Dates for your diary….  

Thu3 Mar. Film THE FALL (15) – Members’ choice. Hard Drug references, strong language including racial abuse. see the synopsis under “Film” below.

Fri 4 Mar. Private view -. Brenda Hartill in AF2.

Sat 5 Mar. Private View. 2 – 4.30 pm . Moram in AF1.

 Tue 8 Mar. Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) at 11 am. Pancake Races Toss Off, organized by Philip Bray. Post Office Tearooms. ( Profits to the Pier Trust). See members’ notice below. You have guessed it — there is a prize for the biggest tosser. Philip would like to see  a Forum  team.

Thu 10 Mar.   Hastings Humanists meet in AF2. “Humanism and the State”. Are Humanists Republican? How might Humanists answer the census question  on religious faith? Royal Wedding on 29 Apr and 2011 Census Day on 27 Mar.

 Sat 19 Mar. Private View for “Conflicts in Time”. 6.30 – 8.30. To be opened by the Councillor Kim Forward, Mayor of Hastings at 7 pm.

During the afternoon, it is planned that a re-creation of Sid Beynon’s shingle mosaic of “Nothing” will be laid out on the beach between the High and Low tide marks as part of the workshop for academics that day. See below under “Conflicts in Time” post. The exact format of this recreation will obviously be weather dependent.

Stop Press… 

***Hastings Arts Forum Ltd. The Forum is now incorporated as a Company, Limited by Guarantee. Our official name is “Hastings Arts Forum Ltd.” This is the first step on the way to the Forum becoming a charitable company. The certification is attached to this bulletin for your information.

***Family Workshops Day at the Forum, Sat 26 / Sun 27 Mar – for families with children, 5 – 10 years old. See under “Forthcoming Exhibitions and “Conflicts in Time”. Places must be reserved. First come, first served. This should make a great family day out.

Discount for Forum members. (On  production of a Forum membership card.)

Brookers, Norman Rd  on bills of £10.

Expressions, Kings Rd.  on bills of £10.

Post Office Tearooms. 10% on menu items (not specials )

Relax Café, for meals from the menu.

Jill (and Jack)-in-the-Green 28 April – 3 May. Anyone wanting inspiration / guidance on work for the Jack / Jill-in-the-Green may contact Katherine Reekie.

Katherine has long been a supporter of this Hastings festival and she will also be playing a leading role in a re-creation of Sid Beynon’s “Nothing” mosaic for the Conflicts in Time Workshop day on Sat 19 Mar. Email to k.reekie@hotmail.co.uk.

Hastings Pier. The Chairman attended the consultation meeting on Hastings Pier on 23 February. This meeting was called to put the pier in the context of its surrounds. We were asked to comment on what visitors to Hastings might do after visiting the pier. We suggested that St Leonards ‘art quarter’, SLOS ‘seaside strip’ and Norman Road, were suitable attractions, now the number of attractive and affordable eating places has increased. There is also Burtons St Leonards – a little known gem and is truly Hastings’ best kept secret –why??.

Michael Quinney. Our sympathy to Michael Quinney, who has recently returned to St Leonards from Christchurch, NZ, where he has lived for the last 25 years.

Michael has just learnt that his studio in Christchurch has collapsed after the recent earthquake, along with much of his work and equipment. Michael says he is taking a positive attitude towards what has happened and has started working in St Leonards on new work.

“Inspire”, 34, Robertson Street is seeking life models to assist in its work , running courses in art and art-related projects. For further detail see the posting by Amy King under ‘Members announcements’

Robin Holtom.  Robin, an early member of the Forum in 2003, and a current member of the Arts Committee is planning a series of portraits. He would like to hear from Forum members if they interested in sitting for his project. Email at rachel.holtom@yahoo.com

 Current Exhibition… 

Members’ Exhibition , Surnames M-Z. This is yet another great exhibition of members’ work – the sort that makes you proud to be associated with the Forum. Altogether there are 72 exhibits on show – making a grand total of 157 exhibits for both members’ shows. Sales have been modest, but we are encouraged with four sales at the A-L Exhibition and (to date) four sales from M-Z . The footfall through both galleries appears to be substantially up on recent years and general visitor interest is certainly noted by ‘ team’ behind the desk.

Thanks are due to the Hanging Team, which skillfully sorted and arranged the 157 exhibits into two attractively presented shows -  John Lipsham, Steve Stanton, Debbie Gregory, Paul Beavis and Andre Shipilov.

 Forthcoming Exhibitions…

  – 15 Mar. “if not now, when?” .  moram in AF1. Proceeds, less gallery expenses, to unicef.       

 The title of the exhibition ‘if not now, when?’ came about through my realisation that a lot of the time in my life I am on autopilot. Not really here in the present, unable to really appreciate what I have and what I am doing.

So when I am painting I try to be present, connect with the creative energy of the universe, which of course is available to anyone. I work with words, and how they are connected to what is happening in my life. I now find that I just try to create art … something that is real to me at the time.

 To create a work of abstract art is an exciting part of my life and to find a way to  contribute to society through the charity, unicef, gives me great motivation to carry on painting.

3 – 15 Mar. Brenda Hartill  in AF2. 3 -15 Mar.  For the past 25 years Brenda’s main medium has been print, both etching and collagraph, and she has written a book “Collagraph and mixed media printmaking”. Brenda has recently finished exhibiting in the Curwen and New Academy, London. She will  include new work on embossed watercolours.

Exhibiting in AF2, 3 – 15 Mar 2011

See http://www.brendahartill.com/Brenda_Hartill/New_Unique_Works.html

Conflicts in Time. 17 – 29 Mar in AF1 and AF2. 

 This is an exhibition, where artists express their view on the meaning of time, as a backdrop to a workshop of academics conditioned to verbal expression.

This exhibition is a joint project between the Forum and the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics with funding from the Economic and Social Science Research council (ESRC). The exhibition will be curated by Griselda Bear.

Dr Laura Bear, from the LSE, has been leading a three year long series of seminars in which anthropologists from the UK and USA examine issues of global time. 11 Forum artists have been invited to bring their different forms of expression, which reach beyond the medium of words, to illuminate the Conflicts in Time which the anthropologists have been discussing.  In this exhibition visitors will be seeing time, and many of the puzzles and conflicts that it generates in our lives, through the visually dramatic representations created by the Forum’s  artists.

The Forum artists are   Sue Barnes, Sid Beynon, Rose Biela, Lynne Bingham,

John Hacker, Andrew Moran, Mary Morris, Rosie O’Driscoll, John Plummer and

Annie Rae. Other Forum participants are Laura Bear, Mary Dawson( organizing

a family workshop on Sat 26 Mar) , Harry Lyons, Julian Rumball (puppeteer) and

Nick Weekes ( coordinating musical input – with  thismachine   - Musicians

performing are ‘A Series’ in the gallery on 19 March and on 26 March ‘Warrior

Squares’‘ (Electro/Acoustic improvisations for the family workshops )

 The format of the Families’ Day and workshop has altered. See below.

Family workshops      Memories oer Time    Past Present and Future

10 to 11 am on Saturday 26 — and also Sunday 27 March if enough bookings.

The Workshop is intended for families with children 5 to 10 years

****Booking is essential   Limited places 

 Using objects and photographs from your family we will create positive family stories using artistic display and drama.

Please will children bring a photo of themselves as a baby or infant and a recent self photograph. Also bring precious cts or photographs that hold special family memories. These will be used to construct a display for each family and evoke positive memories.

Each family may wish to act out a memory or future hopes that connect to past memories.

For information and booking contact the facilitator Mary Dawson Rainbow Stories

Email rainbowsmary@phonecoop.coop or telephone 01424 852668

30 March – 13 April. Mark Fisher and Anthony Wynne in AF1.

30 Mar – 6 Apr. “Images from the Id – vii”. Further detail to follow.

8 – 13 Apr . Agniezka Dabrowski.. Paintings.

Members’ Announcements…

Amy King posts – Models wanted !!!!!!!!!!!

Amy has been tasked by “Inspire” in 34,Robertson Street to find Life Models for Life Drawing classes. For more information about “Inspire” see www.inspirehastings.com/. If interested please call Amy on tel (01424) 422588.

Sara Harris posts ‘Affordable Art & Craft Sale’ on Sunday 20th March from 11am to 4pm at 3 Stanhope Place, Burtons St Leonards. Original prints, paintings, ceramics, jewellery, textiles and more by local artists, designers and craftspeople. And everything under £50! If you’re having a studio spring clean and would like to put any items into the sale please contact Sara on sara.bythesea@yahoo.co.uk.

Maureen Connett will be singing classic jazz in Café Relax on Thu 3 Mar @7.30-9.30. She will be accompanied by Andy Williams on the guitar.  Armenian Buffet supper – £10.00.

