Hello and welcome to the twentieth newsletter!

Summer Social

It seems ages since our do in the summer. Where does the time go to? Thank you to all who came and huge thanks to everyone who donated prizes for the raffle. Thanks must go to Barbara who organised it for us. John Pearson made our heads ache with his quiz which was won by Jeff Hannabuss. I hope Joy has enjoyed her two free meetings!

Exhibition

The exhibition is looming! Please get your entries in to Jo as soon as possible so that the catalogue can be printed. John has passed round a form for helpers to sign to say when they will be available. If you haven’t seen it yet please make sure you do at the next meeting. The committee decided that this year we will open from 10:00am to 4:00pm on both days as we get very few visitors late in the afternoon.

Paintings need to be delivered to the village hall between 10:00 am and 12:00 noon on Friday 14th October.

Please advertise the exhibition as much as possible so that we get loads of visitors. Hopefully the weather will be better this year.

Christmas Social

We will be having our annual Christmas Lunch at The Ferry, North Muskham on Tuesday 6th December at 12:00 for 12:30 pm. Put a note in your diary now! All members, partners, associates, friends old and new are invited. Jean’s husband Barrington has very kindly offered to compile a fun quiz for us.

More details and prices to follow.

Sweatshirts and Name Badges

Just a reminder that sweatshirts and polo shirts with the MAG logo are available to order from Barbara. Anne has been taking orders for some very smart looking name badges. These are available with pins or magnetic fasteners for £2 and £2.50 respectively.

Mount Cutter

The better of the two mount cutters we have has been found to have a part missing. If you have borrowed it sometime over the past few months can you check to see if you have one of the mount stop? The box was also badly damaged. Mick Rose has very kindly offered to take it home to make a new, more protective box for it. If you would like to borrow the mount cutters there is a £5 deposit required. A full instructional DVD comes with the cutter but I am sure Mick will

be willing to give you some hints and tips on using it if you are not sure about it.

Village Hall Toilets

The village hall committee is desperately trying to secure funding for some new accessible toilets and have asked all the users if they could write letters of support to accompany their application. You must agree that new loos are needed so if you have a spare few minutes please write a letter which can be emailed to Jo (jo@jkl.co.uk). Letters need to be handed to the committee by 23rd September so please get letters to Jo before then.

Email Addresses

Another plea for your email addresses! If you haven’t already given Barbara or Shirley yours can you do so as soon as possible? To reduce unnecessary printing, more and more will be sent out electronically. From now on newsletters and the 2012 programmes will be sent via email. These can also be read online at the website. People who do not have emails will be able to pick up printed versions at the meetings but you may get your information a few days later than everyone else.

Demos and Workshops

Linda Drury will soon be contacting artists to book them for demos and workshops in 2012. If you have any requests for artists you would like to see or for any particular topics or media please let Linda know as soon as possible. Do you prefer demos to workshops? Please share your thoughts with Linda.

This sounds interesting...

If you fancy painting your food, cooking it and then eating it have a look at: www.thatsamoreitalianfamilykitchen.co.uk/art-and-eat

Oh well, here we go; it’s bad joke time again …

What do you get if you cross an artist with a kebab?
- Donner-tello

What do you get if you cross a painter with a boxer?
- Mohammed Dali

Why was the art dealer in debt?
- He didn't have any Monet

What did the artist say to the dentist?
- Matisse hurt

Don’t forget, this is your newsletter. Please let the committee know what you would like to see in it. Contributions, comments and ideas are all welcome.

Happy painting!