropriately, and would appreciate your help.

We are drawing up a list of venues and areas/suburbs and if we know you live in that area, we will be asking you to participate. If you live close to a popular destination for visitors, perhaps you could offer to take a few leaflets along and ask if these could be displayed. We also have perspex leaflet holders that can be used where necessary.

We see this as a positive step forward to increase awareness of and interest in the Gallery and its exhibitions, in the context of the lovely Upton Park.

Please let us know if you are able and willing to help, and we can have a chat about the venues around you and the opportunities they may offer. Many thanks, Jacqui Gush

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inside

DACA (Dorset Arts & Crafts Association)

Friday 2nd - Tuesday 6th August 2024
Purbeck School, Wareham
Whether you are an artist, photographer or crafter, the DACA Showcase enables you to exhibit your work, so put the dates in your diary now. Follow this link: Showcase 2024 | Dorset Arts & Crafts (dorsetartsandcrafts.org)

Minutes of the recent AGM are now on the AGM page - AGM - Poole & East Dorset Art Society (pedas.org.uk)

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 4th March 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
6 March - Valerie Willets, Mandala Workshop

Enjoy the process of creating Mandalas

Valerie will be sharing her explorations on this subject to inspire you to enlarge your own repertoire of formats by working with circles.
Be prepared to experiment with a possible range of compositions using your own sketch books, A4 paper and Valerie's templates. These ideas may prove useful when considering our exhibition theme of Celebrate!

Materials: You will need to bring a ruler, pencil and scissors. Also bring what you have in the way of felt pens, brush pens, neocolour pastels, coloured pencils and watercolour paints. You do not need them all. As usual you will need brushes , water containers and table coverings.

Information from Tom Marshall
Following Tom's session, he details the materials he used and suggestions for taking it forward:
"Thank you to everyone for coming along and taking part- I hope you found some of it interesting. I think that we ended up with some very nice artworks- and this was more about giving it a go and experimenting than ending up with a gallery-ready piece. Read more

Message from Norma about the PEDAS Centenary Video
Hi Pedas members, Norma here. Regarding our Centenary Video which will be made by the end of the year, we require footage of events over the year from you. Please film and photograph in landscape format only!!
If any of you have footage, photos from the distant past or the last thirty years, in any format please send anyway.
Send to normarawlings11@gmail.com
We require these, if you have them, ASAP as we are hoping to send out samples to a few video makers to ascertain which would suit what we are trying to achieve. So soon as please.
Thank you, Norma.

PEDAS Centenary Events: Here

CADArts March Newsletter: Here

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 26th February 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
28 February - Tom Marshall. Ways of Drawing

For the first half we'll focus on quick drawings in white on dark paper. Tom will show the 3 main approaches on to how to draw light on dark.

For the second half, we'll be drawing using wire- making small (roughly hand-sized at the most) line sculptures. Some of that can be drawing from one's head, but people may like to bring drawings of people, birds or dogs as reference material. The wire work will only involve twisting by hand - no soldering, etc. Tom has copper, brass and stainless steel wire of various gauges. Everyone will be free to take their pieces home with them - but please remember that it's very important that these are not left in reach of small children or pets.

Tom will provide all the drawing gear, although anyone wishing to paint as well as draw in light on dark may like to bring a decent watercolour brush, and if anyone has any white paint, pencils, etc, that sit around and never get used, feel free to bring them along and we can look at them. If anyone wants to do wire work on a larger scale, remember that it will only be the second half, and you'll need to bring your own wire.
Tom will also bring some mounted pieces and postcards for sale.

(An additional useful thing would be desk lights or table lamps if safe to use)

Sunday afternoon session - AGM

Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, BH14 8JX
Please arrive in good time for 2.30 start, finish 4.30
3 March - AGM

Review & Annual Reports from PEDAS and the Gallery Upstairs.
We'll discuss a range of issues and meet new Trustees to hear all about the plans for this important centenary year!
See key reports here: AGM - Poole & East Dorset Art Society (pedas.org.uk)

Followed by the presentation:
"100 years of PEDAS”, and how to celebrate it with information about the plans for the centenary. Familiarise yourself with PEDAS's rich history, with our Archives and a chance for you to participate with memories, experiences, examples.

Last chance to renew your subs.

Dinner Friday 19th April at Poole Quay Hotel (previously called the Thistle)

If you have not already done so, can you please let me have the balance of your payment for the above no later than Monday 1 March 2024. Members are £35 and Non-Members £40 (everyone has already paid a £20 deposit). I have sent everyone a personal email with this information.
This can be done by BACS into the PEDAS account No 49285660 Sort Code 30 90 89 or by cheque payable to PEDAS and sent to Carole Gadsby, 22a Cavendish Road, Bournemouth BH1 1RF.
ALSO if you have any friends you would like to sit with please let me know and I will do my best to accommodate them. There will be a seating plan round tables of 8 people.
Carole Gadsby (carolegadsby@gmail.com)

Bournemouth Art Club Trip to Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, on 20th April 2024

Please click on pdf icon to see the details of BAC’s latest trip, this time to visit the Ashmolean in Oxford where, amongst other things, there is an exhibition of original Flemish drawing entitled ‘Bruegel to Rubins’.
Bournemouth Arts Club is delighted to welcome artist friends and guests from other clubs.

Thank you. Responses hoped for by 8th March.

Click on pdf icon to see details of BAC’s Trip to Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, on 20th April 2024

Dawn's Recent Exhibition

Dawn made approximately £3800 at her recent exhibition in aid of The Motor Neurone Disease Association!

A great success!

Many thanks to all who helped.

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 19th February 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

21 February - Holly Croxall, portrait model

Untutored portrait session with model Holly Croxall. Members should bring materials of their choice. There will be a couple of us around to offer help and advice to any members new to portraits.

Message from Liz about Blossom Festival, Kingston Lacy
I have been in contact with staff at Kingston Lacy to discuss submitting work to their Blossom Festival, more info given below. The essence of this is that if you would like to submit an artwork which could be printed on small cards (85 x 55 mm) to put into their travelling vending machine, please email me lizziemagee4@gmail.com to express your interest.
The work would be a celebration of blossom influenced by some poetry which has been specially written by Simon Armitage. The deadline for submission is 11th March, and work would be selected for inclusion by National Trust representatives.
Click here to read more

Message from Norma about Centenary Video
Hi PEDAS members past and present!
You may or may not be aware that we are creating a video for our centenary year. Although it won't be edited until the end of the year we would like to some material ie photos or videos for our videographers to create a sample so we can decide who to go with eventually. If you have any to date from this year but also from the distant past, please send to me. With venue, date, time maybe, what is going on etc, your name of course. As much detail as possible. Thank you. Send to normarawlings11@gmail.com

The AGM will take place on Sunday 3rd March
2.30pm at The Holy Angels Church Hall, Lilliput.
This is an opportunity - for member discussion on a range of issues; to meet up and chat to other members; to meet new Trustees
to hear all about the plans for this important centenary year!
After the more important business, we plan to have a fun time presenting the PEDAS history with our Archives and a chance for you to participate with memories, experiences, examples.
Last chance to renew your subs. See key reports below - click on icon.

AGM Agenda 2024

Chair/Trustee Annual Report AGM 2024

Treasurer's Report

Aggregated Accounts

AGM Minutes 2023

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 12th February 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
14 February - Freda Rhodes, 'Synaesthesia Part II'

Freda says: "Thanks so much to everyone for your enthusiasm last week! I'm really looking forward to seeing what has become of your sketches. I've already seen some more finished work and I'm truly impressed. This week we'll start with a short recap for those who missed the first session and then spend a little time sharing experiences and showing any work that you bring along. Then I have another beautiful piece of music for you to be inspired by. Having done a couple of sketches and thought about how to develop them, those who want to can start on a more finished piece. Please bring appropriate paper, canvas or board and the colour medium of your choice. I'll bring pastels for sketching for those who need a larger array of colours."

(The painting shown here is just an example. It's not the music we'll be listening to this time.)

from Keith Jarrett, Cologne Concert

Message from Barbara Woods
I’ve just been to an interesting exhibition at the St Barbe Museum/Art Gallery in Lymington and thought our PEDAS members might be interested. It’s called Planting Ideas and runs until the 16th March.
The exhibition takes you through the process of collecting, preserving and cataloguing plants, featuring historic specimens and local New Forest fauna. That might sound boring to some but the botanic art is good and includes screen printing and photography. One bonus I discovered was a painting by Sven Berlin of gypsies sorting flowers.
The museum itself proved interesting too detailing the history of Lymington and the New Forest Coast with its salt works, smuggling, and boat building. To get to the gallery you have to walk through The Old School Cafe and, if you can resist the delicious offerings, entry to the exhibition is £5.

Lynn Comley – Lichen 423

AGM - 3rd March 2024

Apologies
Please email your apologies, if you cannot attend the AGM, to contact@pedas.org.uk

Membership renewal
A reminder to those that haven't yet paid... Members need to renew and pay their subscription by the AGM.

Many thanks if you have already paid!

Have you visited Dawn's exhibition yet?

