Expressions of interest

Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospital Expansion Project Stage 1
Arts and Cultural Program
Expression of interest for artists.

See poster 

The BMDH Expansion Project Arts & Cultural Program is seeking expressions of interest from artists to be part of the public arts program.
Interested artists will become part of an artist directory from which they may be contacted for various arts commissions and projects as funds become available.
What we’re looking for Expressions of interest are invited for the following art practices:
 Community arts
 Drawing
 Mixed media
 Mosaic
 Mural
 New media
 Painting
 Photography
 Print
 Sculpture
 Textile.
Essential qualities
Essential qualifications for artists working on the BMDH Expansion Project Arts & Cultural Program are:
 Awareness, empathy and work ethics related to the special needs of working in a hospital or health service setting
 Creativity and innovation
 Ability to collaborate and be part of a team
 Ability to comply with deadlines and budgets.
How to apply
Artists wanting to be part of the directory should send a two-page CV and images of their work by 31 January 2014 by:
 Email to Marily.Cintra@placemaking.com.au
or
 Post to BMDH Expansion Project Artist EOI PO Box 4048 RNSH Reserve Road ST LEONARDS NSW 2065
Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospital Expansion Project Stage 1
Arts and Cultural Program
Expression of interest for artists
For more information
Contact Marily Cintra at Placemaking T | 0414 944 991 E | Marily.Cintra@placemaking.com.au
For information about the project please visit www.bmdhproject.health.nsw.gov.au
BMDHProject on YouTube

Merry Christmas

Wishing all our Members, readers and guests,

A Merry Christmas from Mountains and Rivers.

Have a great New Year in 2014

Follow me through the blogs Aniza

http://decorative.typepad.com/aniza/folk_art_talk/

From Malaysia, Aniza is a decorative painting artist and stay at home mum, her work is stunning!

Aniza work from her mini studio holding regular classes, also teaching at workshops in her area, painting collections for other people and selling her work when she can.

You can also find Aniza on facebook; Decoritive painting & folk art by Anzia

Bakers Delight Painting Weekend.

Our next get together will be our annual "no frills" weekend in October, we will all soon be packing for this get together along with some welcomed talented teachers. Of course you can also come along and paint for the day in this yearly event. You may also bring a friend as you do not have to be a member for this event, but you must book.

 Bookings are well under way and choices of workshops are filling fast. (limited spaces).

Bookings and full payment must be made before the 6th of October or ASAP.

Registration time is Friday between 4pm and 5pm on the 25th October at 'Winbourne' Edmund Rice Retreat and Conference Centre, 1315, Mulgo Road, Mulgoa, NSW 2745.

If you have booked in for a day workshop, they start at 9am sharp. So make sure you arrive early to set up and give yourself plenty of time to find your way.

Afternoon finishing time will be around 4pm. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided, included in the price.

Teachers are; W1-Lorrain Wingfield, W2-June Williams, W3-Laraine Palmer for Saturday.
Sunday teachers will be; W4- Lorraine Dick, W5-Roberta Small, W6-Pamela Jones.

For full details and bookings please email; click this.

After photographs, Wishing Roberta speedy recovery as she broke her ankle and was unable to teach her class this weekend. Get well soon Roberta!

Photos of the weekend.

August 2013 meeting and workshop.

Pam was our teacher on Saturday for Mountains and Rivers August 2013 Meeting, we had a lovely afternoon painting our practice piece and mirror compact. Pam was very professional as usual, making it look very easy to follow step by step. Matisse paints were used for this project, they have strong pigments and very much suited to this project, Thanks Pam.

Pam with sample and finished compact.

One of our members concentrating on her work.

Half of the members with Pam at the end of the workshop.

Half of the members with Pam at the end of the workshop.


If you are looking for the photo's of the No Frills weekend away they will follow shortly, I do not have them as yet. They were on display at this meeting and we had some really nice workshops pieces to choose from it is going to be hard to decide! I have at least four I would like to do to start with, the teachers are; June Williams, Lorrane Dick, Roberta Small, Laraine Palmer, Lorraine Wingfield and Pam Jones. Booklets will be out soon and please let Laraine have them back as soon as possible so you have a chance of your first choice. As this is No Frills you need not be a member to join us. At this weekend is at Mulgoa you may stay the two nights, (Friday and Saturday) or just join us for a day!

