Hawkesbury Artists and Artisans Trail Open Weekend 25th and 26th August

A quick reminder regarding the Hawkesbury Artists and Artisans Trail Open Weekend this weekend!

25th and 26th August

All Studios and Galleries will be open on this weekend including our MTAS Yarramundi Hall.

We welcome you to come along and exhibit your works for these days to support our membership of the Trail.

This year we thought it would be a good occasion to use our Hall for more of an Artists at work kind of feel. We will be hanging works and displaying crafts as well.

Last year we had a good response and we are hoping to do the same again. Please check out the www.haat.com.au website for more information.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Reminders & Demo Meeting 14th August Joe Cartwright

A few reminders for you all. Lots of great opportunities this month to exhibit, sell your work and share with like minded artists in the area.

Market Place Exhibition 16^th – 19^th Aug

Next week we have our Marketplace exhibition in Richmond. All works are to be brought in for hanging early before the center opens on the morning of thursday 16^th before 9am please.

This is usually a successful exhibition for us so look forward to seeing you there. If you are exhibiting please also volunteer for some duty time and help with setup and take down is always appreciated.

Hawkesbury Artists and Artisans Trail Open Weekend 25^th & 26^th Aug

Many thanks to those who brought artworks and assisted in the Hawkesbury Artists and Artisans Trail Brochure Launch on the 27^th & 28^th of July at the Magnolia Mall in Richmond. It was a great success. 

We will have an open weekend exhibition on the weekend of 25^th & 26^th of August at our Yarramundi Hall for the HAAT Open Studio Weekend. We look forward to seeing your works for this as all members of the Trail will be open that weekend and we can make good use of our membership that way.

Field Day is on the 18^th of Aug at Pugh’s Lagoon

Hopefully the weather will be lovely, so look forward to seeing you there if you can make it.

Paint Along Day is also on Wednesday 22^nd August at our Yarramundi Hall.

Monthly Demonstration Meeting 14^th Aug – Joe Cartwright

This month for our Demonstration meeting on Tuesday 14^th of August we are pleased to welcome back Joe Cartwright with his wonderful watercolours.

Joe Cartwright’s watercolour paintings have a fluid spontaneity to them. He captures mood and atmosphere, painting with a style that draws the viewer closer to the work.

Joe’s paintings cover a wide range of subjects across landscapes, town life, flowers, portraits and figures. He prefers the freedom of exploring a variety of themes rather than a single focus, to allow room for expression, and the potential for any inspiration to lead to an exciting work of art.

After ten years of creative nigglings, Joe started painting in 1998. Today he paints prolifically and runs weekly watercolour lessons at the Nepean Art Society in Penrith, where he encourages his students to "enjoy the journey" as they learn from every painting they attempt: “there are no failures”. Every point in the painting process is an opportunity to learn and to have fun with experimentation, texture, colour and observation.

Joe is always looking for an interesting viewpoint, and sees his work as an opportunity to bring something new, undiscovered or unexpected to his audience, connecting people more closely with the world around them. “I think artists are able to show people something they have not seen or noticed”.

He explains, “I believe we see the world with more intensity through active observation.”

Recognition for Joe’s work has come both in the form of students wanting to learn his craft, as well as prizes and inclusion in exhibitions, including the John Copes Watercolour Prize in 2009, and the annual Australian Watercolour Institute Exhibition. He has also had articles about his work published in the Australian Artist Magazine and his work is represented in private collections in Australia and overseas.

For now, Joe’s greatest achievements are realised when his creativity manifests in the form of beautiful, atmospheric watercolours, bringing viewers in, and heightening their connection with the world.

Making that connection, and sharing it by teaching his craft to interested students - encouraging both the passion and technical know-how - keeps Joe’s artistic world turning.

Check out Joe’s website at http://www.joecartwright.com.au/

Both Members and Non Members are welcome to join us for our meetings to view an inspirational artist at work each month, as well as the opportunity to enjoy networking with like-minded art enthusiasts.

7.30pm Tuesday 14th August 2012 at the Stan Stevens Studio, Windsor Library, Deerubbin Centre, George St, Windsor (Please arrange to park outside of Library due to carpark early closure)
Entry $5 MTAS members and visitors (includes supper) Enquiries Sharron ph 4572 5580

Macquarie Towns Art Society has been active in the Hawkesbury area for 50 years. New memberships with the society are always welcome. For further details please contact Satya on 0405 337 652

Look forward to seeing you all there!

