Chester le Street Autumn Exhibition 2019

Two week in Chester Library from 2 Nov to 16 Nov 2019

 47 pictures entered by 19 artists 

South Wall and corner 25 paintings mainly 20x16 inch

West Wall - 22 smaller paintings  

Raffle prize donated by our Chairman Peter Robbins.
Peter's work on SAA website

Public voting results from 155 votes cast.

    1 st  with 17 votes my collage painting of Edinburgh view to Carlton Hill

2 nd with 16 votes Peter Robbins- Warkworth Castle in acrylics

 3 rd with 10 votes David Armstrong - Chester le Street Bowls in acrylics

David is one of our newest members and his work can be viewed on Instagram

Overall voting

25 - Peter Robbins from 2 paintings

24 - Malcolm Coils from 2 paintings

19 - Audrey Fryer with her wonderful 3 pastel pencil drawings.

Audrey's pastel

Excellent exhibition with a variety of mediums.

Others members on the web but not Facebook;-

Maria Harland on Leisure Painter

George Levitt on Artfinder

Group photos earlier this year

Article in Leisure Painter about our club

Wednesday Morning Art Club at Chester-le-Street

Joined the morning art at the Community Centre. Demonstration by Chris Bowen - a watercolour and calligraphy artist.

Example of his work

Used watercolour straight from the pan onto wet paper on everything from sky, background hills and foreground tree. Did not work for me on the background but yes to the foreground which is a similar method I use on my harbours scenes with black lines. An artist of some 40 years teaching experience he seemed rather nervous and told some awful jokes to the point of annoyance. 

My example of the method he used on the foreground