
People’s Choice Award winner ‘Evening Reflections – Lake Coleridge’ by Karin Werner
What a show that was! Our annual exhibition of members’ works was a celebration of talent, reflecting the joy of spring. Many thanks to all who helped us, it was also a celebration of teamwork and generosity as members gave goods, time and physical effort to help us put the show on. It is the nature of our society that we run thanks to our volunteers, there were many and some braved bitter weather in their effort to help our exhibition run well. We congratulate the winners of the categories. This year we received sponsorship for prizes from both Gordon Harris who selected one work and from The Drawing Room who gave us vouchers to celebrate success in the main categories. A big thank you to both Gordon Harris and the The Drawing Room for their generosity. The RAS decided to provide some prizes as well as the certificates so that all successful artists were rewarded. In addition to their certificates the successful artists receiving a Merit award were also given a voucher and the Highly Commended artists received wine.
Rangiora Art Society winners for 2019:
Russell Andrews’ Memorial Cup ‘Hesitate’ by Paul Smith – Acrylic
Gordon Harris Award ‘Jack the Joker’ by Trish Woods – Acrylic
People’s Choice Award ‘Evening Reflections Lake Coleridge’ by Karin Werner – Oil
Watercolour & Pen & Wash Merit ‘Notre Dame, Paris’ by Quilliam Collister
Watercolour & Pen & Wash Highly Commended ‘The River Wanders’ by Carol Moffat
Acrylic & Ink Merit ‘Bunch of Flowers’ by Sharon Soderberg
Acrylic & Ink Highly Commended ‘Time Passes’ by Joanne McDougall
Oil Merit ‘Evening Reflections – Lake Coleridge’ by Karin Werner
Oil Highly Commended ‘The Albatrosses’ by Jenny Baker
Drawing – Pen, Pencil, Pastel Merit ‘Becoming Transluscent’ by Mandy Palmer
Drawing – Pen, Pencil, Pastel Highly Commended ‘Winter Roses’ by Viv Knowles
Mixed Media Merit ‘Divided Loyalties’ by Russell Campbell
Mixed Media Highly Commended ‘Beautiful Roses’ by Ann Filshie Workshop/Tutorial Merit ‘Architecture -Over there’ by Robyn Cassidy
Workshop/Tutorial Highly Commended ‘Linelle Stacey workshop – Landscape’ by Jan Campbell
30-Day Challenge Merit by Antonia Rankin
30-Day Challenge Highly Commended by Chris Heaphy