Alice Mason posts .  I am looking for artists and makers for the Rye Arts and Crafts Fair which is a monthly event in Rye Community Centre.  The next one is on March 5th.  Email: alicemason367@hotmail.com

Peter Heald  posts : Lecture on Art and Photography ‘From today painting is dead’.  This is a quote from Delacroix when photography was first made public.

This day-school at St Matthews Centre, London Rd is on Sat 5 Mar @ 10 -1pm. £6 entry payable at the door. This is a WEA lecture by Bryan Davies.

Pancake Day races. 8 Mar at 11 AM.  Philip Bray ( Old Post Office Tearooms ) is organising a Pancake Race. There will be three races as follows.

1. Top Seafront Tosser
2. Team toss-off
3. Solo Tossers.

Pancakes supplied. Bring your own pan.!! All profits to Hastings Pier Trust.

More info at www.wix.com/potearooms/tossers

 

Mary Dawson posts. Story telling and Story Creating workshop

Hollington Library Tuesday 22^nd February 10 39- 1200

Children 5-10 Accompanied by an adult

To book ring 0345 60 80 196 ask for

Hollington Library      FREE

A Rainbow Stories   Workshop

Caroline Macey posts ;  Life Drawing sessions (untutored ). £7 per session. Now in ballet room  at the Ore Centre Thursdays 1000 – 1200. Tel : 07923494475

Simon Johnson posts : ACCOMMODATION WITH STUDIO SPACE: Rooms available in 4-storey house on West Hill. Sea views. 4/5 bedrooms, approx. 30m2 of heated studio space in basement with natural light, small garden, recently refurbished & updated, two bathrooms & toilets, may suit artist, writer or professional 30+. Contact Simon at SimonFJohnson@me.com for more details. 

Vanessa Fowler, B Ed, (Taught at Hastings College for 20 years) reminds members that she has on-going ceramic classes for adults and children.

After School Club(Mon / Tue / Wed )

Junior Pottery Club – Sat 1200 – 1300.

Adults,( incl one-to-one) as arrasnged. £10 per hour.

Alice King posts “I am a life model. Tel : 07596728128.”

Felipe Hewitt posts : I am a 58 year-old former life guard in Bermuda and in Brighton, now an experienced artists’ and hairdresser’s model. I am a Charles Laughton lookalike. References available.  Tel: 01273 275955.

 

Anna Casson posts :  I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 7791794103

FILM…St Leonards Film Society. 

Thu 3 Mar . 7 for 7.45. The Fall (15). Come early and meet fellow members and guests – Coffee or a glass of wine and a chat. 

‘The Fall’ synopsis …AIn a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances…

POETRY…

The Poetry Group will next meet in the Forum on Sat 12 Mar at 4 pm. The focus of the readings will be “movement” – ie, the mechanics of motion. John Davies will introduce the session.

The meeting on Sat 12 Feb attracted 10 members, focussing on ‘surrealism ‘. Mavra Bryony introduced the session and gave her definitions of the aims and origins of surrealist poetry.

Surprisingly, the surrealist movement was created by poets and it was artists who later took it on and developed surrealism as an art form.  Some members confessed to finding the form difficult to recreate, but it was generally agreed that the meeting was interesting, educational and very worthwhile. Members read their own contributions.

 

 

Selina di Girolamo. It is with the greatest regret that we learn of the death of Selina di Girolamo. Selina died peacefully in her sleep on Thursday 17 Feb / Friday, 18 February. Selina was an early member of the Hastings Arts Forum and served on the committee in 2007/2008. She was a frequent exhibitor and supporter of the Forum.

Selina was 41 years old and the Forum offers its condolences to Selina’s family. We have opened a book of condolences in AF1 which we will offer to Selina’s family.  We will notify members of the family’s wishes and plans for the funeral once they are known.

A minute’s silence to reflect on Selina’s life and contribution to the Forum was observed on Friday18 February during the Preview for the Members’ Show, A-L .

Please see a statement from Emilia, Selina’s sister in  Members’ announcements below.

 Dates for your diary….

Wed 23 Feb. Collect unsold works for Members A – L.

                              Hand-in  work, Members M – Z. Latest hand-in is 2 pm. Hanging commences at 2 p.m.

Fri 25 Feb. Private View for Members Show, M – Z.

 Thu3 Mar. Film THE FALL (15) – Members’ choice. Hard Drug references, strong language including racial abuse, but see the synopsis under “Film”.

Fri 4 Mar. Two private views – moram in AF1. Brenda Hartill in AF2.

 Tue 8 Mar. Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) at 11 am. Pancake Races Toss Off, organized by Philip Bray. Post Office Tearooms. ( Profits to the Pier Trust). See members’ notice below. You have guessed it — there is a prize for the biggest (highest) tosser. Philip would like to see  a Forum  team.

 Thu 9 Mar.   Private meeting in AF1.  

                             Hastings Humanists meet in AF2 (note change of venue – our thanks are due to Hastings Humanists for facilitating this change.)

Stop Press…

 The vacant space in AF2 in April has now been allocated to Agniezka Dabrowska. Thanks to everyone who placed a bid. There are still a few vacant

gallery spaces later in the year. Applications to info@hastingsartsforum.co.uk  Please head your application “ For the Arts Committee”

 Discount for Forum members. (On  production of a Forum membership card.)

Brookers, Norman Rd  on bills of £10.

Expressions, Kings Rd.  on bills of £10.

Post Office Tearooms. 10% on menu items (not specials )

Relax Café, for meals from the menu.

 Jill (and Jack)-in-the-Green 28 April – 3 May. See separate announcement below.

Hastings Pier. The Forum has been invited to attend a consultation meeting on Hastings Pier on 23 February. If you have any comments you wish the Forum to represent, please make them by 22 Feb.

  Current Exhibition… 

Members Show (surnames A – L). There are 75 exhibits in this show. Comments have been complimentary and mostly refer to the quality of the exhibits. There are many exhibitors new to the Forum, including some exhibiting fo the first time.        

Forthcoming Exhibitions…

24 Feb – 1 Mar.  AF1 and AF2. Members Show.  Surnames M – Z.

 . “if not now, when?” .  moram in AF1. Proceeds, less gallery expenses, to unicef.

 The title of the exhibition ‘if not now, when?’ came about through my realisation that a lot of the time in my life I am on autopilot. Not really here in the present, unable to really appreciate what I have and what I am doing.

So when I am painting I try to be present, connect with the creative energy of the universe, which of course is available to anyone. I work with words, and how they are connected to what is happening in my life. I now find that I just try to create art … something that is real to me at the time.

 To create a work of abstract art is an exciting part of my life and to find a way to  contribute to society through the charity, unicef, gives me great motivation to carry on painting.

 3 – 15 Mar. Brenda Hartill  in AF2. 3 -15 Mar.  For the past 25 years Brenda’s main medium has been print, both etching and collagraph, and she has written a book “Collagraph and mixed media printmaking”. Brenda will be exhibiting in the Curwen and New Academy, London in February and will  include new work on embossed watercolours. After a week’s break, she will exhibit here.

 Exhibiting in AF2, 3 – 15 Mar 2011

See http://www.brendahartill.com/Brenda_Hartill/New_Unique_Works.html

 Conflicts in Time. 17 – 29 Mar in AF1 and AF2. 

 The full press release is produced as an attachment  to this bulletin. It will be an exhibition, where artists express their view on the meaning of time, as a backdrop to a workshop of academics conditioned to verbal expression.

This exhibition is a joint project between the Forum and the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics with funding from the Economic and Social Science Research council (ESRC). The exhibition will be curated by Griselda Bear.

Dr Laura Bear, from the LSE, has been leading a three year long series of seminars in which anthropologists from the UK and USA examine issues of global time. 11 Forum artists have been invited to bring their different forms of expression, which reach beyond the medium of words, to illuminate the Conflicts in Time which the anthropologists have been discussing.  In this exhibition visitors will be seeing time, and many of the puzzles and conflicts that it generates in our lives, through the visually dramatic representations created by the Forum’s  artists.

The Forum artists are   Sue Barnes, Sid Beynon, Rose Biela, Lynne Bingham,

John Hacker, Andrew Moran, Mary Morris, Rosie O’Driscoll, John Plummer and

Annie Rae. Other Forum participants are Laura Bear, Mary Dawson( organizing

a family workshop on Sat 26 Mar) , Harry Lyons, Julian Rumball (puppeteer) and

Nick Weekes ( coordinating musical input – with  thismachine   - Musicians

performing ‘A Series’ in gallery on 19 March and Warrior Squares

(Electro/Acoustic improvisations on 26 March for the family workshops )

 0 March – 13 April. Mark Fisher and Anthony Wynne in AF1.

 30 Mar – 6 Apr. “Images from the Id – vii”. Further detail top follow.

Plea for Jack /Jill-in- the-Green

 The paragraphs in italics below are editorial comment. All readers are free to

respond. Please reply to info@hastingsartsforum.co.uk and mark “For Bulletin”

Please make the Jack / Jill in the Green Show special. The artistic standards in this show have suffered criticism in the past. This is another Members’ show and an opportunity for ALL members to exhibit. It is undoubtedly a “Hastings” event, where visitors from a wide area visit over the May Day holiday week-end, with the ‘big’ event on the Monday. The organisers expressed delight last year that the Forum was continuing to host this festival event and noted that it extended the reach of activity westwards in the town.

