18 members attended today and were happy that they did as the selection of ideas was splendid.
| Lesley started off with her landscape in the Peak District of Stanage edge, Sheffield. It was a grey day the end of December, she liked the contrast between the mist and rocks and the low light levels. Derwent valley mists. Lesley also showed an iPad picture from Jax. It was the edge of the day in oils. |  |
Maggie Anne sketched a beautiful ballerina on the edge of the floor which showed a strong balance.
Diana used her sketchbook to help her do these finger paintings using rubber gloves of different times of the day at a camp site at Bishops Castle. She also was inspired by Shropshire Lad and a book by Malcolm Saville about the area.
 | Sandra produced a strong pastel with simple design of a pot of flowers, the composition is right on the edge and also on the edge with the tonal colours. |  | Sally T had a Medieval map idea but changed her mind and thought about people pouring over a hot day at Swansea waterfront. The docks have gone and no industry is left so there are boats and marinas and at the back sky scrapers on the water's edge and the quay-side becoming something else. |
Harriet had two offerings, the first when she was a teenager she had a poster on her wall from Athena: girl power on the line, ecstasy youth. The second was a painting of Bardsey Island in Wales, you can see the waters edge and edge of the hills.
John gave us a painting of The End of the World, inspired by Belshazzar's feast night, Dathan and Abiram (Numbers Chapter 16). An unknown hand writes on the wall, and the earth opens up. The second one from John was Donald, no explanations necessary.
 Sally P made a super pastel painting of Santorini, Greece on dark pastel paper and she found the white difficult but I think it is stunning. She also made some rough notes that I commandeered. |  |
Hannah showed us two photocopies to set the scene, the first of Beachy Head, in East Sussex where the lighthouse,, Belle Tout, iwas built too high. Once it was decommissioned, it had a new life as a house, and was used by the BBC for filming Life and Loves of the She Devil. It also made a mistaken appearance in RobinHood, Prince of Theives. It has had to be moved 17 metres from the edge, and may need to be moved again. The painting resulted as much from something else altogether (a collage) as from the original image.
Jackie made a Japanese looking watercolour inspired by a poem by P.H. Lyon which looks back over a coastline with a tree falling down, on the edge. the viewer is also on the edge.
Bea's kingfisher was on the edge of a branch. Elaine's birds are also on edge of the shore both recognisable realistic paintings.
Ian C shows a skier hurtling towards the edge to his peril and Ian S sitting on the edge of a building in Church Street, Kensington that reminded him when he was an apprentice plumber who did use a wire basket to be lifted to the 8th floor. We were told tales of doom about the peril of being on the edge.
Frances showed us her sketchbook with sketches of Covesea, with a bird precariously perched on the edge of the rock.
Judith gave us a turner type painting with nicely typed explanation
Josie said hers was work in progress, the first an imaginative walker on the edge and the second figures on the edge balancing.
I showed an acrylic painting called 'On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness' it is a fantasy novel written by Andrew Peterson, the book is full of characters with courage and heart who live on the edge.
So from here on, the Summer Programme applies. All the info is under the Events menu. Hope to see you all out and about!
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