NEXT MEETING: WEDNESDAY 22ND NOVEMBER 2017 AT 7.00PM
FENCIBLE LOUNGE – UXBRIDGE ROAD, HOWICK
Hello everyone,
Well that time of year has rolled by yet again, November 22nd will be our last meeting for this year. Please join us at the library Fencible Lounge at 7.00pm for our annual Christmas party. This year we want you to get creative, design and make a festive table decoration, prizes will be given for the biggest, best, most original (not too big, if it doesn’t fit on the table it will be disqualified).
By popular demand we will be having a quiz throughout the evening, with prizes for the winners, (teams of no more than 4 please to make it fair). We will also be having some music interludes from the lovely Amy who you will remember from last year. Wine and juice will be provided, but we ask that everyone attending please bring a plate of food to share. Look forward to seeing you all there.
On behalf of the Howick Art Group the committee will be making its annual donation to Totara Hospice.
The membership cards for 2018 are being printed and will be available soon, meanwhile a list of the new committee members is shown below.
Regards, Margaret Routen
Margaret Routen …….President…………………..2682777
Bevis Ruskell…………..Treasurer………………….5349324
Wai leng Ong…………..Secretary………………….5375296
Joan Lu…………………..Membership……………..5775868
Ken Tanner……………..Art Programme………….5356972
Janice Skinner…………Cottage Manager……….5359190
Lesley Keane……………Midwinter Exhibition…..5346734
Merv Appleton………….TBA………………………….5349634
November
COTTAGE NEWS
Our next changeover date is Sunday 29th October. Artworks can be brought in anytime over that weekend. Changeover is always the last Sunday of the month.
I am including the gallery rules for all newcomers and a recap for the rest of us. We are now on Social Media (web page and Facebook) and copies of our paintings will appear on the internet from time to time. This means we have to be very aware of copyright rules. There are 3 very big cases of copyright fraud going on right at this moment where some artists have picked up copies of their paintings, on the internet, done by other artists.
GALLERY RULES (FOR ALL TOO READ)
ORIGINALITY – (New Zealand copyright law and excerpts taken from Landscape Painting Inside and Out by Kevin Macpherson)
Many artists are not aware that painting from a photograph taken by someone else is copyright infringement. The same goes for painting from another artist’s painting. Photos or paintings by others may inspire you to see a subject a different way, but please do not copy them. To do so is illegal. Copying a painting can help you grow as an artist, but the results should never leave your studio. If working from someone else’s photograph the painting must be so changed that it is unrecognisable as a copy. Copying paintings of the Old Masters is allowed as copyright falls away after they have been dead for 50 years but the original artist must be acknowledged on the artwork.
When putting your signature to a painting, it means that you are the sole artist. No work that has been worked on by a tutor should be entered in a competition or sold. No work that has been done at a workshop from the demonstrator’s photo, or that the demonstrator has worked on, should be put up for sale.
For your own work, find and research your own subjects, including taking your own photos. Make it your view, your idea. Herman Melville said: ‘It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation’.
FRAMED PAINTINGS AND PAINTINGS ON STRETCHED CANVAS – Are to be written up in the Painting Register at a cost of $2. Paintings are hung for one month but can be hung again after a waiting period of at least 4 months.
PRICE – All works including miniatures and unframed items must be for sale and 20% commission added on.
FRAMING – Artwork must be soundly framed with the correct rings and cords attached ready for hanging. The correct picture framers tape must be used. No badly damaged frames will be accepted.
LABELLING – Put your name, title, medium, and price on a card (swing tag) affixed to the back of each painting.
UNFRAMED WORKS – All unframed Watercolours must be mounted and covered in plastic or cellophane. All these works must have stickers on top of the plastic, stating title, name, medium and price. These paintings must be entered into the Miniatures/Unframed register (no cost) and they can stay in the gallery for a period of 6 months.
MINIATURES – These works should be no higher than 7”. A card stating title, name, medium and price must be affixed to the back. These paintings must be entered into the Miniatures/Unframed register and can stay in the gallery for a period of 6 months. There is no cost in hanging miniatures in the gallery.
Janice Skinner – Ph 535 9190 (021 023 68667)
Hello Members,
We are in need of some new committee members for the year ahead. If you feel you would like to be on the committee in some capacity please put your name forward to a committee member or fill in the attached form and have another member nominate you, it can be seconded at the meeting.