 Above all “Jack” is a folk event – in the mediaeval tradition (albeit, that the Hastings festival is of more recent origin ). Thousands come on motor-bikes. Some hundred plus groups of Morris Dancers perform – all throughout the holiday week-end. It is about Spring. If you are sophisticated think of “Spring Awakening”. If not, just think of where a young man or maiden’s fancy turns to when Spring beckons. A folk festival should embrace all shades of opinion and be a ‘fun day’.

Each member is allowed one image, which is suitable for the May Day bank holiday week-end. You will be invited to make a donation towards the PV aanf gallery expenses,

 With just over two months to go, we would encourage members to think ahead and come up with some really innovative and good entries.  Themes may be May Day, ‘Rites of Spring’, Jack-in-the-Green, Jill-in-the-green, motor bikes, Morris dancers, but you may think of other suitable themes. We would love to see the Forum respond with some really new innovative images -  and don’t leave it to the last minute. 

 Members’ Announcements…

 Selina di Girolamo.  Emilia Di Girolamo posts

“…It is with great sadness that I’m letting you know my beautiful sister Selina decided to take the next step on her journey. In the early hours of this morning, by the light of the full moon, she died very peacefully in her sleep. As you know Selina is an immensely powerful and spiritual beig and will continue to be around us all while also continuing on her journey as an incredible, creative and dynamic force.

Mike, the boys, my parents and all the family would like to thank you all for your prayers over the past two months which have not only given us all incredible strength but helped Selina to remain pain free, without the assistance of any drugs or medical intervention, as she wanted, throughout her illness.

The family now need time to process this new development so Mike is asking that for the time being, no one visits, but we will of course be in touch to let you know when and where the ceremony for Selina will be.

With all love, Emilia …”

Maureen Connett will be singing classic jazz in Café Relax on Thu 3 Mar @7.30-9.30. She will be accompanied by Andy Williams on the guitar.  Armenian Buffet supper – £10.00.

Alice Mason posts .  I am looking for artists and makers for the Rye Arts and Crafts Fair which is a monthly event in Rye Community Centre.  The next one is on March 5th.  Email: alicemason367@hotmail.com

Peter Heald  posts : Lecture on Art and Photography ‘From today painting is dead’.  This is a quote from Delacroix when photography was first made public.

This day-school at St Matthews Centre, London Rd is on Sat 5 Mar @ 10 -1pm. £6 entry payable at the door. This is a WEA lecture by Bryan Davies.

 Pancake Day races. 8 Mar at 11 AM.  Philip Bray ( Old Post Office Tearooms ) is organising a Pancake Race. There will be three races as follows.

1. Top Seafront Tosser
2. Team toss-off
3. Solo Tossers.

Pancakes supplied. Bring your own pan.!! All profits to Hastings Pier Trust.

More info at www.wix.com/potearooms/tossers

 Siobhan O’/Hanlon posts : Subject: Walking, Talking and Drawing – A creative experience! Below is some information from the organisers that Siobhan thinks will interest members.

“…..Denise Franklin and Sarah Palmer are (running a course)  at West Dean college in May this year. It is a gorgeous location set within the huge West Dean estate in the slopes of the south downs near Chichester. You can stay in the stately home if you wish which is complete with award winning gardens, hothouses and greenhouses. We are going to be located in the Orangery studio for the whole weekend which begins on Friday evening and runs through to Sunday afternoon. 

 Please join us if you are able to. Do send this on to other people, friends and colleagues who you think may like to come for the weekend. The food is fantastic too!……”

 All booking is done through West Dean short courses – link here:  http://www.westdean.org.uk/CollegeChannel/ShortCourses/ShortCourses.aspx

More information about how the weekend will run and the content of the sessions can be found on the West Dean website and there is a phone number to call for more information if you do not have access to the internet  - 08444 994408.

 Mary Dawson posts. Story telling and Story Creating workshop

Hollington Library Tuesday 22^nd February 10 39- 1200

Children 5-10 Accompanied by an adult

To book ring 0345 60 80 196 ask for

Hollington Library      FREE

A Rainbow Stories   Workshop

 Company Secretary. Hastings Arts Forum invites applications for a volunteer to take on the role of a Secretary. The role should not be onerous, requiring occasional but regular attendance to ensure that returns are prepared and made to Companies House by the deadline and to attend to other business affairs. Volunteers for this post should send their name to the Forum.

Caroline Macey posts ;  Life Drawing sessions (untutored ). £7 per session. Now in ballet room  at the Ore Centre Thursdays 1000 – 1200. Tel : 07923494475

Simon Johnson posts : ACCOMMODATION WITH STUDIO SPACE: Rooms available in 4-storey house on West Hill. Sea views. 4/5 bedrooms, approx. 30m2 of heated studio space in basement with natural light, small garden, recently refurbished & updated, two bathrooms & toilets, may suit artist, writer or professional 30+. Contact Simon at SimonFJohnson@me.com for more details. 

Vanessa Fowler, B Ed, (Taught at Hastings College for 20 years) reminds members that she has on-going ceramic classes for adults and children.

After School Club(Mon / Tue / Wed )

Junior Pottery Club – Sat 1200 – 1300.

Adults,( incl one-to-one) as arrasnged. £10 per hour.

Alice King posts “I am a life model. Tel : 07596728128.”

Felipe Hewitt posts : I am a 58 year-old former life guard in Bermuda and in Brighton, now an experienced artists’ and hairdresser’s model. I am a Charles Laughton lookalike. References available.  Tel: 01273 275955.

Anna Casson posts :  I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 7791794103

FILM…

St Leonards Film Society.  

17 Feb. THE ARBOR (15)  New British Cinema

This compelling film, which has been garnering critical acclaim wherever it shows, is a powerful documentary about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.

In THE ARBOR, director Clio Barnard uses local actors to lip-synch to interviews with Dunbar’s family and friends, and this is interspersed with archive footage and a live restaging of Dunbar’s first play on the Bradshaw estate where she grew up.

POETRY… 

The Poetry Group will next meet in the Forum on Sat 5 Mar at 4 pm. The focus of the readings will be “movement” – ie, the mechanics of motion, though you can bring in “The movement poets” of the post World War 2, if you wish. 

The meeting on Sat 12 Feb attracted 10 members, focussing on ‘surrealism ‘. Mavra Bryony introduced the session and gave her definitions of the aims and origins of surrealist poetry. 

Surprisingly, the surrealist movement was created by poets and it was artists who later took it on and developed surrealism as an art form.  Some members confessed to finding the form difficult to recreate, but it was generally agreed that the meeting was interesting, educational and very worthwhile. Members read their own contributions.

 

 

Dates for your diary….  

Sat 12 Feb. Poetry group meets at 4 pm. Focus is on surrealist poetry. Other forms of poetry welcome.

 Wed 16Feb. Hand-in work for Members Show A – L

Thu 17 Feb. Film, The Arbor (15).  7 for 7.45.

 Fri 18 Feb. Private View for the Members Show, A – L.

 Wed 23 Feb. Collect unsold works for Members A – L

                        Hand-in  work, Members M – Z.

 Fri 25 Feb. Private View for Members Show, M – Z.

 Thu3 Mar. Film THE FALL (15) – Members’ choice.

 Tue 8 Mar. Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day). Pancake Races Toss Off, organized by Philip Bray. Post Office Tearooms. ( Profits to the Pier Trust). See members’ notice below. You have guessed it — there is a prize for the biggest (highest) tosser. Philip would like to see  a Forum  team.

 Stop Press… 

***Artist wanted!!  We have news of a commission for an oil painting of 2 x fighting chickens at a price of some £200 – £300. The breed / grade of chicken is to be Shamo or Asil. The painting should be about A2 size. Anyone interested should contact Alfred Lee on mobile no 07900385388 and make arrangements direct.

 Auction results. The auction grossed some £2,500 on Saturday and represents a very necessary contribution to Forum funds. Many thanks to everyone involved, particularly Richard Fryer, the auctioneer and his band of helpers and to the ‘hanging’ team who brought together a very disparate group of objects.

Discount for Forum members. (On  production of a Forum membership card.)

Brookers, Norman Rd  on bills of £10.

Expressions, Kings Rd.  on bills of £10.

Post Office Tearooms. 10% on menu items (not specials )

Relax Café, for meals from the menu.

Members Shows. The dates for the Members Shows, 2011, are as below.

There will be two x one-week shows divided alphabetically as follows.

Week 1.  Surnames A – L. 17 – 22 Feb. Hand – in  A.M Wed 16 Feb..

Week 2.  Surnames  M – Z .24 Feb – 1 Mar. Hand in AM Wed 23 Feb .

