HAPPY NEW YEAR and THANK YOU to everyone for your continued support for M&C during 2023, attending sessions or painting along at home.
Membership
We will finance M&C this year with an annual subscription of £84 to cover the hall hire fees for 2024.
Alternatively, equal payments of £28 will be due 3 times this year in January, May and September. If you choose to pay in instalments you are committing to pay for the whole year. Without this support we will not be able to raise enough funds to hire the hall. Steve emailed everyone on 18th December with details of how to pay by bank transfer, cheque or cash, so look back to his email if you need to. Please pay promptly as this saves members being emailed and phoned to be reminded to pay!
If you no longer wish to be a member please email Steve asap so you don’t continue to receive emails from us.
Please pay your membership fee by the end of January to continue to be a member of the art group. Thank you! :o)
Sessions
Our sessions will continue to be on the second Wednesday and the fourth Saturday of the month, with session ideas being published on the 1st of that month.
You don’t have to paint the suggested ideas, you’re welcome to come along and paint anything you want to. Or if you come on a Wednesday and want to paint the Saturday idea or vice versa, that’s no problem at all.
Free tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided at all sessions, so if you just want to come and chat with your art friends then that’s fine too.
Workshops
If we have any workshops they will have the usual ‘first come, first served’ policy of putting your name down, with an additional amount to pay to cover the tutor’s fee. If more artists wish to attend the session than the tutor has room for, we’ll have a waiting list and you have a chance of getting a place as members sometimes pull out at the last minute.
Even if you don’t want to attend a workshop you will have already paid for the hall hire in your subs. You are therefore welcome to sit and paint quietly at the kitchen end of the hall, whilst the workshop session takes place at the window end of the hall.
Here are the session dates for 2024
Please print them out or write them in your diary or calendar. Some months have 5 Saturdays but we meet on the 4th one.
Please note that our Open Day is on Saturday 23rd November, with hanging the evening before.
| 2024 | 2nd Wednesday 7-9pm | 4th Saturday 10am-3pm |
| January | 10th | 27th |
| February | 14th | 24th |
| March | 13th | 23rd |
| April | 10th | 27th |
| May | 8th | 25th |
| June | 12th | 22nd |
| July | 10th | 27th (not at hall) |
| August | 14th | 24th (not at hall) |
| September | 11th | 28th |
| October | 9th | 26th |
| November | 13th | FRI 22nd – Hanging evening SAT 23rd – OPEN DAY |
| December | 11th Christmas Party |
Hi Tracy
You may remember that Pat and I said we would be interested in rejoining .. and put our names on the list by the exit door.
We’ve not heard anything since .. it may be I listed my email wrongly or it was misread …. or I deleted without reading etc, but if you’re still recruiting perhaps you could ask Steve or whoever to send application form and payment details.
Happy New Year
Graham
Graham I Lock MA HS ARMS
Artist
https://www.instagram.com/graham_lock_art/
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Hi Graham and Pat
Please would you check your ‘spam/Junk’ Box on your email. I did send an email before Christmas with details of the group and payment methods. If you have any problem please contact me on stevemcart@hotmail.com
Best Wishes
Steve Goldson
Treasurer and Membership Secretary