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 5th February 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
7 February - Alan Langford, Equestrian Artist
Alan Langford is a freelance artist and illustrator, who enjoys equestrian subjects and is a full member of the Society of Equestrian Artists.
Alan is going to do a demonstration of painting draught horses in watercolour. He suggests members bring a sketchbook primarily to take notes but equally you are welcome to sit at the back and paint along. This is primarily a demonstration.
Alan Langford - New Forest equestrian artist and illustrator

Exhibition by Sarah Moore. Click on image to enlarge

A reminder that the AGM will take place on Sunday 3rd March
Please diarise this now; Members are strongly encouraged to attend.

This is an opportunity - for member discussion on a range of issues; to meet up and chat to other members; to meet new Trustees
to hear all about the plans for the year ahead and celebrating our 100 years!

After the more important business, we plan to have a fun time presenting the PEDAS history with our Archives and a chance for you to participate with memories, experiences, examples.

Do not miss this annual event. 2.30pm at The Holy Angels Church Hall, Lilliput.

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 29th January 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
31 January - Freda Rhodes, 'Synesthesia'
Freda says:
"I shall be talking about the fascinating subject of synaesthesia, and how artists past and present have used a 'blending of the senses' to inform their work. Then we shall all have the chance to be inspired by a piece of music.
Please bring plenty of cheap sketching paper, preferably decent sized sheets but don't worry if you don't have any. I'll bring some. You won't be asked to produce a finished piece of work on the day. I'll be giving you some good Italian art paper to take home to work on.
It is important that you bring some colour - whichever medium you feel most comfortable with for quick sketching - pastels, water colour, acrylic.
We shall aim to have fun."
Freda Rhodes art – Landscapes, music and encaustic paintings from Dorset and beyond

©Freda Rhodes. Acrylic. From a piece by Vaughn Williams

Sunday afternoon session

Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, BH14 8JX
Please arrive in good time for 2.30 start, finish 4.30

4th February - 'Woods in Winter' led by Sue Smith

Watercolour and mixed media - painting in the experimental style of Ann Blockley.
Ann Blockley | Artist

Subject: trees and undergrowth.

Please bring reference, watercolours, acrylic inks, pens, crayons or intense pencils.
Sue will bring a few references, and cling film, granulation fluid, wax candle etc.

Dawn's Exhibition in aid of Motor Neurone Disease Association

IMPORTANT

Dawn has mislaid the Stewarding Rota for her MNDA exhibition.
Luckily we have a scan of it up to a particular date but just to be sure Dawn would like Stewards to phone her please to check that they are still on the Rota or in their correct slot.

Dawn's number is: 01202768438
Sorry about this.

Thank you for your help

Help Dawn with publicity. Click on poster to enlarge, please save and print out or email to friends.

LONDON RA – Impressionists on Paper,
Sunday 25 February 2024 - £25.00

Dear all,
By popular demand I am doing a coach trip on the above date to London to visit the above exhibition at the RA. It will be coach only and will be your responsibility to purchase in advance, your own entry ticket to the exhibition. Although they have informed me you can buy on the door and it is the same price £19.00.

With the trains being so unreliable at the moment it will be a treat to have almost door to door service.

An early response would be good then I will have an idea if we can go ahead. If for any reason I do not get enough people, I will of course refund all the moneys paid.

Carole Gadsby

Click pdf icon above to download Carole's form for RA London trip, Impressionists on Paper

Berthe Morisot, Portrait of Isabelle Lambert, 1885

PEDAS at 100
The highlights of what to look forward to in this Centenary year!

NB. More information about each event will be sent as it approaches.

1 Member only celebratory events
Centenary Dinner Friday 19th April
We have already sent out full details of our celebratory Dinner event. This event will start the ball rolling and will launch the year ahead in true celebratory fashion. Join with PEDAS friends and colleagues for a memorable evening. Guests and non-members are very welcome to this event.

Cream Tea event Thursday 13th June
An En Plein Air afternoon on Brownsea Island, PLUS and including a Cream tea in The historic Brownsea Castle (run by John Lewis Partnership).
They can only take 50 members, so as soon bookings open, you will be given full details and a booking form. Departure by ferry will be from Sandbanks and Poole. The cost will be £24.95pp for the afternoon.

Special holiday and party
Not yet finalised, but later in the year – a ‘special’ holiday in mid-September, and a ‘special ‘ member’s Christmas party – could be a panto!?

2 Exhibitions
Our spring exhibition ‘Celebrate’ 24th May – 10th June
In the Gallery Upstairs, will be part of the prestigious and well publicised Dorset Art Week open studios fortnight. We are being supported to prepare for this important exhibition by our Art Patron Helen Talbot. We hope all members will submit at least one entry for this special exhibition.

You will have read that we have the privilege of being offered the Lighthouse in Poole Gallery and upstairs exhibition space in honour of our Centenary year. Exhibition dates are 21st June – 27th July. John Biggs has written in Pedas Weekly asking members to help in locating artworks from eminent PEDAS artists from the last 30 years. Current members are also invited and encouraged to submit their own best work, so we can develop a theme along the lines of ‘The best of the last 30 years of PEDAS’. This will be a selected exhibition. Watch this space!

3 Community Events this year
Art in the Park 29-30th June
We are partnering with Upton Country Park for a 2 day ‘Art in the Park’ en plein air event and exhibition. This is open to everyone but we will extending a special invitation to all local art societies to join us in celebrating our 100 years at this event.
We are currently finalising an agreement with a local, well known and distinguished artist to be present at this 2 day event to engage with the artists, to be the judge and to award prizes on the Sunday.

A local Schools exhibition and workshops 17th – 20th October.
To be held at the Gather space in Poole. We are working with 2 Poole schools to hold a themed exhibition of their work as part of Community event including hands-on demonstrations and workshops leading up to half term.

Keep your eyes on our Weekly bulletin for details and updates and invitations to participate and information on how to.

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 22nd January 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
24 January - Pam Marshall, 'Colour'
Pam says: "I will be doing another session about colour, concentrating on complementaries and how to use them in your work.
Please bring a sheet of good quality watercolour paper taped to a board, and some spare sheets if possible. A3 size.
Also Acrylic paints (if you have the following - I will be bringing some for you to help yourself to mine)
Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium red, Ultramarine blue, Cerulean blue, Titanium White, Black.
Brushes (not too small), Palette (I will have some paper plates for you to use), Water pot, Table covering, Pencil.
Bring a reference photo - your own or from a magazine. Something with interesting colours for you to match".

The Poole & East Dorset Art Society
AGM

This will take place on Sunday 3rd March
Please diarise this event now.
All members are strongly encouraged to attend. This essential annual meeting can not take place if we are not quorate.

This is an opportunity - for member discussion on a range of issues; to meet up and chat to other members; to meet new Trustees
to hear all about the plans for the year ahead and celebrating our 100 years!

After the more important business, we plan to have a fun time presenting the PEDAS history with our Archives and a chance for you to participate with memories, experiences, examples.

Do not miss this annual event. 2.30pm at The Holy Angels Church Hall, Lilliput.

Not booked for the Centenary Dinner yet?
Friday 19th April
Poole Quay Hotel
7.30pm
We still need a few people.
It will be a most enjoyable evening, with lots of members as well as ex-members who you have not seen for a long time!
Entertainment throughout.
Your choice who you would like to sit with.
Bring a friend.

If the on-line booking form is a problem, please contact Carole Gadsby to secure your place. She will be happy to help you.
carolegadsby@gmail.com
01202 316074
07894 791927

If you haven't done so already - a reminder to renew your subscription please...

Please hand in together with your renewal form

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 15th January 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

17 January - Barry Kavanagh, 'Paint along with Baz'
Barry will give a demo - bring your watercolour kit and a large sheet of watercolour paper stretched if necessary and taped down on board. Be prepared for an interesting session.

President’s Piece: jan/feb ’24

PEDAS100

Your chance to get a piece of artwork on the Gallery wall at Poole Lighthouse.

So, it has finally arrived, 2024, the year of the Centenary of the formation of Poole and East Dorset Art Society.
I’m looking forward to it immensely and I hope as many as possible of our Members can get involved in the exciting events we have planned for the occasion.

One of those events is an exhibition from 17th June to 29th July at the Lighthouse in Poole and we will be looking to you, our Members, to nominate the works to be exhibited. Work for exhibition will be independently selected from photographs, by Julie Herring and a curator from Lighthouse.
Some of the exhibits will be historical, by former members, covering all of the 100 years, but most space will be for more contemporary pieces. We want it to represent the very best of what PEDAS can produce.
Details are not fully worked up yet but what we’d like you all to think about is what should go in to the selection. There are really just two categories:

The three best works by you;
Three works by other Members, either former or even deceased Members, in the last 100 years of PEDAS.

The only stipulation is that the piece must be in your possession or, if it is not and is owned by someone else, you will need to obtain the owner’s consent to loan it for the duration of the exhibition.

All of the selected pieces will be delivered by their owner/nominee to Lighthouse, just before the exhibition and picked up afterwards. This is not a selling exhibition.

I think that all sounds exciting but it will be a challenge to get it all together, tracking down pieces of art, agreeing the loans, writing a story line for some pieces and their authors etc….., and all by June. So if you would like to get involve in making it happen, please get in touch with me.