Every member is entitled to submit one entry. Donations to cover gallery hire and private view are expected – Guide price – £10.00.

 Jill (and Jack)-in-the-Green 28 April – 3 May. This is another Members’ show. Again, each member is allowed one image, which is suitable for the May Day bank holiday week-end. ‘Jack’ is traditionally associated with Hastings and we were encouraged to receive the support of the ‘Jack’ organisers last  year, who were equally pleased to see St Leonards being more engaged in the festival.

With three months to go, we would encourage members to think ahead and come up with some really innovative and good entries.  Themes may be May Day,

‘Rites of Spring’, Jack-in-the-Green, Jill-in-the-green, motor bikes, Morris dancers, but you may think of other suitable themes. We would love to see the Forum respond with some really new innovative images -  and don’t leave it to the last minute. 

Hastings Pier. The Forum has been invited to attend a consultation meeting on Hastings Pier on 23 February. If you have any comments you wish the Forum to represent, please make them by 22 Feb.

 Current Exhibition… 

 9 – 16 Feb. “My Funny Valentine ; My Bloody Valentine”. This is now an annual event when students from Sussex Coast College give their views on the St Valentine’s Day tradition.– the exhibition is an integral part of the College National Diploma  course. It is also welcomed by members, who enjoy seeing a predominantly young group exhibiting across all the various media. It should bring a smile to your face.

 Forthcoming Exhibitions… 

Members Shows are an opportunity for ALL members of the Forum to exhibit artwork, whatever their expertise. You may want in self-confidence; you may want to test the market; you may not be able to afford a solo exhibition; you may have no reason at all. The Members Shows along with Jack(Jill)-in the-green are your two opportunities in the year. We encourage all members to lodge an entry.

 17  – 22 Feb. in both AF1 and AF2.  Members’ Show,  Surnames beginning A – L

 24 Feb – 1 Mar.  AF1 and AF2. Members Show.  Surnames M – Z.

 3 – 15 Mar. “if not now, when?” .  moram in AF1. Proceeds, less gallery expenses, to unicef.

 The title of the exhibition ‘if not now, when?’ came about through my realisation that a lot of the time in my life I am on autopilot. Not really here in the present, unable to really appreciate what I have and what I am doing.

So when I am painting I try to be present, connect with the creative energy of the universe, which of course is available to anyone. I work with words, and how they are connected to what is happening in my life. I now find that I just try to create art… something that is real to me at the time.

 To create a work of abstract art is an exciting part of my life and to find a way to to contribute to society through the charity unicef gives me great motivation to carry on painting.

3 – 15 Mar. Brenda Hartill  in AF2. 3 -15 Mar.  For the past 25 years Brenda’s main medium has been print, both etching and collagraph, and she has written a book “Collagraph and mixed media printmaking”. Brenda will be exhibiting in the Curwen and New Academy, London in February and will  include new work on embossed watercolours. After a week’s break, she will exhibit here.

See http://www.brendahartill.com/Brenda_Hartill/New_Unique_Works.html

Conflicts in Time. AF1 and AF2 – 17 – 20 Mar.

Conflicts in Time”. Artists express their view on the meaning of time, as a backdrop to a workshop of academics conditioned to verbal expression.

This exhibition is a joint project between the Forum and the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics with funding from the Economic and Social Science Research council (ESRC). The exhibition will be curated by Griselda Bear. 

Dr Laura Bear, from the LSE, has been leading a three year long series of seminars in which anthropologists from the UK and USA examine issues of global time. 11 Forum artists have been invited to bring their different forms of expression, which reach beyond the medium of words, to illuminate the Conflicts in Time which the anthropologists have been discussing.  In this exhibition visitors will be seeing time, and many of the puzzles and conflicts that it generates in our lives, through the visually dramatic representations created by the Forum’s  artists.

The Forum artists are   Sue Barnes, Sid Beynon, Rose Biela, Lynne Bingham,

John Hacker, Andrew Moran, Mary Morris, Rosie O’Driscoll, John Plummer and

Annie Rae. Other Forum participants are Laura Bear, Mary Dawson( organizing

a family workshop on Sat 26 Mar) , Harry Lyons, Julian Rumball (puppeteer) and

Nick Weekes ( coordinating musical input – with  thismachine   - Musicians

performing ‘A Series’ in gallery on 19 March and Warrior Squares

(Electro/Acoustic improvisations on 26 March for the family workshops )

 Members’ Announcements…

 Pancake Day races. 8 Mar.  Philip Bray ( Old Post Office Tearooms ) is organising a Pancake Race. There will be three races as follows.

Top Seafront Tosser

1. Team toss-off
2. Solo Tossers.

Pancakes supplied. Bring your own pan.!! All profits to Hastings Pier Trust.

More info at www.wix.com/potearooms/tossers

Siobhan O’/Hanlon posts The Jerwood Gallery is offering guided walks. See http://www.jerwoodgallery.org/

 “….From April to October 2011, Stade Education Project Volunteers will lead guided walks of the Stade to enable people to learn about the history, culture, environment and future developments including the Jerwood Gallery.
The walks start at the Lifeboat Station, last one and half hours, and are free,..”

Mary Dawson posts. Story telling and Story Creating workshop

Hollington Library Tuesday 22^nd February 10 39- 1200

Children 5-10 Accompanied by an adult

To book ring 0345 60 80 196 ask for

Hollington Library      FREE

A Rainbow Stories   Workshop

 Company Secretary. Hastings Arts Forum invites applications for a volunteer to take on the role of a Secretary. The role should not be onerous, requiring occasional but regular attendance to ensure that returns are prepared and made to Companies House by the deadline and to attend to other business affairs. Volunteers for this post should send their name to the Forum.

Caroline Macey posts ;  Life Drawing sessions (untutored ). £7 per session. Now in ballet room  at the Ore Centre Thursdays 1000 – 1200. Tel : 07923494475

Simon Johnson posts : ACCOMMODATION WITH STUDIO SPACE: Rooms available in 4-storey house on West Hill. Sea views. 4/5 bedrooms, approx. 30m2 of heated studio space in basement with natural light, small garden, recently refurbished & updated, two bathrooms & toilets, may suit artist, writer or professional 30+. Contact Simon at SimonFJohnson@me.com for more details. 

Vanessa Fowler, B Ed, (Taught at Hastings College for 20 years) reminds members that she has on-going ceramic classes for adults and children.

After School Club(Mon / Tue / Wed )

Junior Pottery Club – Sat 1200 – 1300.

Adults,( incl one-to-one) as arrasnged. £10 per hour.

Alice King posts “I am a life model. Tel : 07596728128.”

Felipe Hewitt posts : I am a 58 year-old former life guard in Bermuda and in Brighton, now an experienced artists’ and hairdresser’s model. I am a Charles Laughton lookalike. References available.  Tel: 01273 275955.

Anna Casson posts :  I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 7791794103

FILM…

St Leonards Film Society.    Film Schedule through to end April 11.  

17 Feb. THE ARBOR (15)
3 Mar THE FALL (15) – Member’s Choice
17 Mar. Peepli Live (15)

31 Mar. Special preview screening – TREACLE JR (tba) +*** Skype Q&A
14 April. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (12A) / LOONG BOONMEE RALEUK CHAT
28 Apr. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (15) – Member’s Choice.

Music…

Nancy Cooley posts: IMMERSE YOURSELF IN YOUR PIANO THIS YEAR!

Prize-winning pianist based in St. Leonards welcomes children and adults for piano lessons, coaching, musicianship and theory lessons. Skilled in recital work with instrumentalists and singers Performed for the BBC, at major festivals, abroad and around  Britain.
I worked at Glyndebourne, Britten-Pears School. Experienced teacher for all ages.  Lessons at my home on a Bechstein Grand. Advanced students especially welcome. CRB.

Nancy Cooley M.A. L.T.C.L. Phone 01424 441116 E-mail ncooley9@yahoo.co.uk

POETRY…

The Poetry Group will next meet in AF2 on Sat 12 Feb at 4 pm. The focus will be on ‘surrealist’ poetry.

 

 

Dates for your diary….

 *****Sat 5 Feb. Auction in AF1 and AF2. Richard Fryer, a professional auctioneer presides over the Forum’s annual Auction of art related gifts to the forum. All proceeds to the Forum.

The final and up-to date auction list is attached at the end of this email. There are several late entries -  Lot#4A, 57A Lots 101 -104.

Mon 7 Feb. Buchanan book group meets 2 – 4 pm. Focus on “Giovanni’s Room “ by James Baldwin.

 Thu 10 Feb. Hastings Humanists. “ Adam and Eve”. Did they exist? What is the scientific view? Introduced by Dr Tom Rees.

Fri 11 Feb. Private View for “My funny Valentine : My bloody Valentine “ by Sussex Coast College.

Sat 12 Feb. Poetry group meets at 4 pm. Focus is on surrealist poetry. Other forms of poetry welcome. 

