A Day in the Garden

FenVAC member, Fiona Dodwell, extends an invitation to all members:

A Day in the Garden

Please come for a few - hopefully sunny! - hours in the garden.

From 11 am onwards on Sunday 28 June 2009

You would be welcome to bring family and friends and to bring a picnic lunch - there will be rugs and seating and there are plenty of shady spots

There will be plants, drinks and strawberries & cream on sale. Almost everything will be 50p or 2 for 50p, to raise funds for Amnesty International.

If you have seedlings or plants you would like to pot up and donate to help raise funds (or if you have anything else you would like to sell for Amnesty), please get in touch on 01733 205532

PLease let us know if you can come

Looking forward to seeing you

Fiona and David Dodwell

Chatteris Medieval Festival

The Festival is nearly upon us so if you haven't already and would like to enter some artwork please do contact Marian.

We are running some FREE workshops over the weekend at the exhibition:

Art Journaling (Marian Savill & Katherine Nightingale) Saturday 10 - 12
Portrait Photography (Rob Morris) Saturday & Sunday 11 - 1
Acrylics (Carol McEwan & Heather Kinnear)
Presenting your Artwork (Richard Savage) Sunday 10 -12
Textiles (Jenny Furlong) Sunday 1 - 3

Please spread the word! If you'd like more information or would like to book a place on any of the workshops please contact Rob Morris by email or by telephone on 01354 695179

Please do come along and see the exhibition at the weekend, it wsill be great to see some of you!

For full details of the Festival events see the website

Exhibition

Rob Morris and Marian Savill are continuing their series of local exhibitions with one entitled 'Cos Dads are Special starting on Monday. The exhibition is at March Library, City Road, March and runs until Saturday, 20th June during normal library opening hours. There will be a variety of unique work on display including assemblage, photography and jewellery in celebration of Fathers Day. Rob and Marian will be at the library on Tuesday, 9th June from 6.30pm - 8.30pm and everyone is welcome to go along to meet them, have a chat, see their work and enjoy light refreshments.

If you have an exhibition or event you'd like to publicise on the blog please do email the details to Marian.

Fen Edge Textiles Exhibition

FenVAC committee member, Jenny Furlong, is part of the Fen Edge Textiles group who are having an exhibition at the National Trust property, Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk during June. The exhibition runs from 6th June to 21st June 2009 from 10.30am to 5pm, closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Much of the textile work is based on artefacts found at Sutton Hoo. If Jenny's glorious work (see below for one of her previous pieces) is anything to go by the exhibition is well worth a visit! ;o)

Member's Skills/Services

It has been suggested recently that FenVAC members could help each other out in many ways and I believe this is a great idea. ;o) Our membership is comprised of all manner of folk with a huge variety of different skills/talents and in these times of economic recession helping each other out seems a beneficial thing to do.

To start the ball rolling, Rob Morris is offering FenVAC members a 10% discount on any photographic requirements. Rob has recently taken the plunge and is now working full time as a photographer/visual artist. He works on a huge variety of projects from portraits, weddings and other celebratory events through to magazine work, charity projects and visual art for regular exhibitions.



If you'd like to discuss having your artwork photographed or any other photography needs please do contact Rob by email or by telephone on 07935204209. To see more of his work visit his website or blog.

If you have a skill, service or special offer you'd like to offer to FenVAC members please do contact me with details and I will post all the info here on the blog.

Marian
Vice Chair

Norfolk Open Studios

Norfolk Open Studios begins this weekend and runs until 31st May. The event is part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and features over 250 participating venues with individual artists as well as galleries/collectives of artists. All the details can be found on the website where you can see all the artists, download a brochure and more!

Manea Gala

This year's Manea Gala is on Saturday, 11th July on Manea Playing Field from 12 noon til 5 or 6pm. There is an art & craft tent and FenVAC member, Sabrina Woodard, has asked if any FenVAC members would like to go along and display/sell their work. Individual tables cost £10 but can be shared. There is limited display board space available but exhibitors can take their own boards if they have them. Set up is from 10am on the day. For more details or to book a space contact Sabrina on 01354 680068 or 07733995170.