Henley Arts and Crafts Guild

Aims

The Guild, founded in 1953, aims to bring together all those interested in visual arts and the crafts. This is achieved by arranging a number of activities for members throughout the year.

Landscape painting days are arranged in the summer months and indoor painting workshops are held during the winter, usually on a Friday, mostly at the Remenham Parish Hall.
Occasionally, other locations are chosen. A tutor is in attendance both on landscape days and during the winter workshops, although this practice is varied from time to time according to popular demand. More recently, other activities have been introduced into a more varied programme (eg. video mornings, factory visits etc)

An annual exhibition of members' work is normally held in the autumn; there is also a smaller, more selective, exhibition in the spring. Pictures hung and craft displayed at the spring exhibition are usually chosen by someone who is an accepted authority on fine arts and who is not a member of the Guild. Both exhibitions are held in the Exhibition Centre, Market Place, Henley-on-Thames.

Programme cards, showing details of landscape days and tutored workshops, are distributed twice a year. A Guild newsletter is published quarterly accompanied by notice of exhibitions, other meetings and outings to London Galleries etc.

Membership

The subscription year runs from 1st July to 30th June. New members are welcome at any time but will be expected to pay the full subscription (currently £20) because of the uneven spread of expenses during the year.

For further information and an application form please contact Jane Aitken, the Membership Secretary at:
Mile End, Lower Assendon, Henley-on-Thames RG9 6AL, Tel: 01491 575881 mjaitken47@hotmail.com

Exhibitions

The Annual Exhibition 2006, held in the Exhibition Centre just behind the Town Hall,will be open to the public from Tuesday 7th November until Saturday 18th November.

The exhibition of paintings and sculpture including ceramics, glass, embroidery and other crafts represents the work of Guild members during the year.

Programme

This Winter Workshop Programme shows that the Guild provides a wide variety of approaches and tutors for the benefit of members.

Anyone who wishes to take advantage of these excellent
facilities should join the Henley Art & Crafts Guild (see membership
above).

If you think you might join but would like to know a bit more about us, contact the Programme Secretary, Diana Seidl, (01865 891008) who will be pleased to invite you for a one day trial for £10.