Events Archives - Howick Art Group

2022 WORKSHOPS & Weekly Thursday Workshop

November 30, 2022 By admin 1 Comment

A workshop will be held on Sunday, 27th December from 10am-3pm at the Uxbridge Art Centre, Uxbridge Road, Howick. Ria Van Rooyen will be demonstating in Acrylics. Numbers are limited. You will be able to sign up and pay at our next Members Night or at Green Gables Gallery if there are still spaces.

A workshop with Ria Van Rooyen

A workshop on ‘Skies & Clouds’ with Jan Hart

A workshop using various techniques with Paul Deacon

A watercolour workshop with Claudia Slater

A watercolour workshop with Claudia Slaney

WEEKLY THURSDAY WORKSHOP @ 10am-1pm

Hello Members,

Just a reminder of our weekly painting sessions every Thursday from 10.00am – 1.00pm at the old Bucklands Beach Yacht Club hall. (This is not to be confused with the BBYC at Half Moon Bay)

For those of you who are unfamiliar with this venue, you will find it on Marine parade at Bucklands Beach, on the beach side of the road, where the road turns, between little Bucklands Beach, and the main beach. There is a car park and you can also park on the road outside.

We also incorporate still life drawing or painting, pastels, and any other medium of your choice.
“En plein air” weather permitting, as we have awesome views of the estuary to Rangitoto its a good reason to have an outdoor painting session, (or paint from the window) And if you are interested in learning about something or have an idea please let us know and we will try to accommodate you.
You are also free to bring along something you are working on, (you don’t have to participate in any group work) and get inspiration and feedback, or just come along for a chat, and meet fellow artists and exchange ideas.
Tea, coffee, and biscuits are provided.

This group will continue to mid-December before it recesses till the new year.

Elise De Silva
President

Solo Room for DECEMBER 2022 & JANUARY 2023

November 30, 2022 By Howick2 Leave a Comment

Artists: Various from Howick Art Group

Theme: Modern & Contemporary

Our local artists from around the East Auckland area have contributed to a fine exhibition using various mediums and subjects to portray the modern genre. There are many years of talent and skill in oils, acrylics, mixed media and watercolours, and the display is bright and vibrant. From smaller works to larger ones, there is something for everyone. As we are closed from 12:30pm on Sunday 18th December, over the Christmas/New Year period, these works will be on display for two months.
We reopen on Friday 6th January.

Call in on a Friday, or over the weekend to have a chat to one of the artists on duty and to also see the latest exhibition of some of our other Howick Art Group artist’s fine work and talent.

NOVEMBER 2022 Monthly Meeting

November 11, 2022 By Howick Leave a Comment

NEXT MEETING: WEDNESDAY 23RD NOVEMBER 2022
FENCIBLE LOUNGE, UXBRIDGE RD, HOWICK (NEXT TO THE HOWICK LIBRARY).

AGM & Christmas Gathering

President’s Letter

Hello members,

Our next club night will be held on Wednesday, 23rd November and will be our last for the year. The first item on the agenda will be our AGM. This will be a short formality followed by our End of Year/Christmas Party. This is always a really fun night so it would be great to have you along, especially for our newer members. This is an informal opportunity to mingle with other members and to make new friends. Please bring a plate of food to share. Wine and juice will be provided. We will also have our traditional Table Setting competition, so put your creative hats on and design a fun/beautiful/silly table arrangement.

Pop-up Exhibition at Howick Information Centre:
Last Saturday we had an exhibition in the Howick Information Centre during the Howick Markets. It was a great success, with loads of the public coming through, and good sales. Thank you so much to those who brought along their work and for those who manned the desk. I was especially happy to see so many new members exhibiting their work for the first time. Good on you! It takes courage to put your work out into the world for criticism and judgment, so well done!

Bruce McLaren Village Exhibition:
Our next exhibition event will be at the Bruce McLaren Village on the first weekend of December.

The Village has put in a lot of effort to promote this, and after so many cancellations over the past two years due to COVID, they are very excited to finally host us. 10% of our sales will be donated to the Village’s nominated charity which, for this year, is the Fred Hallows Foundation. A very worthy cause indeed. So, let’s do our best to support this event and show them the amazing talent of our Howick Art Group members!

The exhibition will continue over Saturday and Sunday from 10am-3pm. We will need lots of volunteers to help cover the roster during this event, so please step forward.
Please bring your easels and paintings on Friday, 2nd December at 1pm. If you are new and do not have a display easel, still bring some paintings along, as there should be spare ones you can use. If you are going to be away, but would still like to exhibit your work, please email me, and we will make arrangements. Bruce McLaren is going to a lot of effort for this event, so I would love for us to have as many paintings on display as possible. Please ensure your paintings have swing tags and labels with the name of the painting, medium and price. Also ensure your paintings, frames and glass are clean.
If you have any questions about this event, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Dates for the Diary:

Wednesday, 23rd November – AGM and End of Year Party

Sunday, 27th November – Changeover at the Cottage

2-4th December – Exhibition for members at Bruce McLaren Village, 795 Chapel Road, Howick Friday, 2nd – Set up at 1pm in the lounge at the Bruce McLaren Village.
– Cocktail evening opening 5pm-6pm (please RSVP).
Saturday and Sunday exhibition open to the public from 10am-3pm.

