25th June 2020

Good Afternoon Members ,

 On this the hottest day of the summer so far! I hope you are managing to stay cool and still produce some art work .

 

The Committee and I have sadly had to make the decision, in view of the continuing uncertainty with the virus, to cancel our usual annual OVAS exhibition at the Institute in August, but never fear, we have come up with a radical solution!

 

We will be holding an open online exhibition for the whole of August from 1st August to 31st August. You will be able to enter up to 6 pieces of work , framed or unframed, a good quality photo of each to be sent to Chris Poole ( email : charybdis72@hotmail.co.uk)

 

Here are the details ( which are also on the website if you need a reminder)

·       The dates for entry are from 20th July to the end of 28th July.

·       The photos  should be sent with the following information  clearly laid out as follows :
 -     The  title and Artist’s name

-          Medium including surface

-          Size (in cms please)

-          The price if selling or NFS if not .

·       You also need to state if the work is framed /unframed and include the frame in your photo.

·       There will be no charge for entry to the exhibition and OVAS will not collect any commission. The sales of any work will be a contract between the artist and purchaser. Chris Poole will send the interested buyer’s email to the artist and we ask that they  arrange the details themselves. Do remember that you will need to need to think about P&P on any prospective sales as an extra cost.

·       Please remember that your entries , as usual, should be original work in whatever medium, completed in the last year , and not exhibited before. The exceptions to this are that work you have entered in our lockdown competitions will be allowed.

 

 I would like to tell you that the Georgian House , in Ottery, South West Arts, in Sidmouth, and the Framewharehouse in Exeter, are all open to  take framing orders now.

 

We are delighted to say that local artist Nick Watton has agreed to be our judge for the exhibition and he will be judging the work on Wednesday 5th August. He will award first, second and third places, and 3 commended. The overall winner will receive a prize of free membership to the Society for the next year.

 

 On Thursday 6th August  from 7.30 - 8.30 we will be holding a Zoom mid exhibition social at which you are all invited to raise your glasses and nibbles (at home of course!), and join in while Nick announces the winners and says a few words on each one.

 

 Phew, I hope you can take all that information in ! If you have any questions please contact one of the Committee members who will help you out.

 

Last night we had our second Zoom online demo with Hannah Twine which was very enjoyable  and I would like to remind you that our next one will be with International artist Chris Forsey, on 8th July at 7.30, about which you will have received info from Fiona Gale.  The invite will be sent closer to the date  so please watch out for this  . If you have any problems with this or Zoom please contact Fiona who will be only too pleased to help you.

 

There will be no online competition in July as we will be preparing for the exhibition in August. I hope you will take advantage of all that your Committee is providing for you, even though it might look a bit different to usual.

 

With best wishes,

 

Penny Lamb