It is with great excitement that I take on the role as President of your Society. The Society appears to be in great shape. Financially it is sound, increasing mem-bership base, and sales of works on the increase. The AGM was well attended and followed by a general meeting, some in-teresting points were raised so all looks good for a constructive year.

My philosophy is to make the operation and management of the Society as open and transparent as possible. Members need to have trust in the committee with the decisions that are made to enhance the success of the Society. Members must feel welcome to attend committee meet-ing as an observer, if you have a griev-ance, constructive criticism or a bright idea this can be tabled for discussion by the committee. We also intend to reintro-duce BI- annual members meetings .

My background knowledge of the Society is limited, I have a lot to learn about the RQAS history plus past achievements and failure’s. This will be an interesting jour-ney and one I am looking forward to. I have an excellent team of committee members both past and present to help me along the way. There has been ques-tionnaire done in the past to get the ex-pectations of the members as to the di-rection they would like to see the Society take, I will be looking at these and see if we need to update this information.

We are still on the lookout for a Treas-urer, there will be an accounting package installed in our new computer which is

user friendly and will make the task of bookkeeping simplified. If you feel you have the desire to serve in this role please come forward. ( the pay is unbelievable )

As stated earlier I am excited with the prospect of the organization and have the feeling we will have a good year. The fa-cilities you have are excellent and any im-provements can only enhance the Society, your Society. I look forward to meeting you personally as the year go on, I will en-deavour to wear my name badge so please come up to me and say hello.

Happy Painting

Bob Rennie

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Mark your Calender: CHRISTMAS PARTY Sat DECEMBER 10th NEW LIGHTING in the gallery before Christmas Yip pee e ! !

Your New Office Bearers and Committee

President Bob Rennie

V. President Michael Hooper Secretary Glenn McLeod Leaity

Treasurer June Hordern Gallery Director

Mignon Sticha

Exhibitions Mal Hodges

Workshops Daphne Volin

Promotion Paul McDowell

Member’s CV Louise Corke

Maintenance Bill Rees

Web Site Nadia Seo Jane Campbell Jay Mahoney

Committee

Postal Address: PO BOX 558 Broadbeach QLD 4218

Telephone / Fax: 07 5592 0440 Email: rqasgc@rqasgoldcoast.com

Royal Queensland Art Society (Gold Coast Branch) Inc.

25 Broadbeach Blvd, Broadbeach QLD 4218

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Class 1: Traditional—Cultures of the World 1st. Maggie Brown

Class 2: Traditional — Oil / Acrylic 3rd. Colleen Clarke

Class 3: Modern / Abstract Painting 1st. David Warren 2nd. David Ladley 3rd. Patsy Foard

Class 4: Portrait Painting 3rd. Hazel Cope .

Class 5: Watercolour / Gouache 1st. Astuko Shima

H/Com. Michael McMahon Class 6: Mixed Media or Collage

———-88 ———— Class 7: Pastel

1st. Anna Beveridge 2nd. Hazel Cope

Class 8: Drawing 1st. Michael McMahon

Class 9: Miniature Art 2nd. June McCotter

Peoples Choice — Steve Hillier

CONGRATULATIONS Gold Coast Show

“Visual Arts” Winners

WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS

The President and Committee would like to extend a real hearty welcome to all new members who have joined

our Society. May your brush never be left to dry

And DON’T FORGET THE INDUCTION COURSE Is10am. Upstairs in the ’Peter Abraham Gal-

lery on Change Over Days This will give you the information

that you will need to represent our gallery and be able to work your duty if you plan to hang

your paintings.

ART IN THE PARK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT

! ! ! CONDITIONS ! ! ! Unfortunately, although Art in the Park has been going for some ten

years or so, the Council by-laws are now being enforced..