Thu 17 Feb. Film, The Arbor (15).  7 for 7.45.

 Fri 18 Feb. Private View for the Members Show, A – L.

 Fri 25 Feb. Private View for Members Show, M – Z.

 Stop Press…

Discount for Forum members. (On  production of a Forum membership card.)

Brookers, Norman Rd  on bills of £10.

Expressions, Kings Rd.  on bills of £10.

Post Office Tearooms. 10% on menu items (not specials )

Relax Café, for meals from the menu.

 Members Shows. The dates for the Members Shows, 2011 are as below.

There will be two one-week shows divided alphabetically as follows.

Week 1.  Surnames A – L. 17 – 22 Feb. Hand – in  A.M Wed 16 Feb..

Week 2.  Surnames  M – Z .24 Feb – 1 Mar. Hand in AM Wed 23 Feb .

Every member is entitled to submit one entry.

 Jill (and Jack)-in-the-Green 28 April – 3 May. This is another Members’ show. Again, each member is allowed one image, which is suitable for the May Day bank holiday week-end. ‘Jack’ is traditionally associated with Hastings and we were encouraged to receive the support of the ‘Jack’ organisers last  year, who were equally pleased to see St Leonards being more engaged in the festival.

With three months to go, we would encourage members to think ahead and come up with some really innovative and good entries.  Themes may be May Day,

‘Rites of Spring’, Jack-in-the-Green, Jill-in-the-green, motor bikes, Morris dancers, but you may think of other suitable themes. We would love to see the Forum respond with some really new innovative images -  and don’t leave it to the last minute. 

 Current Exhibition… 

 27 Jan – 5 Feb. in AF1 and AF2. ****Auction in support of Forum funds****.

The Auction will take place on Sat 5 Feb at 2.30. The Exhibition is open from 25 Jan until 1 pm Sat 5 Feb. Commission bids will be taken via the Front Desk at AF1.. This is the annual fundraiser for the Forum.

 Forthcoming Exhibitions… 

9 – 16 Feb. “My Funny Valentine ; My Bloody Valentine”. This is now an annual event when students from Sussex Coast College give their views on the St Valentine’s Day tradition.– the exhibition an integral part of the College National Diploma  course. It is also welcomed by members, who enjoy seeing a predominantly young group exhibiting across all the various media.

Members Shows are an opportunity for ALL members of the Forum to exhibit artwork, whatever their expertise. You may want in self-confidence; you may want to test the market; you may not be able to afford a solo exhibition; you may have no reason at all. The Members Shows along with Jack(Jill)-in the-green are your two opportunities in the year. We encourage all members to lodge an entry.

17  – 22 Feb. in both AF1 and AF2.  Members’ Show,  Surnames beginning A – L 

24 Feb – 1 Mar.  AF1 and AF2. Members Show.  Surnames M – Z.

 3 – 15 Mar. “if not now, when?” .  moram in AF1. Proceeds, less gallery expenses, to unicef. 

The title of the exhibition ‘if not now, when?’ came about through my realisation that a lot of the time in my life I am on autopilot. Not really here in the present, unable to really appreciate what I have and what I am doing.

So when I am painting I try to be present, connect with the creative energy of the universe, which of course is available to anyone. I work with words, and how they are connected to what is happening in my life. I now find that I just try to create art… something that is real to me at the time.

 To create a work of abstract art is an exciting part of my life and to find a way to to contribute to society through the charity unicef gives me great motivation to carry on painting.

3 – 15 Mar. Brenda Hartill  in AF2. 3 -15 Mar.  For the past 25 years Brenda’s main medium has been print, both etching and collagraph, and she has written a book “Collagraph and mixed media printmaking”. Brenda will be exhibiting in the Curwen and New Academy, London in February and will  include new work on embossed watercolours. After a week’s break, she will exhibit here.

Exhibiting in AF2, 3 – 15 Mar 2011

See http://www.brendahartill.com/Brenda_Hartill/New_Unique_Works.html

 17 – 29 Mar in AF1 and AF2.  “Conflicts in Time”. Artists express their view on the meaning of time, as a backdrop to a workshop of academics conditioned to verbal expression. The workshop is coordinated by the Department of Anthropology, LSE and curated by Dr Laura Bear.

 Members’ Announcements…  

Company Secretary. Hastings Arts Forum invites applications for a volunteer to take on the role of a Secretary. The role should not be onerous, requiring occasional but regular attendance to ensure that returns are prepared and made to Companies House by the deadline and to attend to other business affairs. Volunteers for this post should send their name to the Forum.

 Val Falla posts.

 “Leo’s Heroes” is a book by Mo Heard and is an exciting story of a boy who travels back in time to meet real people, including John Logie Baird. ‘

In early 1923, and in poor health, Baird moved to 21 Linton Crescent,  Hastings  and rented a workshop in Queen’s Arcade. In February 1924, he demonstrated to theRadio Times that a semi-mechanical analogue television system was possible by transmitting moving silhouette images. In July of the same year, he received a 1000-volt electric shock but fortunately survived with only a burnt hand. His landlord, a Mr Tree, asked him to quit  his Hastings workshop and he moved to upstairs rooms in Soho, London where he made a technical breakthrough.’

Books available at £8.99. Available from bookshops and Amazon . Enquiries moheard@freezone.co.uk

Caroline Macey posts ;  Life Drawing sessions (untutored ). £7 per session. Now in ballet room  at the Ore Centre Thursdays 1000 – 1200. Tel : 07923494475

 Brenda Hartill posts. I have done a lot of new work. My next exhibition is at the Curwen and New Academy, 34, Windmill St, London W1T 2JR. You are invited to the Private View, Wed 2 Feb, 6 – 8pm. I will give a talk on 15 Feb at 6 – 8 pm. See www.brendahartill.com.   

Simon Johnson posts : ACCOMMODATION WITH STUDIO SPACE: Rooms available in 4-storey house on West Hill. Sea views. 4/5 bedrooms, approx. 30m2 of heated studio space in basement with natural light, small garden, recently refurbished & updated, two bathrooms & toilets, may suit artist, writer or professional 30+. Contact Simon at SimonFJohnson@me.com for more details. 

Vanessa Fowler, B Ed, (Taught at Hastings College for 20 years) reminds members that she has on-going ceramic classes for adults and children.

After School Club(Mon / Tue / Wed )

Junior Pottery Club – Sat 1200 – 1300.

Adults,( incl one-to-one) as arrasnged. £10 per hour.

Alice King posts “I am a life model. Tel : 07596728128.”

Felipe Hewitt posts : I am a 58 year-old former life guard in Bermuda and in Brighton, now an experienced artists’ and hairdresser’s model. I am a Charles Laughton lookalike. References available.  Tel: 01273 275955.

Anna Casson posts :  I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 7791794103

Selina Di Girolamo. “….As the medical profession is unable to do anything to help Selina get well, we are using a range of alternative health practices to give Selina support and healing….” ( From a previous week’s report on Selina )

FILM…

St Leonards Film Society.    Film Schedule through to end April 11.  

17 Feb. THE ARBOR (15)

3 Mar THE FALL (15) – Member’s Choice

17 Mar. Peepli Live (15)

31 Mar. Special preview screening – TREACLE JR (tba) +*** Skype Q&A

14 April. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (12A) / LOONG BOONMEE RALEUK CHAT

28 Apr. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (15) – Member’s Choice.

Music…

Nancy Cooley posts: IMMERSE YOURSELF IN YOUR PIANO THIS YEAR!

Prize-winning pianist based in St. Leonards welcomes children and adults for piano lessons, coaching, musicianship and theory lessons. Skilled in recital work with instrumentalists and singers Performed for the BBC, at major festivals, abroad and around  Britain.
I worked at Glyndebourne, Britten-Pears School. Experienced teacher for all ages.  Lessons at my home on a Bechstein Grand. Advanced students especially welcome. CRB.

Nancy Cooley M.A. L.T.C.L. Phone 01424 441116 E-mail ncooley9@yahoo.co.uk

POETRY…

The Poetry Group will next meet in AF2 on Sat 12 Feb at 4 pm. The focus will be on ‘surrealist’ poetry. Due to the Forum auction on 5 Feb, it is not practical to hold the meet on the first Saturday of the month.

Final Auction List  (Lots 4A, 57A and 101 – 104 are additions.)