John Biggs
johnabiggs@ntlworld.com
07934386753

Message from Abi
Hope 2024 finds you well. Just to let you know that the Spring term of Expressive Life Drawing/Portraiture is beginning shortly, and needs a couple more students to run. This course enables you to develop your skills and stye in relation to our fab range of models, in the glamorous CRAB drawing studio -a great opportunity. The course begins on Saturday 20th January, here is a link: https://aub.ac.uk/courses/evening-and-weekend-courses/life-studies-drawing-painting/expressive-life-drawing-and-portraiture-stage-2
If this is of interest please book on with Short Courses (01202 363222) ASAP, many thanks.
With best wishes, Abi.

Lighthouse Open Call 2024
The call for entries for the OPEN at the Lighthouse has just been announced. Here is the link with all the details:
https://www.lighthousepoole.co.uk/event/lighthouse-open-call-2024

The theme is 'Life in Dorset' and the deadline for applications is 10th February.

Kind Regards,
Martha

Dawn's Exhibition in aid of Motor Neurone Disease Association
at the Gallery Upstairs
8th - 19th February 2024

Sale of work by Landscape of the Year Contestant Dawn Goodson, and others.
Dawn would appreciate a little help with stewarding and still has some empty stewarding slots. If you can help, please ring her on 01202 768438 and she will let you know which slots are available. If Dawn is unavailable, please leave your phone number on her answerphone.

Also Dawn will have some official raffle prize books next week. Any donations gratefully accepted.

See link below for more about Dawn:
92-year-old dare devil hangs up wings and hosts exhibition | Bournemouth Echo

Help Dawn with publicity. Click on poster to enlarge, please save and print out or email to friends.

Invitation to PEDAS Members in memory of Alan White
Judy's art materials jumble
Wednesday 21 February 2pm

Time to clear Alan's studio
Join Judy White at 7a Westminster Road Poole BH13 6JQ
And cheer the clear in Alan's memory.
Down a drink, delve into the drawers and drop a donation for your freebie take-always.
Stiffy bags, frames, paper, mounts, pastels, oils, watercolours, pencils and more....
Small donations welcome in aid of The Dorset Cancer Care Foundation.
RSVP to whitecrow@blueyonder.co.uk

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 8th January 2024

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

10 January 2024 - Continuing 'Celebrate'
This will be a self-led session for members to develop and share ideas generated by recent meetings with Helen. 'Celebrate' is the title and Helen has shown how it can be interpreted in many different ways. It culminates in our Dorset Art Weeks exhibition in May. Bring along your own piece to work on.
Helen's precis

Art on the Tearoom walls

Something from Liz - request for submissions for Art for the tearoom walls

"We are pleased to say that two out of the three paintings we hung in the tearooms have now been sold, so we'll be having a changeover at the end of January.
For safety reasons, the work must be on unframed canvas or in light coloured frames with NO GLASS.
Very approximate dimensions to be:
1) Landscape: 34 ins x up to 24 ins
2) Portrait: 20 ins x16 ins
3) Portrait: 30 ins x 24 ins
The paintings can be of any subject. Selection will be by members of the Gallery Upstairs Committee.
Hanging will be by means of a tightly strung cord attached to D rings. As they will not be screwed to the wall we cannot guarantee their security from theft.
The paintings will be changed over at roughly two monthly intervals unless sold before.

If you wish to take part please email a photograph of your work with dimensions, including frame, details and price, to lizziemagee4@gmail.com. Thanks, Liz"

Member's painting on wall in tearooms

Art on the Tearoom tables - 'Table Posters'

Something from Steph - request for submissions.

"The 'table posters' displayed in the tearooms below the Gallery Upstairs are proving very popular, so please keep your pictures coming in.
It's a great way to show your artwork and advertise the gallery.

Email me stephjones386@gmail.com with your pictures for table posters."

A few of the 'table posters' we have in the tearooms advertising the Gallery Upstairs

Review of December's Open Exhibition

The purpose of the Open exhibition was to raise the profile of the Gallery Upstairs and Upton Country Park. At a well-attended Launch Party, Councilor Andy Martin formally opened the exhibition, while the selector, Roger dell Seddon, carefully explained his decisions as he awarded the prizemoney.

First Prize went to Neil Luckett. Other prizewinners were: Polly Moore, Sue Smith, Sally Holland, Emma Sophie, Simon Merry, Elaine Bell, Max Furneaux.

There were plenty of comments about how good the exhibition looked. We felt it all went smoothly considering the behind the scenes complexities and it was especially nice to receive grateful comments from those participating. Regarding feedback, some said the Jotform was clunky, while others commented on how good it was. There were some minor stewarding issues, but compared to previous years it all ran very smoothly. Unfortunately artwork sales aren't great in the current climate. Greetings cards are proving very popular.

Some figures:
Money in from fees: £696, prizemoney paid out: £400, artwork sold: £480, greetings card sales: £390, commission to GUS: £48, other outgoings to Jotform and publicity. Visitors: 812.

Liz's List - compiler needed.

After countless years of giving us the definitive 'What's On' of local exhibitions, Liz has finally decided to step back and give someone else the opportunity to compile the list. If you think you could be the person for this interesting little job, please let us know, email: publicity@pedas.org.uk .
It would only be needed once every 2 or 3 months - at your convenience.

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 1st January 2024

To all PEDAS members. Here’s hoping that 2024 will be a fantastic year for us all!

Sunday afternoon session

Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, BH14 8JX
Please arrive in good time for 2.30 start, finish 4.30

7 January - Helen Talbot will lead the session 'Celebrate!'. BMOYC.

PEDAS Dorset Art Weeks exhibition 2024 is entitled 'Celebrate!'.
Helen will be supporting us in developing our ideas and artwork. This will be an important exhibition for PEDAS members as it will be our participation in the well-publicised Dorset Art Weeks in 2024, AND it will be our members exhibition for our Centenary year. As a member, please do not miss this opportunity to participate.
This is why we have asked Helen to get involved in helping and guiding us throughout the process.

We kicked this project off in December, when Helen held a brainstorming session to help us get the creative juices flowing. It was an eye opener and incredibly inspiring. If you missed the session, Helen has kindly sent us a precis of the work she had prepared for us. Click here

A note from Liz to say thank you to those who submitted photos for DAW publicity. We feel the two we have chosen are especially eye-catching. The others might be used in other publications.

Note from the Chair

To all PEDAS members.
Here’s hoping that 2024 will be a fantastic year for us all!

Hello everyone and I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas period. Just a few messages to introduce the year ahead.
Firstly, its January, so, you will find full details for the renewal of your membership in this bulletin. In addition, as a Charity, we are launching a Gift Aid scheme. This will bring us real financial benefits, so please sign up if you pay tax. With no impact on you, this will help our Society enormously.
Particularly as we enter our 100th birthday year, we will be funding a lot of activities for members and our communities as the year progresses. Additional funds that we are eligible for as a charity will be immensely helpful to all of us.
On the subject of Centenary, we are already offering you two opportunities for participation in the events of the year:

The Centenary Dinner on 19th April – book now!
Support in working towards the PEDAS members art exhibition as part of Dorset Art Week, through working with our Art Patron, Helen Talbot on the theme of ‘Celebrate!’

Full details for all of these notifications can be found below, at a click of a button.
I look forward with excitement to the year ahead with PEDAS!
Jacqui Gush
Chair
PS. Oh, and do not forget the all important AGM on 3th March, will it have a Centenary theme?

Click logo above for Gift Aid form. Read Presidents Piece below for more information

Centenary Dinner Booking form and Menu

President’s Piece

Gift Aid could bring in extra money for PEDAS from the Inland Revenue.

When you fill out your Membership Renewal Form - take the opportunity to help the club by filling in the Gift Aid form at the same time (above).

Members of PEDAS can help the club financially with no cost to themselves by simply agreeing to Gift Aid their annual Membership subscription.

Our Treasurer, Pam Marshall has been looking into the use of Gift Aid to gain extra income for the club, and it’s all above board! It’s the same system charity shops use when you make a purchase.

With the current membership subscription at £35 a year, each member who registers for Gift Aid with their annual membership form, will enable us to claim an additional income of £8.75 from the Inland Revenue.

So, even if only 50 members take the opportunity it will provide the club with an additional sum of over £400 each year. And it can be back dated 4 years, to when PEDAS became a charity.

This invaluable extra income would provide the club with more financial stability and would be used to provide more and better tutorial experiences for our members.

So, who can claim Gift Aid and who can’t?

Anyone who pays tax can claim Gift Aid.

You can earn £12,570 a year before you start paying tax.

If you pay only a tiny amount of tax, less than the £8.75 to be claimed by PEDAS, you could be liable to pay back the difference to the Inland Revenue. If you are in doubt, you should not sign up for Gift Aid. Even if you only earn £50 more than the allowance, you will be paying more than £8.75 in tax.

So, any Member of PEDAS who does pay tax, PLEASE sign up for Gift Aid and earn your club some extra income.

John Biggs, President of PEDAS

Don't be all behind!!

Send in your subs (& Gift Aid form - if applicable!)

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 18th December 2023

No Wednesday session this week, closed for Christmas

Note from the Chair

On behalf of the Trustees and other Committee members, I would like to wish you all an enjoyable festive season with family and friends and a happy and healthy 2024!

