Newsletter

Spring 2008

Dear Artist

Our thanks go to all of you who participated in the great success of our Exhibition in July 2007. We hope, with your support, we will once again surprise and delight the public with the range and quality of your work this coming summer at the 2008 exhibition, which will be open to the public from 15-20 July 2008. Handing in is on Sunday 13 July.

You will be aware that the Parish Council is our sponsor, but from now on we have been asked us to run our own accounts. They will not therefore be processing cheques for hanging fees so, with their approval, we have opened a separate bank account. We have thanked the Parish Clerk for all her help with this work over the past few years. As usual, the results of the event will be reported to the annual Parish Assembly in Spring 2009. You will see on the application form that in future all cheques must be made payable to ‘Lingfield Art.’

We welcome applications to display and sell artists’ greetings cards. This has proved highly popular but we have limited space on the display rack and thus we have to restrict the number of styles and the number of cards of each style that we can display from each artist. Maybe in due course we can raise enough money to buy another rack but in the meantime please read the form carefully and note that booking a slot to display will be dealt with on strictly first come first accepted basis.

There are a lot of exhibitions at this time of the year, to which we know many of you contribute. To help you we have extended the deadline for the return of entry forms to Monday 30 June but, because we are nearly at capacity in the centre, we will also adopt a first come first accepted basis for inclusion. Last year’s entries which were in excess of 500, covered nearly every wall in the Community Centre. Whilst we have received a grant for the purchase of additional screens, we may have to turn away anyone who does not meet the closing date deadline or when we reach capacity, whichever is the sooner.

Unfortunately, costs continue to rise. As you know we have kept the hanging fees the same for the past four years, but the Community Centre have raised their booking fee by another Ł100. We are also now required by them to have insurance in place to indemnify them against loss or damage. Whilst doing that we have felt it prudent to insure the company in case of accidents by our volunteers and stewards. This will probably add a further Ł200 to the exhibition costs. We have therefore made a small increase in the hanging fees, which, we hope will not affect your continued support.

We will NOT be charging any commission on sold works so please do not add commission into your price. Some people did last year and this put the price of some exhibits at odds with others on display. The Lingfield Art Exhibition continues as a ‘not for profit’ organisation sponsored by the Parish Council. The Exhibition's Directors, the Exhibition Team and others who help us are all unpaid volunteers.

Finally, to help us keep our mailing list up to date could you please, whether you intend to exhibit or not, return the application form appropriately completed.

The next Newsletter will be issued in the Autumn.

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