NAPA EXHIBITIONS 2001

The Black Sheep Gallery

NAPA's 2001 Open Exhibition was held at:
The Black Sheep Gallery,
Old Stable Yard, Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, CH5 3NY, United Kingdom.
Telephone/Fax: +44 1244 535505
This is an excellent gallery, which has been used by NAPA before.
The Exhibition ran from 23^rd September to 21^st October 2001.

Below is a shortened version of the opening speech for the recent NAPA
International Exhibition, held at the Blacksheep Gallery, North Wales :

"Good afternoon and welcome to the 16th NAPA International Exhibition. Our president Alwyn Crawshaw is in Japan filming a new television series so Ken Hodgson has asked me if I would open this exhibition in Alwyn's absence.

This is our second time at the Blacksheep gallery and let us hope that this exhibition. will be as successful as the first one. I would also like to thank Keith Williams for being responsible for so much of the organization of this exhibition.

This is truly an international exhibition with members from Europe, North America and South America. A big thank you to all the members who have sent in work for this exhibition.

The Executive Council is now taking more of the workload of running NAPA from Ken Hodgson and I feel we can look forward to NAPA developing in the future under the Council's guidance.

Finally I would like to say something about the tragic events in the United States of America. We are all aware of the stereotypical images of artists that we have in our culture. There is the stereotypical image of the starving artist in his/her garret, the mad crazy artist who paints pictures nobody can understand, and the artist who runs away to a desert island to paint. I would like to propose a new one. This is the image of the artist who gives some quality to life, who offers creativity and creation in opposition to those who offer destruction. As artists we spend our time in our studios struggling with our work. Trying to make one colour work against another, altering a tone, improving the drawing etc. Because painting is essentially something that is done in private we can I think be unaware of the contribution that we make to the quality of life on this planet. We have recently seen the sheer wickedness that people are capable of inflicting on fellow human beings. As artists we can in our small way redress the balance by offering our creativity as a positive contribution to the goodness and hopefulness that does exist in our world. Perhaps we are doing a lot more than we realise when we make a drawing or paint a picture.

The exhibition is now open and I hope you enjoy the paintings. Thank you."

Alan Edwards (Chair, NAPA)

The Rooksmoor Gallery

The Exhibition ran from 29^th September through to the 14^th of October.
Monday to Saturday: 10.30am - 5.00 pm
Sundays: 10.30 am - 4.30 pm
More information can be obtained from
the Rooksmoor Gallery,
31 Brock Street, Bath, BA1 2LN
TEL/FAX +44 1225 420 495.

The 2001 regional Exhibition was held in one of Bath's main galleries - The Rooksmoor.
This is one of the Westcountry's most established commercial art galleries. Situated between the architectural splendours of the Royal Crescent and the Circus, it enjoys a constant traffic of visitors from all over the world.
For a decade now, owner Connie Herring has been providing high quality Art and Ceramics for a wide range of tastes.
Rooksmoor Gallery is almost unique in the philosophy that it has to positively welcome new or younger artists and promote them along side much more well known and established artists such as Walter Awlson, the Rudge family and Alwyn Crawshaw.

"...Rooksmoor Gallery has great pleasure in hosting a NAPA exhibition as
the variety and quality of the work is truly eye opening...."

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