Our activities and programmes have finished for another year and I hope you have all been able to participate to a greater or lesser extent during 2023. Please never forget that you can always send us feedback, suggestions and/or ideas through the suggestion box on the website. This will help us to respond with topics and activities that we know you are interested in.

Well, PEDAS has a big birthday in 2024! We have a varied and super special programme throughout the year, starting with our members' Centenary Dinner in April. We still need some bookings to reach our required numbers so please consider participating if you have not yet made up your mind. Early in the New Year we will be publishing the planned programme for the year to our members.

Meanwhile, we start our activities again with our Sunday meeting on 7th January. Helen Talbot was amazingly helpful last week when she held a brainstorming session on different creative ways to interpret Celebrate! Just a reminder - this is the title for our first exhibition of the year when we will be participating in Dorset Art Week. If you missed the meeting last Wednesday, I suggest you don't miss the Sunday follow up in the New Year. Helen is a mine of creative ideas!

Lastly, another important date for your diary is the AGM on 3rd March.
I am immensely looking forward to next year and to all the activities we have planned. Several groups have been working hard on this programme for a long time now - to such an extent that we can not believe its almost here!

I look forward to seeing all of you in the new year, I'm sure it is going to be a good one for everyone!

Happy Christmas

Jacqui Gush

Message from Abi Kremer
Click here to read about Abi's courses for the New Year

Can you help?
We are making our application to exhibit in Dorset Art Weeks and will need a couple of images to go in the brochure. The subject for next year is "Celebrate!", so please if you have something suitable send to Liz, lizziemagee4@gmail.com, so Liz can submit to the Trustees for selection. Images should be at least 1 MB in size.

Wishing you a wonderful festive break,
and a creative 2024

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 11th December 2023

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

13 December - Helen Talbot, new project for DAWs 2024
Brainstorming session with our Artist Patron, Helen, discussing the new project for next year, which culminates in our Dorset Art Weeks exhibition in May.
The theme and title will be 'Celebrate!'.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE:
We are making our application to exhibit in Dorset Art Weeks and will need a couple of images to go in the brochure. The subject for next year is "Celebrate!", so please if you have something suitable send to Liz, lizziemagee4@gmail.com, so Liz can submit to the Trustees for selection. Images should be at least 1 mb in size.

PEDAS Christmas Party 2023 Reviewed

A big thankyou to everyone who attended the party on Sunday 3rd December. A lot more people came than we have had in the last year or two, or three!
I’m sure a good time was had by all and there are lots of photos circulating on PEDAS@Home to show this.
We planned to hold a Pictionary game, but somehow never got round to it! Our time was well occupied with clever quizzes and limericks to write, all done while we dined on our shared feast.
The Tombola raised over £86, all of which will be donated to the Poole based Forest Home Hospice.
I would like to thank all members for mucking in and making the event such an enjoyable one, and in particular the following people: Pam and David Marshall who had shopping to do and quizzes to compile! Pat Burnham and Susan Hawes for running the Tombola – a complete sell out! David Roberts for the musical entertainment – which encouraged a bit of dancing! Barry for the limerick competition and Liz who gallantly planned the elements for the Pictionary, which was never used! Time flies when you are enjoying yourself.
Just a tempting word about next year – special party for our special year!? Rumour has it there may be a panto!!

Jacqui Gush

Limerick Competition - the Results

First Prize - Liz Magee

We're a hundred years old very soon
And Barry will draw a cartoon
But like Noddy Holder
We're all getting older
It's time that we had a new tune

Second Prize - David Roberts

We're a hundred years old very soon
I think it's one day in June
So let's have a toast
To the club with the most
And Barry can draw a cartoon

Third Prize - Pat Burnham

We're a hundred years old very soon
Existing that long is a boon
We'll have all sorts of fun
To celebrate the ton
By the light of the silvery moon

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 4th December 2023

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

6 December - Two Musicians

Mike and David will play their guitars for us.
Musicians have always been a rich source for artistic inspiration, and a great subject to get you pencil into!
Music while you work.
Bring materials of your choice.

Highlights from the Launch Party for
'Atmosphere'
The Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park Open 2023

Councilor Andy Martin opened the exhibition, and artist Roger dell Seddon awarded prizemoney to the value of £400.
Roger thoughtfully detailed his rationale as he presented the prizes at the Launch Party. One of his paintings is also on display. The exhibition runs until 21st December.

The Prizewinners were:
First Prize
" Twilight City" by Neil Luckett £80

Joint Second Prizewinners
"Hush of Nightfall" by Polly Moore £60
" Breaking Waves" by Sue Smith £60

Joint Third Prizewinners
" Guildhall, Old Poole" by Sally Holland £50
" Kimmeridge" by Emma Sophie £50

Highly Commended
"Forest Floor" by Simon Merry £40
"Mellow Evening" by Elaine Bell £40

Junior Award
"The Mandarin Duck" by Max Furneaux £20

CADARTS December Newsletter:
Click here to read

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 27th November 2023

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm29 November - Life Drawing

Wonderful opportunity to draw the life model. Learn to observe, understand the figure and develop your visual understanding generally.
Session led by Trish Jubb.
Bring drawing materials.

Party Time!
Two Parties - one weekend!

This Saturday:
The Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park Open

We warmly invite you to join us at
the Launch Party of 'Atmosphere' on Saturday 2nd December from 11 am.
Councillor Andy Martin, Customer, Communications and Culture for BCP, will open the exhibition, and Roger Seddon (Selector) will award prizemoney to the value of £400.
Refreshments served

A5 Launch Party invitation to copy and email to your friends.

A4 poster, copy and email to friends or save to print out

This Sunday:
***PEDAS Christmas Party***

Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, BH14 8JX

Sunday 3rd December
Doors open at 1.30pm and we finish at 4.30pm.
This is a wonderful opportunity to catch up with fellow members, especially those we have not see for some time. Do come along and join in the fun. Now is the time for us ALL to get together again.
There will be lots of entertaining fun to be had, including a big game of Pictionary, Barry's Limericks, a table quiz from our quiz master David Marshall and music throughout. Prizes will be awarded!!
PEDAS will supply drinks, but please bring a plate or two of food to share & your own cutlery. NB. It will be a cold buffet.
And one significant other, of course!
Please bring donations (bottles/chocolates) for Tombola.
Christmas dress and funny hats are optional!!

Don't you dare not be there!!

A once in a Century Event!

CENTENARY DINNER
Reminder!

Please remember to reserve yourself a place for this milestone celebratory event.
We really need an early reading on numbers otherwise the price may have to change.

Please see the details - booking form and menu here.
You are urged to pay a deposit to secure your place by 4th December.
Please note that this can be paid at the Christmas party on the 3rd December. Otherwise the payment details were given last week.

Committee Contacts: Click here

Thank you to anyone who has sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 20th November 2023

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

22 November - Tom Marshall - More than Just Pencil

Tom will show us even more different drawing techniques- Including: Drawing in Light on Dark, Monoprinting with Dry Media, and Drawing with Wire.

What to bring:

Click here for Tom's materials list

PEDAS members Christmas Party

Following last week's feature, this is a reminder that our annual Christmas Party will be held on Sunday 3rd December at the Holy Angels Church Hall Lilliput.
Doors open at 1.30pm and we finish at 4.30pm.
This is a wonderful opportunity to catch up with fellow members, especially those we have not see for some time. Do come along and join in the fun. Participation makes a good party and following Covid, we have had 2-3 'lean' years. Now is the time for us ALL to get together again.
There will be lots of entertaining fun to be had, including a big game of Pictionary, Barry's Limericks, a table quiz from our quiz master David Marshall and music throughout. Prizes will be awarded!!
PEDAS will supply drinks, but please bring a plate or two of food to share. NB. It will be a cold buffet.
One significant other is invited.
Please bring donations (bottles/choclates) for Tombola.
Christmas dress and funny hats are optional!!

Don't you dare not be there!!

A once in a Century Event!

CENTENARY DINNER
Reminder!

We will be giving regular reminders for you to reserve a place for this milestone celebratory event.
We really need an early reading on numbers otherwise the price may have to change.

Please see the details - booking form and menu here.
You are urged to pay a deposit to secure your place by 4th December.
Please note that this can be paid at the Christmas party on the 3rd December. Otherwise the payment details were given last week.

OUR NEW LOGO IS NOW CONFIRMED!

It has been a long journey, which started with the discussions at the last AGM.
Following an open invitation, many members submitted ideas, which were received with gratitude. As no overall agreement was forthcoming, the Trustees decided to engage a professional graphic designer. This was the brief to him based on the agreed outcomes (minuted) from the AGM:

We wish to have a logo which incorporates the full name of the Society with sufficient emphasis, as well as the designed acronym (existing logo). POOLE & EAST DORSET ART SOCIETY
We wish to update the existing logo, PEDAS. Members are not keen to change it completely but it needs a re-fresh and an update.
We do not want the result to be complicated as it needs to be transferable and applicable in different marketing and communications contexts. A clean shape is preferable.
We wish to incorporate the words of the website home page; Learn.Create.Exhibit.
If it fits, we would also like to include ‘Est.1924’.

We received many iterations before the Trustees felt we had got it right. 'Est 1924' was excluded as it did not fit comfortably within the design
As a result, we have recently agreed on the following logo:

This will now be replacing the old logo on all our documentation and communication. It allows for a shortened icon where appropriate.
This is great timing as we will be able to use the new logo as part of our Centenary publicity.