Lot	Artist/Donor	Title	medium	£ estimate
1	John Lipsham	Landscape	oil on board	100 – 150
2	Denise Griffiths	Black Girl	pastel, pencil	30 – 40
3	Denise Griffiths	White Girl	pastel	30 – 40
4	Cyril Wheeldon	S.S. Marine Court	acrylic on  board
4A	Bill Hamilton	Mrs Osman	ceramic	45 – 50
5	Lynne Bingham	The great fish eat up the small	mixed media
6	Lin Gregory	Marina Reflection	archival print	20 – 40
7	Maria McClafferty	Bracelet
8	Maria McClafferty	Bracelet
9	Sandie Kelvie	Bead necklace and earrings		50 – 70
10	Max Lane	Two Plate x7	metal	50 – 70
11	Marybeth Haas	Small Boat	ceramic	35 – 45
12	Sophie Bradbury	Raku Form
13	Siobhan O’Hanlon	Red Boat	monotype
14	Danny Mooney	I was looking	T shirt	25 – 30
15	Bruce Holdswoth	RX60	oil on canvas
16	Bill Hamilton	Raku – set of 3 forms	ceramic	25
17	Annie Soudain	Morning Light	print	50 – 70
18	Norbert Sertilange	Rural Scene	oil on canvas
19	Kenny Bolton	Abstract
20	Alex Leadbeater	Heart Stone	pastel	30
21	Harry Snook	From the Sea	etching
22	John Cole	Romanian Gypsy Camp	photograph	60 – 80
23	Heather Hookey	The Blue Pot	oil on canvas	60 – 80
24	Bernard Hoffman	Relic of the Pier	flotsam	50 – 60
25	Bill Hamilton	Conflict	oil on canvas	70 – 90
26	Bill Hamilton	Serendipity	oil on board	50 – 70
27	Marilyn Edwards	Apocalypse	silkscreen	50 – 80
28	Mark Border	Arum  II	acrylic on canvas	80 – 120
29	Bill Hamilton	Wave	ceramic	30 – 40
30	Mark Border	Twelve Three	oil on board	70 – 90
31	Robin Thompson	Peiffer Beach	oil on canvas
32	Ian David Baker	Red and ochre	pastel	55
33	Peter Edwards	Mirror		75
34	Ian David Baker	Doorway in Germany	watercolour	55
35	Sue Jones	Foetal Sleep	oil on board	60 – 100
36	Stewart Walton	Re Gull	wood	20 – 30
37	Stewart Walton	Re Gull	wood	20 – 30
38	Lynne Bingham	The Sinister Night	mixed media
39	Harry Snook	Sloth	copper engraving
40	Sassy Luke	Circus Girl  II	coloured print	30 – 40
41	Gill Streeter	Meeting Her Fate	linoprint & watercolour
42	Pip Carpenter	Day Out	monoprint
43	Bill Hamilton	Plate	ceramic	45 – 50
44	Tricia Neve	Land and Sky	silk painting
45	Steve Stanton	Light Dance	photograph	50
46	Harry Snook	White Scabious	photograph
47	Marybeth Haas	Pink	photograph	30 – 40
48	Neville Austin	Street Life	photograph
49	George Kelvie	Towards the Light	photograph
50	Harry Snook	Old Pier	photograph
51	Nick Webb	St Pauls – set of 2	photographs
52	Adrian Stamford	All Saints Street	photograph	20 – 40
53	Bill Hamilton	Glass Painting
54	Janet Harding	Homage to Chatto	gesso, oil, collage
55	Max Irwin	Diptych	mixed media	60
56	Martin O’Neill	Hastings Word Game	screenprint
57	Martin O’Neill	Hastings Word Game	screenprint
57A	Robin Holtom	Grerman Dancer	charcoal	25 – 40
58	Bruce Williams	Flowers	oil on board
59	Kenny Bolton	untitled
60	Kim Thrower	Layer Cake	mixed media	40 – 60
61	Paul Beavis	Walkway	mixed media
62	Stephan Keeling	Net Huts	acrylic on board
63	Maureen Connett	Cathedral Interior – triptych	acrylic
64	Iain Johnston	Cherokee Indian	steel
65	Helen Hunt	Skeletal Leaf	oil on canvas
66	Bill Hamilton	Dogs of War	etched metal	20 – 30
67	Marybeth Haas	Sea, Hills and Houses	ceramic	35 – 45
68	Geraldine Wheeler	Geranium	watercolour
69	Jeremy Ebdon	January	oil on canvas
70	Bill Hamilton	Tile	ceramic
71	Juanita Homan	Provence	oil on canvas	80 – 100
72	Alda Jansone	Pears		80
73	Jiro Osuga	Thames and Environs	crayon, pencil	80 -100
74	Bill Hamilton	Glass Painting
75	George Mundell	The Ghosts of Priory Meadow	silkscreen	60 – 80
76	Penny Hobson	Ground  II	beach objects	25 – 35
77	Trish Kilczewski	Indian Profile	mixed media	20
78	Trish Kilczewski	Wall Plaque	mixed media	15
79	Sid Beynon	Wilma	photo/beach art
80	Sid Beynon	J. C.	photo/beach art
81	Trish Kilczewski	Beach Macramé  2	mixed media
82	Trish Kilczewski	Beach Macramé	mixed media	60
83	Eve Weston-Smith, donor	Roman Jug	glass
84	Vanessa Fowler	Dish	ceramic
85	Vanessa Fowler	Dish	ceramic
unframed prints:
86	Annie Rae	Net Huts in the Snow	giclée print
87	Dorothea Huntrods	Give all your love to	collograph	50 – 80
88	Siobhan O’Hanlon	Boats  I	monotype
89	Lin Gregory	Avebury Tree	archival print	10 – 30
90	Siobhan O’Hanlon	Andros	monotype
91	Lin Gregory	Cornish Tin Mine	archival print	10 – 30
92	Siobhan O’Hanlon	Mill	monotype
93	Lin Gregory	Avebury Stone Circle	archival print	10 – 30
94	Siobhan O’Hanlon	Andros Mill	monotype
95	Andy Touhy	Dungeness	print
96	Siobhan O’Hanlon	Boats  II	monotype
97	Siobhan O’Hanlon	Boats  III	monotype
98	Geoff Dendle	Butlers of Hastings	silkscreen 1/10
99	Geoff Dendle	’The Island’ – filmset in Crete	silkscreen 2/30
100	George Robertson	Koi Carp	giclée print	25 – 35
101	Geoffrey Johnson	Swimmers	silkscreen 2/12	60 – 80
102	Emily John	untitled	print	50 – 80
103	Martin Pearce	Change	print  4/20	25 – 35
104	Martin Pearce	Flower	photograph	35 – 50

 

 

Dates for your diary….  

Mon 31 Jan at 7.30.  Archery Ground Meeting in AF1 – the future!!  See members announcement by Elizabeth Nathaniels.

Tue 1 Feb. 7-10pm  FREE EVENT: Projection Space in Hastings Arts Forum. See under Film below 

Thu 3 Feb. (Chinese New Year ) 7 for 7.45. . Film. “In the Mood For Love” 

Fri 4 Feb. 6.30 – 8.30. Private View for the Auction. 

*****Sat 5 Feb. Auction in AF1 and AF2. Richard Fryer, a professional auctioneer presides over the Forum’s annual Auction of art related gifts to the forum. All proceeds to the Forum. 

Mon 7 Feb. Buchanan book group meets 2 – 4 pm. Focus on “Giovanni’s Room “ by James Baldwin. 

Fri 11 Feb. Private View for “My funny Valentine : My bloody Valentine “ by Sussex Coast College. 

Sat 12 Feb. Poetry group meets at 4 pm. Focus is on surrealist poetry. Other forms of poetry welcome. 

Thu 17 Feb. Film, The Arbor (15).  7 for 7.45. 

Fri 18 Feb. Private View for the Members Show, A – L.

Stop Press… 

Sid Beynon. There is a new cycle path between Glyne Gap and Hastings seafront along which benches will be placed. These benches will have a portrait of a local person and it has been suggested that members may like to propose, online, an image of someone local to go on the benches. Jackie, Sid’s sister has suggested that Forum members may wish to propose Sid Beynon. You need to email your proposals to: rob.alderson@jpress.co.uk by Friday 4 February. See the original proposal at the foot of this bulletin.

 Film Workshop in AF1. Tue 1 Feb (7 – 10pm ) –This workshop, run by the Creative Media Centre, Brighton University,  is billed as an opportunity for all  would-be / established film-makers to showcase their short films. see under Film below. 

Michel Guille is continuing to offer French conversation while invigilating on Thursday afternoons 2 – 5. There is now a small, but enthusiastic group of French speakers, to which all levels of proficiency are made welcome. 

***Call for “Auction” donations. The Forum is holding its annual auction in support of  Funds on Sat 5 Feb 11 at 2.30. An exhibition of items for sale will be on display from 27 Jan – 5 Feb. This is a call to members to look out some pieces to donate to the Forum for auctioning. All monies to go to the Forum.

Discount for Forum members. (On  production of a Forum membership card.)

Brookers, Norman Rd  on bills of £10.

Expressions, Kings Rd.  on bills of £10.

Post Office Tearooms. 10% on menu items (not specials )

Relax Café, for meals from the menu.