Derivan open Day! Saturday 19th October 2013- 10am-2pm.

4/23 Leeds Street, Rhodes 2138

Show your support and thanks for all the goodies they supply for our Convention raffles!

August 10th meeting and workshop

Our August meeting will be on the 10th, we will be painting this gorgeous mirror compact style case, it has 2 mirror's inside. Bookings are essential, pattern will be supplies on the day of workshop. we have 16 ladies booked in already, please book in early as we will only have these compacts once as they were donated and can never be repeated.

You may book in by email; mountains2rivers@gmail.com  or by phone, my phone number is in the Newsletter. There is no homework for this project.

Cost of the workshop will be; Members $15, Guests, $20.

Follow me through the blogs.

In the Newsletter I talked about listing a few clever blogs that I had found to share with you all. I called this 'Follow me through the Blogs'. As a follow up of this you will find that I will place these on Mountains and Rivers blog for your interest.

Follow me through the blog's..............................

www.valitasfreshfolds.blogspot.com  

I found this blog while looking through YouTube in the craft area. I was quite impressed as they showed you how to make paper flowers from punched out petals. Some time ago I remember that Mum had some paper punches, I had not used them for ages, but the video intrigued  me. There was a lovely red rose made from altered punches cut out from paper, colored and strengthened and made into a brooch.

Even if you like making your own cards, or would just like to browse, take a look at Valitas blog, she is such a talented lady!

Below is the link for some of Valitas's flowers with video;  

http://www.valitasfreshfolds.blogspot.com.au/search/label/No%20tool%20flowers


This is the link to the rose brooch;
http://valitasfreshfolds.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/2-step-owl-punch-rose.html


The photo's in the newsletter are as follows;

July AGM

On Saturday the 13 July we will be holding our 

Annual General Meeting  and workshop, 

starting at 12 noon until finished!

Our guest workshop teacher will be Christine Whipper,

 Chris will be teaching us a piece titled 'May'

Some homework will be needed for this project. 
See page 5 of our Newsletter.

The workshop is $15 for members and $20 for guests.

We have a lucky door ticket for each person attending the meeting,
with some lovely prizes to be drawn, this is free.

 As always we have raffle tickets to sell for our raffle of the day

 8 tickets for $5 for anyone who would like them.

Meeting 11 May at 12 noon

On Saturday the 11 May we will be holding our meeting and workshop, starting at 12 noon until finished!

Our guest workshop teacher will be Chris Roy, Chris will be teaching us through the process of scratching! Chris has a lovely Emu on scratch board that we will be doing on the day. The scratch board  and pattern will be provided on the day by Chris. (see 'workshop 2013' for photo).

The workshop is $15 for members and $20 for guests.

We have a lucky door ticket for each person attending the meeting, this is free.

 As always we have raffle tickets to sell for some lovely prizes they are 8 tickets for $5 for anyone who would like them.

Convention pieces will be available to be picked up on this day, please have envelopes ready to give to your appropriate teachers so you can receive your pieces, some homework may be needed.

See you all on the 11th, Lyn.

Convention 2013, Journey to Africa.

Well, they are out! Our Convention pieces went on display on Saturday and I have just recieved the photo;s off Robyn. So here they are, I have no idea what will be on which day untill the booklet goes out, but you can have a pre-view of the proposed workshops. They are not in order, more details will be in your booklet, out soon.







Kate's Belton's Painting on a tile.

 This was our workshop piece we painted with kate on Saturday at the Mountain and Rivers meeting.

The CWA rooms were close to bursting at the seams!

Kate's tile painting.

We had 38 students and Kate did a fantastic job teaching us through the process of painting on a wood tile.

It was relaxing to paint and realy everyone's looked great!

Thanks again Kate for a great workshop, you worked hard, and just to let you know it was appreciated.

News in 2013

Happy New Year to all our readers.

Our first meeting will be on the Saturday, 9th February 2013.

We will open with a short meeting with lunch, followed by a painting workshop with Kate Belton.

Book in real early for this one as Kate has very kindly offered to do our homework for us, we will be painting "Kettle and Apples fresco"

Cost of workshop to members will be $15, $20 for guests.