WASA acknowledges the Traditional Indigenous Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognizes the continuing connection to lands,
waters and communities.
We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture,
and to the elders - past, present and emerging.

Gina Galli Roberts
Member of the Month - September 2021

 A Message from the President
 

Welcome to the September edition of the WASA Newsletter.
The WASA Committee has been hard at work charting the next twelve months for all members.  The Committee met on the 11th August, under the specialist guidance of  consultant and artist, Alan Pickering.  We created a plan for implementation of many the observations and recommendations from the Strategic Plan, which captured members ideas for change.

The planning is now being complemented with more detailed implementation projects. All members are encouraged to engage with the Committee Representatives to join in whatever projects they feel most inclined to assist in.  These projects now include work on social media, plein air, as Wilgie Plein Air, attracting younger members, reaching out to country areas, applying for grants and finding a Hub or WASA premises.

The High Society evening on the 19th August was a roaring success with more than 60 artists attending the night.  Huge thanks must go to the organisers, particularly Tanya Izzard and Jane Holtfreter, who set up and arranged all the logistics for the night.  A big 'well done' to them and thank you to everyone for coming along and making the evening so much fun.

This month members painted out at Government House Gardens and a second event will be held on the morning of the 16th September.  The weather was not the best but a small group painted all morning.  There were some beautiful paintings produced.

A big thank you and well done to all those who participated in the Annual Army Art Exhibition on from 20th - 22nd August.  Steve "Millsey" Mills, the radio personality from 6PR opened the event.  There were significant sales and approximately $10,000 will go to charity.  Thank you.

Looking forward, we have a monthly demonstration which promises to be a real treat and something different, with artist Catherine Scartaccini, of CS Illustrator and her miniature art of animals.  She is a superb artist and she will provide insight into detailed and miniature work. 

Members will be exhibiting their artworks of their pets in the monthly competition.

The Armadale Hills Open Studios event is on until 12th September.  Some WASA members are exhibiting their art during this event.
The Plein Air Down Under Festival will be held in Mandurah from 24th - 27th of September, with workshops being offered for artists.  Get down to Mandurah for some marvellous painting, exhibitions and prizes.  WASA is sponsoring a prize in the Non-Professional Category.

The date for the 2022 WASA Annual Exhibition has been agreed for the weekend of the 4th - 6th March 2022.  The event over will be over three days and will be held at the Italian Club in Fremantle.

Congratulations to Gina Galli Roberts who is member of the month for September.  Check out her wonderful art and creativity in the WASA media.

Finally, a big thank you to Karin Duarte for her time on the Committee.  She has a high level of other commitments and cannot continue in her role but will offer her assistance to WASA in future events.
Thank you Karin.

With my best wishes
Roger Reading, President.
 

 

NEXT WASA MEETING

Thursday 16th September 2021
7.15 pm General Entry
'THE PALMS' Corner of Rokeby and Nicholson Roads SUBIACO
Demonstrator: CATHERINE SCARTACCINI
  CS Illustrator

Monthly Competition:  PETS

Bring your artwork based on the theme of pets, doesn't have to be miniature, but if you wish to challenge yourself with miniature you are most welcome.
Ensure your artwork is dry!

Please note the new procedure for meetings.
 

7.00   Doors open for setting up only. 
Only persons setting up the room (chairs, tables and sound system) and the electrics will be permitted entry at this time.
7.15   Members may enter for registering names and book in the art for the monthly competition.

7.30   Formal meeting commences.
8.15   Break.
8.30   Demonstration commences.
10.00  Meeting finishes
.   

MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO PLEASE TAKE CARE NOT TO WALK  OVER ELECTRIC CABLES AND NOT TO  INTERFERE  WITH THE SOUND SYSTEM AND  VIDEO  EQUIPMENT.
 

10.00   All members assist in clearing the hall, stack chairs and putting chairs and folding tables away.
               

DEMONSTRATION  
Thursday 16th September

Catherine Scartaccini
CS Illustrator
"Beautiful things come in small packages.

Catherine Scartaccini is an illustrator working in miniatures and small works.  Since childhood, Catherine has been drawing, and her greatest passion has been drawing animals. Catherine is a  scientific illustrator and a lover of nature and wildlife. Her works include illustrations and prints of pets, wild animals, flowers, birds, fish and butterflies. Catherine has an Honours Degree in Zoology and Anatomy from UWA.  After completing her studies, she has worked full time in drawing, which has allowed her to blend her interest in the precise, accurate observation of her science background with its expression in art.
 

Catherine has a stall at the Fremantle Markets.

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COMING EVENTS AT WASA MONTHLY MEETINGS
 

14/10/21 - Demonstrator to be advised.

