1972 – 2022

Dear Members,

It was with some trepidation, the committee organised our first members ‘return to the Hall’ for the Patricia Hallett Memorial lecture. What would Patricia have thought about us projecting a zoomed lecture onto the screen?
We had a turnout of 20 people with chairs arranged to respect social distancing. We are using the Brockenhurst Village Hall’s cinema system to ensure you can hear the lecture. This time, our projectionist Bob Rich got to grips with the technology, ably assisted by the Hall’s staff.

On 8^th November, Shirley Smith will give a lecture on ‘Caravaggio: The Master of Light and Shadow’. The lecture will be zoomed into your homes OR you are most welcome to come and watch it projected onto the screen in the Hall. We will be providing complimentary tea and coffee before we start. Doors will open at 10am.

The lecturer will BE IN THE HALL for our December lecture! More information to follow. Our graduated return to the Hall is making progress…

We are running a Zoom Study Day on 1^st November: Jacqueline Cockburn will provide two lectures on ‘Goya’. The first will be about his life as an artist and the second will assess Goya’s appropriation of previous painters. It will be argued that ‘his reassessment of the past is precisely what makes him so modern’.
The cost of the session will be £12.50 per person, payable either by cheque to The Arts Society New Forest and sent to Sue Randall, Bracken Lodge, Butts Paddock, Meerut Road, Brockenhurst, SO42 7TD, or by bank transfer, The Arts Society New Forest, sort code 40-34-25, account number 91524895, with your name as a reference to secure your place. Please pay by 22nd October.

Can you help? Does anyone still have any of the Art playing cards Patricia Hallett used for Fundraising? May we borrow them to display them in our exhibition at our Golden Anniversary AGM, next April?                                                    

Best wishes from us all on the Committee                                  
Diana Heatly, Chairman