The Palette November 2016 CONSTANTIABERG ART SOCIETY – COMMITTEE Chairman: Linda Gotlieb 083 253 2402 Secretary: Jen Thom 082 567 2732 Treasurer: Melanie Meyer 082 874 2393 Westlake/Meeting Teas: Connie Rossmeisl 071 123 0004 Vice chair & Exhibitions: Sue Paulsen 021 712 6978 Exhibitions: Karin Davel 072 122 8084 Website & Social Media: Linda Howe-Ely 073 564 4845 Library: Carrie Lam 083 414 6318 “The Palette” Newsletter: Linda Gotlieb [email protected]

DIARY IN BRIEF Saturday26 November – Art in the Park - Rondebosch Tuesday 29 November – Best Artwork and Founders Trophy – End of year Party Thursday 8 December – Sketching Hiking Outing at Intaka Island (see info in newsletter)

Dear Members A very warm welcome to new members, Judy Hilton-Green, Shirley Tobias, Angela van Lienden, Priscilla Schoonbee, S Griffiths, Christopher Reid and the Hunter Rudolph family. We look forward to seeing you at our November meeting and getting to know you all a lot better. We had a fabulous meeting on 25 October when Karin Davel demonstrated to us all about perspective, and how to manage to do it ourselves. More information to help you understand perspective will follow later in the newsletter. It’s PAARRRTYY time at our November meeting. Please all bring along a plate of delicious savoury eats and we will have lots of fun! Wine and soft drinks will be provided. We will of course be holding our competition for “Your Best Artwork”. There will be stunning prizes and “The Founders Trophy “will be awarded to the member who is voted as having produced the best artwork. In fact we have 21 fantastic prizes for the entrants in this month's competition - donated by E&T Canvasses, Deckle Edge and The Italian Art Shop, so all please bring along your entries! This will be our last meeting for the year but we have an early announcement of our Summer January exhibition at Kirstenbosch, so there is plenty of time to start preparing your works of art. Diarise 16-25 January 2017 now and fill out the on-line entry form on our blog! As we strive to be an interactive society and would love to have better participation from members in all aspects of our society, we would like to have members put forward names of people that we could ask to do presentations or demonstrations at our monthly meetings. Please address these to me at [email protected] Our wonderful secretary Jen Thom has to unfortunately leave our committee due to pressing work commitments. We thank her for her enthusiasm, hard work, can-do attitude and always having a smiling face  We wish Jen lots of success in everything she does and of course we still look forward to seeing her helping out at our monthly meetings and exhibitions! If anyone has basic admin skills and is keen to join our fun and friendly committee, please let us know. The secretarial role will only take half an hour of your time a day, so please volunteer your help. Happy painting everyone! Linda You neglect anatomy, drawing, perspective, all the mathematics of paintings, so, let me remind you that this is a sign of laziness Salvador Dali

DIARY DETAILS Meetings are held at 7.30 on the last Tuesday evening of every month in the Auditorium of Constantiaberg Mediclinic. Members and visitors are asked to please park at the rear of the building and use the doctor’s/consultants entrance. Tuesday 29 November – End of year party and ‘’Founders Trophy” for best artwork. Get busy everyone! Thursday 8 December – Sketching outing– see info below  Please do not forget to bring any art materials that you no longer, need or require to fill up our “art box”

October Meeting Presentation – Karin Davel We all had a lot of fun at the October meeting. CAS member Karin Davel was our guest speaker/demonstrator and she came well prepared with a detailed drawing of an interior drawn in one point perspective, more drawings, paintings and magazines. Karin has a B.A (Ed) Art and was art teacher at St Anne's College, Hilton for 8 years. She ran her own art gallery for 5 years and has recently moved to the Cape. Perspective is used to create a 3D effect, depth, and where light comes from and vanishing point knowledge is needed in all paintings and not just when drawing urban scenes of buildings. Karin explained that one point perspective gives a serene feeling to a work, whereas two point (or more!) perspective is more dramatic.

