The Tuesday Painters Club of Rye closed its summer exhibition and sale of art on a high on Saturday, August 16. Rye had been buzzing all week long, the rain stayed away and the mood was buoyant. The last day was busy. If a cash register were used, it would have been ka-ching all day long.
Throughout the week, visitors were invited to choose their favourite painting. Almost 1,000 votes were cast. Since we clicked in close to 2,000 visitors, that’s a great result – with lots of lovely comments to add icing to the cake.
Coming out top, and the main picture above, Rye View 2 by Mark Fisher.
Here are the rest of the public’s top five. They do love a local scene!
Elaine’s picture was also the winner of the club’s competition to choose a painting to feature in and on all its publicity and promotional material.
In case anyone is interested in the statistics, 38 members submitted 139 paintings and 48 were sold, that’s over a third which is actually very, very good! We are not a big club: 65 members strong, so nearly two thirds contributed to the exhibition.
Felicity Pike, chair, and the committee have to thank Richard Adams, our philanthropic vice-president and acclaimed Rye artist, for the generous raffle donation of one of his original pastel paintings, ‘The Mudlarks’. He’s seen here drawing the winning ticket at the close of the exhibition. It’s just waiting now to go to its new home in Oxford. Congratulations to the purchaser of ticket number 450!
Massive thanks, too, to our exhibition coordinator, Elizabeth Kimber, and her amazing Tuesday Painters team for organising, managing and – yes! – coordinating the whole event with the support of the committee.
For more information, you can email the club tuesdaypaintersrye@gmail.com or find them on Facebook and Instagram.
Image Credits: Mark Fisher , Kerry Bennett , Jim Hyett , Mike Funnell , Janet Haken , Richard Adams .