Exhibition by AWAS member Alison Percy

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Please support one of our AWAS members Alison Percy who has a wonderful solo exhibition on at GIGS Art Gallery from 21 May to 14 June 2015 – FROM LIFE : the figure.  Click here for more information.

Watercolour Workshop with Julian Bruere

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This will be an exciting workshop with one of Australia’s newest watercolour sensations. Julian has been highly recommended for his watercolour skills, subject matter and generosity as a teacher. He is very passionate about water colour and his enthusiasm is infectious. The theme we are adopting for this workshop is “water”. Painting water in watercolour requires a different application of painting skills and a new learning for all of us.
Click here for the enrolment form, so get your deposit or full payment in as soon as possible. Class size is limited to 12 participants. It will be 1st in best dressed – that means a deposit paid to the treasurer. If you have any questions please ring Jenny Wallace 02 6026 4800.

About the Artist

Julian paints his subjects in watercolour with a strong drawing basis. Landscape, City Scenes, Marine and Maritime are his preferred subjects but he also values the disciplines of Still Life and Portraiture. A very specific theme of Alpine Snowgums has been the work that has most brought him to the attention of the art community. Involved well drawn paintings with a confident textural use of watercolour are features of Julian’s artwork.
Painting, Teaching, Workshops, Demonstrations, Judging and an active involvement with the Victorian Artists Society and other Art Societies is his professional domain after many years in Advertising, Publishing and Animation. This has shaped and provided an ongoing joy and appreciation of drawing, design in painting, control and understanding of watercolour and a respect for all other mediums and artistic styles. Painting tours of Europe and New Zealand in recent years has provided an ongoing stimulus for his work, particularly landscape and marine painting.
Julian studied Graphic Design at RMIT and quickly established himself as a freelance artist in Advertising and Publishing, illustrating educational children’s books. He worked for a time as a designer and background artist in the animation industry. He later became more active as an artist, teaching, conducting watercolour workshops, demonstrating and judging. He is a regular exhibitor in exhibitions around Melbourne, and for the past six years has been involved with FIVE, an annual group exhibition of select VAS artists.
He has twice been awarded VAS Artist of the Year, 2010 and 2013, The Kenneth Jack Memorial Award 2010 and 2014 and the AGRA Medallion Winner for 2013, with multiple awards for watercolour in various Suburban and Rotary Exhibitions including Mt Waverley, Camberwell, Yea, Parade, Warrandyte, Alexandra Bacchus Marsh and Box Hill. He is the Victorian Vice President of the Australian Society of Maritime Artists and a past Treasurer of the Victorian Artists’ Society. He is also a member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists and Watercolour Society Victoria and has recently been elected to the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.

Mixed Media Workshop

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Report from Stephen McCall Workshop

A good time was had by all on the weekend of the 18th and 19th July at the Stephen McCall mixed media/pastel workshop.  On day one, using white suede paper, we were shown how to do a complimentary or contrast underpainting using watercolours or acrylics to paint a seascape. Some of this underpainting was allowed to show through on the finished art piece which really had the colours bouncing off each other and gave great depth to the painting.The use of clear pastel primer on a headland gave us texture to then go over with our pastels. On Sunday we were shown how off-cuts of matt board can be recycled as painting boards using paint with or without clear pastel primer or Art Spectrum coloured pastel primer…We then worked on our own photos with Stephen as our guide,  using the skills we’d learnt the day before. Morning and afternoon tea was delicious thanks to Judy Balfour and participating members.
Carol Gilbert

Local Bright artist Stephen McCall will be leading an AWAS Mixed Media workshop on the weekend of 18th and 19th July 2015, to be held from 10am to 4pm at the Paintbox studio, Gateway Island, Wodonga.

Do you use acrylic, inks, watercolour or pastel? This workshop will use these mediums in a mixed media format. You can use two or more mediums combined with pastels and learn some new, innovative techniques. If you don’t use pastels here is your chance to give it a go! You do not need to buy pastels as Stephen will provide a wide range of colours for you to use, but if you have your own pastels please bring them along.
Stephen paints mainly with acrylics and pastels, but in this workshop he will be pushing the boundaries in a number of ways. We will be using texture mediums, be doing under painting with with watercolours, acrylics and / or inks and combining these with some pastel work. The amount of pastel is up to you; you may only use pastels for some final detail, (just add a few lines or add some subtle texture) or you may like to mainly use pastels over under painting.

Stephen will demonstrate watercolour under painting on white suede finish Colourfix pastel paper. (I will have this available for us and also some sheets of Colourfix pastel paper. I will also have Colourfix texture medium for us all to use.)
So come along and be excited by a different approach to your work and learn some new skills.
Complete the workshop enrolment form click here and pay the deposit or full amount promptly to ensure your participation. Class number is limited to 12 participants so don’t delay.  FILLING FAST!!!!!
If you have any questions please e-mail or phone me. See contact details on enrolment form.
Judy Balfour
Mixed Media Workshop Co-ordinator

Circuit Open Studios Weekend

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On 19th 20th and 21st June, our studio will be open as part of the Circuit of Open Studios happening on that weekend. All AWAS members are invited to come along and participate.  We will be starting on Friday evening with a still-life setup, and growing/transforming for inspiration over the weekend for anyone to try their hand at creating an artwork.

