Dear Members,
Thank you to all members who helped with the Alston Hall exhibition. Alston were very pleased with the standard of our work, and have booked us for December 2009/January 2010 and have requested us also to exhibit during the autumn of 2010.
Paintings Sold: Eric Sunderland "Breakwaters"
Susan Triggs "Ready for work" & 2 ceramic cats.
As you will know the Silverman Hall opening was very successful with about 180 visitors, 9 paintings were sold and it was lovely that our former chairman Neil Terry was well enough to open the exhibition for us. Paintings to be collected on Friday 13th March at 4.00pm
Future exhibitions:-
There are some changes to what I have written before, so please read carefully, thank you.
You can enter two paintings to each of the two venues below.
Hollingworth Lake exhibition The Visitors Centre, Rakewood Road, Littleborough, Rochdale. [open Wednesday 25th March to Easter Monday 13th April 2009, 9.30am to 5.00pm]
The exhibition will be erected on the morning of Wednesday 25th March and taken down on morning of Tuesday 14th April 2009.
If you are unable to go, please contact Peter Catlow [exhibition manager] or Sandra Connelly, and deliver your paintings to them the day before on Tuesday 24th March. Paintings from the Silverman Hall exhibition would be very suitable.
The Centre charge 10% commission, [on top of Pendle Artists similar charge of 10%]
Gawthorpe Hall exhibition (open Wednesday 1st April to Friday 28th May 2009, Tuesdays to Thursdays, Saturdays & Sundays, Good Friday & Bank Holiday Mondays 1.00pm to 5.00pm) National Trust, entrance charge.
This gallery is on the top floor of the house in an airy room with large wall spaces, [there is no lift]. The pictures from the Silverman Hall exhibition can be included if suitable, the Hall are advertising our exhibition as"including pictures of the Pendle area".
Please deliver your labelled paintings on the morning of Monday 30th March between 9.00am and 11.00am, and carry them up the stairs to the Gallery, unpack them and take home the boxes.
You may also bring properly labelled and mounted work for the portfolio, this to be listed on your entry form for the information of the Hall. The Hall charge 20% commission, [on top of Pendle Artists charge of 10%.]
Please return your 2 forms to me to arrive by the Thursday 19th March so that labels can be printed by Eric Sunderland.
Please spread the word about our new web-site, excellently constructed by our membership secretary Avril Polak. www.pendleartists.co.uk
Susan Byrne (Secretary)