60th ANNIVERSARY SUMMER EXHIBITION |
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Roland Spencer Ford: Spring Comes to Prior’s Halton - Ludlow. |
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FOREWORD
To mark our 60th Anniversary the Committee agreed to show paintings by prominent former members as an acknowledgement and celebration of their work for the Society. When you look around Ludlow it is surprising how frequently the work of former members is displayed. The print of a watercolour by Roland Spencer-Ford normally hangs in the waiting room of the minor injuries unit of Ludlow Community Hospital. William Hall’s watercolour is usually seen in the Bishop Mascall Centre. These are but two examples – other chance encounters with members work can also be enjoyed. The names of former members showing work will arouse pleasant memories for visitors well acquainted with our exhibitions. Winifred Burlingham, Kit Hall and Roland Spencer-Ford were founder members of the Society. Kit and Roland both held the office of Chairman for a number of years. Another Chairman of long standing was ‘Bill’ Hall. The fine watercolours of Mona Wallin and George Goode were once eagerly bought at our exhibitions. I was delighted when our President Noel Shepherdson offered two watercolours by former members from his own collection. Kath Jones and Rachael Shaw were both active members when I first joined the Society and it is good to see their work again. Noel has also written an account of his recollections of the Society drawn from 33 years of continuous membership. My good friend Hazel Dickson has the distinction of being the only living artist in this group of former members. Together we both survived Bill Hall’s era as Chairman – and that goes back many years now – so I am delighted that she agreed to show her work with us again. This small and rather arbitrary selection of former members’ paintings will arouse pleasant feelings of nostalgia among older members and visitors – but in changing times the Society faces new challenges. I hope this 60th Anniversary celebration will also give our newer members a sense of the Society’s tradition and stimulate their enthusiasm to help take the Society forward to another 60 prolific years of artistic achievement.
Robert Kirk Vice-President LUDLOW ART SOCIETY: Sixty Years Young. Recollections by Noel Shepherdson - President
We moved to our house in Clunton in October 1973. Within hours we had our first visitor, who introduced himself as Felix Singleton, Treasurer of Ludlow Art Society and reluctant teacher of an Art Class at Craven Arms. He had two requests, that I take over his class and I become a member of the Society. Bemused and flattered I agreed to both. So my membership only goes back a little over half way to the founding of the Society, but I was able to get to know some of the original members. Two in particular I remember with affection and gratitude. Winifred Burlingham worked in watercolours, oils and scraper-board. In the latter medium she produced a very popular book of Ludlow Views. Many will still cherish her portraits of children and her flower studies. Together with four other members of the Society, we formed an exhibiting group ‘Six Ludlow Artists.’ This later became the ‘Teme Painters,’ and later still the ‘Marches Group.’ Kit Hall was uncertain whether to become a professional painter or flower arranger. It was painting’s loss that he became a flower arranger. He was able to produce quite magical effects with watercolour on unlikely choices of wallpapers, nearly always including Ludlow Castle somewhere in his picture. I served on the Society’s Committee under two very different Chairmen. Roland Spencer-Ford was a virtuoso watercolourist with his own gallery in The Linney. His ambition was to turn the Society into the ‘Ludlow Academy’, run on the lines of the Royal Academy. His committee disagreed, and our meetings became exceptionally lively. Bill Hall, a distinguished journalist, led the Society into calmer waters and into perhaps its most successful decade. I am delighted that as part of our Sixtieth Anniversary Exhibition some work is to be included from those who made a contribution to the early years of the Society. They had the foresight to see the need for an art society that has established high standards and which still attracts strong support. May it still be a valuable asset to the cultural life of Ludlow and to its members during the next sixty years and beyond.
Noel Shepherdson President. 