Over the course of the weekend, members will be demonstrating painting in different mediums and there will be a portrait session with a model on Saturday afternoon, 20th June.

Launching artmegallery and “Amazing Australian Artists”

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On 20 March 2015 at 6.30pm, the new artme gallery on the Lincoln Causeway will open for the first time.  artme gallery is the brainchild of AWAS member Alyssa Constable, who has been involved with our society for some time, publishing many of our AWAS artists’ work on her website.

Now Alyssa is proudly opening her new gallery to the public for the first time, using it to launch her new book “Amazing Australian Artists”.  Alyssa and Danielle Gilbert have put together a beautiful coffee table work which celebrates the talents of many local artists, including:

• Kathy Blakemore
• Meg Brown
• Trevor Ierino
• Stephanie Jakovac
• Lizabeth Souness
• Heather Sparks
• Katharine Rattray
• And many more….

For more information about the book visit artmegallery.com.au

For the book launch and opening, there is a $5 entry fee, which will be donated in full to Country Hope.

2015 Exhibition Schedule

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View our published AWAS Exhibition Program for 2015.

Albury Wodonga Artists Society members are encouraged to use this as a reference, and plan ahead for the exhibitions you will be involved in. There may also be times when you can support us in making it all happen.

We are very proud of the high standard of work exhibited at the studio and at the Plant Farm’s Garden Gallery Cafe.

NOTE: Official Openings as follows:
• Annual Members’ Exhibition Sunday 8 November at 3pm, self-catering.
• Celebrating the Life of Van Gogh (Works inspired by OR fakes of Van Gogh – post impressionist style.  Celebration with an auction held at the studio 6pm Thursday 30th July.

Exhibition Coordinators: Heather Sparks & Carol Smith(Garden Gallery Cafe) Christina Zey & Kathy Bruce (Paintbox Studio)

AWAS 2015 NEW OFFICE BEARERS

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Congratulations to:

President: Christina Zey               Vice President: Lin Starke

Secretary: Kathy Bruce                 Minute Secretary: Heather Green

Treasurer: Margaret Robins

OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS

• Carol Smith
• Barbara Strand

NON-COMMITTEE POSITIONS

Public Officers:          VIC: Midori Treeve    NSW: Kathy Blakemore

WORKSHOP CO-ORDINATORS

Life Drawing: Clive Vogel               Assistant: Elsie Reitenbach
Portrait: Janelle Hoban                   Assistant: Elsie Reitenbach
Water Colour: Jenny Wallace
Acrylics: Nancy Robinson              Assistant: Pauline Farries
Still Life: -No longer covered
Oils : -To be organised by the Tuesday oil painting group.
Pastels/Away workshops: Lin Starke
Tutored workshops to be organised within each group as required.

EXHIBITION CO-ORDINATORS

Plant Farm Café Gallery: Heather Sparks, Carol Smith, Barbara Strand
AWAS Studio/workshop:  Christina Zey, Kathy Bruce.  The hanging team to operate as previous year.

OTHER POSITIONS

Newsletter: Carol Smith                      Assistant: Doina Eitler
Website: Barbara Strand
Publicity: Alyssa Constable
Rosters: Heather Green
Library: Marilyn Forrest

FOUR DAY LIFE DRAWING WORKSHOP (Untutored)

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This untutored workshop is to be held on 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th of January 2015.

Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm each day

Fees per day:

• Members $30.00
• Non Members $40.00
• Students (full time 25 years or under) $20.00

Payment:  Required on first day of attendance for number of days attending (please note: no half day fees).

As space is limited, bookings are essential and must be received prior to Wednesday December 31st 2014.

Models will be provided for the four days.

Tables, chairs and 15 easels are available, however, bring your own materials.
BYO lunch, tea and coffee provided.
For bookings please call Clive Vogel 0427 774214
You can also book via Email at: clive.vogel@tafensw.edu.au (until 11th of December 2014) or cliveandjenny@bigpond.com

“Arts Wodonga/Hume Bank Acquisitive Contemporary Art Award 2014”

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$5000 winning prize. 

Opens 14 November 2014.

For more information, go to www.artswodonga.org.au

“Borderville”

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This was another wonderful exhibition by AWAS members, held 2 Sept 2014 to 5 Oct 2014 in our Paintbox Studio gallery.  The exhibition was held in conjunction with the Flying Fruit Fly Circus’s 35 years celebration, and our works, in all sorts of media, depicted circus themes in colourful array.

ABOUT BORDERVILLE

Help the Fruit Flies celebrate!!

Borderville is a weekend of circus, performance and art to celebrate 35 years of the world-famous Flying Fruit Fly Circus and their home on the Border.

AWAS will be part of that event, and our Studio Exhibition (2nd Sept- 5th Oct) will be works depicting circus themes, not specifically or exclusively the Fruit Flies, works can be any circus acrobats etc. There are reference photos of the ‘Fruit Flies’ at the studio.  Members can use these pictures which show active poses, movement, costuming and themes for paintings.

Please join in!!