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Painting Group New Horizons Community Enterprise welcomes Burntwood's Friday Painting Group to the Blakenall Village Centre's Atrium Gallery. The group of amateur artists that gets together each week, on a Friday.... will be holding its' exhibition at the centre from 15th May until 20th June 2009. The group is non-profit making with any spare funding used for demonstrations and workshops by other artists; the group members also like to get together to talk about exhibitions they have attended. Members have a broad range of ability, and use a wide range of techniques and materials, such as; watercolour, pastel, pen and wash, and oils. The group regards their evening as a social gathering of like minds with a common interest and aims to provide an interesting time for their members by means of exchanging information on the various techniques. The Friday Painting Group is a friendly group offering constructive criticism of each other's work whilst having a cup of tea/coffee and an obligatory biscuit during the evening. A library of over 30 DVD's and books is available which are loaned, free of charge. For more information please contact Tom Dicken on 01543 682969. The Friday Painting Group is exhibiting their work from 15th May until 20th June 2009. If you are interested in showing your work please contact Andy Bradley or Sally Gamston on 01922 712858. Ends..... Photo opportunities are on Monday 15th May 2009 10.00 am in the Atrium Gallery at the Blakenall Village Centre, Thames Road, Blakenall, Walsall. Tom Dicken can be contacted at home on 01543 682969. Journalists are welcome to attend the Private View that will take place on Thursday 14th May, 5.00pm until 7.00pm. (Please let either Sally or Andy know that you can come along). The Atrium Gallery is the only art space in Walsall dedicated to showing work by local people and has been called by local artists the 'Peoples Gallery'; set in the professional setting of the Blakenall Village Centre that is also host to a range of services for areas of Blakenall, Bloxwich and Leamore. For more information about Walsall's New Deal for Communities initiative please contact Andy Bradley on 01922 712858. E mail: bradleya@walsall.gov.uk Editors notes: Walsall's New Deal for Communities is a regeneration initiative working in the areas of Blakenall, Bloxwich and Leamore. The initiative received a £52 million Government grant from the Department for Communities and Local Government (formerly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) to be spent on sustainable regeneration spread over a ten year period that commenced 2001. |
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