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NAPA DURHAM 2000
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DLI MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Saturday 19 August - Sunday 3 September NAPA's Annual Open
Exhibition in 2000 was held at the Durham Art Gallery, Aykley Heads,
Durham, DH1 5TU, United Kingdom. NAPA members from
USA, Britain, South America and Europe came together NAPA extends its sincere
thanks to the DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery - The following review is an extract from NAPA's Newsletter. |
| DURHAM NAPA OPEN EXHIBITION 2000 Dennis
Hardingham writes.... "Excuse my slight delay in writing to thank you for all of your help with the recent NAPA exhibition, also for your patience throughout the particularly trying run-up to the exhibition, when delays in the building work were shortening the exhibition dates almost daily! In the event, the exhibition ran from 19th August until 3rd September, and it was a great success. In the normal course of events an exhibition here is seen by around 4,000 people while a good summer exhibition would attract in the region of 7,000 visitors over a five-week period. The NAPA exhibition was seen by 5,280 in just two weeks, an incredible number of visitors in such a short time! Please thank everyone who was Involved in the show, particularly Ken and Irene Best who provided local support and liaison, the artists who brought work along and Sarah Beaumont, who had agreed to be the collection point for the London area. Visitors whom I talked to were very impressed with the range and quality of the works, and I thought the exhibition was perfect as the opening show of our refurbished art gallery. The special viewing and picture collection day on the 3rd was organised chaos, which seemed also to go off remarkably well, considering the amount of pictures and number of artists involved in the undertaking. And best of all everything was safely returned." THE AWARDS The President's Award went to Anthony Marshall for his vibrant treatment of an everyday architectural scene: "Tyne Bridge". According to Dennis Hardingham (Exhibitions Officer), the people who viewed the exhibition appreciated Alan Edwards' "Dignity in Defeat" and thus he was presented with the NAPA People's Award. The rest of the awards were chosen by Linda Birch, who is a highly successful artist and Illustrator... Her selection was as follows: "Best British Painting": (Daler-Rowney Ltd.) awarded to Alistair Adams for his painting "June and Graham Poston and Cats". "Best Foreign Painting": (Daler-Rowney Ltd.) awarded to Harold Porterfield for his painting "Colours of October". "Best Contemporary Painting": (Golden Art Materials) awarded to Nigel Morris for his painting "Wrecks at 36 and 40 Metres". "Most Appropriate Use of Technique and Material to Subject Matter": (two awards from Pro Arte and Winsor & Newton) presented to Norman Bevan for his painting "Old Railway Station, Great Longstone" and Patricia Greenwell for her painting "Waiting for a Meteor Shower". "Consistent High Standard in a Group of Works": (Fine Art Trade Guild - a year's free Guild membership) awarded to Deborah Batt for her four exhibited paintings. "Highly Commended": (two awards from Artist & Illustrators Magazine and Harper-Collins) presented to Sarah E. Beaumont for her work entitled "Pride and Joy" and Mike Fenner for his work entitled "Dahud VI". |
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