Author: Joy Hardy

  • Summer Outings

    Painting sessions are adjourned over the summer but we have been meeting at various venues to keep in touch. In July some members met at the Buchan Hotel for a very enjoyable lunch, and this was followed a fortnight later by a visit to Aberdeen Art Gallery. One of the highlights of this trip was…

  • SUMMER HOLIDAY

    The summer sessions finish at the end of June and we resume on Thursday September 1st. This term has flown by and we have been quite productive and thoroughly enjoyed a return to normality: long may it last The new committee is settling in, planning outings and preparing for the autumn exhibition at Haddo. We…

  • Easter Break

    We had the final session at the end of March when we held the AGM. It was well attended and we now have a new committee with some reshuffling of posts and two new members. The session finished with some socialising and sharing of snacks, which felt very refreshing after months of restrictions. We were…

  • Making the most of the break

    Whilst all of us have had to adapt over the last two years and try to maintain creativity without mutual support, one member in particular has undoubtedly made the most of the break. An unfortunate trip over New Year resulted in a serious break to Barbara’s ”painting arm”. Undeterred, she has been able to produce…

  • Sessions resume

    At last, we are back to Thursday sessions at the Kirk Centre, and very happy we are too. A good number of us made it along last week to the start of our new term and we are fervently hoping that it will be plain sailing from now on.

  • Rollercoaster Times

    We are all now reluctantly becoming used to uncertainty in our lives; a salutary lesson perhaps for many of us! So, the best-laid schemes o’ Mice an’ EDAG gang a-gley, yet again; we will not be returning to our Thursday meetings on the 13th. We are hopeful for the 20th – but, who knows!

  • Exhibition Postponed

    We have all been saddened to learn of the devastation wreaked at Haddo Country Park by the weekend’s storm; a huge number of trees blown down and so much damage done that will take a long while to repair. Inevitably this means we are not able to hold our exhibition on Sunday. Everyone had been…

  • Weekly Meetings and Exhibition

    Weekly meetings resumed some while ago and those members who have been able to return have enjoyed the inspiration and feedback which has been missing this last while. Some of us have not been happy to return while there is still a requirement to wear a mask during the sessions, and we look forward to…