(At the moment the parkland in front of the gallery is in turmoil due to the

refurbishing of the public toilets) HOWEVER

The Society HAS TO APPLY FOR A PERMIT to have the ‘Art in the Park’ Those using the park for showing

their work will not be able to show any price at all. Technically you can

display, not sell your work in the park Any transaction should be made in

the gallery. Also the Art in the Park banner can not be strung between the trees but will have to have it’s own free standing poles for this pur-

pose.

A MEMO FROM OUR GALLERY DIRECTOR

1/ —- Unframed canvases must be painted on all sides. 2/ --- All paintings must be securely strung for hanging. 3/ — All paintings must be labelled on the back with Artist name, Title, Medium, and Price, in case the tem-porary label comes off. 4/ — If you enter two paintings, make sure the correct label is placed on each painting. 5/ — Diptychs and Triptychs must be joined together as one and entered as one work. Failure to comply with these condi-tions will result in the work not being hung. Thank you for your cooperation,

Mignon

SEPTEMBER GALLERY AWARD WINNERS

Theme: Springtime on the Gold Coast 1st:— Louise Corke —- Pastel

“Spring Surprise” Highly Commended:— Sponsored

by: Ingwersen Landdowne Daphne Volin ——- Acrylic ——-

“Gold Coast Turf Club” Commended:— Cathy Ku —

W/Colour, “Blossom”

——— Artist Choice ———- Sponsored by: “First National Real

Estate –Palm Beach 1st:— Catherine Robb —- Oil “Gerberos, Daisies, & Brass Kettle” H/Commended:— Sylvia Amerstofer W/Colour —

“Orange Beauties” Commended:- Jill Ellis -W/Colour

“Approaching Storm” ——— Best Presented ——— Sponsored by: “4 Corners Framing”

Jenny Lui Leung — W/Colour “End of the Day”

At the Members Meeting, (after the AGM), David Ladley pre-sented a genuine idea for members to join together with RQAS GC ,with a promotional advertisement in The Annual Queensland Homes Maga-zine. This proposal has been put on hold and will be investigated for next years publication. It is an idea with great merit and will be looked into for next year.

WHO STOLE IT ? ? The Australian / Korean

Exchange Exhibition Banner The banner was tied in place, high up between the entrance pillars at the front of the gallery, ready for the Aust / Korea Exhibitions. Who ever took it (there would have to be more than one) has gone to lots of trouble to steal it. Keep your eyes open for it. It was the same banner we used for their exhibition two years ago.

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Apologies to the August Winners Due to computer. problems, the August comp winners have been lost. This will not happen again.

THE GOLD COAST STRING QUARTET Is back with us on

Sunday Nov.20th 2pm

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SOMETHING THE COMMITTEE MUST DO The Committee and members really appreciate all the effort that Val goes to so as members have a great spread at our ’Opening Day’ Presentations. The

food and the presentation of the food is fabulous. Val, you would be very hard to fault, and Marj who is Val’s off-sider, this goes for you as well.

We thank you both very much and wish we had many more such as you.

Why do I paint? In all truth I don’t really know, I have some ideas but they never seem the complete answer, so this is probably more about what I think about painting rather than why. Warhol said “artists are people who produce things that other people don’t need”. From this perspective I guess I therefore paint for myself and be-cause I can and because in some way I feel a need to – a drive to create. I don’t have to, that denies a free will, I could play golf or go fishing or any number of other things – but painting – it’s some-how different, totally absorbing, satisfy-ing, purposeful, addictive, in some ways almost a kind of worship. It has no rules that are written in con-crete; it shouldn’t or needn’t be compli-ant of other people’s acceptance or verification, yes, third party compli-ments are nice and can be positive affirmation but only you know whether your achieving what you want to achieve . It doesn’t have to be behold-ing to rhyme or reason unless you take it there, then it can be objective, subjec-

tive, symbolic, impressionistic in fact anything you feel inspired to go with, even calculated. The only boundaries are the ones you impose. It’s a freedom very few other pursuits come anyway near to offering. When you paint it’s a very personal experience, only you feel the thrill in-

