Drawn to the Valley. New Initiative for 2017: Increasing the profile of Drawn to the Valley and developing workshop opportunities.

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1 Drawn to the Valley Monthly Newsletter for Artists of the Tamar Valley November 2016 New Initiative for 2017: Increasing the profile of Drawn to the Valley and developing workshop opportunities. this issue Developing workshops P.1 Featured Artist P.2 & 3 Members News P.4-8 Events Guide P.9 Local Art Groups are always looking for tutors for sessions, and the number of groups is increasing. Drawn to the Valley members have the skills and some will be willing to tutor groups. We would like to try to bring them together. We need to build a list of potential tutors and another of Art Groups within our area. We will be ing all members to ask who would like to tutor: Which medium or media you can tutor. Preferred subject matter e.g. abstract, landscape, portrait, wildlife etc. Your fees (either per hour or a 1/2 day / day/ evening rate). Distance willing to travel and whether you will be charging extra for this. Availability, i.e. day of the week or evening or any that you are unable to do. This will give us the start of a database, do us if you can think of other key points. If ALL members would also let us know the contact details for any Art Group they have been to or know of, then we will contact the secretary and offer to "connect". Quite simply, we hope to achieve additional bookings for some of our members. In turn this will increase the profile of Drawn to the Valley to encourage those of calibre looking to take the next step, to consider joining us. We will be sending a template form shortly for you to complete and return. Thank you for your support.

2 Featured Artist; Teresa Wicksteed MCSH, MA, BA Hons, PGCE Rame Peninsula painter, Teresa Wicksteed, is one of the founding members of Drawn to the Valley and has been instrumental in the growth of our group through those early years. As well as managing the award winning stunning wedding venue at Polhawn Fort, she has recently qualified as a Sound Healing Practitioner, with the College of Sound Healing UK. Teresa s practice relies primarily on the voice, the most simple, powerful and easily accessible instrument available to all of us! She says: My painting expresses energies we feel but cannot see, and Sound Healing harnesses those energies and focuses them to deeply heal the client. So these two practices are complementary; one uses Light and one Sound waves. A sound healing treatment lasts for around one hour. In the treatment you relax on a therapy couch while Teresa makes vocal sounds, or tones over you. The sounds are somewhere between chanting and singing. There will be periods of meditative silence during the treatment, to allow you to integrate the sound healing; as the body is around seventy per cent water, sound waves easily flow through and rebalance internal organs and tissue. As sound flows through the body the client experiences a feeling of very deep relaxation. Sometimes she enters an altered state of consciousness, and in this balanced and deeply relaxed state, it is easy for Healing on all levels to occur. Teresa`s healing room is on the spectacular Rame Peninsula in South East Cornwall, about half an hour s drive from Saltash, so the sound of the sea, wind and birds are the backing track to her sound healing.

3 Ask the Artist; Teresa Wicksteed Where is your favourite place? My garden overlooking the sea. What would you take with you to a desert island? My Tibetan singing bowl. What irritates you? The expression widely used: "just suck it up!" Top 2 dinner party guests? Two top chefs who could make the dinner for me so I can be the guest! What is your hidden talent? Good at guessing correct answers to University Challenge... View from Sound Healing Room What is your favourite motto? "To thine own self be true" (from Hamlet) What is the best work related thing you have done recently? Training in Sound Healing For more information on Teresa, please visit:

