RAS Calendar of Events: Please keep these dates in mind:

January 31, 2019 New members subscription due if they wish to exhibit in the RAS Spring show.

February 19, 2019  Linelle Stacey workshop entries due.

March 5, 2019  Linelle Stacey Acrylic tutorial.

March 31, 2019 2019 Membership subscriptions due (discount if paid by this date). 

Please note that to be eligible for exhibition in the 2019 RAS Spring Show members must have paid their subscription by March 31st, 2019. 

August 23-25, 2019 ‘Spring into Spring’, RAS annual exhibition at the Rangiora Bowling Club. 

Happy New Year and welcome back to the Rangiora Art Society’s new year. The RAS Christmas lunch was a resounding success and finished the RAS year very pleasantly. We hope the festive season has been a happy and restful time for you all. With a fresh start and new ideas, we look forward to seeing your art works this year. We restart our Tuesday sessions from 9:00 and to 3:00 pm on Tuesday 15 January and look forward to seeing many of you there.

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The exhibition at Charles Upham in Rangiora is confirmed for the weekend of 30 November (opening night), 1-2 December (open for show). This is organized by RAS and includes other local art groups under the umbrella of North Canterbury Arts Collective. Ryman are generous in covering costs. This will be a Cash and Carry exhibition with 10% sales going to the charity chosen by Ryman. We need photos of pictures that will be entered in this show so that Ryman can choose one they want to use for their advertising of the event. Please send your photographs via the website but please note, these must be of pictures you will enter in the Ryman exhibition this year. Works may be new or previously exhibited. The entry form attached can be downloaded by clicking here.

Another successful RAS Spring Show has been achieved with plenty of colour to feast our eyes on. Lisa Jepson’s works helped set the scene with visitors enjoying the full experience, taking time to appreciate the art on display. Our thanks go to the judges, Jackie Watson and Brent Firken who carefully considered the works.
We congratulate the following members who were successful:
Russell Andrews Memorial Cup: Oliver Ryan for his oil painting ‘Paradise’.
Gordon Harris Award: Chris Heaphy for her acrylic painting ‘Oystercatchers’.
Merit awards went to Oliver Ryan for ‘Paradise’ (oil); Paul Smith for ‘Flash point’ (acrylic), Karin Werner for ‘From West to East’ (water colour); Jill Johnson for ‘Poppies’ (mixed media); Mandy Palmer for ‘Delicate Strength’ (pencil); Ngaire Hunt for ‘In the Garden’ (workshop/tutorial); Rosie Pack for her 30-Day Challenge folder.
Highly Commended awards went to Ruth Reid for ‘Braided River’ (oil); Victoria Bennett for ‘Feathers’(acrylic); Rosie Pack for ‘Warsash Pickers’ (mixed media); Jan Clark for ‘Leucadendron’ (pencil); Quilliam Collister for ‘Café scene, Nuremberg, Germany’ (water colour); Jan Campbell for ‘Bright Gems’ (workshop/tutorial); Sheryl Price-Hall for her 30-Day Challenge folder.

We have decided due to some requests at the Spring Exhibition that we will put together a 2019 Calendar ready for sale at the upcoming Rymans Exhibition.If you would like to put forward your work to go into this Calendar this is what you need to know:

Members are reminded that entries for our annual exhibition are due on August 14. the entry form may be down loaded from this link.

It promises to be a great show again with exciting artist Lisa Jepson as our guest.

Spring Show: We hope you are all preparing for the Spring Art Exhibition. To help you plan for this exhibition the entry forms and rules are attached to this newsletter. The committee is working away behind the scenes to ensure we have another successful show. The big stands have been repaired. Our wonderful team of Russell Hobbs and John Paul have repainted the stands so that they are ready for our Spring Show. Replacement advertising boards to go out on the streets have been purchased and will also be available in time for the Spring Show.
RAS Raffle: We plan to run a raffle again this year and ask that members be ready to donate items for the raffle prizes. In the past these baskets of goodies have proved popular and proceeds from raffle sales help pay our annual costs. This is a small way in which members can help the committee
Linelle Stacey’s tutorial ‘Painting with Acrylics’: Linelle advises us that artists will need to bring a 300 x 600 canvas painted black, several fine long brushes (Linelle will bring a few for those who don’t have any) and Linelle will supply the rest of the brushes needed and all the paint. Cost for paint will be $5 per person (this is an extra charge). The tutorial will be in the War Memorial Hall. Entry forms can be found in the newsletter.

The committee have arranged for Ruth Reid to come and tell us all about her recent Scholarship to Venice. Ruth will be speaking from 10am at the Gospel Hall on Tuesday, the 3rd July. We will set up the hall to ensure that those who still wish to paint will still be able to. Ruth is a member of our society, and has been for some eight years, some of you might know Reid’s work. She describes her work on her website as ‘ Iconic Landscapes and Nature’s Gems in Oils ‘ do check it out https://ruthreidart.com/ . But her focus for this talk will be on the experience of being a scholar in Venice.

Keep these dates in mind and watch out for further details.

• March 27 Ivan Button has agreed to take a Water colour tutorial. See attached entry form.
• April 17 Rosie Pack has agreed to take a Drawing tutorial. See attached entry form. • May 1-30 Our 30-Day painting Challenge returns.
• May 8 AGM (evening), guest speaker Linelle Stacey, speaking about life as a professional artist.
• May 15 Gordon Harris product presentation.
• June 5 Lloyd Harman has agreed to take an Oils for beginners tutorial.
• July 3 Ruth Reid speaking about her one-month scholarship painting experience in Venice.
• August 31 – September 2 RAS Spring Show, guest artist Lisa Jepson.