Newsletter
Volume 16 Issue 6 November 2006

Dear Members

Our next meeting will take place on:
Saturday 2nd December 2006 at 2.30pm at Will's Quills

It's our Xmas Party, so everybody needs to bring a small plate
This a chance to catch up - our new members are encouraged to bring some of their work for us to see.

Please note, there will not be a painting session in January.

Dates to put in your diaries:

• Yum Cha on Saturday, November 11th 2006, please contact Maggie
  ( Tel: 9878 1530) regarding details and to reserve your seat
  
• The official launch of our exhibition at the Liverpool Hospital will be:
  Tuesday 12th of December 2006 at 11.00am
  It would be nice to see everybody there, so please make an effort.

Items of Interest

• There are still outstanding membership fees ($40.00) please send your cheque to the Secretary ACPS, 5 Mulley Place, Belrose NSW 2085- if the fees are not paid by the end of 2006, we have to assume you're no longer interested and cease to send newsletters.

• Ryde Art Awards: 1st Prize Evelyne Zuercher Hadfield, Mirra Hainsworth a Highly Commended and Cheryl Richardson a Commended.

• Parramatta Art Awards: Congratulations to Maggie de Courcy for winning 1st Prize in the Small Section and a Highly Commended in the Large Section

• Free Calligraphy Lessons
  Mr Jiang, principal of the College of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, is offering free Calligraphy lessons to our members who are non-Chinese speakers. Lessons will be based on his recently published book on Chinese Calligraphy (our Library has a copy). Location of the classes will be in Chatswood. Date, time & venue to be announced later. Expression of interest to Daisy Hsu email- dshsu@optusnet.com.au ; Tel : 9452 4624

• Mr Ma Nai Leong, a member of ACPS and Chinese painting teacher, has a few of his paintings hanging at the Kam Foo Restaurant. A patron of the restaurant loved the paintings so much, he tracked Mr Ma down and commission him for a painting of horses at a substantial sum. Congratulations, Mr Ma!

Exhibition News

• Modern Chinese Prints - From We to Me
  Chinese Printmaking from the 1930s to today
  on until January, 21st 2007
  Art Gallery NSW
  Admission free

• Arcadian Artists Weekend
  Saturday, 11th and Sunday, 12th November 2006

• Evelyne Zuercher Hadfield will exhibit at the Ulric Steiner Studio,
  38 Calderwood Road in Galston - for maps, directions and further details, please contact Evelyne or Daisy

• Chinese Brush Painting- Australian Sentiment, portraits & landscapes
  By the internationally renowned Chinese artist - ?? Wen Quan, now residing in Australia.Wen Quan has won many awards internationally and has been listed in the Book of Famous Artists in the World and the Book of Outstanding People in the World.

• November 18th - November 28th 2006
  Chinese Cultural Centre, Chatswood
  Opening - 11 am Saturday November 18th 06
  Admission Free

Hopefully, we'll see you all at the next meeting i.e. our Christmas get together -
if not, on behalf of the Committee of the ACPS I wish you a Happy Christmas and only the very best for the New Year.

Happy painting and kind regards

Evelyne Zuercher Hadfield

The following are pictures from the December 06 meeting:

"show and tell" by our newest members - congratulations to Sue, Sarah, Peter and Stuart and "Thank you" for showing us your beautiful work