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Last weekend a combined group of North Canterbury art groups held a very successful exhibition at the Charles Upham Retirement Village. This show was extensively advertised by Ryman Healthcare and we were all very pleased with the numbers who attended and the sales made. Rangiora Art Society members displayed some great work.

Long term RAS member Ruby Whitty with her panel.

Christmas Lunch

On Tuesday 12 December the Rangiora Art Society will again have their Christmas lunch at the Five Stags in Rangiora. RAS members who wish to attend need to contact Tracy Parker to book their place. The cost will again be subsidized for
members and is $20 per member which includes a free drink per member attending. Non-members may also attend but are asked to pay $22 and buy their own drinks. The menu provides choices and with notice the Five Stags will cater for gluten free and vegetarian needs. Apologies if the image of the menu is unclear in this newsletter.

We are all looking forward to our annual exhibition and are very excited to have Gwyn Hughes as our guest artist this year,

New President, Mike Gilbert makes his maiden speech at our Tuesday group session.

At the recent AGM we farewelled several hard working committee members, Ngaire Hunt, Quilliam Collister, Bob Cusdin, Lyn Peckover and Viv Knowles. Each outgoing committee member was presented with a gift and Ngaire’s hard work was also acknowledged with a bunch of flowers. New members to the committee are Carmen Smart and Russell Hobbs. Returning committee members are Jan Campbell, Margaret Stephenson, Tracy Parker (Treasurer), Pip Dobson (Secretary) and Mike Gilbert (President). The new team is hoping to continue the convivial spirit of the Rangiora Art Society. 

Magpie view fromSummer Hill by Libby Handy

Our exhibition in the Rangiora library Chamber Gallery opened last Sunday and runs until June 8 2017.

The exhibition looks great and really showcases the talents of the members. Paintings were selected by the Waimakariri District Arts Council (who run the gallery) and unfortunately some excellent paintings entered by members were not selected for the show for reasons of space or because the curators felt that they may not fit the theme of the show.

Attendance at the opening was very pleasing and photos of the opening from the Chamber Gallery Facebook page can be viewed by clicking here.

Our AGM is to be held in the Gospel hall on Tuesday 9 May at 7.00pm. This year for a variety of reasons we have a number of positions to be filled, so please start thinking now if you are able to take up one of these committee vacancies. Ngaire, Quilliam, Lyn, Bob and Viv are all relinquishing their roles this year so we will need people for President, Secretary, and general committee members who take on roles such as Membership Secretary, Exhibition co-ordinator, Exhibition equipment administrator, Newsletter coordinator, etc. Our speaker this year is Peter Allen, long term Waimakariri Councillor and former Principal of Rangiora High School. To date we have seven nominations. If you feel you could work on the committee please let us know. Our constitution provides for nine committee members.

“The Waimakariri – Our Land” The Exhibition runs from Sunday 7 May to Monday 5 June.
As only a limited number of works can be shown this exhibition has to be pre-selected. Members will need to have their work ready by Tuesday. 25 April and, as it is Anzac Day, bring it to the Gospel Hall in the afternoon between 2.00 and 3.30pm please.
All works exhibited need to be of a high standard, ready to hang, and identified on the back. If you are exhibiting on canvas then your work must be dry.
Please fill in the form at the end of the March/April newsletter and return to the committee so that we have an indication of how many paintings to expect. Artist’s names and titles of works are also required by the Gallery for printing purposes etc, so this is an important form.

Welcome to our 2017 Painting Year. A number of folk are so keen to get back that I have booked the Gospel Hall for us to start early this year. We begin next week, Tuesday 17 January 2017, at the Gospel Hall 9.30am to 3.00pm. You will notice that I’ve said 9.30 to 3.00. This is because rather than run two different sessions the committee has decided that instead of set two distinct time limits we’re going to let people’s time preferences merge one into the other. This means that if you’re a morning person but want to stay on longer you are most welcome to do so, and just because some folk are packing up to leave by noon you don’t have to do so if you want to keep on painting, while the folk who like to come in the afternoon can come in later in the morning, see friends and what others are doing and keep going until 3pm. We are hoping this will work out better for all. Over our trial three months last year it always seemed such a pity that there was a great hiatus over the lunch hour when virtually no one was painting. Let’s use all the time we have!

The Society is showing with  this event, which includes: stalls, a café and a silent auction at the school in addition to our exhibition is very popular with a large attendance, (many people come out from Christchurch) and should result in good foot traffic for our exhibition.

Peter Smith, manager of our sponsor Gordon Harris, judged the works and was extremely impressed with the variety and standard of work.

Our major winners this year were;

The Russell Andrew Cup for “best painting in the show” was awarded to Lynette Rate for painting No M145 “Bronzed” (inset)

The Gordon Harris Award was awarded to Carol Moffatt for “Spring on the 15th Tee”

Karin Werner was voted Peoples Choice winner for “Railroad Crossing”

Merit Awards:
Water Colour “Lunch, Amsterdam” by Quilliam Collister and “Waikuku Lagoon Sunset” by Karin Werner
Acrylic/Oil “Café Culture” by Chris Heaphy and “Galina Kim Tutorial” by Viv Knowles
Pastel/Pencil “Birds”  by Jan Campbell and “Birds” by Lyn Peckover
Mixed Media “Umbra” by Susan Roxborough and “Abstract”  by June Mounter