An enthusiastic audience welcomed local artist Erik Petrie to the club studio on Tuesday evening. Erik gave us an excellent demonstration of some of his techniques with acrylics giving the audience an interesting insight into his history, experience and motivation. He used a loose approach to his landscape painting, basing his demo on a photograph of Elie beach.
We hope to have Eric back at the club in the future.
The Clubs Featured Artist in the Kingsgate Gallery for the month of January 2020 is Helen Rowbotham. Here is a selection of paintings from Helen’s display on “The Wall”. More details and images are available on our Facebook Page via the link above..
The club will be hosting a demonstration by local artist Erik Petrie at the Townhill Studio on Tuesday 28th January commencing 7.00 (until 9.00)
On the night, Erik will be demonstrating a Fife Coastal Scene in Acrylic. You can have a look at examples of his work by visiting his Facebook Page, Erik Petrie Artwork by clicking on the highlighted link.
Members wishing to attend should add their name to the notice in the club studio. There will be a £3 fee for this event payable in advance if possible to Annette Burgess or any other Committee Member.
Following the Christmas Lunch at the Club on 18th December, the Club premises in Townhill will effectively be closed over Christmas and New Year. The club will reopen as usual from Monday 6th January 2020.
Some changes have been introduced relating to the sale of craft material and browser items (unframed original paintings and mounted prints) in the Club Gallery :
Dunfermline Art Club Gallery in the Kingsgate Shopping Centre, will soon be accepting submissions from members for the next Gallery hanging period which will run from 16th January through 29th February. New exhibits will be accepted during normal Gallery opening hours (12-4 pm on Thursday 9th, Friday 10th and Saturday 11th January). Paintings will be hung on Tuesday 14th in advance of the Gallery re-opening on 16th. A maximum five pictures may be submitted. A new hanging fee of £2.50 per picture will apply, and, where four pictures are paid for, the fifth will be hung for free . A commission of 25% will be taken on painting sales.
Original artworks only (which comply with the clubs framing standards) 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.
Here are a couple of photographs provided by our Events Programme Co-ordinator Annette Burgess from last Tuesdays Bird Pastel Painting Demonstration by Lara Scouller. The demo was held at the clubs Townhill Studio.
The Clubs Featured Artist in the Kingsgate Gallery from now until 11th January 2020 is Tony Felton. Here is a selection from Tony’s excellent work now on display on “The Wall”. More details and additional images are also available on our Dunfermline Art Club Facebook Page. The button at the top will take you straight there.
The winner of the public vote for best painting in our recent Winter Exhibition was Alison Chalmers’s portrait “Proximo” (Oliver Reed in the film Gladiator)) with 33 votes out of the 500 votes cast. Peter Atherton and R S Henry’s paintings came next, tied with 21 votes each
This years Christmas Party will be on on Wednesday 18th December at 12.30.p.m.in the club.