side of getting something happen-ing between your mind, your hand and the support you’re working on. Feeling the satisfaction of your conception take form the way you envisioned it or experiencing the frustration and feeling of inade-

quacy when it just doesn’t happen. But it’s your experience; you’re learning path, if it isn’t, your being lazy and for-mulaic. Study the life of Rembrandt and how he went from fame and fortune to rejection and poverty for the sake of his own artistic integrity and satisfaction. The art world is full of superfluous the-osophical bullshit, a swamp of ideas and opinions and everyone is an ex-pert, but we’re only an expert on our own views which in turn are the prod-uct of what we’ve fed into our minds,

mostly from exterior sources. Be objec-tive, don’t let yourself get sucked into the chaos of too many directions and opinions, work out your own. Which brings me to the other word I want to use ‘fun’. If you take anything too seri-ously it can cease to be fun, your art should give you enjoyment, if it does-n’t, have a break, do something else for a while until the craving comes again. Relax with your art, turn the world off, make it a little like a meditation you’re trying to externalize into a painting. Jeeps! did I just write all that gibber-ish, it must be time to check into art rehab again, but then again perhaps that why I paint! When Michael asked me to contribute this he said include something about why I paint what I paint. That’s easier to explain, I’m just an admirer of some of natures’ best creative work. For a more reasoned explanation check out my March 2011 blog at www.sexyart.com.au.

Steve

Very interesting Steve M

Member : 4408 Stephen (Steve) Hillier ******** Why do you paint ?

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IT’S ALMOST THAT TIME

AGAIN

Mark your calendar — 4pm. SATURDAY

10th Dec. This year our Christmas Party will be different

and more sociable. — We will have it at the gallery — The cost is yet to be assessed but

it will be a bring a plate (finger food) for Nibblies and sweets, —- It will also be catered for by Lila Macdowell and you know what

that means.

There will be NO TICKETS REQUIRED

“Catswingers” Members paint-in

FRIDAYS

9am—5pm $5 (No Tutor) BYO Lunch and something for

the morning tea table.

“It has no

rules”

Donations of Art Materials Such as water paints (not oil)

brushes, pencils, sketch book. etc For Visually Impaired Children

A box will be at the front desk for this If you have anything at all bring it in

when you come to the gallery. At ‘Change Over’ would also be a

good time . You might have some half used paint or old brushes that don’t

get used any more. Thank you very much

MAL’S EXHIBITION

Who said the economy was in the doldrums ? ?

Mal had 30 of his works at his exhibi-tion. Out of those, there were 17 sold.

There are buyers out there.

The New Committee present at time of

photo. From left:- Daphne Volin, Mal Hodges, Glenn McLeod Leaity (Secretary), Jane Campbell, Louise Corke, Mignon Sticha, Bob Rennie (President), Michael Hooper (Vice presi-dent), Bill Rees,

RQAS GC Aug / Sept 2011 —- Page 4

DIARY DATES

CHANGE OVER

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CHANGE OVER

MONDAY AM Life Drawing: Melissa Bates (0420 615 489) 9.00am - 12.00pm $ 10 (Model, no Tutor) PM Oil & Acrylic: Innes McLeod (0411 767 536) 1.00pm - 4.00pm $20 Evening Kids Art Academy: Ildi Nagy-Cox(0412 352 333) 4.30pm - 6.00pm $120 (10 week Term) or $15 per class. TUESDAY PM Oil & Acrylic: Kevin Taylor (5501 5298) 1.00pm - 4.00pm $25 WEDNESDAY AM Drawing: Peter Seaward (0427 710 994) 9.30am – 12.30pm$15 ( Sorry, Class full ) PM Watercolour: Annette Raff (5564 2416) 1pm -- 4pm $25 Evening Life Drawing: Peter Bedford (0423 163 944) 6.30pm - 9pm $15 (Model, no Tutor) THURSDAY AM Oil & Acrylic: ‘CREATIVE PAINTING’ Mal Hodges (0418 764 347) 9.30am sharp - 12.30pm $20 PM Oil & Acrylic: Kevin Taylor (5501 5298) 1.00pm - 4.30pm $25 FRIDAY “Catswingers” a day of painting — see page 3

SATURDAY Members can paint when studio is free from 9am, $5

AM PASTEL: Louise Corke — Enquiries: 041 964 4665 9.00am-12.n 1st Saturday of Each Month $25

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CHANGE OVER

SEPTEMBER Saturday 24th. 9.30 —12.30pm

Sat. 24th—29th.