Jacqui Gush
Chair

The Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park Open on the theme of Atmosphere is now closed for entries and all that have been selected and not selected are being notified.

We warmly invite you to join us at the Launch Party on Saturday 2nd December from 11 am. Councillor Andy Martin, Customer, Communications and Culture for BCP, will open the exhibition, and Roger Seddon will award prizemoney to the value of £400.

A5 Launch Party invitation to copy and email to your friends.

A4 poster, copy and email to friends or save to print out

PEDAS Archive 1924-2023

As part of our Centenary year we decided to organise our Archive, which had been held in a few boxes with little or no way of knowing what it contained or how to find things.
John Biggs and more particularly, Pat Burnham have been working on this with the expert advice and assistance of Steve Smith, formerly archivist at B&P College. Read more

President’s Piece: nov/dec ‘23

We’re coming to the end of another exciting year in Poole and East Dorset Art Society and it’s time to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.

I realise I haven’t been very communicative lately, but I have been busy with Trustees and other colleagues planning for our centenary year in 2024. I thought it was an achievement to celebrate 75 years in 1999, but 100 years of Poole and East Dorset Art Society is another level of spectacular altogether. Read more

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 13th November 2023

A reminder of this week's
Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave, BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

15 November - Urban Sketching discussion with David Roberts

David is a keen urban sketcher, who will talk us through the pleasures and pitfalls of working in an urban setting.
Bring your watercolour kit, paper, pen and ink.

The Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park Open 2023, 'Atmosphere'

Literally a couple of days left to make your submissions!

We are looking for new and original work, made within the last 2 years, that reflects the theme: 'Atmosphere'. Selector: Roger dell Seddon.

Deadline for entries: Wednesday 15th November.

Go to www.thegalleryupstairs.org.uk for entry form

PEDAS CENTENARY CELEBRATORY DINNER
BOOKINGS OPEN NOW!
Centenary Dinner Friday 19 April 2024, 7 pm for 7:30 pm Poole Quay Hotel, The Quay, Poole BH15 1HD

Further to the email last week, we now have full details of the menu being offered to PEDAS members for the dinner on Friday 19th April at Poole Quay Hotel.
We will need bookings and initial deposits by Monday 4th December.
These can also be given at the PEDAS Christmas party on 3rd December.
Please find the booking form, with menu choices and payment details in the attached.

Past members invitation on behalf of PEDAS - request to you all - We do not keep contact details from past members owing to data protection laws. We would love to invite past members to this milestone event! If you are in touch with any of our ex-PEDAS colleagues, please extend a warm invitation to them and their partners and send them a booking form if they are interested.

Not many art societies successfully reach the age of 100 with nearly 100 members, nor have such an illustrious past. We have an annual programme of celebratory events over 2024 to share with you towards the end of the year. You will have seen John Bigg's email about our member's DAW exhibition and the prestigious exhibition we have been granted to be showcased in the Lighthouse Poole! We are also planning big public activities and more feasting indulgences!

Lets make this Dinner the launch to a year of fun and massive publicity for our Society!
Come and join in the fun.

Jacqui Gush

PEDAS Christmas Party
- note for your diaries

Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, BH14 8JX

Please note in your diaries!!!
3rd December - PEDAS Christmas Party

Doors open at 1.30pm for frolics and fun!
Games, quizzes, singing, tombola - who knows what*!?
Bring food to share and one significant other, a plate, bowl, mug, glass, cutlery and plenty of Christmas cheer!
Special quiz set by David Marshall.

Wine, juice, water, provided, also glasses.
Tea & coffee, hot water available.
More details to follow.

Helpers needed (to put chairs and tables out) - helpers arrive before 1.30.

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 6th November 2023

A reminder of this week's Wednesday Afternoon Session

Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

8 November - Paint a Puffin with Sue Smith

Bring along your watercolour kit, or acrylic if you prefer.

Attaching one Puffin photo for reference. Alternatively members can download or find references for themselves online, Pinterest etc.

You might like to bring masking fluid but it isn’t essential. Maybe ink tense pencils to enhance face and beak details.

For your reference. Click on photo to enlarge

Gallery News

Please note: the deadline for submissions for the Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park Open on the theme of 'Atmosphere' is 15th November.

Help publicise please. Click on poster and save to print or add to social media or email to artist friends.

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Opportunity to hire The Gallery Upstairs

There is still some space in the Gallery Upstairs early next year, this would be a great opportunity for some of you to share your work with more space than you get in a Pedas exhibition. If you like this idea, you could band with other Pedas members or contacts from outside Pedas to share the space, as well as sharing the cost and the stewarding.
There are slots of one or two weeks between 31st January and 5th March. January and February at a reduced price of £12 a day, £18 in March.
If you are interested please contact Liz:
lizziemagee4@gmail.com.

Review of a Feeling for Art

Thank you again to everyone involved in the exhibition – we particularly appreciated seeing new faces helping with hanging etc.
It was a lovely looking exhibition. We were visited by over 1183 people. Sales were slightly up on our previous exhibition. Artwork sales totaled £1105. Greetings card sales: £404. Five framed works and ten browser pieces were sold. So well done to all involved.

CADARTS November Newsletter

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 30th October 2023

A reminder of this week's Wednesday and Sunday Afternoon Sessions

Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

1 November - Watercolour
We will watch a Charles Reid DVD on watercolour painting, then put what we have learned into practice. Bring watercolour paper, materials and reference.

Sunday afternoon session

Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, BH14 8JX
Please arrive in good time for 2.30 start, finish 4.30

5 November - Valerie Willets
'Skies'
Cloud watching can lead to some beautiful images!
In preparation for the session on Skies you may like to spend a short time Sky Gazing, so that you can record an interesting sky. Or you may prefer to bring a photo which you have taken or a sketch or picture you have made previously or collected on this subject.

Materials you will need to bring are:-
Acrylic paints, oil pastels, mixed media paper/and or heavy watercolour paper A3/A4, suitable brushes (at least one hog brush) masking tape, scissors, kitchen roll or rag, and a spray bottle for water - a water jar and a table covering.
I am looking forward to the session and I hope you enjoy some sky gazing and will be prepared to experiment.

Valerie Willets

Valerie Willets

Jane Wilson (USA)

A Feeling for Art - A reminder to Members - please collect your unsold work from the Gallery Upstairs on Tuesday 31st October between 10am and 12.

We do hope you have enjoyed taking part and perusing the pictures.
We are especially thankful to the hangers and helpers! Some new faces helping, which is great. It all looked super.

Final figures will be available in the next PEDAS Weekly.

PEDAS is 100 Next Year!

PEDAS100
Early Notification
of Celebrations

Click on pdf to read (and scroll 3 pages)

PEDAS100
Exciting news of an Exhibition at Lighthouse

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Two New Trustees
"I am very pleased to be able to tell members that both Freda Rhodes and David Marshall have agreed to join our group of Trustees.
The Constitution states that we can appoint new Trustees at any time. However, they will be formally appointed at the AGM next March. This will give them time to settle in and become more familiar with the role of a committee member or Trustee.
I'm sure all our members will join me in thanking them for giving PEDAS more of their time and wishing them well going forward."
Jacqui Gush (Chair)

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 23rd October 2023

A reminder of this week's Wednesday Afternoon Session

Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

25 October - Portrait/seated figure
Portrait session. Drawing/Painting the clothed, seated figure.
Untutored.
Bring maerials of your choice.

Reviews of PEDAS trip to Belgium
Wednesday 11 to Sunday 15 October 2023

Click pdf for Carole's account of the PEDAS trip to Belgium

Click pdf icon for John's review

Go to www.thegalleryupstairs.org.uk to enter

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Visit Broadstone Art Society's exhibition in this the Art Society’s 70th year.

Committee Contacts: Click here

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 16th October 2023

A reminder of this week's Wednesday Afternoon Session

Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
18 October - Loosening up; from figurative to unresolved, with Roger Dell Seddon
Using Seascapes as the basis for this workshop, join Roger in exploring ways to create atmosphere, movement and the illusion of complexity when portraying the ever-changing elements of air, wind and water.
Beforehand, if time allows, check out Turner's numerous oil, watercolour and gouache sketches made in the 1830's which are held to be the finest and most sublime representations of these elements, and the precursor of impressionism.
Suitable for oil, acrylic and watercolourists.
Materials List:
Bring a sketchbook to draft out ideas and concepts. Bring charcoal, pencil and sketch paper.
Also, pads of oil or acrylic painting paper/canvas, available from many on-line suppliers and locally at the Range at modest cost. Ideal sizes A3 and A4. Watercolour pads or loose sheets of the same or similar size.
A limited range of pigments. As a minimum I suggest, warm and cool examples of blue, red and yellow. Titanium white, yellow ochre and Burnt Umber.
Brushes of various types and sizes ( Nothing too precious. Leave your sables at home).
Watercolourists will need Chinese White in addition to other colours to create opacity.

