

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

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Otter Vale Art Society

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
![[after Turner] Rain, Steam and Bugs Bunny](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5eb48a_5c693fad027c4dcf83dd3e0f82e980cd~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_614,h_426,al_c,q_80,enc_auto/5eb48a_5c693fad027c4dcf83dd3e0f82e980cd~mv2.jpg)
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