MTAS 10th July Demo meeting Angelika Erbsland

MTAS are proud to welcome Angelika Erbsland for our demonstartion meeting this month.


About Angelika
 
Angelika's artistic journey began as a very young child, and it is still a passionate journey. German born, Angelika grew up in Australia. After studying for an associate diploma in Art and Craft at TAFE in Adelaide in 1983, began teaching painting, drawing and ceramics at TAFE in Adelaide. As well as conducting private classes.

Angelica established mainly as a portrait artist, but also had several solo and group shows there before moving to Sydney in 1995. Painting many prominent people, including Dame Roma Mitchell, politicians and jockeys, and famous race horses. It was a portrait of Colin Hayes the horse trainer, with his favourite horse that won the Packer’s award at the Archibald Exhibition in 1993. That painting is now hanging in Lindsay Park.

Angelika likes to travel and paint in different environments, and sometimes will simply be inspired by music or an emotion that she wishes to express.
Because Angelika's background is in portraiture and life drawing, often the landscape impressions will meld with figures and faces, layering images to give meaning to a painting.

Colour is important, believing it influences our lives on many levels Angelika has studied colour in many ways over the years and this allows her to work intuitively with colour and the concepts of yin and yang, which are echoed in the strong relationship contrasting in her work.

Constantly exploring watercolours, pastels, oils, acrylics and mixed media, and enjoying them all, exhibiting regularly in Sydney as well as in Adelaide. Angelika's work has been featured in the Artist’s Palette magazine. Having won over 50 prizes in various art shows since 1983, 21 of these were 1st prizes, including the Packer’s award at the Archibald in 1993.

Angelika began teaching at the Castle Hill Art Society in 1997, and likes to introduce various media to her students.

Angelika still enjoys doing figurative work and drawing but also likes to move toward abstraction from time to time, and my travels have provided me with inspiration for landscape and other subjects. Living and working in Sydney, and also having a retreat with studio at Hill End, Angelika finds the area inspirational for painting as well as having an annual workshop there.

With regular workshops and demonstrations in and around Sydney as well as interstate and overseas, Angelika also takes portrait and other commissions.

For more, you can have a look at Angelika's website www.angelikaerbsland.com

Everyone is welcome to join us for this special evening with Angelika demonstrating, as well as the opportunity to enjoy networking with like-minded art enthusiasts.

7.30pm Tuesday 10th July 2012 at the Stan Stevens Studio, Windsor Library, Deerubbin Centre, George St, Windsor (Please arrange to park outside of Library due to carpark early closure)
Entry $5 MTAS members and visitors (includes supper) Enquiries Sharron ph 4572 5580

MTAS June Demo Meeting 12th June

We are pleased to welcome Leanne Jones back as our demonstrator for our June Monthly meeting, Tuesday 12th 2012. Leanne will be doing a demonstration for mixed media and will have some great creative techniques to show us all.

Leanne was born in Sydney and from early childhood she has been fascinated by Watercolour after she received a gift of a set of Watercolours for her 6th Birthday. After leaving school Leanne studied Advertising at East Sydney Technical College - National Art School.

Leanne's earlier artistic persuit was ceramics and she became a talented potter and she sold her work through several local galleries in the Blue Mountains and the Hawkesbury.

Twenty six years ago, Leanne and her family moved to the Hawkesbury, and it was here that her desire to rekindle her love of Watercolour took hold.

Leanne paints watercolour on a wide variety of supports – handmade paper, watercolour canvas and Yupo paper. Travelling inspires Leanne in her search for fresh subject matter and she enjoys painting en plein air with a group of local artists and she finds the environment she lives in particularly inspiring.

Leanne displays and sells her work in her studio/gallery, which is located in the Hawkesbury Highlands, on the escarpment of the Blue Mountains, overlooking the Hawkesbury with stunning views to Sydney.  Her studio is open to the public, last Sunday of the month between 10.00am and 3.30pm or ring to confirm other times.  She holds an open studio weekend in March and August each year and exhibits her work, locally, regionally and in Sydney.

