Thornham Magna Village Hall is celebrating 100 years of serving the local community, and Mick has asked EAG to help the celebrations by making collages with which to decorate the hall. Sally P used her week to facilitate the making of the collages.
The theme ‘Celebration’ drew a varied response from the 14 members attending this morning. Sally P had brought lots of paper and ribbon for collage.
Judging by the comments made everyone really enjoyed the challenge of producing a piece of A3 artwork to celebrate the hall’s centenary. Some members even produced two!
For anyone who wasn’t at the Bowls club today, and for those who were but didn’t finish, do bring your interpretation of Celebration to the session next week, so that Mick Farrell has time to frame them!
The theme ‘Celebration’ drew a varied response from the 14 members attending this morning. Sally P had brought lots of paper and ribbon for collage.
Judging by the comments made everyone really enjoyed the challenge of producing a piece of A3 artwork to celebrate the hall’s centenary. Some members even produced two!
For anyone who wasn’t at the Bowls club today, and for those who were but didn’t finish, do bring your interpretation of Celebration to the session next week, so that Mick Farrell has time to frame them!
The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted the rather glamorous non-artist in the photos above - Angela's dog, Lara, who came for the morning (with members' agreement) to get away from the beet harvest.
First we have Sally P's collages - each quite different to the other. Sally enjoyed filling in the whirls with colour, spot the gold infill... The 100 is painted gelli print, and the third is wrapping paper painted in a stylised way.
| Josie's collage is on the table next to Sally P.Hopefully, we can see the finished result next week. | |  |
  | These are Harriet's work. The first, with champagne fizzing like fireworks, includes some words in Welsh. The second celebrates Halloween, but is not yet completed. |
| Angela’s wreath of gold and acrylic ink running behind holly shapes and leftover pieces put in the bottom and top is full of colour. |  |
 | Barry started a work featuring balloons which will eventually include more balloons and string,s and some let loose at the top. He then intends to do some layering that fades at the back. |
| These are Lesley's, acrylic collage with wrapping paper parcels, and the second one acrylic gesso and glitter. Thanks Lesley for the useful words at the beginning of the blog, setting the scene for the day. |   |
 | Jill had a similar idea to Lesley... She has used children’s glitter, fluorescent and metallic acrylic |
| Ian J’s collage is a work in progress. It is a background for his runners celebrating Thornham Walk park run |  |
| Next Freda's ladies in saris, watercolour and crayon, and Mick's joyful acrylics showing a lot of movement and bunting. |    |
Finally, of those who attended this morning, Avril has produced four collages: The first one wrapping paper cones spewing out coloured pipecleaners, Secondly, tissue paper was randomly glued onto paper and then cut out Matisse-style hopefully showing celebration, Thirdly, painted background with tissue paper balloons, Fourthly, a masked man enjoying the festivities ...
Thank you to Avril for all her help this week with pictures and words.
Thank you to Avril for all her help this week with pictures and words.
| Carolyn entered into the spirit of Celebration from home. The image is intentionally flat, but I expect the contents are quite fizzy [terrible joke, sorry]. |  |
Frances has sent images from Brittany - First playing with autumn colours and others sketching around and about.
| Jackie is in Majorca, and has sent a lovely watercolour sketch of the view from the terrace of her villa in Majorca. She says, 'It marks the entrance to one of our favourite bird watching locations.' |  |
| I was very sorry not to be able to join in this morning, but I don't think anyone would have been grateful to me for inflicting my lovely cold and cough on the rest of you! I did tackle the celebration theme at home and here is my version - lots of different papers, including gelli prints, and some marks made with the implements I made at Sally L's workshop last week. |  |
Finally, here is some information from Lesley. I will also add it to the Stop Press so you can still find it after this page has gone below the next blogs.
Next year we will be exhibiting as part of Suffolk Open Studios at the Bank Arts Centre in Eye. This will be our summer exhibition. We hope as many as possible of you will be able to commit. Hanging will take place on Monday 23rd June, for exhibiting Wednesday 25th - Sunday 29th June. The weekend Saturday and Sunday will incorporate the last weekend of Suffolk Open Studios.
Applications for next year’s S.O.S. opens tomorrow, 1st November. As EAG will be making our application in the next few weeks, it would be very helpful if the organising committee knew how many members will be participating.
There will be a form to sign at the Bowls club, from next week if you wish to exhibit.
Avril will be blogging next week. Please send contributions to her.
Next year we will be exhibiting as part of Suffolk Open Studios at the Bank Arts Centre in Eye. This will be our summer exhibition. We hope as many as possible of you will be able to commit. Hanging will take place on Monday 23rd June, for exhibiting Wednesday 25th - Sunday 29th June. The weekend Saturday and Sunday will incorporate the last weekend of Suffolk Open Studios.
Applications for next year’s S.O.S. opens tomorrow, 1st November. As EAG will be making our application in the next few weeks, it would be very helpful if the organising committee knew how many members will be participating.
There will be a form to sign at the Bowls club, from next week if you wish to exhibit.
Avril will be blogging next week. Please send contributions to her.
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