Sunday, 18th December 12:30pm – Cottage Gallery closes until next year.

Friday, 6th January 2023 – Cottage Gallery reopens

Wednesday, 22nd February 2023 – First Club Night of the new year.

Stay safe, and happy painting.
Elise De Silva

Our 2023 committee members are:

President – Elise De Silva
Vice President – Merv Appleton
Secretary – Carina Sim-Smith
Treasurer – Liz Payne
Membership – Amanda Gleason
Gallery & Library – Janice Skinner
Committee – Jennie Henry

Off committee member is:
Website & Library – Wendy Oey

Mid Winter Exhibition 2022

April 18, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

The Mid Winter Exhibition is held at the Fencible Lounge in July each year for four days from Thursday to Sunday. This is a members only exhibition. Exhibitors are required for 2-3 hourly roster duties during this exhibition.

New Classes for Midwinter
Last year we moved from medium based categories to genre based categories.
The classes will be as follows:

Class 1. Landscape.
This includes Cityscapes, which covers our urban environment and architecture, it also covers farm
buildings and equipment, garden scenes, lakes, and rivers.
Class 2. Seascape and Marine.
This includes the ocean, ships, small boats, sail boats, coastal, beaches, harbours, wharves and
boatyards etc.
Class 3. Portraits.
This includes figurative work, and the human form studies.
Class 4. Still life.
This includes objects, floral arrangements, indoors or outdoors, pot plants etc.
Class 5. Abstract.
This covers contemporary, and modern art.
Class 6. Wild Life.
This covers all animal life including pets and bird life.

NB. We have dropped mixed media as this is included in any genre.

Reason for Change
One of the main purposes of the committee is to advance the group. All major exhibitions are moving towards this kind of categorisation, so your committee felt the Howick Art Group should align with the best. It doesn’t matter what medium is used; it is the genre that counts. When judging, you are looking at composition, tonal values, techniques used and what the artist is trying to say. In other words, it is the painting that counts. If we stick to medium, then it is all about how the artist used their particular medium etc. not the painting. We feel it is better and fairer grouping genres together as is the trend overseas.
If you have any questions, or are unsure which class to enter your work, please phone:

President, Elise De Silva 0273288760

1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 1 merit for each category
Overall Best in Show Award
People’s Choice (to be awarded at the end of the exhibition after the count of votes)

Entry forms come out with the June Newsletter

2022 Howick Art Group Mid Winter Exhibition Registration Form (copies are attached to your member’s June Newsletter, are available from Green Gables Art Gallery or also available at our June Club Night.)

Other Events, Exhibitions | Competitions

December 11, 2021 By admin Leave a Comment

Howick Art Group Art Exhibition & Sale

Hi Everyone,

We are very lucky to have permission from the Howick Village Association to put up our tents and display our art at the Fencible Green (between the old Hammer Hardware and Wild Wheat) on Saturday, 18th December. This is a great opportunity to get exposure for the club and sell some paintings! It is the last Saturday before Christmas, and with the Howick Market back up and running, we are sure to get lots of people coming through. Please support this event by bringing along your artwork and easels. If you don’t have an easel, I’m sure someone can share with you. Tents will go up at 9am and pack up at 2pm. Please be prompt and it would be lovely to have volunteers to man the event. Barry and Niels will need help with the tents so they will need helpers.

If the weather is inclement, we will cancel.
Everyone must wear masks and follow social distancing etc.
Can’t wait to see you there.

Art events and exhibitions, both local and in the greater Auckland area, are entered at the artists own discretion.
Some are as follows:

Matakana Art Festival

A&P Royal Easter Show
McLeans College Art Sale
Corban Estate Art Exhibition

Original Art Sale
Franklin Art Exhibition
Snells Beach Art Festival

Exhibitions | Competitions

March 1, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment

HOWICK ART GROUP MID-WINTER EXHIBITION 20-23 July 2018 9am-4pm

Coming up is another excellent and inspirational exhibition by artists from the Howick Art Group. This judged exhibition is looked forward to every year and highlights the wonderful talent and creativity of our local artists of many different ages. The opening night for the Artists, associate members and their families and friends is for the presentation of prizes in six catergories for Oil, Acrylic, Watercolour, Mixed Media, Dry Art, and Abstract. There is also a Best In Show, and an opportunity for the public to choose People’s Choice.

The show is open to the public from Thursday 20 July- Sunday 23 July 9am-4pm. All art is for sale.

WINNERS:

Watercolour – 1st David Percival for ‘Hunuas from Waitawa’, 2nd Siew Tan for ‘Risk Fishing’, 3rd David Szeto for ‘Irises’, Merit Keith Galvin for ‘Chelsey Refinery’, Merit Mary Maxwell for ‘Cottage’.

Dry Art – 1st Gavin Chai for ‘Feeling Blue’, 2nd Wai Leng Ong for ‘Wide Awake’, 3rd Christine Lloyd for Maestro’s Hands’.