She exhibits her work widely and has won numerous awards for her watercolours and was a finalist at the 2008, 2009, 2010 Art of Sydney Awards at Darling Harbour.  Her paintings are held in private collections in Australia, United Kingdom and the USA and her most recent exhibition, was in 2008/2009 at Sassafras Creek Gallery at Kurrajong, NSW and she recently had the good fortune to become a published Artist with a featured article on Watercolour painting in Artists Palette Magazine Issue 85.

Leanne is an exhibiting member of Macquarie Towns Arts Society, Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Collection and Regional Gallery and she is a founding member and current President of the Hawkesbury Artists and Artisans Trail. (www.haat.com.au)

Leanne teaches Watercolour and Drawing in her studio/gallery to small groups, and is available for Workshops and Demonstrations and Art Parties. Commissioned work is also welcome.

Take a look at Leanne's website at www.mellowcrest.com

Macquarie Towns Art Society has been active in the Hawkesbury area for many years. New memberships with the society are always welcome.

Our art demonstration meetings are becoming more & more popular! Everyone is welcome to join us for a very special evening with Paul demonstrating as well as a great opportunity to enjoy networking with like-minded art enthusiasts of all ages.

7.30pm Tuesday 12th June 2012 at the Stan Stevens Studio, Windsor Library, Deerubbin Centre, George St, Windsor (Please arrange to park outside of Library due to carpark early closure)

Entry $5 MTAS members and visitors (includes supper). For enquiries ph Sharron 02 4572 5580

Autumn Exhibition 2012

MTAS May Art Demo Meeting 8th May

Macquarie Towns Arts Society are very excited to be featuring Paul McCarthy - Acrylics demonstrator as our May art demonstrator on Tuesday evening 8th May.

Paul has been painting and selling his work for the last 25 years. At the end of 2000 he left the corporate world where he worked in logistics management to paint full time. In those endeavours he has had numerous solo and joint exhibitions both here and overseas, including a joint exhibition in Soho New York in 2001.

 

Paul has worked extensively as a community artist in varied capacities including working with a remote aboriginal community, high schools, and acting curator for the Sydney Children's Hospital. He has also coordinated several groups of volunteers working with groups covering the Sydney Children's Hospital, the Sydney Cancer Centre at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital as well as adults with disabilities at Studio Artes Hornsby.

He is a sought after prize winning tutor who brings a sense of fun and excitement to the classroom, encourages individuality as well as developing design composition and colour skills.

 

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Macquarie Towns Art Society has been active in the Hawkesbury area for many years. New memberships with the society are always welcome.

Our art demonstration meetings are becoming more & more popular! Everyone is welcome to join us for a very special evening with Paul demonstrating as well as a great opportunity to enjoy networking with like-minded art enthusiasts of all ages.

7.30pm Tuesday 8th May 2012 at the Stan Stevens Studio, Windsor Library, Deerubbin Centre, George St, Windsor (Please arrange to park outside of Library due to carpark early closure)
Entry $5 MTAS members and visitors (includes supper). Enquiries Narelle ph 4565 9222.

MTAS Paint Along Day, Children's Art Classes & Life Drawing

Paint Along Days

A reminder that we have our "Paint Along Day" at Yarramundi Community Centre for 16th May from 10am to approx 3pm. Proving to be a big success and lots of fun!!

Bring your painting gear and lunch. Morning tea is provided. For any enquiries regarding the seniors Peppercorn bus transport to and back from Yarramundi please contact Narelle Ward on 02 4565 9222 for essential bookings (limited numbers available). There is also seniors Peppercorn bus service leaving Windsor at 10am. At 10.15am the bus will go via Richmond. Speak to Narelle for pickup locations. Bus leaves to go back at 3.30pm. 

 

Childrens After School Art classes Term 2:

For kids! Started Mon 30th April & Wed 2nd May at Richmond Art Supplies Art Shop, Magnolia Mall, Richmond. The teacher is Marcella Pyke. The cost is $80 for the 8 week term incl. materials. Call Deidre on 0412 979 731 enrollments welcome.

 

MTAS Life Drawing Group:

3rd Tuesday of each month i.e. the next Tuesday following MTAS Demo meeting. 7pm to 9.30pm. Cost is $10. Model, esaels & supper provided. BYO drawing materials. Group meets at Richmond Art Supplies Art Shop, Magnolia Mall, Richmond. Call Deidre on 0412 979 731 for bookings & details.