She showed us examples of perspective in her own work. Showing us one of Sue Paulsen's still life paintings, she told us that even this genre is subject to the rules of perspective.Everyone had brought paper and pens or pencils and Karin told us she was going to show us how to draw the interior of a room. We started with a rectangle representing the back wall of a room, and each decided where our vanishing point was going to be. Every line other than those which are horizontal or vertical has to go towards the vanishing point. Step-by-step Karin demonstrated and told us what to do next and we all ended up with an interior. For those who wanted to add more details Karin explained how perspective worked with the buttons on a couch and a row of lights on the ceiling. We were pleasantly surprised with the results and all learnt a lot. Thank you Karin

The RED lines are the lines that suggest depth: they all go to the one vanishing point which is an indication of where the viewer stood (the eye level). They are all the sides of objects going into depth. *The BLACK lines are all horizontal or vertical lines: the side of the object facing the viewer. They follow the edges of the paper and are an indication that the person stood parallel to the object/s and that is why the one vanishing point perspective rule applies when you are drawing this object. *The BLUE pen indicates all objects that were drawn with ovals to show that it is a round object. The fullness/depth of the oval shows where this object is standing in relation to the viewer's eyes. The lower the object is in the picture space, the closer the object is to the viewer (meaning it is in the foreground)....so the object will appear rounder in volume than a similar object higher up in the picture space which is more on the eyelevel of the viewer. Make sure the axle through the oval (which shows how wide the object is) is absolutely horizontal....otherwise the object will look like it is not standing flat on the surface supporting it.

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October Art Competition – “Let’s Move” The theme for October's art challenge was "Let's Move!" and the 10 works below were brought to the meeting for everyone to enjoy.

Angela Stannard

Angela Stannard

Kirsten Slater

Fil Angelakis

Linda Gotlieb Karin Davel Anne Stepto

Kirsten Slater

Mandy Herdien

Ivette Crombie Elizabeth Lamprecht

Start planning your paintings for 2017 meeting art challenges January Art Challenge – “Happy Holidays” February Art Challenge – “My perspective”

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Westlake Golf Course - Continuing Exhibition Our Society has a wall at Westlake Golf Club on which we hang paintings on a two monthly basis, kindly organized by one of our members Klaus Schilling. It’s not an exhibition as such but does allow us a chance to market our work. Four artists each hang 4 paintings for 2 months at a time. Sales can be made there or customers can contact the artist directly so it is very important to have a CV and contact details with your work. If you are interested, please contact Connie Rossmeisl by emailing her at [email protected] and she will add your name to the list. Please familiarise yourself with the requirements for hanging your paintings as found on our blogspot Exhibiting at Westlake Golf Club in November and December are Fil Angelakis, Nerina de Villiers, Neelu Dole, and Dee Drake

Fil Angelakis

Nerina De Villiers

Dee Drake

Neelu Dole

Constantiaberg Art Society Face Book Page Linda Howe Ely is doing a wonderful job on our Facebook page and blog, posting about all our demos, outings, and events as they happen, but we please need your support in reading them, commenting, liking the posts and sharing with friends! Anyone wishing to have images & a short bio of their work posted to an album on our Facebook Page is invited to email their photos to [email protected] Linda Howe-Ely. We will create an album with your name so browsers will be able to look at your work and "like" or "comment" on it. We do require your permission to post images to our Facebook Page and any other Social Media Page, so, please fill in the form and we will do the rest. CAS MEMBERS ONLY: Application for CAS members who wish to have their artwork added to this gallery. Link for the Form in a Browser format fill it in in Google Forms and submit and the information will be uploaded to our Google Drive. Looking forward to receiving your images, bios and forms. Please email us if you need help.

If you are on Facebook, please like our CAS page and invite your friends to like it too! Please email Linda Howe Ely for help if you’re not sure how to do this! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CAS-Constantiaberg-Art-Society-945420195515046/ Our Blog: http://constantiabergartsociety.blogspot.co.za/

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LIBRARY MATTERS Members of our society are encouraged to make use of our DVD and book library. If there is a particular book or DVD that you would like to take out please send an email to Carrie Lam, and it will be brought along to the next meeting. Email [email protected] or SMS 0834146318. Some reminders about using our library: 1. Books and DVDs are loaned for a month, from one meeting to the next. Please be considerate on this issue. 2. You may renew your book/ DVD once, thereafter a fine of R10 for every month not returned. 3. If someone else has requested the book you have out then it cannot be renewed. 4. Only 2 items may be taken out at a time. 5. Guests of members may not borrow anything from our library. 6. If a book or DVD is lost or damaged then it needs to be replaced or paid for. Book one of our new DVD’s in the Library 1. Atmosphere of Landscape by Fred Cuming 2. Capturing light in Acrylics by John Hammond 3. Simplifying Oil Landscapes by Chris Daynes. 4. Dynamic Oil Portraits by Tim Benson AROI 5. Aspects of flowers painting oils by Pamela Kay. 6. Oil Landscapes - Quick and Easy by Brian Ryder 7. Masterclass by Ross Paterson – W/colour/oil Townscape 8. Masterclass by Maxwell Wiks- Pastel Trees - Pastel Landscape Please remember that the Richard Schmid book needs to be pre-booked as it is very popular