Oil painters will use their usual medium and low odour high flashpoint or non inflammable solvent. Rags or paper to clean brushes and a waste bag to take home and dispose of afterwards.
Also, bring your imagination and memory of a coastal scene which is well known to you. No photograph references please. Only sketches.
Roger Seddon | Landscape, coastal & marine artist based in Poole, Dorset. (rogerseddonart.co.uk)

Review of our Summer Days En Plein Air 2023

David Roberts did a great job of organising our summer sessions painting on location.
To read David's review please click on the pdf icon below.

Special Memories - of a Summer well spent

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Go to www.thegalleryupstairs.org.uk for entry form

Trish Jubb's October newsletter

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 9th October 2023

It's all happening on Wednesday this week!

Weds 11th, morning -

Handing - in at the Gallery Upstairs.
Bring your exhibition-ready artwork for 'A Feeling for Art'.

Click here for your entry form & details.

Invite your friends to the Launch Party on Saturday 14th from 11 am - 1 pm.

Click on invitation and save to print or email to friends.

Help us publicise. Click on poster and save to print or add to social media or email to friends.

Weds 11th, afternoon -

Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.
East Cliff Promenade, Bournemouth, BH1 3AA.

Meet at Russell-Cotes at 2 pm.
Draw the artefacts (entry fee £8.50), or sit outside and draw/paint the delightful gardens and beach views. It could be lovely weather!

Home - Russell-Cotes (russellcotes.com)

Box Canvases

There will be a number of treated box canvases at The Gallery Upstairs on the morning of Wednesday 11th, (hand-in day) for our exhibition.
David Cole of Wareham Art Club says “We have been given over 200 hundred! box canvasses. Some of them will be used by our club, but not all. Are you interested in having some? We are asking members to make a voluntary donation.”
There will be a collection tin so that people can make voluntary donations to a charity that supports bereaved soldiers families, so bring some cash.

CADARTS October Newsletter
Click here to read.

Teresa Senior recommends this drawing session led by Tom Marshall with Ferndown Art Society

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 2nd October 2023

A reminder of this week's Wednesday Afternoon Session

Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
4 October - Colour Workshop with Pam Marshall
Pam will be talking about the Colour Wheel and how to use it.
What 6 colours you need on your palette and how to mix any colour you want from them.
How to mix blacks and greys, and how to mix greens.
How to reduce the colours and how to mix shade colours.
If possible please bring acrylics in the following colours -
Cadmium Yellow - a warm yellow
Lemon Yellow - a cool yellow
Cadmium Red - a warm red
Alizarin Crimson - a cool red
Ultramarine Blue - a warm blue
Cerulean Blue - a cool blue
Titanium White
(I will have all these colours if you don’t have them.)
A palette (could be a white tray or plate, or tear-off palette)
A brush suitable for acrylics
Water pot - kitchen roll - pencil - and some watercolour paper - 2 or 3 sheets - table covering
If you only use watercolours bring what you have - you don’t need white.
If you can, bring a green apple, an orange and/or a lemon
See you Wednesday!

Message from Tom Marshall:
I have a solo show on and thought I should tell PEDAS, in case anyone is interested. This is at the Forest Arts Centre, New Milton, until the 16th Oct. It's closed on Tuesdays and possibly other days, but open some evenings. Best to check before travelling. I've included some experimental work, so there should be something interesting!
Exhibitions | Forest Arts Centre (forest-arts.co.uk)
This one is a smoke drawing on brass.

Instagram: tommarshallart
Facebook: www.facebook.com/tommarshallart

A Feeling for Art - PEDAS Autumn Exhibition

Members will be beavering away in preparation for our October exhibition: 'A Feeling for Art'. Hand-in Weds 11th Oct, morning.

For Entry form and details please click on pdf icon below.

Help!
We need volunteers to help with hanging the exhibition on Thursday 12th from approx. 10 am – 12.30.
If you are able to help it would be greatly appreciated - please contact publicity@pedas.org.uk

Click on icon for entry form and t's and c's for 'A Feeling for Art'

Help us publicise. Click on poster and save to print or add to social media or email to friends.

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 25th September 2023

A reminder of this week's Wednesday and Sunday afternoon Sessions:

Wednesday afternoon session

Alderney Manor Community Centre, 287 Herbert Ave BH12 4HT
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

27 September - Life drawing
Bring along drawing materials.
We'll have a life model, and Trish Jubb will be on hand to guide us.

Sunday afternoon session

Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, BH14 8JX
Please arrive in good time for 2.30 start, finish 4.30

1 October - Sarah McDonald
Mark making in Abstract Art
We will be exploring the variety of marks that can be produced with 4-6 different brushes, with oil pastel, crayon or charcoal depending on personal preference.
Suggested materials:
Primed/gesso-ed paper/board on which to work, size is up to personal preference, but not too large, pencils/biro, pencil crayons/oil or other pastels, charcoal (may need fixative). Collage material if using with cutting mat and craft knife or scissors. Brushes, 4-6 as different as possible. Rollers are good.
It might be useful if members also brought along some tools that they can use to make marks in wet paint. Sarah uses old biros that have run out of ink, a hair comb, a wooden kebab skewer, ends of paint brushes can work well, in fact anything to scratch into wet paint.
Members could bring along an old credit or bank card to use, or if they have one a silicone dough scraper, these are good to produce a background on which to work, collage could also be incorporated. Sarah's examples are in acrylic paint, although gouache could work well as an alternative.

Sarah McDonald (@sarahjmcdonaldart) • Instagram

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 18th September 2023

A reminder of this week's Wednesday afternoon session:

20 September - Still Life
Please bring along colourful and interesting items for a shared still-life session. Suggest patterned fabrics, fruit, pots or other items of interest. Drawing and/or painting materials of your choice. Untutored.

Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
Alderney Manor Community Centre,
287 Herbert Avenue BH12 4HT

A Feeling for Art - PEDAS Autumn Exhibition

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Click on icon for entry form and t's and c's for 'A Feeling for Art'

Do please take this opportunity to participate in this exhibition. We are very lucky and privileged to have the Gallery Upstairs, allowing members to exhibit work at least twice a year in PEDAS exhibitions with no additional cost for room hire, and no requirement for selection.

The title, ‘A feeling for Art’, places absolutely no constraints on your ideas and creativity and can be applied to any work that you may wish to exhibit.

Please support your Art Society and YOUR Gallery!

The Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park Open 2023

Online submissions can now be made on the Gallery Upstairs website, follow this link

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‘ATMOSPHERE’- Calling all local Artists!
A great opportunity to exhibit your work and to win prize-money! We are inviting all local artists for new and original entries for the Upton Country Park Open 2023. The theme this year is ‘Atmosphere’.

The project is open to any visual artist within a 15 mile radius of Poole and Art in any medium is welcome. Sorry no photography or video, due to space constraints. All entries will all be made online. Closing date for entries: 15th November 2023.

To enter please visit: www.thegalleryupstairs.org.uk submissions open now. There is a non-returnable fee of £6 per piece entered. Selection will be made digitally by our independent selector Roger dell Seddon. £400 prizemoney will be distributed at Roger's discretion.

Roger specializes in atmospheric land- and sea-scapes, working principally in oils. He has exhibited widely, notably with the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries, London. Many of his works are based on travel overseas, but nevertheless, Dorset remains the greatest inspiration for most of his work.

The exhibition will be held at The Gallery Upstairs at Upton Country Park running from 1st to 20th December 2023.

For more information, rules and how to submit your entries visit www.thegalleryupstairs.org.uk
Queries: contact@thegalleryupstairs.org.uk

Image used in publicity: ‘Wave to the Sea’ by Tom Marshall, mixed media.

Liz's List (What's On)
October - November 2023
click or tap pdf icon

Message from Sarah Moore:

We invite you to join us to celebrate the achievements of our MA and MRes students at AUB campus-wide showcase, Snapshot 23.

Artwork and projects are open to the public to explore in TheGallery daily on campus from 8 September until 7 October.

If you can’t make it to this year's exhibition, you can still discover the collection of Graduate School work on our website from 7 September.
Online Shows – AUB – Arts University Bournemouth

Linda Honeyborne recommends a Workshop Day with Stewart Beckett organised by Ringwood Art Society

Saturday, 30 September 2023
10:00 16:30
Anne Rose Hall, Greyfriars Community Centre (map)

Join Stewart Beckett for a day of professional tuition in oil painting.
Oils - Boats and shadows.
Follow link

Teresa Senior recommends this demo by Alison Board at Ferndown Art Society.

Thank you to anyone who sent news, reviews and useful information.
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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 4th September 2023

A reminder of this week's En Plein Air - the last one this year!

Thurs 7 September - The Courtyard Craft Centre, Huntick Road, Lytchett Minster, Dorset, BH16 6BA

10 am meet at the car park (free), lovely country cafe, retail units and craft workers offering something for everyone, from crafts, haberdashery, clothes and well being. Subjects to draw/paint include farmhouse, trees and people.

www.thecourtyardcraftcentre.co.uk

Wednesday Afternoon Sessions at Alderney Manor will be resuming 13th September.
Programme can be viewed here

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A Feeling for Art

As Summer rapidly fades into Autumn, this is a reminder that our regular PEDAS exhibition slot in October is fast approaching. With the summer holidays behind us and the kids back at school, now is an excellent time to turn our attention to our art practice. Indeed, if your holidays are still to come, it is even more important to be reminded that our next exhibition runs from 13th- 30th October.

