News Update at 30th Dec 2020
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We wish you all a happy new year and hope you will remember to renew your membership for 2021.
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There has been a change to our April booking which will now be a Zoom demo of portraiture in pastels from Rob Wareing.
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There is an EXTRA too! The opportunity to paint along with NZ artist Richard Robinson on 14th Jan. Fiona Gale gives all the info you need to know HERE
NB Sorry but Mobile phone view is NOT recommended for this site. Laptop is much preferred
OVAS Exhibition 2022
The 2022 exhibition ran from 5th-13th August 2022. Yet again the standard of entries was very high, and we were pleased to see submissions this year from some younger artists.
Popular Vote 2022
Congratulations to Robin McIntyre for his Redrock Sentinels
2nd, Lucie Sivier-Voller with Frieze Frame I
3rd, Carolyn Barker with Playing In the River
2022 Exhibition
Yet again many visitors commented on the great diversity and high quality of artwork on display.
Jo Vollers kindly agreed to act as this year's judge. Jo is an exciting intuitive painter working in oils and acrylics. She developed her love of colour and light from her early years growing up in Australia, but has been an established artist in East Devon for 30 years. Many of her paintings sit between figurative and abstraction, colours and how they interact with each other being so important. She considers a painting should grow its own personality "to meet the creative thought" - to paraphrase Ivon Hitchens.
Many of Jo's exciting paintings can be found on her website
As well as a return of many of our regular exhibitors - who maintained their high standards to inspire us yet again - this year we were delighted to welcome some much younger exhibiting newcomers. One of whom, Lucie Sivier-Voller [no relation!] deservedly won the Mixed Media prize (and Second Place in the 'Visitors' Choice vote) for her exceptional dance study "Frieze Frame I".
2022 Preview evening and awards [click on any picture to enter the slideshow]
Walking The Dog Sidmouth - Acrylics
Early Morning Sidmouth - Acrylics
Jo judged the exhibits
OVAS President , Judge, Treasurer
David Young Award for Oils
Green Gates - Oils
Janet Langmaid Award for Mixed Media
Freeze Frame I - Mixed Media
Leonard Pargiter Award for Watercolours
November - Watercolour
The Society's Award for Pastels
Holes In The Sky - Pastels
The Otter Award for Drawing
Common Buzzard - Drawing
Alwyn crawshaw Award for Acrylics
Acrylics
The Alice Comont Cup
Sculpture and 3-D
1953 Chevy - (highly commended)
European Lynx [commended]
View From Castle Woodbury - (commended)
Summer Dusk - (commended)
Poppy - (commended)
Sunlit Blue - (commended)
Pictures At An Exhibition [2022]
Here's a small selection of other works. Everything from blue crabs to yellow apples! If your work is not here it's not that we don't like it. It may be that the reflections on the picture were too prominent. Send me a clear photo and I'm happy to add it [Chris Poole]
Beverley Raistrick MM
Carolyn Barker Oils
Chris Poole pouring acrylic
Mike Bird Oils
Terry Davies w/c
Tracey Collyer MM
Fiona Gale Acrylics
Tracey Collyer MM
Lily Vaughan Acrylics
Chris Poole Gouache
Mike Bird oil
Sally Nowell oil
John Staddon oils
Mike Stevens Acrylics
Robin McIntyre Oils
John Staddon Oils
Cynthea Gregory MM
Celia Risso Oils
Molly Brice-Nye Acrylics
Nickie Bitschi w/c
Mike Stevens Acrylics
Sally Nowell oil
Sue Williams Acrylics
Gill Kirby Acrylics
Fiona Gale acrylics
Kerry Johnstone Pastels
Chris Poole Pouring acrylics
Penny Lamb Oils
And a few more! :-)
Ann Brown W/Colour
Alan Williams Mixed Media
Carolyn Barker Oils
John Atkinson Pastels
John Atkinson W/colour
Jacqueline Ward Mixed Media
John Atkinson Mixed Media
Maureen Stone Acrylics
Kerry Johnstone Pastels
Maureen Stone Acrylics
Nickie Bitschi W/colour
Pat Snelling W/colour
Terry Davies W/colour
Sue Williams Acrylics
Val Faulkner Acrylics