Welcome to Black Dog Arts
Home Gallery Art Trail
Membership
All are welcome to join, annual fee minimum £7.50. Click here for Membership Form as a Word document)
Black Dog Arts Logo
Black Dog Arts logo
Internationally acclaimed artist, Bob Linney, designed the Black Dog Arts logo free of charge. “We are completely bowled over by Bob Linney’s generosity and our fabulous logo,” said Jan Dungey, the group’s secretary.”Bob normally commands hundreds of pounds for work like this, but he wanted to show his support for a local art initiative”. Bob lives and works from his home near Halesworth and can be contacted by email at healthimages@btinternt.com)
BDA – The Beginning
Black Dog Arts was formed August 2007. Its aim is 'to develop the fine and applied arts in the Bungay area. This shall be achieved through a member-led association' and 'organise and promote events and activities including exhibitions, meetings, workshops, lectures, classes, seminars and courses, plus any other event deemed appropriate'. Our members range from well-known artists and crafts people as well as those who paint/craft for pleasure.
BDA CALICO BAGS FOR SALE AT CORK BRICKS GALLERY EARSHAM ST
£3 EACH OR 2 FOR £5.
Please click here to download newsletter as a Word document or click here to download newsletter as a PDF File
Garden Art Trail – still places on the last two workshops:
Six Wonder Workshops Timetable |
Activity |
Tutors |
Dates |
Botanical Illustration/Flower Painting |
Reinhild Raistrick |
Sun 21 June |
Monoprinting with Stencils OR Drypoint & Chine Colle |
Marilyn Jeffries |
Sun 5 July |
Each workshop day costs £25 full price or £20 concessions. (Concessions are available to over 50s, students and people in receipt of benefits. Carers for people with disabilities attend free of charge.)
Cheque payable to Black Dog Arts, to Jan Dungey, 14 Lower Olland St, Bungay, Suffolk NR35 1BX
Free Sunday Sketching Sessions Timetable |
Sunday Sketching Session 5: 2pm – 4pm |
14 June |
Sunday Sketching Session 6: 2pm – 4pm |
28 June |
All the sessions are free, but If you want to attend YOU HAVE TO BOOK A PLACE
- contact Jan 01986 895227 or jan@ollandstreet.co.uk
We will be guests of private house and garden owners, so numbers will be strictly limited.
A call for volunteers
For the Garden Art Trail on the 18th and 19th July. We will need volunteers to invigilate the art works exhibited in each of the participating gardens. The sessions are from 10am to 1pm and from 1pm to 3pm on both days. If you can fill any of these slots we would be very grateful.
Thank you,
Collette 01986 892067 or csummerson@onetel.com .
| Sun 5 July 2 – 4 |
Riverside Centre, July get-together CANCELLED as same day as workshop |
| Sun 12 July |
Farm Animals Project – sketching session |
| Sat/Sun 18/19 July |
Garden Art Trail as part of Bungay Festival, leaflets will be in Bungay Library, Hobbyhorse and Toy & Gift Emporium |
| Sun 26 July |
Farm Animals Project – sketching session |
| Sun 2 Aug |
Farm Animals Project – sketching session |
| Wed 5 Aug |
Get-together Riverside Centre 2 – 4. |
| Sun 9 Aug: |
Farm Animals Project - Sketching animals and talk by vet at Gressenhall Rural Life Museum. |
| Sun 16 Aug |
Farm Animals Project – Sketching session at Gressenhall Rural Life Museum. |
| Thur 3 - Sun 6 Sept: |
Farm Animals Project - paintings to be on display in the Chapel at Gressenhall
We need volunteers to help set up on 2 Sept and take down on 7 Sept, plus invigilators from 11.00 to 3.00 during the exhibition – please contact Jan if you can help out. |
| Sat 19 Sept |
Mixed Media workshop – Mary Spicer – Riverside Centre £25/£20 |
| 26/27 Sept |
Farm Art Project – on Falcon Meadow – again please let Jan know if you can help at this event. |
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INVITATION TO BDA FROM BUNGAY SOCIETY TO JOINT IN DAY OUTINGS 2009
THURSDAY JULY 23rd – Sir Alfred Munnings Art Museum and Garden – a hidden gem in the heart of the Dedham Vale. Leave Bungay (Wharton Street car park) at 9.15 am to East Bergholt to see the church, with its bells hung at ground level. Onto Dedham to visit the village and have lunch before the Art Museum opens at 2 pm. Leave Dedham at 4pm. Arrive Bungay by 6.30 pm.
Cost of coach and Museum entry: £13.50 per person.
