Art@Home: Our April meeting is not the first Friday of the month as is our usual custom. I have therefore designated Friday 2nd April as Art@Home Friday. Have a Happy Easter!
The weekend of the 9th - 11th is something of an Art Feast however. Bromley Art Society's Illustrated Lecture for April will be on Friday 9th April. We look forward to welcoming Caroline Aston who is going to demonstrate a watercolour landscape. The meeting will start at 8pm and take place in the
Verrall Hall, Bromley United Reformed Church
20 Widmore Road, Bromley. BR1 1RY.
Don't forget we now have a projection system, and we welcome non-members to these lectures - there is a small fee. Plenty of parking in the surrounding streets.
BAS@BEECHE: The weekend of the 10th & 11th April sees another one of our exhibitions and demos at High Elms. The "official" time is 12 - 4, but we shall be in at 10 to set up.
Exhibitors - BAS members are welcome to exhibit - please let me know roughly how many artworks (paintings, drawings, ceramics, mosaics, cards, sculptures) you want to show. If you have already told me, it might be wise to tell me again as I have been very busy recently! These are very informal affairs and we have ended up painting much as at Ripley, often with an admiring crowd. Exhibitors will need to steward, but we arrange that on the day unless you want to tell me beforehand. We need to be cleared up and out by 4pm on Sunday.
Visitors - do please come and join us if you are not exhibiting, and bring all your friends and relations. This really is a fun event and is as much about promoting Art in general and BAS in particular as it is about selling work. These exhibitions also help out the BEECHE centre and we work closely with them. There are always plenty of lovely things to see on walks at High Elms, not to mention the Green Roof Cafe and its fabulous bacon sandwiches.
Members Spring Exhibition: Sadly this has been cancelled as the Central Library's building works are now going ahead. We are all hoping that an exhibition space will arise from the ruins of the current one, without much reason to hope ....
All the more reason therefore to make best use of the several BAS@BEECHE events this year, and the Ripley Exhibition in May for those entitled.
One last item: The website took a hammering recently at the hands of a software bug. Many of the items disappeared, particularly the archive of previous issues of "The Easel". I have spent a lot of time stiching it all back together again. Please browse around it to help me check that I have assembled articles and issues correctly. You will realise what a terrific amount of work Allan Davies puts into producing "The Easel". He is always on the prowl for new articles and pictures, so please send him some.