St Valentine week exhibition. This week-long show is by the final  year students at Sussex Coast College and it forms part of their course work. Known as  ‘Professional Practice’, the aim is to give students practice in exhibiting. The exhibition is preceded by a half-day visit to the Forum , where members of the Forum ‘team’ give a presentation on how to mount an exhibition and how to present work for public display. This visit took place on Wednesday 19 Jan and Steve Stanton led the presentation. 42 students attended and, hopefully, all will be exhibiting in February.

Members Shows. The dates for the Members Shows, 2011 are as below.

There will be two one-week shows divided alphabetically as follows.

Week 1.  17 – 22 Feb for those with surnames beginning A – L.

Week 2.  24 Feb – 1 Mar. Surnames  M – Z.

Every member is entitled to submit one entry.

Jill (and Jack)-in-the-Green 28 April – 3 May. This is another Members’ show. Again, each member is allowed one image, which is suitable for the May Day bank holiday week-end. ‘Jack’ is traditionally associated with Hastings and we were encouraged to receive the support of the ‘Jack’ organisers last  year, who were equally pleased to see St Leonards being more engaged in the festival.

With three months to go, we would encourage members to think ahead and come up with some really innovative and good entries.  Themes may be May Day,

‘Rites of Spring’, Jack-in-the-Green, Jill-in-the-green, motor bikes, Morris dancers, but you may think of other suitable themes. We would love to see the Forum respond with some really new innovative images -  and don’t leave it to the last minute. 

Current Exhibition… 

 27 Jan – 5 Feb. in AF1 and AF2. ****Auction in support of Forum funds****.

The Auction will take place on Sat 5 Feb at 2.30. The Exhibition is open from 25 Jan until 1 pm Sat 5 Feb. Commission bids will be taken via the Front Desk at AF1. We are now open for members’ donations as from Wednesday 19 January. The exhibition of donations will go up on Wednesday 26 Jan. This is the annual fundraiser for the Forum.

 Forthcoming Exhibitions… 

9 – 16 Feb. “My Funny Valentine ; My Bloody Valentine”. This is now an annual event when students from Sussex Coast College give their views on the St Valentine’s Day tradition.– the exhibition an integral part of the College National Diploma  course. It is also welcomed by members, who enjoy seeing a predominantly young group exhibiting across all the various media.

 Members Shows are an opportunity for ALL members of the Forum to exhibit artwork, whatever their expertise. You may want in self-confidence; you may want to test the market; you may not be able to afford a solo exhibition; you may have no reason at all. The Members Shows along with Jack(Jill)-in the-green are your two opportunities in the year. We encourage all members to lodge an entry.

17  – 22 Feb. in both AF1 and AF2.  Members’ Show,  Surnames beginning A – L

 24 Feb – 1 Mar.  AF1 and AF2. Members Show.  Surnames M – Z.

3 – 15 Mar. Moram Ali in AF1.

3 – 15 Mar. Brenda Hartill  in AF2. 3 -15 Mar.  For the past 25 years Brenda’s main medium has been print, both etching and collagraph, and she has written a book “Collagraph and mixed media printmaking”. Brenda will be exhibiting in the Curwen and New Academy, London in February and will  include new work on embossed watercolours. After a week’s break, she will exhibit here. See http://www.brendahartill.com/Brenda_Hartill/New_Unique_Works.html

3 – 15 Mar Robin Gardiner and Rina Selby in AF2.

 17 – 29 Mar in AF1 and AF2.  “Conflicts in Time”. Artists express their view on the meaning of time, as a backdrop to a workshop of academics conditioned to verbal expression. The workshop is coordinated by the Department of Anthropology, LSE and curated by Dr Laura Bear.

 Members’ Announcements…

 Company Secretary. Hastings Arts Forum invites applications for a volunteer to take on the role of a Secretary. The role should not be onerous, requiring occasional but regular attendance to ensure that returns are prepared and made to Companies House by the deadline and to attend to other business affairs. Volunteers for this post should send their name to the Forum.

Alison Hawkins posts. Special offer! Hardwood stretcher available. The Museum is offering a conservation-standard hardwood stretcher (measuring 264cm x 173cm –  104 in x 68 in), free to anyone who can come and collect it. For more information, email charvey@hastings.gov.uk

Artists Wanted!!!  Chris Bell posts – If you are an artist looking for a studio, please contact Chris on (01424) 202540 with your details. We have now located suitable premises in central Hastings which we intend to let out to artists on a non-profit basis, and wish to prepare a list of suitable applicants.

 Caroline Macey posts ;  Life Drawing sessions (untutored ). £7 per session. Now in ballet room  at the Ore Centre Thursdays 1000 – 1200. T

 A last call for artists for the 2011 South East Open Studios.

Entries close at midnight on 31st January    www.seos-art.org

Elizabeth Nathaniels posts. ARCHERY GROUND VILLAS – FORMER ART SCHOOL ­-TO BE FEATURED BY BURTONS’ ST LEONARDS SOCIETY.

Anyone interested in the future of the Archery Ground, site of the former college, is promised a visual treat and challenge at a meeting of the Burtons’ St Leonards Society next Monday 31^st  January  at 7.30 at the Hastings Arts Forum, 36 Marina.  A skilful presentation of then and now pictures of the Archery Villas will be shown by Sam Langley, former audio visual technician at the college.

Sam has spent the past few years in painstaking research into the background of these six original Decimus Burton villas built in the 1850s and later remodelled into schools and latterly the site of the Hastings Art College. He will give a graphic description of the remaining architectural features, both inside and out, worthy of consideration for any future planning. 

Entrance fee £5 for non-members, £2 for members of the Society.

 Brenda Hartill posts. I have done a lot of new work. My next exhibition is at the Curwen and New Academy, 34, Windmill St, London W1T 2JR. You are invited to the Private View, Wed 2 Feb, 6 – 8pm. I will give a talk on 15 Feb at 6 – 8 pm. See www.brendahartill.com.   

Simon Johnson posts : ACCOMMODATION WITH STUDIO SPACE: Rooms available in 4-storey house on West Hill. Sea views. 4/5 bedrooms, approx. 30m2 of heated studio space in basement with natural light, small garden, recently refurbished & updated, two bathrooms & toilets, may suit artist, writer or professional 30+. Contact Simon at SimonFJohnson@me.com for more details. 

Vanessa Fowler, B Ed, (Taught at Hastings College for 20 years) reminds members that she has on-going ceramic classes for adults and children.

After School Club(Mon / Tue / Wed )

Junior Pottery Club – Sat 1200 – 1300.

Adults,( incl one-to-one) as arrasnged. £10 per hour.

Sat 5 Feb, Liz Allen asks “ Why do we love Jane Austen? – is it her style? Her irony? The frocks and Colin Firth in a wet shirt?. Lets discuss at the St Matthews Centre, London Road. £8 on the door.

 Alice King posts “I am a life model. Tel : 07596728128.”

 Felipe Hewitt posts : I am a 58 year-old former life guard in Bermuda and in Brighton, now an experienced artists’ and hairdresser’s model. I am a Charles Laughton lookalike. References available.  Tel: 01273 275955. 

Anna Casson posts :  I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 7791794103

Selina Di Girolamo. “….As the medical profession is unable to do anything to help Selina get well, we are using a range of alternative health practices to give Selina support and healing….” ( From last week’s report on Selina )

Emilia, Selina’s sister reported on Thu 13  that   “….It’s of great comfort to know people are thinking of Selina. She has shown some  small but significant improvements this week so we just want everyone to keep thinking of her, praying for her and sending healing…”

FILM…

St Leonards Film Society.    Film Schedule through to end April 11.  

Tue 1 Feb.7pm – 10 pm FREE EVENT: Projection Space in Hastings Arts Forum.

An opportunity for all would-be/established film-makers to showcase their short films. For more info contact Kay Bullen at the Media Enterprise Centre – 01424-428590 / K.Bullen@brighton.ac.uk

3 Feb. (Chinese New Year)IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (PG) / FA YEUNG NIN WA

17 Feb. THE ARBOR (15)

3 Mar THE FALL (15) – Member’s Choice

17 Mar. Peepli Live (15)

31 Mar. Special preview screening – TREACLE JR (tba) +*** Skype Q&A

14 April. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (12A) / LOONG BOONMEE RALEUK CHAT

28 Apr. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (15) – Member’s Choice.

Music…

Nancy Cooley posts: For children age 6 to 7.A fun and friendly hour of songs, musical games and all sorts of musical magic, at 12 Claremont, every Wednesday after school, from 4.30 to 5.30pm  singing  *  stories * movement  *  instruments 

£28 for a 4 week course/£35 for 5 weeks.  Family Discounts available:

Tel;07508 706352 www.enchantedlark.co.uk        info@enchantedlark.co.uk 

IMMERSE YOURSELF IN YOUR PIANO THIS YEAR!

Prize-winning pianist based in St. Leonards welcomes children and adults for piano lessons, coaching, musicianship and theory lessons. Skilled in recital work with instrumentalists and singers Performed for the BBC, at major festivals, abroad and around  Britain.
I worked at Glyndebourne, Britten-Pears School. Experienced teacher for all ages.  Lessons at my home on a Bechstein Grand. Advanced students especially welcome. CRB.

