Newsletter January 2017

A Happy New Year to all our Members 

and looking forward to 

a wonderful and creative 2017

We hope that you have all had a restful and enjoyable festive season and that you are fired up and ready to paint.  We have been busy putting together a calendar for you and hope that you will manage to join all or most of the events.

 FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS

Wednesday 25 January at 7 pm - Our first meeting of the year - an exciting DVD by the wonderful artist DAVID BELLAMY – Sketching Adventures in Spain.

Tuesday 14 February at 2pm - Workshop: Fiona Nichols will be showing us different effects of coloured pencils on a variety of papers. Please bring pencils and your own paper.  We will be seeing work and creating our own work.
Details: Fiona on 0722889451.

Wednesday 21 February - paint out - The STONE CHURCH – Spaanschemat Road, Tokai.  (Amongst the tall gum trees / see the ‘Range’ Sign board at the turn off).  Go direct. Park at the parking area next to the Stone Church, Tokai at 9.45am or meet at the Civic Centre, 9.15 am.
Details:  John Strickland on 021 782-7337

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

This is on Wednesday 22nd February at 7pm with a great quiz and prizes to spice up the evening.

Several of our Committee members have done service for many years and it is felt that fresh ideas and energy needs to be found.  If you or one of our fellow members would like to become part of our dynamic team, please volunteer or nominate them to join. Duties are not onerous and do not involve lots of additional meetings. The secretary will shortly be sending out an agenda and copies of the 2016 AGM minutes together with nomination forms.

Tuesday 14 March at 2 pm – Workshop.  Figure drawing – bring own materials

Tuesday 21 March – paint-out at Rondevlei.  Meet at the Fish Hoek Civic Centre at 9.30 am

Wednesday 22 March at 7pm – We are lucky to have Yvonne Ankerman to give a talk and show her interesting photos and some paintings done on her recent trips to Antarctica and South America.

Exhibition:  SASA - are holding their ANNUAL ‘MERIT’ EXHIBITION at Kirstenbosch from 27 January

Exhibition: The South African Antique Art and Design Association exhibition is being held at the Lookout V&A Waterfront 17-19 February

Reminder:  

Subscription fees are due:  Annual fee R140.00. 

We cannot run the Society without funds so please pay promptly.  The bank details are as follows:  EFT transfers to Fish Hoek Art Society at Standard Bank, A/c 072099127, Code 036009 or cash to a committee member at any of our meetings.

PLEASE NOTE that we are closing our post box.  All future correspondence should be sent to the Secretary at zwets@mweb.co.za 

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As Fish Hoek Art Society moves towards the digital era, more information from the Society will be communicated online or by email. Thus it is advisable to link your email into the blog so that this is automatically delivered to your email box as and when there is an update to the Society’s news.

This is EASY. On the blog first page there is a blank box in which you type your email address, hit the Submit button and another panel opens just to check you are a real person and not a robot, and once you have done what they ask you to do, all future posts will come directly to your email in box.

For those members who do not have a computer please note that the newsletters will no longer be posted or hand delivered, but you can get your copy at Jacquis Framery in Fish Hoek Main Road.

  

SOME USEFUL INFORMATION

Framers:           Jacqui’s Framery, jfag@vodamail.co.za, Main Rd, FH, tel: 021 782 7324

                         John Steer, johnsteer@telkomsa.net, Silverglades, tel: 0832631798

                         Frame 4 U, marlene.depinto@hotmail.com, Fairy Knowe, tel: 0827496952

Art Supplies:    The Write Shoppe, Long Beach Mall, tel: 021 785 7614

                        The Deckle Edge, www.deckleedge.co.za , Constantia Village,

                         tel: 021 794 8995 or Brickfield Road, Salt River, tel: 021 180 4442

                        The Italian Artshop: www.italianartshop.co.za, tel: 021 685 1877,

                        Riverside Mall, Rondebosch

Printing:           Art Assist, specialized printing,artassist@cybersmart.co.za , tel: 082 257 4896

                         Lam it All, repro printing cards etc lamitall@vodamail.co.za, Recreation Rd,

                         tel: 021 782 7397

A few pointers regarding the thorny issue of 

copyright and plagiarism.

This particularly applies to those artists wishing to sell their work. 

Illustrated below, one painting is the original and one is the modern copy. Which is which?

The design and Artists Copyright Society says ‘copyright is a bundle of rights which allows you, as the owner of the Copyright in a work, to prevent any other person from doing various things with the work without your consent’.

·       In relation to artistic works, ‘copying’ includes making a copy on three dimensions of a two dimensional work, and vice-versa.

·       The artist owns the copyright and copyright is established from the moment of creation – the only qualification is that the work must be original.

·       Copyright comes into operation automatically and as the owner you have the exclusive right to authorise the reproduction (copy) of a work in any medium by any other party. Reproduction may only take place with your consent and is usually granted with in return for a fee.

·       Copyright lasts for the lifetime of the visual creator, plus 70 years after death. After 70 years it is no longer protected by copyright.

‘Copying’ means you have ‘incorporated a substantial part of the work of another artist’ in your work. This is only allowed if you copy for the purposes of research or private study, but then your work may not be exhibited or sold and you must acknowledge the original artist. If you enter your painting in an exhibition or competition and you have used someone else’s work as inspiration you must state ‘in the style of .........’ or ‘after a painting by ...........’ on the artwork.

From a publication of the SAA, the Society for All Artists in the UK. May 2006.

So how does this apply to me, the amateur?  By all means copy a picture to ‘learn the style and technique used’ - then, the best advice is always to use your own photographs and sketches as a base and apply the technique you have learned to your own work.

Did you guess which was the original? The first image is the original, the second is the modern copy.

In this month’s edition of “Country Life” there is an article, the first in a series, about buying art as an investment. Art curator Stefan Hundt discusses the pleasures and pitfalls of buying art which you will find most interesting.

Other great articles in the magazine as well!