EXHIBITIONS
We normally hold two exhibitions of members’ work each year, either at Amersham Common Village Hall or at the Chalfont St Peter Community Centre. There is no preselection of artwork for Beechwood exhibitions. The next exhibition will be held at the Chalfont St Peter Community Centre on the 27th and 28th of April 2024. The autumn exhibition will be held at the Amersham Common Village Hall on the 2nd and 3rd of November.
Prizes are presented at our exhibitions for the best painting based on a public vote. The Visitors' Favourite Painting votes are collected during the exhibition and the prizes awarded at the closing event. We send invitations to exhibitions by email to everyone on our mailing list. If you would like to join the mailing list, please read our Privacy Policy then send us an email.
CHARITY
Beechwood donates 10% of all exhibition sales income to charity. The charity for 2023 was The Chilterns Dog Rescue Society, as agreed at the AGM that was held on the 1st March 2023. At the AGM held in February 2024 it was agreed that the charity nominated for 2024 is the Chiltern Food Bank. The donations from both forthcoming exhibitions will go to this charity.
SPRING EXHIBITION 27/28TH APRIL 2024
We held our Spring Exhibition in Chalfont St Peter Community Centre on the weekend of 27/28 April 2024. Unfortunately I did not get a chance to see the exhibition myself as I was busy moving house that weekend!!! However, the photos I did see showed an exhibition filled with wonderful paintings of a very high standard!! Well done everyone who took part!
Before I get down to the results I want to thank Jenny Thompson and her team for organising and running a really successful weekend. Thank you team!!
As many of you who visited the exhibition will have noticed, we had fewer paintings than usual to hang and fewer artists showing their work. This meant that entry fees were less. Luckily, however, sales over the weekend were good. A total of 14 paintings were sold and the refreshments team sold more than £300 worth of drinks and treats! The Welcome Desk greeted some 212 visitors and we raised a total of £250 for The Chiltern Foodbank. Once all the figures are all in I will have a clearer idea of how Beechwood did financially but I believe we made a small profit.
The results of the Favourite Painting Competition are as follows:
1st place was Jackie O’Keeffe for her CATMANIA
2nd place was Lindsay Gregory for her BLACKBERRY PICKING
Joint 3rd place were Rosalind Keen for LAKE COMO FROM BELLAGIO and
Jenny Thompson for EBB TIDE
Well done to all four of you. And well done to everyone who took part. The votes were all very close and spread right across the catalogue which is a sure sign of a good exhibition of work.
Thank you all for taking part, organising, advertising, setting up and dismantling, hanging, baking, pouring endless cups of tea and coffee, greeting, dealing with the sales and wrapping visitors’ precious purchases! I hope I haven’t missed anyone out!! If I have, I apologise! May I also ask that those members who roped friends and partners in to help with the setting up and taking down, pass on my thanks to them.
Let’s hope for another successful exhibition in the Autumn!
Liz Grammenos
Chair/Treasurer