New category of membership

Members at the April meeting had unanimously supported the Committee’s recommendation  to create a new category of membership – Family Membership.   A single payment of  $40 will cover  the membership of 4  family members. This is a great opportunity for your parents, spouse, children, siblings to join our  Society to share your passion in Chinese art!

Image of your paintings

Please bring two paintings or the images of two paintings to the next meeting. Images of the paintings will be included in an album to be used to  promote our Society and also to negotiate  for  any future exhibitions. Album at a preliminary stage, prepared by Andrew, is available for viewing at the next meeting.

How big should I paint?

If you are painting for  exhibitions, the recommended size of a painting is 200 cm perimeter or less, which is the size measured around  the frame. This is the size acceptable by  Easter Show and by most of the major Exhibitions.

Andrew Lo - A passionate advocate of Chinese Art

Andrew’s recent activities includes:
Sydney City Council’s CNY celebration, Harmony Day,  Royal Easter Show , Older Women’s Network (OWN) at the Dougherty Centre and givinga talk at the Australian-China Friendship Society . 

And how old is Andrew? He is only a young man in his early 70s.

Easter Show winners

This year was the first time that our Society had participated in the Easter Show and our members had achieved wonderful results:

Oriental Water Colour Painting – Traditional:

1st Prize – Andrew Lo
2nd Prize – Eileen Wong
3rd Prize – Joe Ling
Highly Commended – Alice Mo,   Christine Winterbothom

Oriental Water Colour Painting – Contemporary

1st Prize – Lilian Lai
2nd Prize – Andrew Lo
3rd Prize – Evelyne Hadfield
Highly Commended – Jo Ling,  Christine Winterbothom

Oriental Calligraphy – Novice

3rd Prize – Daisy Hsu
Highly Commended – Jo Ling, Eileen Wong

Oriental Calligraphy – Open

2nd Prize – Eileen Wong

Work sold

Evelyne, Andrew and Daisy
(Maggie sold a painting as a result of her exhibit at the Show)
We thank the following members for transporting  the artworks to and from the Show – Andrew Lo, Carole Burns, Jenny Roxburgh, Evelyne  and Daisy Hsu

Demonstration Stall at Easter Show  - 12th April,  a huge success!

People were fascinated with Andrew’s techniques and the Children’s workshop was unexpectedly popular. Andrew, Carole, Alice and Daisy were flat out from  9;30 am to 5;30 pm. By the end of the day, they were all suffering of  sore backs from bending down so much.

A “Thank you” letter has been  received from Tara Riches, Events Coordinator at Easter Show to thank us for our contributions and also inviting us to participate again at next year’s  Easter Show.

We thank Mirra for lending 20 painting brushes for this event.

Photos of the Easter Show event are available on Society’s website

Coming Exhibitions

September – Moon Festival  Celebration, A joint exhibition  with the Calligraphy Society to be held at Chinese Garden
September/October – Ryde Art Society Exhibition

Thank you from Alice Mo

Alice had sent a card to our Society to thank Andrew and our members for  the encouragement we gave her  to participate at this year’s  Easter Show.

Daisy