The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach merges elements of the Chelsea Arts Club and Gertrude Stein’s arts salon.

Our 280 or so members are amongst the most exciting and influential arts people in Suffolk

MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH

Wednesday 2nd February, 1pm @ the Lookout

Often we eat fish caught that morning by Fisherman Dean

Please bring food and drink to share.

We have several new members, so please join us for this lunch to welcome them. Also, we are thinking about fun projects for the year, so please come with your ideas.

MAD: MAKE ART DAY

Monday 21st February

Artists are invited to make art all day from 10 - 5pm.

You can make it anywhere in the Lookout (top, middle or bottom) or on the beach, or in the Artroom of the Arthouse.

There will be some tuition to help, but it is a way to enjoy making art in the company and support of other artists

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£20 all day for members of the Art Club

£40 all day for non-members.

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Price includes limitless tea and coffee as well as homemade soup and bread and cheese for lunch.

Please bring your own materials.

ARTS CLUB SALE OF PICTURES

I have never held a sale before, but I have so many and I need to fund the final touches of the restoration of the Lookout as well as our residency programme for the year. Thank you to all those who have donated work.

Dame Elizabeth Blackadder RA donated this beautiful etching for our February sale in aid of the Lookout restoration and residency programme

ARTS CLUB TRIP TO TUSCANY

Saturday 21st - Saturday 28th May

Look at this beautiful Medieval village house overlooking the Tuscan mountains www.casanicola.org. The week is very good value and includes art tuition by David Baldry, who as many of you know was Head of Fine Art at The University of Suffolk. There are just a couple of places left! Email me ASAP if you are interested.

ARTS CLUB BALL: DRESS AS A WORK OF ART

Saturday 4th June

The provisional date for the Arts Club Ball is Saturday 4th June, during the Queen’s platinum celebrations. Which work of art will you come as, maybe a Picasso?

Here are some other ideas:

Mona Lisa (Da Vinci),

Girl with a Pearl Earring (Vermeer),

The Birth of Venus (Botticelli),

Arnolfini Portrait (Van Eyck),

Le Dejeurner sur l'Herbe (Manet) ,

Self -Portrait (Van Gogh)

David (Michelangelo),

The Old Guitarist Picasso),

The Son of Man (Magritte)

Grand Odalisque (Ingres)

These are just examples, you can of course choose whichever work of art you would like to be! Email me with your choice ASAP as we would like each entrant to be different.

MEMBERS’ NEWS

ANNE CUDDIGAN INVITES US

THE HERMES EXPERIMENT

Sunday 20th February

Anne Cuddigan invites us to The Hermes Experiment in aid of the Michael Cuddigan Trust.

Book your tickets here: https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/the-hermes-experiment-3/

GARY & OLIVIA ROWLAND FUNDRAISING EVENING

11th March @ Abbey Hall

Gary and Olivia invite us to a fundraising evening for the Waveney Trust on March 11th at their very beautiful Abbey Hall, near Eye.

“We are hosting a fundraising evening for the Waveney Trust on March 11. It will be an intimate celebration of the rivers and waterways that are so vital to our communities, wildlife, nature and the planet.

If we can muster enough in a relatively short time frame, we would love to stage an exhibition upstairs and auction the contents to raise money for the trust.”