Nancy Cooley M.A. L.T.C.L. Phone 01424 441116 E-mail ncooley9@yahoo.co.uk

 

POETRY…

The Poetry Group will next meet in AF2 on Sat 12 Feb at 4 pm. The focus will be on ‘surrealist’ poetry. Due to the Forum auction on 5 Feb, it is not practical to hold the meet on the first Saturday of the month.

Mail Shots…

South East Open Studios holds an Open Studios programme in June each  year throughout the South East. SEOS issues 30,000 brochures, which are a useful reference to artists in East Sussex and Kent.

Sid Beynon appeal…

Below is a description of the proposal for portraits on benches along the new cycle path Glyne Gap – Hastings.

As you know the cycle route between Glyne Gap and the Haven is being connected by a new route between the railway line and the sea defences.  This is because Sustrans won the Peoples Lottery Bid for a number of projects around the country.  The project is known as Connect2.  Planning permission has been granted and work is about to begin.  Each project will have a ‘portrait bench’ installed somewhere on its route.  Ours will be located near Galley Hill.  A Portrait Bench is a collection of three life-size local figures – chosen by the public – cut from sheet steel and installed near a simple bench. The 2-D life-size figures will immortalize three local people, heroes, characters or eminent figures. Each figure will be cut in CorTen sheet steel which weathers naturally over time and requires minimum maintenanceI Every Sustrans’ Connect2 project is asked to choose characters to reflect significant people in the area. Each figure will be special and together they will become a part of a whole collection of people across the UK – some we will know and some we won’t know but together they will form a common link across Sustrans’ Connect2.  Each character reduced to two tones – black and white, will simplify the features while still retaining the essential characteristics that make the face recognisable. The figures, viewed, form both directions, will stand behind or near a bench and encourage people to rest beside local characters from the area.  Sustrans will undertake design, production and fabrication of all the figures and benches. A plaque set into the bench with Sustrans and Big Lottery logo is also supplied.

HUB is part of the steering group that is planning Connect2 and we have been asked to submit nominations for the portrait bench. .  The deadline is quite short (as always!) so please do this AS 

el : 07923494475

 A last call for artists for the 2011 South East Open Studios.

Entries close at midnight on 31st January    www.seos-art.org

 

Elizabeth Nathaniels posts. ARCHERY GROUND VILLAS – FORMER ART SCHOOL ­-TO BE FEATURED BY BURTONS’ ST LEONARDS SOCIETY.

 

Anyone interested in the future of the Archery Ground, site of the former college, is promised a visual treat and challenge at a meeting of the Burtons’ St Leonards Society next Monday 31^st  January  at 7.30 at the Hastings Arts Forum, 36 Marina.  A skilful presentation of then and now pictures of the Archery Villas will be shown by Sam Langley, former audio visual technician at the college.

 

Sam has spent the past few years in painstaking research into the background of these six original Decimus Burton villas built in the 1850s and later remodelled into schools and latterly the site of the Hastings Art College. He will give a graphic description of the remaining architectural features, both inside and out, worthy of consideration for any future planning. 

Entrance fee £5 for non-members, £2 for members of the Society.

 

Brenda Hartill posts. I have done a lot of new work. My next exhibition is at the Curwen and New Academy, 34, Windmill St, London W1T 2JR. You are invited to the Private View, Wed 2 Feb, 6 – 8pm. I will give a talk on 15 Feb at 6 – 8 pm. See www.brendahartill.com.   

Simon Johnson posts : ACCOMMODATION WITH STUDIO SPACE: Rooms available in 4-storey house on West Hill. Sea views. 4/5 bedrooms, approx. 30m2 of heated studio space in basement with natural light, small garden, recently refurbished & updated, two bathrooms & toilets, may suit artist, writer or professional 30+. Contact Simon at SimonFJohnson@me.com for more details. 

Vanessa Fowler, B Ed, (Taught at Hastings College for 20 years) reminds members that she has on-going ceramic classes for adults and children.

After School Club(Mon / Tue / Wed )

Junior Pottery Club – Sat 1200 – 1300.

Adults,( incl one-to-one) as arrasnged. £10 per hour.

Sat 5 Feb, Liz Allen asks “ Why do we love Jane Austen? – is it her style? Her irony? The frocks and Colin Firth in a wet shirt?. Lets discuss at the St Matthews Centre, London Road. £8 on the door.

 

Alice King posts “I am a life model. Tel : 07596728128.”

 

Felipe Hewitt posts : I am a 58 year-old former life guard in Bermuda and in Brighton, now an experienced artists’ and hairdresser’s model. I am a Charles Laughton lookalike. References available.  Tel: 01273 275955.

 

Anna Casson posts :  I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 7791794103

Selina Di Girolamo. “….As the medical profession is unable to do anything to help Selina get well, we are using a range of alternative health practices to give Selina support and healing….” ( From last week’s report on Selina )

Emilia, Selina’s sister reported on Thu 13  that   “….It’s of great comfort to know people are thinking of Selina. She has shown some  small but significant improvements this week so we just want everyone to keep thinking of her, praying for her and sending healing…”

FILM…

St Leonards Film Society.    Film Schedule through to end April 11.  

Tue 1 Feb.7pm – 10 pm FREE EVENT: Projection Space in Hastings Arts Forum.K.Bullen@brighton.ac.uk

An opportunity for all would-be/established film-makers to showcase their short films. For more info contact Kay Bullen at the Media Enterprise Centre – 01424-428590 /

3 Feb. (Chinese New Year)IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (PG) / FA YEUNG NIN WA

17 Feb. THE ARBOR (15)

3 Mar THE FALL (15) – Member’s Choice

17 Mar. Peepli Live (15)

31 Mar. Special preview screening – TREACLE JR (tba) +*** Skype Q&A

14 April. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (12A) / LOONG BOONMEE RALEUK CHAT

28 Apr. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (15) – Member’s Choice.

Music…

Nancy Cooley posts: For children age 6 to 7.A fun and friendly hour of songs, musical games and all sorts of musical magic, at 12 Claremont, every Wednesday after school, from 4.30 to 5.30pm  singing  *  stories * movement  *  instruments

£28 for a 4 week course/£35 for 5 weeks.  Family Discounts available:

Tel;07508 706352 www.enchantedlark.co.uk        info@enchantedlark.co.uk

IMMERSE YOURSELF IN YOUR PIANO THIS YEAR!

Prize-winning pianist based in St. Leonards welcomes children and adults for piano lessons, coaching, musicianship and theory lessons. Skilled in recital work with instrumentalists and singers Performed for the BBC, at major festivals, abroad and around  Britain.
I worked at Glyndebourne, Britten-Pears School. Experienced teacher for all ages.  Lessons at my home on a Bechstein Grand. Advanced students especially welcome. CRB.ncooley9@yahoo.co.uk

Nancy Cooley M.A. L.T.C.L. Phone 01424 441116 E-mail

 

 

POETRY…

The Poetry Group will next meet in AF2 on Sat 12 Feb at 4 pm. The focus will be on ‘surrealist’ poetry. Due to the Forum auction on 5 Feb, it is not practical to hold the meet on the first Saturday of the month.

Mail Shots…

South East Open Studios holds an Open Studios programme in June each  year throughout the South East. SEOS issues 30,000 brochures, which are a useful reference to artists in East Sussex and Kent.

 

Sid Beynon appeal…

Below is a description of the proposal for portraits on benches along the new cycle path Glyne Gap – Hastings.

As you know the cycle route between Glyne Gap and the Haven is being connected by a new route between the railway line and the sea defences.  This is because Sustrans won the Peoples Lottery Bid for a number of projects around the country.  The project is known as Connect2.  Planning permission has been granted and work is about to begin.  Each project will have a ‘portrait bench’ installed somewhere on its route.  Ours will be located near Galley Hill.  A Portrait Bench is a collection of three life-size local figures – chosen by the public – cut from sheet steel and installed near a simple bench. The 2-D life-size figures will immortalize three local people, heroes, characters or eminent figures. Each figure will be cut in CorTen sheet steel which weathers naturally over time and requires minimum maintenanceI Every Sustrans’ Connect2 project is asked to choose characters to reflect significant people in the area. Each figure will be special and together they will become a part of a whole collection of people across the UK – some we will know and some we won’t know but together they will form a common link across Sustrans’ Connect2.  Each character reduced to two tones – black and white, will simplify the features while still retaining the essential characteristics that make the face recognisable. The figures, viewed, form both directions, will stand behind or near a bench and encourage people to rest beside local characters from the area.  Sustrans will undertake design, production and fabrication of all the figures and benches. A plaque set into the bench with Sustrans and Big Lottery logo is also supplied.

HUB is part of the steering group that is planning Connect2 and we have been asked to submit nominations for the portrait bench. .  The deadline is quite short (as always!) so please do this ASP.