For some reason, of late we seem to have been experiencing a significant reduction in entries for PEDAS exhibitions, and reviewing my visits to other exhibitions, this seems to be in stark contrast to other art societies. Why? I wonder.

Let me take this opportunity to urge you to participate in the forthcoming exhibition and let me again remind members that your art society is very lucky and privileged to have the facility of the Gallery Upstairs, allowing members to exhibit work at least twice a year in PEDAS exhibitions with no additional cost for room hire, and no requirement for selection.

The theme, ‘A feeling for Art’, places absolutely no constraints on your ideas and creativity and can be applied to any work that you may wish to exhibit.

Please support your Art Society and YOUR Gallery!
Jacqui Gush

Could you help us publicise this exhibition please?
‘A Feeling for Art’, at the Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park. All members are invited to submit their artwork, no theme.
Thank you to Teresa Senior for providing the image we are using for publicity: ‘Flower of the Hour’, watercolour, 32 x 42 cm.
Entry forms for 'A Feeling for Art' will be in PEDAS Weekly shortly.

Thank you to anyone who sent news, reviews and useful information.
If you have an item for the next PEDAS Weekly please send to publicity@pedas.org.uk

PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 28th August 2023

A reminder of this week's meetings - Thursday and Sunday.

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Thurs 31 August - Holes Bay from Hamworthy. Hewitt Road, BH154QB

10 am park in Hewitt Road and meet at the bench indicated on the photo.
It’s on the edge of the bay in a residential area but there are good views over Holes Bay. Water, reedbeds. No amenities.
Free parking in Hewitt Road

To see the rest of the En Plein Air Programme click here.

Sunday Afternoon Session
Lilliput Church Hall, The Church of the Holy Angels, Lilliput Road, BH14 8JX
Please arrive in good time for 2.30 start; finish 4.30.
£3 for members/ £5 for non-members

3 September - Maggie Farmer
'Moving Figure Workshop'
Suitable for Beginners
Enjoy the challenge of capturing movement.
Through a series of exercises, from quick sketches to more developed drawings, you will experiment with various techniques that create the illusion of movement. As the session progresses, we shall slowly work from still poses towards portraying action.
Relax, have fun…feel the flow, the emotion, the energy & discover ways of describing this in your artwork.
For materials and further information click here

www.maggiefarmer.co.uk

Wednesday Afternoon Sessions at Alderney Manor will be resuming 13th September.
Programme can be viewed here

Last chance to see Poole Printmakers' Open Studio Event.
Last day is Monday 25th!!
EXHIBITION: OPEN STUDIOS
Friday 25 August 2023 10:00am - Monday 28 August 2023 04:00pm
They will be offering a programme of hands-on sessions, the exhibition to browse and an art-for-all atmosphere with a variety of price points. All works for sale, and artists demoing traditional printmaking techniques. Free entry.
Location: Poole Printmakers, 5 Bowling Green Alley, Poole, UK BH15 1AG http://www.poole-printmakers.org.uk

A request from Wendy Read about volunteering at Inside Out Dorset:
You may already be familiar with Inside Out Dorset. It’s an outdoor arts festival that brings exceptional experiences and extraordinary events to some of Dorset’s most remarkable urban and rural spots. This year the festival takes place 15th – 24th September and events are happening at Moors Valley Country Park, Wimborne, Poole, Bere Regis and Weymouth. All events are free to attend.
Volunteers are at the heart of making the festival happen and we are looking for volunteers to fill a range of roles and shifts. l wondered if any of your PEDAS members might be interested in helping us out? We would love to get as many people as possible involved in these special events and everyone is welcome.
Our website has full details of what’s on and on volunteering: Inside Out Dorset - Activate (activateperformingarts.org.uk)
If are able to spread the word, I would be really grateful.
Thank you so much for your help.
Kind regards
Wendy

Wendy Read
Volunteer Co-Ordinator
Inside Out Dorset brought to you by Activate Performing Arts
7-9 The Little Keep, Barrack Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1SQ
Tel: 01305 260954

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 21st August 2023

En Plein Air Reminder
Thurs 24 August - Lake Pier/Ham Common Car Park, Hamworthy

Meet by the old pier from 10 am. The car park is approached from the Hamworthy side of Poole, drive past the Marines' Base, and follow the turning to Poole Canoe Club and Ham Common Car Park. The car park is a cheap pay and display. There are decent toilets. Good subjects here include: old pier and pilings, harbour views and beach.
To see the rest of the En Plein Air Programme click here.

Note from Joy
Travel Light and Travel by Bus
I want to highlight that it is often possible to get to the PEDAS plein air by bus. Yes you might get there a bit later than others but it gives independence from getting a lift and definitely feels like a day out. It also cuts down all that unnecessary equipment that we all take just in case and helps hone in to use one medium. It can be a relief not to drive and face the busy summer traffic. So with all that in mind I am looking forward to our trip to Hamworthy this Thursday.
Joy Gow

A word from the Chair
Summer activities are in full swing, and I hope members are enjoying the season. PEDAS continues to offer a good summer agenda which enables you to meet up with like-minded colleagues and friends, and keep your hand in with art activities, as well as visiting lovely venues when En Plein Air.
It would be really nice to see a few more of you joining in. We understand that everyone is out of their routine during July and August, and I am the first to observe an inability to keep to regular activities over this period as I seem to be out and about so much. However, do keep an eye on this newsletter to find out what is going on and please join in where possible. These arrangements are made for you, our member to enjoy and benefit from. Perhaps diarise a few art activities, PEDAS initiated or otherwise, and meet up with other people you haven’t seen for some time.
We apologise that we had to cancel Valerie Willett’s Sunday session on 6th August, owing to a last minute dose of Covid. Fortunately, Valerie is now fully recovered.

I would like to thank those few of you who participated in this year’s Art Pro Loco event. We loved seeing you, either to exhibit your artwork and/or to come along to join in with the event. The weather wasn’t too bad for most of the time – well, it was as good as it gets this summer! In addition, (in most cases it was the same people), I would like to thank those who kindly gave of their time to offer a workshop and/ or demonstration that the public could join in with. Although it seemed that the Park was not overly busy, those who participated certainly enthusiastically enjoyed what was on offer.
Art Pro Loco prizes were duly awarded in 3 age categories, (we received a majority of adult entries this year), and all 3 winners were absolutely delighted. Liz’s granddaughter was a winner!! It was very satisfactory to see their delight and all prizes were so well deserved.
Just a pity that not more PEDAS members could participate, hence Barry’s cartoon below …
You will be receiving full details of the forthcoming Autumn programme soon, when we will be back indoors at Alderney, on a Wednesday afternoon.
Jacqui

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Some Art Pro Loco memories

News from the Committees - August 2023
Committee

Our yearly report for 2022 was successfully submitted to the Charity Commission in August
Gift Aid, good progress has been made and we will hear from HMRC when approval has been granted to proceed
We are delighted to report that we have received several enquiries from people interested in knowing more about membership to our group
Feedback from the Art Pro Loco, those who took part appeared to enjoy the experience albeit the weather was not good, and prize-winners were delighted with their rewards. There was some disappointment at the lack of membership take-up which meant less artwork on display and steward availability. Jacqui Gush would like to thank all who participated, gave demos, stewarded, engaged with the public etc

Gallery News

Some additional information about PEDAS has been placed in The Gallery Upstairs, in the Walled Garden and adjacent to the gallery access staircase in the clip-frame
Publicity is underway for both the upcoming exhibitions in The Gallery Upstairs as well as discussion on publicity to inform about our centenary planning

Centenary Planning and Archives

Pat Burnham is working through the archive to identify early artist members in order to find out what paintings by them are homed at Poole Museum for display at our centenary exhibition in 2025, this is a work in progress. Julie Herring will curate the exhibition
PEDAS has an archivist – Steve Smith (formerly Archivist for The College, Poole) has taken up the role for the Society

Programme:

The last en plein air date is Thursday 7th September, 2023
The Wednesday sessions will start on 13th September, 2023 and the programme will be finalised soon but include Still Life, Colour Mixing, Ways of Looking, Life Drawing etc. www.pedas.org.uk/wednesday-afternoons
Sunday sessions are set as follows: September is with Maggie Farmer on Moving Figures, October is Sarah MacDonald, November ‘Skies’ with Valerie Willets. www.pedas.org.uk/sunday-afternoons

Committee Contacts: Click here

Abi Kremer's Autumn Art Courses
Abi's courses are very popular with our members. Click here for full details

Message from CADArts:
If you wish to hire a stall in New Milton for Christmas - details here.

Linda Knox recommends Martin Close Art School
www.martincloseartschool.com
Linda particularly recommends Martin Close's Colour Theory Art Blog www.martincloseartist.com/blogs

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PEDAS Weekly
week commencing 14th August 2023

En Plein Air Reminder
Thurs 17 August - Wareham Quay
From 10 am, meet by the river.
One of the town’s highlights is the picturesque Quay. There is a convenient car park here. Next to the Quay is The Old Granary, now a restaurant and bar. Overlooking the Quay, behind the Old Granary, is the medieval Priory Church of Lady St Mary, so plenty of subjects of interest to draw and paint. Also, the bridge, boats, and holidaymakers
Car Park charge. Toilets on quay.
To see the rest of the En Plein Air Programme click here.