The Monthly Competition will be a $250.00 prize for the best artwork from the  High Society Event in August.
An independent judge will award the prize.
 

18/11/21 - Life Drawing - No Monthly Competiton

 9/12/21 -  Christmas Event - No Monthly Competition

(Note this is held on the 2nd Thursday of December).          

OUR NEXT GOVERNMENT HOUSE 'EN PLEIN AIR'

LAST CHANCE TO PAINT AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE

Hurry - Register your interest with WASA Secretary, Suzanne Lawson, as soon as possible as only a few places remaining for the  August paintout.
suzannemcg@hotmail

Our final Government House En Plein Air Paintout
will be
Thursday 16th September 9.30 - 12.00

We are currently organizing  an exhibition which  will be held at
Government House in early 2022.

ARTIST  QUOTE 

'Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.'
John Olsen

WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS

Colleen Bitmead
Leonie Collins
Wayne McGowan
Juliet Grieves
Antonia Naarstig
Rachael Robertson
Sara Sirant
Susan Swain

HIGH SOCIETY NIGHT,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19th,
WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. 
 

OUR THANKS TO JANE HOLTFRETER AND TANYA IZZARD, ALSO THEIR  ASSISTANTS, FOR ORGANISING THIS  SPECTACULAR CREATIVE EVENT.

The Monthly Competition will be a $250.00 prize for the best artwork from the  High Society Event in August.

An independent judge will award the prize.

GINA GALLI ROBERTS
MEMBER OF THE MONTH
Septermber 2021

Basin View From Pinkies  Rottnest Island

                              Acrylic                                   

I grew up in a small Texas town between Houston and Galveston.  My parents converted a barn into a multipurpose playhouse for me and my four siblings on our property.  There are so many memories of hours of painting and drawing with what seemed to be endless art supplies.  At school my favourite subject was ART. So when I graduated from high school, my parents were proud of my decision to pursue Art at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.  I loved my time there!

My Mom was a Perth girl, born and bred, so I had visited Perth many times while growing up.  A trip back to Perth in 1981 would change my life path entirely!  While here, I fell in love, and that was it - I wasn't going back to Texas Tech.  Excitedly, I applied to WAIT (now Curtin University) to continue my degree in Perth. Unfortunately, I was rejected after a rude interview with the Head of the Art Department.  I was crushed, and I allowed my Art journey to end, then and there.

I stayed in Perth, finding work in the office and administration/bookkeeping. I married my love, and we had two beautiful children. Family, home and work were our priorities.
Then in 1999, when my father passed away, it occurred to me that my Dad did not enjoy my Art journey dream because of a stranger at WAIT.  So I started to plan and fuel my ART journey again slowly.

For my 50th birthday in 2011, my wonderful husband built me a small art studio at our home.  What a sweetheart!  In 2019 I gave up full-time work to expand my ART journey. Unfortunately, a few health issues have slowed my momentum in this journey, and relying on art is a healing notion.

Along the way, I have enjoyed the guidance and experiences gained through Life Drawing sessions at Ian D'Souza's studio, the Watercolour classes at Atwell Gallery, Pastels and Oils Painting at Tresillian and the Fremantle Arts Centre, various courses at Claremont School of Art and the valuable workshops instructed by Andrew Tischler and Leon Holmes.

I love the human form and capturing likenesses, as well as painting water. I really don't know what is a favourite as I find all subjects a welcome challenge.  My ART journey is still evolving, and I have many works in progress to prove it.

I look forward to continuing to develop as an artist with a personal aim of contentment.
  

"Being an artist
is managing rejection
by not confusing it with failure."

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MEMBERS' NEWS

CONGRATULATIONS  ALICIA GOREY
WINNER OF OPEN CATEGORY COSSACK ART AWARDS 2021

CONGRATULATIONS  ROGER READING 
SELECTED FOR STAR PROGRAMME 
ATWELL GALLERY

 

Roger Reading has been selected to participate as Short Term Artist in Residence (STAR) at the Atwell Gallery in Alfred Cove, a new initiate of Melville Arts in the City of Melville.  Roger wished to participate in order to learn about this new initiative.

This programme allows the artist to use the Atwell Gallery Space to 'make and create' , and hang artworks,  display 3D works and to sell works.  The initiative gives artists the opportunity to share artworks, processes and experiences with other artists and visitors to the gallery.  The aim is to provide a warm and inspiring social experience for artists.  It offers the opportunity to network with other people in the arts community and to promote the artist's work.  Free mentoring is also offered to participants.

The STAR programme is open from Monday 30th August to Thursday 23rd September.  The cost is $10 per day and participants can come for the full 25 days or any combination of them, as booked.

It will every interesting to WASA members to hear how this programme progresses.