Winifred Burlingham: Ullswater Watercolour. Paintings by Former Members
Winifred Burlingham Ullswater. Watercolour NFS Kindly loaned by Mrs Jean Brookes Hazel Dickson Four Small views of The Corve River Bank. Gouache NFS Kindly loaned by the Artist George Goode Lakeland Tarn. Watercolour £95.00 Kindly loaned by Mrs Mildred Goode Kit Hall Ludlow Castle. Watercolour NFS Kindly loaned by Jeremy and Susannah Hall William Hall September Morning by the River Severn. Watercolour NFS Kindly loaned by The Bishop Mascall Centre Kath. Jones (K. Joy) Fading Poppies . Watercolour NFS Kindly loaned by Anne and Noel Shepherdson Rachael Shaw Ancient Birch Trees, Skye. Gouache NFS Kindly loaned by Anne and Noel Shepherdson Roland Spencer-Ford Spring Comes to Prior’s Halton - Ludlow Artists’ Signed Print NFS Kindly loaned by Ludlow Community Hospital Mona Wallin Wild Flower Composition. Watercolour NFS Kindly loaned by Alexandra House Residential Home 
Jeremy and Susannah Hall show their father's watercolour painting of Ludlow Castle. Clicking on the blue titles in the catalogue will display the painting in a new window Noel Shepherdson: President Osterley House,Spring. Oils on Canvas £295.00 Landscape at Canon Pyon Gouache £245.00 Members’ Screens Valerie Alexander 1 Blue Irises, Contre Jour Watercolour £200.00 2 Peony 'Pillow Talk Watercolour £350.00 3 Fantasia Water-based Media £180.00 4 Tulip 'Akita' Watercolour £200.00 5 Iris 'Red Revival' Watercolour £200.00 Sarah Bayley 6 Cwmmau Farmhouse, Herefordshire Watercolour £90.00 7 Llangyndwr Lock Watercolour £70.00 8 Hereford Cathedral Watercolour £70.00 9 Cape of Good Hope Pastel £80.00 10 Hellens, Much Marcle Watercolour £65.00 Dorothy Berry 11 Ice Cream Parlour - Cochrane Alberta Oil £140.00 12 Sanders Yard - Whitby Oil £140.00 13 Farmers' Market - Cochrane Oil £140.00 14 The English Tea Tent - Canada Day Oil £130.00 Barbara Birks 15 Wake Arms Pool 3. Watercolour £75.00 16 Duross, New South Wales Oil £80.00 17 Tal-y-Llyn Oil £80.00 Robert Chitham 18 The Silver dome of Mgare Oil £275.00 19 Kendisack Cliffs, West Penwith Oil £200.00 Lesley Connolly A.R.B.S.A. 20 Spring Lamb Pastel £175.00 21 Shetland Ponies Pastel £150.00 22 What Hunting Ban? Mixed Media £175.00 23 Early Morning Ride Mixed Media £200.00 24 Happy Dogs Pastel £175.00 Monica Davenport 25 Oil 1(B). Oil £0.00 26 Oil 1(A). Oil £100.00 27 Mia Oil £75.00 28 Wigmore Abbey Oil £180.00 29 Croft Castle Oil £120.00 Arthur Davis 30 Many Hands Make Light Work Acrylic £105.00 31 The Library Acrylic £130.00 32 Escape Acrylic £115.00 33 Converging Pathways Acrylic £130.00 34 Spring Blossom Acrylic £115.00 Sue Docwra 35 Derelict Stone Cottage Watercolour £170.00 36 Beach House Watercolour £140.00 37 Golden Days Watercolour £140.00 38 Mistletoe Cottage Watercolour £125.00 Jacqui Dowell 39 Woods In Winter Mixed Media £60.00 40 African Night Oil £55.00 41 Golden Road Oil £55.00 42 American Fall Oil £75.00 Tessa Frank 43 Nunnington Yorks. - in Winter Watercolour £50.00 44 Life in the Danube Delta Watercolour £50.00 45 Autumn Watercolour £50.00 46 Stokesay Castle Watercolour £50.00 Catherine D. Goldthorpe 47 The Poppy-Fringed Beach Oil £100.00 48 Blue Boat at Borth Watercolour £60.00 49 Safe Harbour in Alvor, Algarve Watercolour £60.00 50 Watersport, Hammamet, Tunisia Watercolour £60.00 51 On the Lakeside Watercolour £50.00 Rae Harrison 52 Composition in Blue Oil & Acrylic on Board £250.00 53 Faultline No. 3 Oil & Acrylic on Canvas £400.00 54 Distant No. 7 Oil & Acrylic on Board £190.00 