Dates for your Diaries

'A Feeling for Art' - PEDAS Autumn Exhibition
(No theme - the title is just to help publicity).
11 October - Hand-in date
13 - 30 October 2023 - Exhibition
31 October - Collection of unsold work. View poster

‘Atmosphere’ - The Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park Open 2023
The theme this year is ‘Atmosphere’. All submissions to be made online.
From mid-September - Online submissions can be made through www.thegalleryupstairs.org.uk
15th November - Closing date for online entries
29 November - Hand-in date
1st December to Christmas 2023 - Exhibition
We are inviting all local artists to submit work for selection. Read more.

Coach trip to Bristol on Saturday 4th November primarily to visit the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) 170th Open Exhibition.
The invitation comes from Bournemouth Arts Club.
NB. booking is required by 31st August. Details here

Message from one of our Members:
"A new Hobbycraft is opening at Branksome retail park in September ... the new staff are currently being trained at Longham, from what they said the opening of the new store will be a bit of an event.
Members might not already know about the Hobbycraft reward card - free to sign up and like other reward cards you get vouchers for your points - they also sent me a £5 voucher for my birthday 🙂 which is why I went over there ... "

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Click here for Norma's Memories of John Bowen, President of Poole and East Dorset Art Society 1984-2020

Click here for 'John Bowen Remembered' by Martin Price

Click here for Marylyn's poem to John

Jan K: "In my early days of PEDAS and, as my very first encounter with John approached, the late, Richard Price described him as a wonderful, talented artist and friend with the comic delivery of Eddie Izzard. This I found to be true and during the many subsequent tutorials and talks his unique style always made me smile. A truly memorable character and a great loss to all."

Barbara Woods: "John and I go way back, having been colleagues at Bournemouth and Poole College of FE long before my PEDAS days.   I remember going to his sessions for staff to appreciate the College’s Art Collection.   I also had the privilege of exhibiting his paintings during my time promoting art exhibitions.
I have such fond memories of John and Diana on our many PEDAS holidays visiting wonderful places and art galleries in Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, Barcelona etc.   John was always so generous of his time, giving insight into the works of art to which he introduced us. I also remember that we didn’t have a sitter on one of our Sunday PEDAS sessions when John was doing a pastel portrait demonstration so I quickly volunteered.   I shall always treasure the resulting portrait.
Finally, I will remember John as one of the most inspirational and much loved people you could wish to meet. He was kind and thoughtful and always interested in anything you had to say.
Fondest memories then John and best wishes to Diana and family."

Val T: "What a sad month.
Recent PEDAS members possibly won’t realize what an integral role John had in the club. His critiques of our exhibitions were always hotly anticipated – I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to hold their breath as he approached one of their paintings to find out just what he thought of it, suggestions for improvement as well as praise being just as welcome.
I used to love the full day workshops that he would arrange in the summer and always signed up as soon as they were announced. Nothing was too much trouble and tips and encouragement flowed throughout the day. Likewise the holidays when he would take us round the highlights of the many art galleries and museums we visited. As with everything else he did, they were always immaculately prepared and delivered with such enthusiasm.
I have one of John’s lovely Corfe Castle paintings hanging in the living room – a wonderful reminder of a truly gentle man."

Marisa: "After I finished a course of (CAD) Computer Aided Design, at the Poole College, I was encouraged by a friend doing a Flexistudy at the time to do an Art one. I did not know anything about paints or Artist, but I enrolled in a "A" level course of Art.
The tutors, Jem Mane and John Bowen. After that, I had many other, some small some a year long curses, with John.
He was a wonderful tutor, kind and ever there, to help you if your leg was wrong or your head was out of proportion (the model, that is). So, I am very very sorry for his demise, I will miss his classes and good advises, him for all the help that gave me, and others in his courses, and I will have him in my heart for ever. (Que en Paz descanse) dear John."

Suki:    "I never met a person so kind as John. I first met John was about 40 years ago. I was a student at art college in Wallisdown and I attended a short life drawing class by John in the evening. I left a pencil case in his class and I forgot about it. A couple days later John himself brought it to me. I was amazed and couldn't believe how kind he was. John was a wonderful art teacher as well, he listened to us and gave us the best advice. I'll never forget him. Thank you John."

Robin: "I enjoyed listening to John's talks. He made them very interesting and informative, with a touch of humour. His honesty with critiques was most helpful and that glint of fun in his eye will always be remembered."

Andrew:    “I am grateful to John for so much. His skill and virtuosity with any medium in any circumstance. His wit and spontaneity, his capacity to turn any disaster into a positive bonus.
He employed me at North Road College in the early 90s where I taught life drawing, A’ level art and A’ level graphics students, and where I had the opportunity to teach many of that generation of PEDAS, including Norma and Liz, who with John, and others, turned around the fortunes of the society, making it the success it is today. I then took over from him teaching life drawing in the evenings at Wallisdown, which led to the opportunity of working with Animation and Graphics degree students on some days. As my friend and mentor, I shall always be indebted to him for his kindness, support, and encouragement. I learned so much from him, and will be forever grateful.”

Judith L:   “I remember the wonderful London gallery trips led by John and preceded by a slide show at the Lighthouse. A good few years ago but truly inspirational."

Dawn:       “I have always appreciated John's paintings and his even handed approach to his critiques at Broadstone Art Society.
He was such a sport and even sang with me, "Oh yes, I remember it well" at a PEDAS Party! We had great fun painting
yards and yards of ceiling paper for the Panto... the garage floor became a Yellow Brick road!! I have great admiration for his bringing Diana to the PEDAS AGM and later giving a talk and slide show of his life as an artist.
John was a modest, sincere and wonderful man...he will be a hard act to follow as a President.”

Sue S:    "Just so sad we should lose two such wonderful members of PEDAS within weeks of each other. I hope you don't mind but John Bowen was known to members of Pelhams Art Club, and others of course, and Colin Cripps wrote the following to me on hearing the sad news..
" John was such a great teacher and an extremely nice man who conducted several workshops for us in the past, including one on portraiture and another in which he took us all through an art school term in one workshop, starting with a still life, we had to draw his beekeeping equipment. He was taught by the great Peter Greenham RA who once got John to draw his creased shirt hanging on the door, which John said was excellent practise. We will miss him. Colin""

Penny W: "They, both John & Dorothy, always had time to say hello and greeted me with a big smile. Lovely people who will be remembered by us all."

Sue S:    "And our dear lovely Dorothy...
Dorothy I will always remember you with total affection and also a great smile on my face. We had such fun in recent years when we went on our little painting holidays. Firstly to Venice, when seven of us hired a flat for a week and painted en plain air and all the locals came and chatted to us. Then our long weekend in the little cottage at Tiptoe in the New Forest, when we had such fun playing Balderdash, we will never forget that! And lastly only last summer when you came with us to Lake Garda painting for a week. Such fond memories, we miss you lots."

Val T:    "I knew Dorothy before I joined PEDAS and she was always so enthusiastic and engaged with everything we did, whether it was another art group or an art holiday – I particularly remember one that several of us enjoyed in Zakynthos. She was already a member of the PEDAS Committee when I joined the club and persuaded me to join too. I remember committee meetings at her house trying to avoid the attentions of her crazy black cat!"

Jan K:    "Dorothy was a lovely, talented lady who, for me, epitomised PEDAS. Always encouraging and generous with her time and knowledge with a friendly and pleasant disposition that made it a pleasure to be a part of the many evening and summer sessions she attended. She will be very much missed."

Norma:    "Dorothy was a beautiful lady inside and out. Her art was also beautiful in fact I can’t imagine anything ugly associated with her. I remember our holidays she would sit on deck elegant and with poise even when she had a drink or two. Again in our Pantomimes, always the lady, even in a peasant’s costume. I have known Dorothy for a great number of years she was or always seemed so happy her smile lit up the room. I know art made her happy and joining Pedas was one her favourite things. I am sad she is no longer here to light up our lives."

Caroline:    "I would describe Dorothy as fun loving but always level headed. Whilst she was on the PEDAS Committee I would go to her home and share time putting the Newsletter into their envelopes. This time was full of interesting and lively chat
Once when we were painting en plein at the Mill at Sturminster Newton we thought we had chosen a shady area, but one where we had a good view. However, somehow we attracted a swarm of flies and however much we tried to escape they followed us where ever we moved our easel. Dorothy just kept on laughing. Dorothy was a lovely lady and full of grace."

Suki: "I really liked Dorothy who was always smiling and very kind. Last time I saw her was in Edinburgh with PEDAS members. She was very happy and she said to me how she enjoyed it. I am very glad I went there so I got to know her better but she has gone! I'll remember her forever."

Jacqui G: "Message for Dorothy. To a personal friend as well as a PEDAS colleague who carried her pain and suffering with positivity and always with a smile on her lovely face."

Sarah P:    "I was so sad to hear about Dorothy's death. I had telephoned her a few weeks ago just to catch up as I didn't know she was ill because I haven't been to PEDAS for quite a while. I remember her kindness in inviting me to join her bunch of friends on our PEDAS trip to Amsterdam before we went - and that meant a lot. You all know how lovely and sweet she was - and so plucky dashing off to paint abroad. With love."

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