UKCPS AGM - reminder!

This is just a reminder:-

UK Coloured Pencil Society AGM

 

NOTICE is hereby given that the UKCPS Annual General Meeting will be held on:

Sunday 24th November 2013 at 11am at the MAC Centre, Birmingham, B12 9QH.  

Your committee hopes that you will be able to attend and look forward to seeing you at the meeting. You can see the AGM documents by logging in at the members section at the society website: www.ukcps.co.uk. 

The AGM is your chance to have your say, and effect the future of the society.  It is also your chance to help the society in a practical sense by volunteering to take on, or  at least assist with, one of the many functions carried out by your committee.  

Although all members of the Executive Committee are required to stand for re-election at the AGM, not all members wish to be re-elected, and therefore, vacancies on the Executive will exist. 

If you think you can offer expertise, or even just assistance, with one of the following, then please  contact Will Johnson, the UKCPS Secretary, at secretary@ukcps.co.uk :   

CHAIRMAN                                                              SECRETARY

TREASURER                                                             MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY

EDITOR – ‘TALKING POINT’                               EDITOR – NEWSLETTER

EXHIBITION SECRETARY                                    SPONSORSHIP

WEBMASTER                                                             YAHOO FORUM MODERATOR

BLOGMASTER                                                           LOCAL GROUPS CO-ORDINATOR

PUBLIC RELATIONS                                               ADVERTISING

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Members in South Yorkshire

This has come from Georgina Harvey, a past member of the society:

I am currently a lapsed member of UKCPS because of the demands of my work over the last 12 months or so. I am still very interested in coloured pencil work but wondered whether anyone knew of any demonstrations rather than workshops that I could attend. I live in the South Yorkshire area. I would just like to watch techniques and how pictures are built up, if that makes sense.
Thank you so much. I will probably re-join the Society in the very near future.

Gina Harvey


Gina can be contacted at:
ginah1@tiscali.co.uk

13th Annual Open International Exhibition

This is just by way of a heads-up for all you CP artists out there.

The UKCPS Open Exhibition (the 13th of its kind!) is being held earlier than normal in 2014.

The venue will be the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists gallery at 4 Brook Street, St. Paul's, Birmingham, B3 1SA, and it will run from 28th April to 10 May 2014.

The Call for Entries is due out shortly, and will be downloadable from the UKCPS website at: www.ukcps.co.uk , but in the meantime - get those works under way 'cos the deadline for entries will be:
             WEDNESDAY 5TH FEBRUARY 2014

CP Wildlife Drawing Course in Rugby

This has come in from UKCPS artist, Victoria Parsons.  

Many members will know of Victoria 's work as a volunteer in a wolf sanctuary, - and will have appreciated her wonderful pictures of wolves!

I have a 6 week Wildlife course beginning next Tuesday evening (5th November).

 

Its short notice I know but I have only just had the ok for the use of the hall.

 

The course cost is £70 and is in Rugby. contact email is victoriaparsons51@hotmail.com. or vickimoonwolf@gmail.com or phone is 07708925526

 

 

Judith Selcuk - Paint magzine

 Judith Selcuk sends news of an entry in the SAA magazine 'Paint' :-

I thought you may like to know that whilst flicking through my quarterly SAA magazine 'Paint' I noticed a painting that I recognised on the Gallery page entitled 'Bitter Sweet'.
On closer inspection it was no wonder I recognised it.... It was only my own CP painting that exhibited at Patchings entitled 'Escapism'
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It was the only CP painting in the gallery and held its own amongst the other mediums.

Judith Selcuk

West Yorks Local Group

Our man Michael Maguire, Editor of the UKCPS Newsletter, made a visit with his wife to the recent Exhibition run by the West Yorkshire local group based in Baildon: -

Many congratulations to the West Yorkshire Group on their first ever local exhibition which ran between 23 September and 5 October 2013 at Baildon Library .

 

My wife and I were highly delighted to see a fine collection and good standard of CP work.  We were especially pleased to quite literally bump into Norma Hall and her husband whilst we were taking notes and I was snapping merrily away! My apologies if I confused Norma about why we were there. I did give her the opportunity to be included in a photograph of her lovely rendering "Our Daily Visitor", but I gather she was a little overwhelmed by what she thought was a local news reporter for the Telegraph & Argus. I'm quite thrilled to have been mistaken for the paparazzi!

 

A female German tourist was also taking an interest in the exhibition and she asked about the type of pencils and supports. She thought many of them were watercolour so I explained there may have been water soluble images among them. Baildon Librarian, Deborah confirmed that there had been quite a steady flow of visitors milling around the display.

 

All in all, it was a brilliant first show for this local group and we look forward to seeing the next one. Well done!

 

Michael Maguire

Associate & Editor of UKCPS the Newsletter

Lesley Sharman in Artists & Illustrators

Congratulations to UKCPS Silver Signature Member, Lesley Sharman, who, with her award winning picture 'Blue Door', is featured in the December edition of Artists & Illustrators Magazine:

I've just been interviewed for A&I magazine following my win with Blue Door at the Patchings exhibition. I got a plug in for the UKCPS, so hopefully we'll get some free publicity from it.

It should hit the newsagents early November, so keep an eye out!

Lesley S.

'Blue Door'