QUICK DRAW PLEIN AIR EVENT
FRIENDS OF LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY

Friends of the
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery & Western Australian Society of Arts
invite you to join them on the beautiful grounds of UWA for the
Quick Draw Plein Air Event.
 

Visit the Gallery and check out the exhibitions. 
Feeling Abstract? and want Matter for your inspiration, release your creativity and have fun making art.
 

The event is open for everyone to join, from practising artists to novices. 
Prizes will be awarded for each category, including runners-up novice and student.
 

Quick Draw will start at 1.00 pm and finish at 3.00 pm,
followed by judging the artworks, by Carl Altmann, on the front verandah. 
You are invited to list your artworks for sale as well as enjoy an afternoon tea.

BYO art materials (some will be provided)
 

EVENT DETAILS

Date:  Saturday 9th October
Time:  1-5pm
Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
RSVP: Please register at
https://folwag2102.eventbrite.com.au/

or

Catherine McCloy 0409689626 or email catherine.mccloy@bigpond.com

Cost $10

Hand sanitiser is provided. 
Please remember to a social distance 1.5m and download the SafeWA app for registration.

FOR THE ANIMALS
CHARITY EXHIBITION

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE
 

For The Animals is a Perth based conservation charity that works to protect animals from illegal trafficking and habitat destruction.  They work with the U.S. based Wildlife Alliance in one of the last intact forests left in Asia, the Southern Cardomom Mountains in Cambodia.  For further information about their amazing work, which includes rescuing over 70,000 animals from the wildlife trade, please look at the information online.

In the past, the Organisation has primarily funded its projects in Cambodia by eco-tourism but this is no longer possible due to the pandemic, so the Organisation has had to look at other means of funding.  A priority project is to fund a community-based ranger programme that employs local people to protect the area from hunting and logging.
 
Date:                           Thursday 18th November 2021
Venue:                         Fridays Studio at 13 Old Aberdeen Place  WEST PERTH


Entry Details:           
Expressions of Interest from artists to MeredithSonder-Sorensen.
Meredith will send out entry forms and she can be contacted on 0438119170.

The subject of the exhibition is open and not just relating to animals. We have been lucky enough to form an association with Jan Omeara, the wire artist, who will be doing a life-size piece of the baby elephant who was rescued by the Organisation and given a foot prosthesis.
The majority of pieces will be put onto an online gallery for sale, prior to the exhibition, and some of the work of more well-known artists will be auctioned on the night.  Each piece will have a reserve price and the charity will retain 30% commission on all pieces sold unless the artist wishes to make a donation.

We are expecting between 200 and 250 people on the night of the exhibition and the event and online gallery will be advertised with its overseas affiliates.
If anyone is interested in volunteering to help with the exhibition, they would be extremely welcome, as there are very few helpers who are experienced in running an art exhibition.

Meredith Sonder Sorensen

Rebecca Tilbrook
Founder
For the Animals Inc.
614 00 244 194
rebecca@fortheanimals.org.au
www.fortheanimals.org.au

WASA NOTABLE ARTIST OF THE MONTH
September 2021

LIONEL HORNABROOK JAGO
 

'East Perth'

Lionel Hornabrook Jago was Member of WASA from 1920 to 1926 and he was Vice President of WASA in 1924 and 1925.

The artist was born in South Australia.  He studied in Melbourne  at Davis' Studio
and at the Julian Ashton school in Sydney.  He came to Perth in 1900 and held various posts at the Department of Lands and Surveys between 1905 and 1945. 
In the 1920's and 1930's he visited Victoria and New South Wales on sketching and painting trips.  His usual routine was to paint each day before attending work and at week-ends.
After his retirement he moved to Sydney and was a finalist in a number of prestigious art competitions.  He exhibited with the Royal Art Society.  His final exhibition was held at David Jones in 1950.  
Although for most of his career he was a 'week-end' painter, he was non the less prolific.  His oils and watercolours are widely held in collections and command good prices at auction.  
His work 'East Perth' was featured in the City of Perth Exhibition 'Modern Visions of the City of Perth'
in 2009.  This painting id now in the Janet Holmes a Court Collection.
Jago was also an accomplished violinist, performing, with J.C. Williamson Orchestra as a soloist at the Governor's Military Command Night in 1918.
Tim Sewell

Pippin Margaria
WASA Newsletter Editor
pippin.margaria@gmail.com

Our next WASA Newsletter will be published on Sunday 17th October 2021
Please send all WASA articles for publication by Sunday 10th October 2021

WEST AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF ART INC
SPONSORS

We would like to acknowledge and thank our sponsors for their generosity and support.

https://waart.org.au/sponsors/

If you would like to sponsor the West Australian Society of Art Inc 
Contact Roger Reading - reading.roger@gmail.com
We would love to hear from you.