Art members show off (From Stroud News and Journal)

Art members show off

THE long-established Lansdown Art Club are opening their latest exhibition this week to coincide with the Painswick Arts Festival.

The exhibition is to be held in the Painswick Library Room and will feature work by a large percentage of the art club's sixty-strong membership.

"There'll be a wide range of pictures, in various media, on sale just in time for Christmas," said Lansdown Art Club member Denise Gale.

Many of the artists involved are known nationally, including: Eric Morton, minaturist and member of the Hilliard Society, Janet Whitton, whose evocative pastel Cotswold landscapes will be on display, and Val Jones, whose bright and lively acrylics will be on display.

Artists, with a considerable local following, whose work will also be on display include: John Bailey; Joan Bestwick; Mary Bingle; Kenneth Pullan; Elizabeth Young; Mavis Cossham; Sarah Underwood; Peggy Ward; Shirley Elliot; Eric McGregor; Pat Scally and Gill Savage, whose atmospheric painting Sea Storm was voted Best in Show by visitors to the group's spring exhibition.

On the two Saturdays and the Wednesday of the show, prominent members of the group will be working as artists in residence. Visitors will be able to speak to the artist and watch them at work.

The Lansdown Art Club exhibition opens in Painswick Library Room on Saturday, November 6 and runs until Sunday, November 14. It is open between 10am and 5pm every day.

Entry to the exhibition is free, but donations for the Cotswold Care Hospice will be being taken.