If you would like to nominate one of our members for committee please ask them first, to find out if they are willing to stand, then fill out a nomination form.
The nomination forms can be handed in on the night of the meeting.
Please remember members that we need you to consider spending some time on committee to fill vacancies created by those resigning and allow those who have been on committee for many years to retire.
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HOWICK ART GROUP INC
NOMINATION FORM FOR COMMITTEE 2017-2018
NAME……………………………………………………………………………………POSITION…………………………………………
NOMINATED BY……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
SECONDED BY……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
SIGNATURE of NOMINEE……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
DATE…………………………………………………………
ARTIST PROFILE: KEN TANNER
Ken’s background is construction but he has had a lifelong interest in art and has over the last 25 years attended numerous courses and workshops on all manner of techniques and subjects.
These have included life studies, portraiture, landscapes and abstracts in oils, watercolours and pastels.
The tutors have come from most disciplines of visual arts including people such as Tony Clark and Brendan McGorry. While Ken appreciates the skill of the traditional masters he prefers the work of the impressionists and some of the more recent painters.
He enjoys exploring the many possibilities which painting provides as well as studying the work of other artists both for inspiration and enjoyment. Like most people, he sees painting as a relaxing pastime but he also sees it as stimulating by providing a great opportunity to be creative.
Many people think realistic art is simply aimed at reproducing a likeness while in fact it requires a lot of imagination and creativity to produce an interesting painting. Much of this creativity is quite subtle and is not apparent to most of the people who view the painting, however, it has to be there or the painting is simply boring.
Ken has been a member of the Howick Art Group for about one year and is currently the co-ordinator for the art programme for the group.
ARTIST PROFILE: GAVIN CHAI
Gavin was born in Kuching, Malaysia. He started painting when he was 12, learning from a local artist in watercolour and oil pastels. Later in December 2011, he came to New Zealand with his family. He started to use oil paint as his favourite medium since then. After finishing high school in 2015, he went on to study carpentry at Unitec.
Gavin has had lessons from many different artists before including Merv Appleton and Paul Deacon. Now he is studying under a Chinese master in Chinese painting and calligraphy. Gavin is trying different ways to improve his craft, but what he has gained the most out of his tutors is friendship.
Gavin is an award-winning portrait and figurative artist. As a young emerging artist, he is still experimenting on different styles, subjects and mediums to search for growth. At the moment, he is working on a new series of works called “Life as a Builder”, inspired by his time learning and working as a carpenter to build a house with his friends last year. He is planning to have a solo exhibition with this new series of works either this year or next year at a prestigious gallery.
Gavin draws inspirations from his life experiences, his surroundings, works by other artists he likes as well as classical music.
Advice from Gavin: “Always renew your mind and find new inspirations before things get old…”
Notable Honours and Awards:
-KG Fraser Award (Best in Show) Royal Easter Show Art Competition 2014, Auckland, NZ.
-Royal Agricultural Society Medal (Most successful artist in show) Royal Easter Show Art Competition 2014. Auckland, NZ.
-Twice selected as a finalist in the prestigious National Adam Portraiture Award, 2014 and 2016, Wellington, NZ.
-1st Place Small Works Category, Royal Easter Show Art Competition 2016, Auckland, NZ.
-1st Place Professional Oil/Acrylic category, Royal Easter Show Art Competition 2016, Auckland NZ.
-1st Place “Pushing the Boundaries” category, Royal Easter Show Art Competition 2015,
-Emerging Artist Winner Online Art Muse Contest 2017
CRAFTS FOR THE GALLERY
We are now able to display ceramics, pottery, woodwork and sculptures. Any of our working members who are involved in the above arts please bring your creations to the next changeover. The cost to display for the month is $2 per item and 20% commission must be included in your pricing.
PORTRAIT GROUP
Wednesdays 10am – 12pm, $2 per session.
Venue: “Hobbies Room,” Highlands Retirement Village, 49 Aberfeldy Avenue, Highland Park.
This is an untutored, informal session and all members are welcome. We require sitters each week and give them their portraits, so if you, or someone you know, could help us out by sitting, please contact: diana.knight21@gmail.com Mob: 022 076 0422
THE SOLO ROOM for the Month of October: A Group Of Friends – Various Artists Howick Art Group
For info and photos see Member’s Gallery, Solo Room for the Month.
The next changeover date is the last Sunday of October 2017.