We are very grateful to members, Marielle Higler and Hazel Hele who have so kindly donated the following books to us. Donated by Marielle Higler The Oil Painting Book Learning From the Pros

Wendon Blake

Oil

Wendon Blake

Oil

Colour in Oil

Ferdinand Petrie

Oil

First Steps Painting Oils

Louise DeMore

Oil

Watercolour Bold & Free

Lawrence C Goldsmith

Watercolour

Watercolour for the fun of it ,Flowers & Leaves

Judy Eaton

Watercolour

Watercolour Basics , Painting Flowers

Sharon Hinckley

Watercolour

Watercolour Painter's Pocket Palette

Moira Clinch Herbert E Johnson Museum of Art

Watercolour

Anthony Toney

Drawings

Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century 150 Masterpieces of Drawing

Donated by Hazel Hele Andy Warhol - Documentary Film Andy Warhol - The Complete Picture Modigliani Artists of the 20th Century

Drawings

Directed by Ric Burns Directed by Chris Rodley Man Ray

ART COURSES, WORKSHOPS, EXHIBITIONS and COMPETITIONS Little Nood Gallery at Café Nood is holding an exhibition at their restaurant in Wilderness Road in Claremont (next to Claremont Library). Contact 021 617 4475 If anyone is interested in exhibiting their art at Cafe Nood in Claremont in 2017 please contact Margo Dekker @ 021 671 4475 or email her [email protected] If you have never exhibited before, this is an opportunity to wet your feet and get your art seen. They support The Children’s Hospital Trust and 15% of any paintings sold get donated to the trust. A group exhibition, Abstraction, opened on Friday 7 October at the Bright Street Gallery in Somerset West and features some of our CAS artists. For more information, contact the gallery on 021 851 2520. The exhibition will be on until the 25th November.

Vonna Herman has her 3rd one-woman show at The Olympia Café on Main Road in Kalk Bay for the entire month of November. It is open 7 days a week from 07h00 to 21h00. The title is Vonna's Fine Art & Photography in Nature. For further info, contact Vonna at 083-511-3470 [email protected].

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Chardonnay Deli in Constantia is the venue for Mel and Dale Elliott’s exhibition for the month of November. Pop along for a lovely breakfast or lunch or just to peruse the art. Art in the Park: 26 November: The last Art in the Park for 2016 should be a bumper one with over 120 stands on display and publicity through posters, press advertising and Facebook postings. There will be live entertainment and plenty of refreshments so looking forward to many visitors to the park! Remember you can put up work that has been on previous exhibitions for AIP, but it must be your original artwork. Printed work in the form of postcards, greeting cards, etc. will only be accepted provided original artwork is also available. Email Glenda Chambers at [email protected]. Once they have received your booking, payment can be made to SASA Nedbank Constantia branch 198765 account number 1088006981, but please use your name and the initials ‘AIP’ with your payment. A letter was received from Paint and Sip, an organisation that raises funds for projects in the Cape: Paint and Sip, is a fundraising and artist empowerment product in aid of raising funds for the non-profit Call 2 Care. Call 2 Care is a volunteer organization that connects volunteers and community members in carrying out projects that focus on a need in a disadvantaged community. Their current focus is on food sustainability where they are building drought resistant self- watering wicking garden beds in the township of Samora Machel.

