The club will be hosting a demonstration by artist George Birrell at the Townhill Studio on Tuesday 23rd April commencing 7.00 (until 9.00). George’s Demo will be on the subject “Painting from Memory”. Members wishing to attend should append their name to the notice posted on the club Workshops / Demos Noticeboard.
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The Clubs Featured Artist in the Kingsgate Gallery for the month of April 2019 is Helen Rowbotham. Here is a selection of paintings from Helens’s display on “The Wall”. See more on our Facebook Page.
The Club Secretary has provided the following information relating to submission of entries to the Dunfermline Ambulance Station Exhibition. – “Members who are exhibiting at the Dunfermline Ambulance Station Exhibition should take in their paintings between 3 pm and 7 pm on Tuesday 2nd April direct to the Station. Our contact at the Station is Neil Gillies and the address is KY11 8UK almost opposite the new fire station on the Pitreavie Industrial Estate.”
Here are a couple of photographs provided by our Events Programme Co-ordinator Annette Burgess from last Tuesdays Flower Landscape Painting Demonstration by Sharon Black. The demo was held at the clubs Townhill Studio.
The Club Secretary has provided the following information relating to the proposed Dunfermline Ambulance Station Exhibition. – “The Notice for members to enter details of the exhibits they intend to enter is now on the Exhibitions noticeboard. Members should sign up with details of their entry by 15.00 hrs next Wednesday, 27th March.”
The club will be hosting a demonstration by artist Sharon Black at the Townhill Studio on Tuesday 26th March commencing 7.00 (until 9.00). Sharon will be demonstrating flower landscapes interpreting them in unusual textured acrylics. She incorporates gesso, texturising medium and ink in her paintings Members wishing to attend should append their name to the notice posted on the club Workshops Noticeboard.
There will be a fee of £3 for this event payable (in advance if possible) to Annette Burgess.
Discussions have been taking place between club representatives and Dunfermline Ambulance Station to allow the display of around twenty members paintings on a permanent / rotation basis at the new Ambulance Station premises in Dunfermline. These paintings will be available for sale. Working arrangements for this venture are yet to be finalised but will be along the following lines:
There would be a catalogue of pictures that were being hung kept in the Station office with prices of pictures and how to pay. The 20% commission on each picture sold will go to a charity – the Scottish Air Ambulance Service was suggested.
There is room for about 20 paintings depending on size, using the mess room (11 paintings), the corridor to the conference room (3 or 4 pictures) and the long corridor (6 to 8 pictures). The arrangement for entering pictures will be similar to that used for the Townhill open day exhibition. A notice for members to enter their pictures will appear on the Exhibitions notice board later this month. To help with planning the hanging, members will be asked to provide external dimensions in centimetres on the application form. It is proposed that the first 20 pictures on the entry notice will be hung and reserves, to be held at home, will be used to replace any pictures sold. The usual standards for framing etc. will apply. The exhibition is for original works only i.e. no prints will be acceptable. Labelling will have to be attached to each picture and not on the walls. (Details to follow later.) The source of pictures, i.e. Dunfermline Art Club, will be declared on a notice/notices in the Station with a reference to the fact that pictures are for sale.
The Station management will be told beforehand how many pictures to expect. Members will be responsible for taking their own pictures to the Ambulance Station. This will probably occur between, say, 3 pm and 7pm on one day early in the week commencing 1st April 2019. (Details to follow later.) Members will need to be told how and when to deliver. Pictures will be changed 2 or 3 times a year.
The Clubs Featured Artist(s) in the Kingsgate Gallery for the month of March 2019 are George and Nancy Aitken. Here is a selection of paintings from their joint display on “The Wall”. More details available on our Facebook Page.
Here are a couple of photographs provided by our Events Programme Co-ordinator Annette Burgess from last Tuesdays Abstract Painting Demonstration by Jane Francis. The demo was held at the clubs Townhill Studio.
Dunfermline Art Club Gallery in Unit 22 Kingsgate Shopping Centre, will soon be accepting members submissions for the next Gallery hanging period which will run from 7th March through 27th April 2019. New exhibits will be accepted during normal Gallery opening hours (12-4 pm on Thursday 28th February, Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd March). Paintings will be hung on Tuesday 5th in advance of the Gallery re-opening on 7th. A maximum five pictures may be submitted and it has been agreed that although the hanging fee will remain at £2 per picture, where four pictures are paid for, the fifth will be hung for free.
Original artworks only can be accepted for hanging, not prints. However, prints, as well as original unframed pictures, may be submitted for display in the browsers.
Members also should note that the same paintings may not be exhibited in the Gallery on consecutive hanging periods. Unsold items from the previous hanging period should be collected from the Gallery at the earliest convenient opportunity