Sunday 25th 2pm

OCTOBER

Sat 1st. 9am—12n

Sun.9th from

8am

Tues 18th. 7pm

Fri 21st.—28th.

Saturday 29th.

9.30am -12.30pm Saturday 29th — —— Sat 26th Nov

Sun 30th 2pm

NOVEMBER Sat 5th 9an—

12noon

Sunday 13th from 8am Tues 15th 7pm Fri 18th—25th

Sunday 20th 2pm

Saturday 26th

9.30am - 12.30pm

Sat. 26th—Fri 6th Jan 2012

Sunday 27th,

2pm

Oct. Theme: “The Dreamworld of Surreal-ism” (Refer to Dali, Magritte, Tanguy,

Delvaux) or Artist Choice

Oct. Exhibition in Peter Abraham Gal-lery, Peter Seaward and Students

Opening of Members October Exhibition and Presentation of Awards. Refreshments and canapés

COME & ENJOY THE AFTERNOON

Pastel Class with Louise Corke ———— in upstairs studio — ph: 0419644665

Art in the Park, Due to Council work this may be a little awkward this month, NO Sausage Sizzle —- put on hold . Pastel Demonstration in Peter Abraham gallery, $10 includes refreshments. Phone Louise Corke 0419644665 Gold Coast Embroiderers Inc. Exhibition —

in the Small Gallery Nov Theme: “Inspired by the Gold Coast Hinterland” or Artist Choice Innes McLeod and Students Exhibition -- in

the Peter Abraham Gallery

Opening of Member’s November Exhibition and Presentation of Awards Refreshments and canapés

COME & ENJOY THE AFTERNOON

Pastel Class with Louise Corke, ————— In upstairs studio ph: 0419644665 Art in the Park, Due to Council work this may be a little awkward this month, NO Sausage Sizzle — put on hold .

.Pastel Demonstration in Peter Abrahamgal-lery,$10 includes refreshments 0419644665 “Colours of Paradice” Exhibition in Small Gallery by Val Hayman & Marjorie LilyBerry

Concert by the Gold Coast String Quartet $10 Members $20 for NonMembers

Includes refreshments & afternoon tea

Dec./Jan Theme: “Some Like it Hot” or Artist Choice —-

This exhibition will continue until Sat 4th February 2012 because of Christmas, New Year, and Australia Day holidays. Members will pay $10 for two months hanging fees.

“The Catswingers” Exhibition , in the Peter

Abraham Gallery

Opening & Presentation of Awards, for Members Dec./Jan. Exhibition. Come and enjoy the company and refreshments

MEMBERS’ ART CLASSES

DECEMBER Sat.3rd, 9am-

12n SATUDAY . 10th Sun 18th - 2pm JANUARY-2012 Fri 6th—3rd Feb Sat.7th—4th Feb FEBRUARY - 2012 Saturday 4th

9.30 —12.30 pm

. Pastel Class with Louise Corke,

Info Ph: 0419644665 OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY At our gallery. — See page 2

Concert by The Gold Coast String Quartet $10 Members, $20 Non

Members. This includes Refreshments and Afternoon Tea

Exhibition “Cliff Hangers” on East Wall An interesting exhibition by David Ladley

“It’s all Greek to me” - An Exhibition by Louise Corke and other travellers. In the

Peter Abraham Gallery.

Theme: “Illustration for a Favourite Book”, or Artist Choice.

Put your brush to work over the Christmas holidays.

This is a very interesting subject.