Paint and Sip occurs twice a month and is a fun and unique way for guests to uncork their creativity as an experienced local artist takes them step by step through the process of unleashing their inner artist. They have been very fortunate to have some great artists involved; most recently being the artist Lindy Du Toit (Flook). Paint and Sip are looking to offer artists a fun teaching experience, a delicious meal and beverage; social media coverage and a nominal fee for their time. Artists are also encouraged to exhibit any of their art pieces at the event. We would love to have any interested members of your society join our cause. You can keep up with our fundraising efforts and Paint and Sip’s progress at: https://web.facebook.com/PaintAndSipSouthAfrica/

En Plein Air Outings Hiking and Sketching Outing: Thursday 8 December at 9.30 am. Intaka Island is a 16 hectare wetland and bird sanctuary in the centre of Century City. Attractions for artists include water, reeds, birds and views of Table Mountain. There is a 1 or 2km trail but artists may stop and sketch anywhere as it is a safe, enclosed area. The entrance fee for Intaka Island is Adults R15 and Pensioners R 9. There is a 35 minute boat trip that one can take; this costs R45 but includes the entrance fee. Directions: Coming from Southern Suburbs on the N1, keep left to take the N7 turnoff, then stay left to take the Century City off ramp. At the traffic lights turn left into Sable Road. The road then becomes Ratanga Road as it turns sharply right. Keep in the left lane again and at the third traffic lights turn right into Century Boulevard. At the second Circle turn right to Intaka Island. More information about Intaka Island at http://www.intaka.co.za. Please confirm whether you are attending this and whether you would like to share lifts from the southern suburbs. Let Linda Howe Ely know by Tuesday 6 December so arrangements can be made. Convenor: Linda Howe-Ely 073 5644 845 or 012 797 2601 [email protected]

CAS SUMMER EXHIBITION AT KIRSTENBOSCH The Exhibition dates have been confirmed! Please diarise 16th - 25th January 2017. Please book online- maximum of two panels per person. Any queries, phone Sue Paulsen 021 712 6978 http://constantiabergartsociety.blogspot.co.za/p/exhibition-entry-form.html 6

Honouring our seniors Neil Thompson was born in 1927 in Claremont, Cape Town. He matriculated at Rondebosch Boys High School and had a successful career as a Quantity Surveyor for various firms in Cape Town. His interest in painting started in 1983 after attending an Exhibition by Phil Cloete. He then attended classes with Phil for about 3 years, followed by a year with Derric van Rensburg and a week’s workshop with Dale Elliott in Knysna. Phil Cloete encouraged Neil to join The Constantiaberg Art Society in 1991 and he is still a member today. Neil was the Chairman of our Society from 1997-2000. He has held 1 solo and 3 shared Exhibitions at Constantia Village, as well as 1 shared exhibition with Pat Howell. He has also taken part in all the Society's Exhibitions held at Kirstenbosch! His interest has always been in landscapes and seascapes done in watercolour. Neil works mainly from a large collection of his own photographs as well as any he can persuade the owner of to part with. The miniature easels are made by him and painted to look like a little oil painting! Neil, long may you continue to enjoy your retirement painting - you are a huge inspiration to us all!

EXPLORING ARTISTS It’s way over time for a local artist to be featured here, and who better than the world famous, Cape Town artist, John Meyer. He was born in Bloemfontein in 1942 and studied at the Johannesburg Technical College School of Art before joining an advertising agency. In 1967, Meyer settled in London, where he carried on his studies in art while working as a freelance illustrator. Meyer is regarded as the leading figure in the realist movement in southern Africa. Decidedly contemporary in his unique vision and a proponent of modernism in all its guises, Meyer has a considered commitment to representational painting. Concerned with the complexities of visual perception and their solutions, his paintings are not mere representations of existing places and things, but exist as indelible retrospection, like total recall. Meyer describes his paintings as being 'made.' Each layer of tension or emotion is built up over a mental and physical process, creating a credible, charged and tangible event in each of his paintings. He presents us with strikingly real illusions, all distinctly familiar, yet ultimately invented. They are imagined archetypes rather than specific events.

His most recent narrative genre, exploring the complex currents of human relationships, captivates his viewers. Few other artists inspire such commentary. Rarely are interpretations the same. Everyone has their own judgement and somehow the relationships continue to change with every inspection or even passing glance. There is fluidity, an evolving drama, a very real atmosphere. He later developed these into a series of separate but related views of the same reaction. These 'Sequential Narratives' explore the nature of intimacy between men and women. The series reflects his interest in compositional interaction rather than conventional realism and displays his traditional visual hallmark - a tight theatrical control of the painted surface. Meyer is a master of staging, plot and lighting and there is a quality to the paintwork that reinforces the themes of emotional ambiguity between the protagonists in the paintings. He has exhibited consistently in the United States, Europe and South Africa, developing an international profile that few South African artists have achieved. Since the early 1990’s Meyer has concentrated almost exclusively on what he calls the narrative genre – enigmatic figures caught in emotional ambiguities – representing a new direction to his art