FRIDAY AUGUST 21st – WOLTERTON HALL and MANNINGTON HALL GARDEN, North Norfolk.
Leave Bungay (Wharton Street car park) at 9.30 am for tour of Wolterton Hall with Lady Walpole if available. Move to Mannington Hall at noon for lunch in their Rose Tearoom and visit the Gardens. Leave at 4 pm.
Arrive Bungay 6 pm.
Cost of coach and entry to Hall and Park : £17.50 per person.
Please note: Our costs are based on a full 25 seater coach to each venue. After the experience of 2008 and the regrettable cancellation of this year’s three day break, due to under subscription, it is essential we obtain full commitment before confirming bookings.
Please click here to download newsletter and booking form
Winter: Art History - Taster talk by John Sheeran “Breath of Fresh Air” on East Anglian landscape artists –
Advent Calendar – note from Margaret Sheppard:
It may seem slightly ridiculous talking or even thinking about Advent calenders in June but the B.D.A. committee would like members to think about making a small work of art to go into the advent calender in December.
For those who do not know about our beautiful calender. Geoff very kindly designed and made a wooden case that consists of 24 boxes that will hold and display a piece of art/sculpture/textile,two or three dimentions.the boxes and the case are painted in gold with a lovely painting on the carved top. Each box will hold a six inch work of art and one will be opened each morning.It does not have to be a religeous or a Christmas theme.The calender will be placed as last year in the centre of Bungay in "Hobby Horse"by kind permission of Sonia Remblance.
The reasons behind asking for interest now is that
1) you may be painting or making a pot or some other interesting object, garment or jewellry during the summer and may like to put it into the calender,
2) we have a very busy summer programme and last year there did not seem enough notice to prepare.
This is the only time that we ask members to donate something to go to B.D.A funds, again for those who do not know how this works. After Christmas the paintings/objects are auctioned off, bids are taken before the day and artists can put on a reserve.You can also take photographs and prints beforehand.
So please contact me to say that you are interested even if you do not know what you will be exhibiting as yet.If you would like more info; or want to know what sort of things were shown last year I will be happy to let you know.
Thank you
Margaret Sheppard coordinater 2009 Advent calender
Please note my new email address is Sheppard22@talktalk.net
Heavenly Cookham/Fairytale Bungay
Heavenly Cookham
The artist, Sir Stanley Spencer, described his birthplace Cookham in Berkshire as a village in heaven, and he set numerous religious paintings in recognisable, everyday, Cookham settings.
This unexpected contrast between the epic and serious Biblical subjects and the homely, down to earth village settings made the religious content accessible and reinforced Spencer’s vision of Cookham as paradise.
Our love of Bungay, like Spencer’s love of Cookham, plus a wish to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Spencer’s death, gave us the idea for “Heavenly Cookham/ Fairytale Bungay”.
Fairytale Bungay
We decided to make fairytales, instead of Biblical scenes, the subject matter for the Bungay project, so as to be original.
At the moment we are just at the ideas stage, so, if you have an idea for a fairytale in a recognisable Bungay setting – eg the Pied Piper luring rats down Bridge St to the river?! – please ring JAN DUNGEY on 01986 895227 or email her at jan@ollandstreet.co.uk
Stanley Spencer Gallery Trip
The plan at present is to start the project this autumn with a trip to the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham and to finish with an exhibition as part of next summer’s Bungay Festival.
At the Stanley Spencer Gallery we will be able to see the special commemorative exhibition, perhaps have a talk and guided walk to see the places in Cookham that inspired Spencer’s paintings, and have the chance to see the Spencer archive and library.
The special exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of Stanley Spencer's death is "Stanley Spencer and the River Thames". It is on from 10.30 am to 5.30pm until 1 November 2009.
The Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham is open from 10.30 am - 5.30 pm.
It costs £3 for Adults and £2 for Concessions - OAPs and Students
They do group bookings for between 6 and 22 people for £30 (plus admission costs above) where you can have a talk, or a walk to places that inspired the paintings, or a combination of the two.
You must book the talk/walk in advance - They also have an accessible library and archive.
The web site is www.stanleyspencer.org.uk
If you are interested in going on a Stanley Spencer Gallery trip, please let COLLETTE SUMMERSON know, so we can see if there is enough interest. Collette’s phone number is 01986 892067 and her email address is csummerson@onetel.com
If you are interested in arts and crafts (don’t be shy – we have a wide range of abilities, we are very friendly and we hope we have something for everyone) do come along or contact either Jan or Marlene if you want further info. We hope to see you arting and crafting soon!
Kindly sponsored by Norwich & Peterborough, Bungay Branch
(Norwich and Peterborough, providers of financial advice and home insurance)