4 NEW DATE CONFIRMED Speaker Evening - An illustrated lecture showing the influences of the Tamar Valley on artist JMW Turner by local author Dorothy Kirk. Monday 5th December 2016 Tamar Valley Centre, Drakewalls, Near Gunnislake, Cornwall, PL18 9FE Tea, coffee, catch up, anytime from 6.00 pm, talk from 7.00 pm (approx. 1 hour). The artist JMW Turner came to the Tamar Valley in 1811 and His major oil painting Crossing the Brook first exhibited in 1815 recorded both the beauty of the valley and the burgeoning industrial scene in Gunnislake. Free entry for artists (and guests), donations please to Tamar Valley Community Bus. Mining Legacy of the Tamar Valley Drawn to the Valley Exhibition Tamar Valley Centre, Drakewalls, Near Gunnislake, Cornwall, PL18 9FE Saturday 11th March to Friday 17th March am to 4.00 pm (to 2.00 pm Friday) Set up; Thursday 9th & Friday 10th March, Take down 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm Friday 17th March Private View Friday 10th March 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm Pentillie Working Days Confirmed for 2017 Tuesdays: 21st March, 16th May, 18th July, 17th October Free for members. We are delighted that Ted Coryton from Pentillie contacted Dave Mather upon seeing a lovely sketch he did from the last drawing day. Dave has now been given free access to paint and gained a sale. Well done Dave, beautiful work. Our thanks to Clare Law for continuing to organise this wonderful opportunity. Sad News Drawn to the Valley pays tribute to artist member Inga Newbeck who sadly passed away recently. Inga was a very positive member of the Plymouth Arts Trail and a talented jeweller and ceramicist inspired by the colours and textures of the moors and sea. If anyone would like to attend Inga's funeral it is at 1pm at Weston Mill Crematorium on Wednesday November 9th. All will be welcome as Inga would like a good crowd to be there. She had hoped to have a party just before she died but sadly that was not possible. Our thoughts are with her friends and family.

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6 Mad Hatters Christmas Fair Nov 5 and 6 10am to 4.30pm Workshops: Friday 18 Nov Paper Clay, Print and Object Making Sun 11 Dec Vintage Style Christmas Decorations with Sheron King Friday 16 Dec Dickensian Evening- sit down meal around a festive table with entertainment Sat 17 Dec Festive Wreath making morning with Sheron King...get into the Christmas groove Mad Hatters Studio, The Longhouse, Old Newton Farm, Plympton, PL7 5BL sheron@madhattersstudio.com We were delighted to see Clark Nicol selected to compete in the 2016 Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Competition. Joan Bakewell and Frank Skinner returned to present the series. Award-winning artist Tai Shan Schierenberg, independent curator Kathleen Soriano and art historian Kate Bryan are the judges. Clark appeared on the 24th October, working at Stowe (National Trust) whilst he didn t win (he should have, but we are biased) he did extremely well to be selected from the thousands of applicants. It was great to see one of our talented artists at work.

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8 TAVI ARTS MARKETS Next Dates: Saturday 5th November & Saturday 3rd December Artist Ian Pethers has been busy, not only has his peeling paint effect featured on the front cover of Leisure Painter, he has also just completed a poster for the Tamar Valley Tourist Association, stunning Ian, Well Done!

9 Upcoming Events 2016 & 2017 Events Listing Thursday 24 th November pm to 9.00pm Drawn to the Valley Annual General Meeting Tamar Valley Centre, Drakewalls, Near Gunnislake Speaker Evening - An illustrated lecture showing the influences of the Tamar Valley on artist JMW Turner by local author Dorothy Kirk. Monday 5th December 2016 Tamar Valley Centre, Drakewalls, Near Gunnislake, Cornwall, PL18 9FE Tea, coffee, catch up, anytime from 6.00 pm, talk from 7.00 pm (approx. 1 hour). Membership Renewal January Mining Legacy of the Tamar Valley Drawn to the Valley Exhibition Tamar Valley Centre, Drakewalls, Near Gunnislake, Cornwall, PL18 9FE Saturday 11th March to Friday 17th March am to 4.00 pm (to 2.00 pm Friday) Artist Work Days Tuesdays: 21st March, 16th May, 18th July, 17th October Pentillie Castle & Estate St. Mellion, Saltash PL12 6QD Artists must register for inclusion, limited capacity. Full listing available beginning of January 2017 DRAWN TO THE VALLEY Arts Administrator: Sarah-Jane Lincoln 20 Mill Hill Cottages, Mill Hill, Tavistock, Devon, PL19 8NW Tel: admin@drawntothevalley.co.uk Please share your news and latest work on our Facebook Page; Twitter - Drawn 2Valley