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TV cameras record the DAC meeting at Maumbury Rings

15 April 2011

By arrangement, the DAC meeting on 14th April 2011, at Dorchester's Maumbury Rings (originally a neolithic amphitheatre) was visited by a film crew from Cloud One TV company during the afternoon, as part of a programme they were making for BBC featuring the work of the Victorian artist, Herbert Barnard John Everett.  Although principally a marine artist, Everett was born in Dorchester in 1876, and had returned to Dorset to paint in later years.  The film company had suggested they might take the opportunity to show DAC members in action as evidence that art is still alike and kicking in Dorset today.  The presenter of the programme, Joe Crowley, accepted an invitation to try his hand, as a complete novice painter, at executing a watercolour sketch of the view from Maumbury Rings, with some guidance from DAC member John Grant.  The club members will now be interested to see the results of the filming when it is eventually shown on BBC television.

The Club has been advised that date the programme will be shown (on BBC One South) is expected to be Sunday 26th June 2011.

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Dorchester Art Club in Leisure Painter magazine

Former DAC President John Grant is writing a series of articles on "Art Club Business" during 2012 in the Leisure Painter magazine.  The aim in these articles is to review some of the organisational problems faced by committees in the course of running their art clubs, and to invite members of other clubs to offer their comments and suggestions on the matters covered. The Leisure Painter's editor has indicated that she is happy for the material to be sourced from Dorchester Art Club activities, and she is also keen that the series should be "interactive" in the sense that it will be a forum for readers in other clubs to exchange ideas and solutions by sending them to John Grant's email address -- jaybgee@btinternet.com.

The first two articles in the series (in the January and February issues, covered a genaral introduction, and a look at problems in arranging demonstrations so that everyone in an audience is able to have a good view of the artist's work.  Subsequent articles will deal with indoor and outdoor meetings, exhibitions, lighting problems, financial issues, and suggestions for those who may be inexperienced in running workshops, and so on.