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More recently, Meyer completed a body of fifteen works set during the Anglo Boer War. His Lost in the Dust exhibition offered an intimate and compelling look at how war affects the lives of those swept up in it. The paintings are not historical, but a collection of completely fictitious, imaginative narratives, woven into a multi-layered realm that deals with the tragedy of war. They are at once compelling, delicate, emotional and foreboding. Meyer was inspired to embark on this challenging journey by his ancestors, who had fought on both sides, allowing him to reflect on it from a neutral position. Set against the dramatic and hauntingly beautiful backdrop of the vast South African interior, the collection combines Meyer’s talents for landscape and narrative in a unique body of works. The entire collection, owned by one collector, was exhibited in Cape Town and Johannesburg in 2015. Thereafter it toured the United Kingdom, where it was shown in both London and Edinburgh at Bonham’s. Over the years he has become a court painter to the rich and powerful, and his subjects range from Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, to renowned concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz. He has also painted portraits of many leading South African and world famous personalities. This year he was commissioned to paint a painting of the Queen for her th 90 birthday celebrations. This painting below shows her riding a horse on Durban beach when she toured South Africa as a young woman.

Artist's Statement – John Meyer ‘One could say I'm obsessed with the magical properties of paint, with the process that allows for and unlocks the magic. It all depends on where you direct your energy. It's beyond me why any artist with talent would not want to pursue the mysterious world that lies within the possibilities of paint, the ultimate transformation of materials. Squeeze out a few lengths of pigment on a palette and transform them into the image of something. ‘Because we’re not witness to the explorative process that is the private preserve of the artists creativity, we are not party to the experimental nuances and resulting struggle in the painting process, and that prevents us from completely understanding the artist's intent. How then are we to access this world of hidden complexities? If we accept that we see the world around us in various tones, shapes and patches of colour, rather than their defining contours, we realise that a single brushstroke can be anything it may suggest to us. The complex layering of painterly tones, placed in apparently random order, creates the stage for a personal search. Here we indulge in our need to escape from an increasingly intrusive world.' SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS by John Meyer 2015 Lost in the Dust, Bonham’s Auction House, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2014 Lost in the Dust, Everard Read, Cape Town & Johannesburg, South Africa 2013 My Country, Everard Read, Cape Town & Johannesburg, South Africa 2011 An Evening with John Meyer, Everard Read Cape Town, South Africa New Work, OK Harris, New York, USA 2010 John Meyer – Paintings, O.K. Harris, New York, USA 2009 Museum Schloss Gottorf, Germany Involuntary Consequences, Albemarle Gallery, London, United Kingdom Karoo Revisited, The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 2008 Conduct and Expectations, Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, Germany 2007 Truths Revealed, Everard Read, Cape Town & Johannesburg, South Africa Distant Lives, Albemarle Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2005 New Work, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2003 John Meyer, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

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ART SNIPPETS The South African Artist – is available digitally. Complete back issue archive now available. Search “Magzter” in Apple App Store or Google Play Store and download Magzter App. WWW.MAGZTER.COM Tel: 031 765 1574 Fax: 031 765 3106 or e-mail: [email protected] Also available for PC and MAC http://www.magzter.com/ZA/The_South_African_Artist_magazine/The_South_African_Artist/Art/ The South African ART TIMES, is available on line to read or subscribe at Art Times http://arttimes.co.za

DISCOUNTS CAS MEMBERS Sponsors of our Artfor Competitions Your 2016 membership card will allow you to claim your 10% discount from the following art shops: Deckle Edge – all branches, The Italian Artshop and Village Brush and Canvas

Special thanks to the following sponsors of our Art competitions

http://www.italianartshop.co.za/

Visit their website https://www.deckleedge.co.za New Salt River branch is open for business at 13 Brickfield Road

http://eandtcanvasses.co.za/ 9 Barron St, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925 Phone: 071 528 8815

CONSTANTIABERG ART SOCIETY SOCIAL NETWORKING Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CAS-Constantiaberg-Art-Society-945420195515046/ Google + Online Gallery: https://plus.google.com/+ConstantiabergartsocietyBlogspotonlinegallery Our Google Profile: https://plus.google.com/+ConstantiabergArtSociety/posts Our Blog: http://constantiabergartsociety.blogspot.co.za/

Enjoy the sunshine, live a lot, and until next time, keep up the art! Linda xx

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