Happy New Year and thank you everyone for your continued support for M&C during 2021, whether it was attending sessions or submitting paintings for this blog if you painted at home. 2021 was another odd year for us all but hopefully, as we move into 2022, the world will begin to be a healthier, happier and kinder place to be.

Membership

You’ll know from Steve’s emails that we are financing the group in a different way this year, with a payment of £25 due 3 times a year in January, May and September, to cover our hall rent for the year. Steve has emailed everyone with details of how to pay by bank transfer, cheque or cash.

If you don’t wish to be a member any more then please email Steve asap so you don’t continue to receive emails from us.

If you have any friends or family members who would like to join us then please show them this blog so they can see what we draw and paint at the sessions. If they want to join then please pass their details on to Steve.

Please pay your membership fee by the end of January to continue to be a member of the art group. Thank you!

Sessions

With no current Government restrictions on meeting, apart from having to have adequate ventilation in the hall, our sessions will be on the second Wednesday and the fourth Saturday of the month, as they have been for years.

Session ideas will be posted monthly, not every two months, just in case rules change and sessions have to be tweaked at the last minute. You don’t have to paint the suggested ideas, please come along and paint anything you want to. Free tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided at all sessions so if you just want to come and chat with your art friends then that’s fine too.

Here are the dates we intend to meet in 2022. Please print them out or write them in your diary or calendar.

Some months have 5 Saturdays but we meet on the 4th one.

M&C session dates 2022	2nd Wednesday 7-9pm	4th Saturday 10am-3pm
January	12th	22nd
February	9th	26th
March	9th	26th
April	13th	23rd
May	11th	28th
June	8th	25th
July	13th	23rd
August	10th	27th
September	14th	24th
October	12th	22nd
November	9th	Fri 25th Hanging evening Sat 26th Open Day
December	14th Christmas Party

Workshops

When we resume having workshops it will be the usual ‘first come, first served’ policy of putting your name down like we have done in the past, with an additional fee to cover the expense of the tutor. If more than 25 artists wish to attend the session we will have a waiting list and if you’re on that you have a chance of getting a place as sometimes people pull out at the last minute.

I have made enquiries and have not been able to find any artists running workshops in person at the moment, only offers of demonstrations over Zoom. Hopefully as the year progresses then artists will return to running workshops with art groups.