Swansea Art Society

AGM: 2012 Irene Bache Cup Winner......

Congratulations to Dr. Alan Marriott, who won the Irene Bache Cup for the best members' painting entered at this year's AGM. 

Alan is pictured here being presented with the cup by our President, Miss Eileen Campbell Jones. 

The winning painting, a lovely watercolour depiction of a seascape with boats had been delicately executed by Alan. It was voted top painting in the final head-to-head vote against an atmospheric river scene in acrylic medium, by Mrs. Lilian Hopkins, which was voted runner-up.

Winter Exhibition Ends.....

Reminder: The exhibition will be taken down on Friday 2nd December and the unsold artworks will be available for return to members from 12noon to 2pm.

Exhibition Opens.....

Over 150 artworks are available for the public to view in this year's Winter Exhibition at St Mary's Church, Swansea.

We were indebted to the new Vicar, the Revd. Simon Griffiths for officially opening the exhibition and addressing the members present. He is pictured here being thanked by our President, Eileen Campbell Jones.

Special Exhibition Opens.....

The special two-day exhibition of members' paintings commenced today at the Ostreme Centre, Oystermouth, Mumbles and we were extremely pleased at members' response to this one-off venture, to help celebrate our 125th anniversary.

The exhibition will be open tomorrow, Thursday 4th August, from 9am-4pm and all members who brought along their work will have to collect their unsold artworks between 4pm and 5pm.

 

 

Member's Exhibition Opens.....

SAS member, Cheryl Stone is currently holding a solo exhibition of her watercolour landscapes at the Oriel Bach, in Oystermouth, Mumbles.

The exhibition opened this evening and runs until Sunday 7th August.

125th Anniversary Exhibition Opens.....

The opening ceremony of the society's 125th anniversary summer exhibition took place at the Grand Theatre last night.

Glenys Cour, who is a noted professional artist and former art lecturer formally opened proceedings.

She gave an interesting speech, in which she anecdotally reminded those present how the society had changed since she was President many years ago, but also how many aspects of the society's work remained unchanged.

She was thanked for her words by Chairman Brian Griffin and was afterwards presented with a colourful bouquet of flowers by society President, Eileeen Campbell Jones.

The exhibition has 106 artworks in a wide diversity of media and genre and continues for the next two weeks. Entrance to the exhibition is free and framed paintings are offered for sale.

'Ugly, Lovely Town'......

A current exhibition at the Swansea Museum shows the changing face of Swansea, since 1700!

Within the exhibition are works by the late Will Evans and society member Shirley Morgan, whose sketches and pottery bowl reveal her childhood wartime memories.

These works have been lent to the Museum by Gerald Gabb, who was Senior Educational Officer at the Museum. Gerald used the works of both artists over recent years to illustrate his lectures on 'Swansea at War' to literally hundreds of children attending the Museum on escorted school visits.

The exhibition runs until mid May.

 

Irene Bache Cup Winner.....

Congratulations to Tatyana Thomas, who is the society's 2011 Irene Bache Cup winner.

Tatyana has only been a member of the society for a couple of years and originally hails from Russia.

She is pictured here being awarded the cup by our President, Eileen Campbell Jones.

Her watercolour of Mumbles Lighthouse won the admiration of members for the excellent way she had depicted the turbulent waters around the rocks, which is no easy task.

Exhibition Ends.....

A reminder to members that this year's summer exhibition has now been dismantled and the collection of unsold artworks from the Arts Wing of the Grand Theatre takes place this afternoon from 2pm until 4pm.

News Is Getting Around.....

Details of the Summer Exhibition were announced in last night's South Wales Evening Post and their journalist Kate Clarke was given carte blanche to choose the image to accompany her piece from our exhibits.

She chose Les Taylor's Gouache painting entitled 'St. Mary's Church [Rhossili]' and we reproduce the article here for those of you who missed it, courtesy of the Evening Post - just click on the article to see a larger version.