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First of all may we wish you a happy and fulfilling New Year. We look forward to the opportunity of welcoming you to Patchings over the coming weeks and months.
There are one or two changes taking place at Patchings over the next few weeks, many of which will be up and running by the beginning of February. These have been planned to create new and interesting areas for visitors and to give a new look to the gardens around the Farm Buildings. Work has begun with the closing of the Rafters Gallery, which will re-open shortly as a Studio/Gallery for one of our Studio Artists, Tas Severis. We will then be opening a new Reception and Exhibition area and extending into a new card shop. We aim to show paintings and craft work by some of our favourite artists and be able to add to our range of greeting cards. There should be little if any disruption during these changes as work already began during the Christmas break. We hope you like what we have planned.
Our exhibition programme for the year ahead has been planned into 2013 and we are gradually populating the pages of our website to give full details of what is happening. Currently The Patchings Group Exhibition is in the Barn Gallery. This is an annual show where many of the artists associated closely with us over the last twelve months get together for an annual exhibition. Included are artists who have taught on our courses along with our Studio Artists. Work includes all the painting mediums plus textiles, printing, jewellery and photography. The exhibition continues until 29 January.
The Crew Yard Gallery exhibition also looks ahead by giving a preview to this year's exciting programme. We begin the year with an exhibition from various collections with a particular focus on textiles and jewellery. The exhibition is on until the end of the month.
We like to show the work of some of our students and Diploma Exhibitionprovides one such opportunity. In the Pavilion we show recent mixed media work by the students along with a display of their study folders giving an interesting insight into the progression of their work. This exhibition runs to the end of January. A reminder of the landscape photographic exhibition byPete Bridgwoodand Jon Horrocks. This exhibition is in theImage Photographic Gallery above the Farmhouse Studios.
A reminder our 2012 Art School Programme is now available. A list of all courses and workshops for the year ahead, including the children's activity courses. This can be seen as a printed leaflet or down loaded from the Art School pages of our website.
Always at this time of year we launch The Artist and Leisure Painter Patchings 2012 Competition. As usual there are two categories of entry, one for professional artists under The Artist section and for amateur artists, the Leisure Painter category. Entries can be made by post or over the internet. Please follow the link above for further information and entry forms. The closing date is 30 March - so plenty of time to get painting. The resulting exhibitions of selected entries opens with the Patchings Festival on 14 June.
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Enjoy your art.
Liz, Pat and Chas Wood
