On Saturday 5th October members and guests assembled for our annual lunchtime Social at the Bear Steps Art Gallery to celebrate our Autumn Exhibition. A warm welcome was extended to all by our Chair, Barry Lowe. He welcomed Mike Griffiths, who had kindly acted as Adjudicator for the awarding of the annual Walker Harrison Prize, given for the picture in the exhibition which ‘best represents the Shropshire landscape’.
On this occasion we were pleased to see the prize go to Jason Edwards, a relatively new member of the Society, who had submitted a particularly stunning painting of a stretch of the river Severn immediately below the station bridge, After the rain, Shrewsbury. Mike congratulated Jason on the outstanding quality of his work and the Society on the excellent quality and range of the work submitted by members.
As the social was in full swing, so was our October Saturday Workshop. This season our Workshops and Classes are very well supported and attended. It’s exciting too, to see some fresh faces among our regulars.
Saturday Workshops, kindly organised for us by Lynne Morgan and Mick Krupa have got off to an excellent start. In the latest of these we were considering and responding to the distinctive work of the Salford artist, Harold Riley.
Thanks go to Anne Linton and Jennifer Wallace for accompanying us with their cameras (images above). Many thanks also to John Willetts, our Exhibitions Secretary, and his team for for their fine and hard work organising our Autumn Exhibition. It’s on until Saturday 12th October at 2.30pm. Come and visit!
Stop press!!!
On the evening of Thursday 10th October, Wilf Langford and Alan Townsend will be appearing on BBC Radio Shropshire at 8pm in Mark Elliott’s Seven O’Clock Show. They will be interviewed about our Autumn Exhibition and the Society’s activities in general. We are grateful to Mark and to Radio Shropshire for giving us occasional opportunities to promote the Society. Listen in!