55 Distant No. 5 Oil & Acrylic on Board £190.00 56 Classic No. 2 Oil & Acrylic on Board £340.00 John Hawkings 57 Middle Eastern City Watercolour £75.00 58 Landscape Oil £95.00 59 The Clee Hills Oil £95.00 Juliet T. Hole 60 Still Life With A China Dove Oil on Canvas £180.00 61 Churchyard Sheep Mixed Media £60.00 62 Portrait Study: The Gardener Pen £50.00 63 Still Life With A Copper Kettle Oil on Canvas £150.00 64 Still Life With Next Year's Pudding Oil on Canvas £250.00 Robert Kirk 65 Reefs and Islands - Herm Acrylic £200.00 66 Ramblers' Way to Grinshill Acrylic £150.00 67 L' Ancresse Bay - Guernsey Acrylic £200.00 68 I Frari (The Friars) - Venice Acrylic £250.00 69 Breaking Waves - Guernsey Acrylic £250.00 Pauline Kiteley 70 St. Emillion - Dordogne Watercolour £100.00 71 Porth Dinllaen North Wales Watercolour £90.00 72 Stokesay Castle and Gatehouse Watercolour £125.00 73 Česky Krumlov - Czech Republic Pen and Wash £90.00 74 Lavender Farm in Haute Provence Watercolour £75.00 Pat Laurenson 75 Beaker Soda Glazed Porcelain £15.00 76 Revival 1. Mixed Media £30.00 77 Revival 2. Mixed Media £35.00 78 Figure 2. Ceramic £25.00 79 Figure 1. Ceramic £20.00 Val Littlehales 80 Prolley Moor Pastel £75.00 81 Towards Evening Acrylic £85.00 82 The Gate Pastel £45.00 83 Dappled Sunlight, Asterton Pastel £100.00 84 Sheep on Wenlock Edge Acrylic £155.00 Jeane Love 85 Water and Trees Watercolour £150.00 86 Pembrokeshire Cottage Pastel £120.00 87 Clapper Bridge Acrylic £120.00 88 Receding Tide Watercolour £120.00 David Mace 89 Tobias and the Angel 1. Framed Etching £85.00 90
Caradoc and Lawley - Evening Elizabeth Mace 91 Fire Collage £85.00 92 Air (Flight-Space) Collage £85.00 93 Water Collage £85.00 94 Earth Collage £85.00 Caroline McLachlan 95 Tuscan Landscape Watercolour £98.00 96 Observatory, Greenwich Watercolour £85.00 97 Langdales Oil £120.00 98 Bewdley Oil £120.00 99 Elterwater Watercolour £120.00 Faine Meynell 100 Majorcan Farmhouse Oil on Canvas £100.00 101 Blue Bells Oil on Canvas £140.00 102 Pine Trees, Majorca Oil on Board £140.00 103 Pollença Harbour Oil on Canvas £120.00 104 Lane at Clunton Oil on Board £120.00 Merril Middleton 105 The Charity Shop Acrylic £150.00 106 The Lake Isle of Innisfree Acrylic £200.00 107 At The Ferry Landing Acrylic £120.00 108 Tree in St. Laurance Churchyard Watercolour and Pen £95.00 109 Cumbrian Landscape Watercolour £100.00 David Milner 110 Country Churchyard Watercolour £80.00 111 Croft - Church and Castle Watercolour £80.00 112 "The Look" Watercolour £50.00 113 Maya Watercolour £50.00 Margaret Oakes 114 Reclining Nude Conté Crayon £190.00 115 Girl In A Blue Hat Oil £280.00 116 Poppy Ink and Watercolour £175.00 117 Camellia Ink and Watercolour £80.00 118 Seated Nude Conté Crayon £250.00 Olwen Parker 119 Midnight Sun, Faraidh Head, Cape Wrath Oil £400.00 120 Sunrise at Bideford-On-Avon Bridge Oil £100.00 121 Storm Over Ludlow From Clee Hill Oil £90.00 Sheila Perry 122 New Spades Pastel £150.00 123 Sea Spray (ll) Pastel £45.00 124 Girl In A Blue Dress Pastel £50.00 125 Stepping Stones Pastel £130.00 Peter Pettit 126 Brecon Beacons From Brecon Oil Pastel £80.00 127 Day's End Pastel £180.00 128 Reservoir Pastel £60.00 A. S. Phillips 129 Fisherman, River Teme, Ludlow Oil £50.00 130 Ludlow Castle from Whitcliffe Oil £75.00 131 Clee Hill from Bury Ditches Oil £55.00 132 The Lawley from All Stretton Oil £65.00 133 View into Shropshire Cornfield Oil £130.00 Robin Pote 134 North Uist, Hebrides Watercolour £80.00 135 Charlestown, Cornwall Watercolour |