Abstract – 1st Rae McKeown for ‘Birds Eye View’, 2nd Ken Tanner for ‘Bamboo’, 3rd Pat Neilson for ‘Wheels within Wheels’.

Mixed Media – 1st Wendy Oey for ‘View from the Top’, 2nd Pam French for ‘Lonely Bellbird’, 3rd Wai Leng Ong for ‘Paua of Water’.

Oil – 1st Gavin Chai for ‘Under the Morning Sun’, 2nd David McArthur for ‘King of the Sky’, 3rd Mabel Heatherwick for ‘Night Sky 17’, Merit Marjorie Werner for ‘Harbour Inaction’, Merit David McArthur for ‘Nude’.

Acrylic – 1st Jan Porritt for ‘Emma’, 2nd Marjorie Werner for ‘Elle’, 3rd Joan Lu for ‘Andre Rieu’, Merit Merv Appleton for ‘Rock Study’, Merit Cecilia Liang for ‘Autumn’, Merit Lesley Keene for ‘Ladies Bay’.

OVERALL WINNER – BEST IN SHOW: Wendy Oey for ‘View From the Top’ Mixed Media

ROYAL EASTER SHOW 2017

Congratulations to all those members who won awards at the Royal Easter Show over Easter weekend. Twenty-four of our members entered work into the competition and eleven of those won awards. A wonderful achievement for our group. Many of those who entered also sold their paintings. Well done to you all.
Prize Winners

2nd Prize Raymond Hickey – Calm after Storm
3rd Prize Raymond Hickey – South Island Splendour
3rd Prize Gavin Chai – Portrait of Zeke
3rd Prize Gavin Chai – Afternoon Light
Merit Merv Appleton – Boat Shed Mt. Tarawera
Merit Merv Appleton – Evening Sail
Merit Sue Collyns – The King of the Forest
Merit Keith Galvin – Fleurs Place, Moeraki
Merit Mirene Gebbie – Kingfisher
Merit David McArthur – I Wish
Merit David McArthur – Nude in Egg Shell
Merit Jill McArthur – Sitting Pretty
Merit Mary Maxwell – Bald Eagle No1
Merit Pat Nielsen – Wheels within Wheels
Merit David Szeto – Gannet Beach Adventure
Merit David Szeto – Cathedral in Spain

BRUCE MCLAREN RETIREMENT VILLAGE ART SHOWCASE
Sat 17th & Sun 18th March 2018 10am-4pm

We are again holding an exhibition at Bruce McLaren Retirement Village starting Friday 16th March with a Cocktail Evening at 6 p.m. Open to public Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th 10am to 4pm. Encouraged by the success of this event last year we are happy that together with Bruce McLaren’s management, we are able to bring this event to fruition again.

A $200 Gift Basket will be provided by Bruce McLaren for a lucky draw with each entry voting for their favourite painting.
Free entry. Entries must be in by Sunday 11 March, limited to four paintings. Please note you must be a financial member to take place in this exhibition.

PAKARANGA PLAZA
Sat 12 November 9am-5.30am
Outside Farmers

This is a great opportunity just before Christmas to display and sell some paintings. One easel with a max of four paintings to be displayed per person. You can share an easel.

HOWICK ART GROUP ART FESTIVAL
Sat 19 & Sun 20 November 10am-3pm and Sat 26 & Sun 27 November 10am-3pm
Hawthornden Reserve, 66 Cook Street, Howick

Our last year’s Art Festival was such a success that we decided to make this an annual event. This year’s Art Festival will be held on the weekends of 19 & 20 November and 26 & 27 November, 10am-3pm.
A tent will be erected on the lawn of Hawthornden Reserve close to the street and one outside the Green Gables Cottage Gallery regardless of the weather.
Be there for a 9.30am set up, bring your own easels and a heavy rice or sand bag to secure them to the ground. You need your own labels, include 20% commission and all artwork must be original. No prints and no copies. It would be great if you can do a duty.

Bruce McLaren Retirement Village Art Showcase
Sat 12 & Sun 13 March 2016 10am-4pm

The Art Showcase at Bruce McLaren as stated below was a great show and thoroughly enjoyed by all who came. It is hopefully the first of many to be held there. In fine surroundings, and with a relaxed atmosphere, both public and residents wandered through the exhibition taking in the many different and varied styles, mediums and subjects of painted works. With a very comfortable nearby lounge available for a cup of tea or coffee and a slice of cake, many came back again for a second look and finally went home with a treasured work of art.

A fabulous exhibition of fine art paintings will be presented for sale at the Bruce McLaren Retirement Village in Chapel Road, East Auckland by the Howick Art Group.

Art representing many well known and up and coming artists from the Howick Art Group will be shown. Many of our artists have won places and merits at various exhibitions throughout the Auckland area, in NZ and overseas. Mediums include: Oil, Acrylic, Watercolour, Dry Art (Pastels, Pen & Ink, Charcoal, Pencil), & Mixed Media in many different styles.

Framed and ready to hang. All are for purchase with eftpos available.

Due to the Bruce McLaren Village parking being limited to residents and visitors please park on Chapel Road.

Click on the PDF below for Art Showcase information.

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