TWASI Christmas Card Competition details
TWASI CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION 2024.
An annual competition for all TWASI members:
Prize: 100 copies of your design printed on good quality card for your personal
- Design the front of a Christmas Card, to be sent to all TWASI Members by email or
post. - Your image may be in any media, including sculpture, photography & digital.
- The design may include lettering if you wish.
- The image may be in square or oblong proportions.
- Maximum 2 entries per member.
- Closing date for entries is 22nd November 2024.
- Entries may be entered as a jpeg image (300dpi, up to 5MB) and sent to saraiscrawshaw@aol.com
Please title your jpeg with Name & Title, and use Email Subject: “TWASI Christmas Card Competition”. Or – Post an A4 photograph to TWASI, Appletrees, Main Street, Willey, Rugby. CV23 0SH, with Name & Title written on the back. - If you wish to have the photograph returned, please enclose a s.a.e.
Entries will be judged by the TWASI Central Council members.
The winning entry will be sent by email to all TWASI Members this Christmas, will be shown on the TWASI website, in the following edition of “On the Wild Side” Magazine, on the TWASI Facebook Page, & if available, may be exhibited at the following Annual Exhibition. - Prize: 100 copies of your design printed on good quality card for your personal use.
Summer Competition 2024 – 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place
Date for your diary
2024 AGM and Members Weekend at Nature in Art Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th October
This is advance notice of the 2024 TWASI AGM and Members Weekend booking is now open.
Booking forms will be sent out via email by John Horton. You will be able to copy and paste the
booking from the current web version of the newsletter. A materials list will accompany your
booking receipt.
We are really pleased to announce the guest artist on the Sunday will be Jamie Boots who is a
past member of TWASI and well known to many of you. He will give a presentation in the morning
and lead the critique in the afternoon. It should be a wonderful day.
The workshops will be given by another past TWASI member from the very early years, Alan
Woollett and will be on Birds in Coloured Pencils. The subject will be a Heron on black
background.
The alternative workshop is from a lady new to Nature in Art and us Lucy Burton; her subject will
be Butterflies and Birds in oils/acrylics.
As usual the AGM will be at 6pm on the Saturday evening followed by the fish ‘n’ chip supper.
There has been a slight rise in the prices for this year due to increased costs for food but we have
endeavoured to keep the price for the whole weekend below £100.
A real bargain for such a wonderfully enjoyable weekend so book early.
BOOKING FORMS WILL BE IN YOUR EMAIL IN BOX FROM 1ST APRIL 2024
The whole weekend £90 (Guest if undersubscribed £100)
Workshops only £50 (Guest if undersubscribed £55)
Saturday evening guest £15
Sunday Jamie Boots presentation and talk member or guest £25
Sunday all day as a member or guest £40
SPRING WORKSHOP 9 TH & 10 TH MARCH 2024
AT NATURE IN ART – BOOK NOW
We are delighted to welcome back Daniel Wilson and Amber Tyldesley to spend a weekend with
us at Nature in Art.
Dan and Amber are a dynamic duo who often exhibit together and work together as Studio Wildlife https://studiowildlife.com to promote/sell their art and raise money for wildlife conservation charities. They will run a workshop each on the Saturday which will run from 10.30am to 5pm, the morning will start at 10am in the Nature in Art cafe with coffee and lunch selection; members will be welcome to arrive from 9.30 to set out their art materials in the education centre.
On the Sunday Daniel and Amber will give us a presentation on how to make the most of modern
technology to promote ones artwork, framing and presentation of work, and making the most of
our art and skill. This workshop will run from 10.30am to approximately 3pm, members to meet in
the cafe at Nature in Art at 10am for coffee and lunch selection.
Saturday Workshop Daniel Wilson Charcoal
Saturday Workshop Amber Tyldesley Acrylics
Materials list to follow
Sunday Workshop “How to promote and present yourself as an artist” making the most of
using the internet and other media.
Email: v.briggs746@btinternet.com for your booking form.
A visit from Wildlife cameraman and TV personality Hamza Yassin
Wildlife cameraman and TV personality Hamza Yassin joined TWASI patron Anna-Louise Pickering, President of The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation, to draw the winning ticket in their Winter prize draw.
Hamza is a British wildlife cameraman and presenter, known for his role as Ranger Hamza on the children’s television channel Cbeebies and his work on popular shows such as Countryfle and Animal Park. However he became known and loved by a much wider audience in 2022 when he lifted the coveted glitter ball trophy as the winner of the twentieth series of the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing!
Hamza was born in Sudan and moved to Northampton at the age of 8 after his parents – both doctors – were invited to work in the UK. At 21, he visited a friend in Ardnamurchan, a peninsula on the west coast of Scotland, in order to photograph stags. He loved it so much he packed his bags and relocated there two weeks later. For the first nine months, he lived out of his car, showering at a local campsite and washing his clothes at the local community centre. He progressed to staying in empty holiday homes while he built his photography business and guided tours, and eventually bought his own home. Ever since he has loved to share his passion for ornithology and wildlife, and was happy to support the Foundation by selecting the winning ticket.
Between the sales of prize draw tickets, donations and a percentage of sales from Pollyanna’s Summer exhibition the Foundation has raised £5,000.00 to build a bat rehabilitation unit at the Harper Asprey Wildlife Hospital here in the UK
Mrs I. Clayton of Sutton in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire is the lucky winner of a beautiful hand-embellished giclee picture. A full list of winners can be found on the website www.pollyannapickering.co.uk
Click here to view The Annual Exhibition Award Winners and their work
TWASI MEMBERS SUMMER COMPETITION
1st Place – Louise Hancox – ‘Praying for Kelp’
“Praying for Kelp” is part of my Keystone Series – a small body of artwork that
explores unsung heroes essential to ecosystem survival. The artwork was created
using mainly pastel pencils on Pastel Mat.
It was inspired by my travels on the wild coast of British Columbia, where we
watched a lone sea otter drifting under the sun, paws folded in what looked like quiet
prayer. My own photographs were underwhelming, but a fabulous wildlife
photographer, Joe Tomoleoni, very kindly gave me permission to use one of his.
Joe is a marine biologist and wildlife photographer based in central California.
Beneath the surface, the sea otter’s presence shapes entire ecosystems. Once
hunted to the brink of extinction, sea otters are still endangered today.
By keeping sea urchin numbers in check, they protect kelp forests – vital habitats
that anchor marine biodiversity, protect coastlines from erosion, and act as powerful
carbon sinks.
He floats, as if weightless, yet carries the fate of a forest, a coastline, and a hidden
world beneath the waves.
With his survival, a living sea breathes.
2nd Place – Sophie Parkhill – ‘Horsey Gap Seals’
“Horsey Gap Seals” was created using a range of soft pastels, mainly Pan Pastel on
Pastel Mat.
The reference photo was taken during a drizzly trip to Norfolk.
At first, the beach looked like a mass of rocks – until a pup lifted its head and
revealed a colony of hundreds of seals stretched out before us.
3rd Place – Sophie Parkhill – ‘The Eye of the Catcher ‘
“The Eye of the Catcher” was painted in soft pastel, and based on a photo that I took
in Scotland whilst visiting my brother. The featured Oystercatcher was guarding a hidden nest, sadly unmarked as a nesting site.
It’s the first in my ongoing series titled “The Wonder of our Shores”, which celebrates
the wide variety of bird species found along our UK coastline.
Through this work, I hope to highlight the incredible wildlife on our doorsteps and
encourage more people to explore and appreciate our native nature.
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