[BAS Newsletter] Art Matters meetings - NEW TIME

[Adrian Fowle (BAS Chairman)]

Deborah has kindly posted a review (below) of last week's "Rabbit 
Meeting" and proposed a discussion for this coming week. Please note 
that this meeting will start at 7pm. Friday 29th Jan at 7pm. Zoom 
details to follow nearer the time.

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Thank you to those who have renewed their membership. Please encourage 
others to do so, and if we can find more members even better.

A really big thank you to those who have given extra to help us through 
this difficult period. Many of our costs have remained whilst our income 
from exhibitions has disappeared. Of course many others face this 
problem, but a small art society does not have many reserves to draw on.

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In this wintry weather you might wonder if you can paint in the cold. 
https://justpaint.org/painting-in-the-cold/ has all the answers you 
need, at least for the Golden range. I rather liked the idea of painting 
with gin! Of course painters and decorators know this too. There is a 
nice image of cracked paint from painting at too low a temperature. I 
did look up what "minimum film formation temperature" is about, but it 
is clearly too complex a subject. Also, whilst I love walking in wintry 
conditions with good clothes on, the idea of standing still to paint for 
hours has very limited appeal in the cold. Please join Friday's 
discussion if you disagree.

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The Royal College of Physicians holds many interesting historical and 
artistic resources, including portraits of past presidents. Some are 
going to be displayed on line during 2021. Keep an eye on 
https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/exhibitions/rcp-unseen


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*Adrian Fowle**
**Chairman, Bromley Art Society**
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Dear All


After a discussion about timings next Friday’s meeting will be a 
discussion one. This time a theme picked from the title of this series 
Art Matters -

What matters to you in Art?


A simple question for next Fridays Social. Paul says I love the 
friendship and kindship that can go along with creating something that 
"sings" to people...hopefully.

Here is a recent different view and quote from someone else... and I'm 
sure there are others.

"The arts make us better people - not morally better but more thoughtful 
and more complex. Exposure to high art affects us over time; it affects 
our capacity to understand and relate, and it allows us to develop a 
personal heartland of images, sounds and expressions that we can draw 
on. I have two favourite paintings...."  (Tessa Jowell, Culture Secretary)

If you participated in last weeks challenge (even if you didn’t make the 
meeting or would like to make some last minute tweaks) and would like us 
to post your rabbit on the website then please email to 
exhibitions at bromleyartsociety.org.uk and we’ll get them posted. (same 
ts&cs as the exhibition)

We decided at the meeting to try a later slot occasionally at least, so 
next week’s meeting will start at  7pm and run as usual for c 1hour.

The Friday after that will be a demo from Melanie Cambridge at 6pm

For the meeting after that 12th February,  we’d like to have another Art 
Challenge. So I will take another executive decision and set the theme 
of "In the City” as before any medium and interpretation welcome and no 
need to spend long on it unless you want to.

Don't forget the Ring out the Old competition too. Entries have started 
arriving so don’t get left behind! We’d like your entries in by the 19th

Report on the meeting

I did originally worry that setting  “homework” would frighten people 
off and the meeting would consist of 2 or 3 people but I needn’t have 
worried.  We were joined by 13+ Artists with their rabbits and as you 
might expect the meeting demonstrated the wealth and diversity of talent 
we have in the Society. Works included quick sketches, watercolours, 
acrylics, drawings, textiles, mixed media, digital, ballpoint and 
collage! I am hoping that participants will email me a photo of their 
work so we can post this on the website.
Everyone who wanted too was able to share their work and talk about it.  
We had reasonable success with sharing screens (apart from mine) and I 
hope I didn’t  cut anyone off (very much a Learner driver at the 
controls) so with a bit more practice I am sure that this will become 
second nature but holding the work up to the screen worked fine so there 
was no need to engage with the finer points of Zoom unless you wished to.

Some new links

The following were suggested to the meeting participants:

The Royal Drawing School has recently started a new series of online 
lectures: Creative Conversations. Last weeks was between 2 women whose 
drawings are autobiographical  and focus on the tension between 
Motherhood and being an Artist. I am sure many members can relate to 
this!. It is on their website if you would like to take a look, as are 
many other past discussions and information about future ones. 
https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/lectures-events/?type=lectures

Slightly more unusual the London Mime Festival would normally be on in 
theatres at this time. Instead they have posted many videos of past 
performances in the Videotheque section of their website. My experience 
of past attendance is that they range from the really funny, to the 
really inspiring, to the What on earth was that all about? My reason for 
sharing is a) you may find them interesting and its free but the more 
relevant reason is having recently done a couple of life drawing classes 
with moving models, I am sure this would be a great opportunity to try 
this outt. Its only on til the end of the month. https://mimelondon.com

Deborah
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