Dear Member As this is the first Newsletter sent to you in 2021, May we wish you a Happy New Year. With the coronavirus still causing a great deal of trouble in the country, we can only hope that the year is better than 2020. I am very grateful to members who have...
Dear Member It is with great sadness that we have to report that our President, Bert Showell, has passed away. He was well into his 90s and died peacefully in his sleep on 28th/29th November. Bert joined the Club in the early 1970s and exhibited from then until last...
Dear Member As I settle down to write this Newsletter another lockdown has just<br />begun. Rather than the bluebells and primroses seen during the first<br />restrictions, my local walks are now filled with autumn colours and<br />misty views. I...
Dear Member Autumn seems to have crept up on us again. Who can fail to be inspired by the Autumn changes in the British flora? Never mind the greens, get out the reds, yellows, oranges and golden browns for your next painting! Maybe next month we will have some Autumn...
This was to have been a more cheerful Newsletter, reporting on something of a return to activity for the art club. A small group of members made a careful start back at ‘Tuesday Painting’ for two weeks and we felt that we could go ahead with the painting workshop,...
Dear Member Cookham Arts Club is well on the way to having its own website. A small team from the Committee have been working with Robert Bloomfield who lives and works in Cookham and builds websites. Bob is related to a friend of Lyn’s and is grandson to Jack and...
Dear Member It is pleasing to see that lots of you are finding time for painting, judging by the super artwork that you send to me for the newsletter. As usual I have put the majority of them, which are on ‘Tuesday Painting’ topics, on separate pages. Here are a few...
Dear Members Looking back at last year’s July Newsletter, we should be thinking about preparing our artwork for the Summer Exhibition which, of course, is cancelled for 2020. Our New Arts evening is another event which we were unable to hold, but I am pleased to say...
Dear MemberAnother month has passed, with another thirty or so circuits of ‘the block’ for exercise! Lockdown continues and we do hope that you are keeping positive and healthy. Painting and other artistic endeavours, if you can get thoroughly absorbed in them, are...