The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach goes from strength to strength. Our 340 or so members are amongst the most exciting and influential arts people in Suffolk.

Sir PETER BLAKE RA, Sir HUMPHREY BURTON, LIZ CALDER,
EILEEN COOPER RA, EMMA FREUD, RYAN GANDER RA, JILL GREEN, MAGGI HAMBLING, Lady PATTY HOPKINS, ANTHONY HOROWITZ, IAN MCMILLAN, BLAKE MORRISON, BEN PRESTON, LIBBY PURVES, DIANA QUICK, JANICE TURNER, ALISON WILDING RA, ROGER WRIGHT, HELEN ATKINSON WOOD, DEREK WYATT

MEMBERS’ BULLETIN

This bulletin highlights a selection of art happenings this month in and around Suffolk. You can also read this on our website. New works of art for sale, books, and tickets for events can be viewed on the online shop.

Let’s meet, mingle and collaborate this month!

See you all,

Caroline x

Arts Club members being shown around the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition by its curator in chief David Remfrey RA.

Emma Freud and Richard Curtis invited me to show paintings by Suffolk artists in their tent at Latitude Festival.

MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH

Monthly Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 2nd August 1pm @ the Lookout

This month, the Arts Club lunch will be held as usual in the Lookout. Please bring food and drink to share!

ARTS CLUB OPEN

We are excited that the first ever Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach Open opens Thursday 17th August until Monday 28th August. This spans the Aldeburgh Carnival and bank holiday weekend so is a great time to show art in Aldeburgh.

This new exhibition will be on all three floors of the Lookout and is free of charge to all paid-up members of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach.

Each member can hang one picture of their own choice, medium size. Or if a writer or poet, can present a piece of poetry or writing.

The works can be for sale and the Lookout takes 50% commission which reduces to 20% if you take a turn manning the show. If you’d like to exhibit contact me as soon as possible.

Arts Club member Astra plans to exhibit one of her pen drawings at the Arts Club Open

LOOKOUT COOKOUT recipe tasting

**LOOKOUT COOKOUT MIKE STUBBS**
**Mike Stubbs cooks his Spanish Chorizo Pasta for us all on Saturday 12th August at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, 12 - 2pm. All welcome! Lookout Cookout an artists cookbook is available for £25.**

ART AND POETRY

Please send any thoughts about how you might like to work with SPS poets to Lynne Nesbit at her SPS email address: copyeditor@suffolkpoetrysociety.org

As you are aware, we are beginning to introduce a cross-fertilisation of the arts into our Club and Lynne Nesbit, who joined our Aldeburgh Arts Club more as an appreciative lover of art than a practitioner, has been sharing her poetry and singing voice with us. Lynne is a trustee of Suffolk Poetry Society, of which I am a Patron. We would like to foster a relationship of mutual inspiration between Suffolk Poetry Society members and Aldeburgh Arts Club members. Lynne would love your ideas of how that could come about. Carol Lawrence (also a member of Suffolk Poetry Society) is experimenting already, having invited Lynne to contribute her poems and singing to her group's (The Aldeburgh Artists Collective) exhibition Hope In The Liminal. This took take place in July at the Lookout when Lynne joined the artists and performed some of her poems.

ARTS CLUB CRIT GROUP

Artists, would you be interested in meeting with a small group of other artists to discuss your practice and to give and receive constructive feedback on current work? Susan Debnam is offering to co-ordinate quarterly meetings for between 4-6 people to meet in each others’ homes/studios.
To find out more either DM Susan on Insta or email Caroline who will forward your message.

MEMBERS’ SPOTLIGHT: SUSAN DEBNAM

Susan’s drive towards creativity began as a child playing with dangerous tools in her great grandfather’s shed. As a shipwright and builder of Thames barges he delighted in her curiosity and encouraged learning, risk and patience.

In later years Susan’s interest and participation in the arts - as a painter, a pianist, a writer, a photographer - played a significant but supportive role to her career in organisational change consultancy. Then in 2020 the world shifted and she decided to explore the limitations and opportunities that began to emerge. Working with tutors and mentors globally she painted, discovered, pushed her practice. In 2021 she built a studio and the work became expansive. As the world opened up she travelled to see original art, she read, discussed, gained gallery representation and drew on her psychology background to go beyond technique and examine the mindset that supports the fertile artist.

Susan’s practice continues to develop. She has recently been working with a member of the New English Art Club to push her into new concepts and ways of mark making. Her references include De Stael, Diebenkorn, Morandi and Nicholson. She works primarily in acrylic and oil and her focus currently is on painting misshapen pots and empty landscape.

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MEMBERS’ NEWS

**Michael Stubbs: studioshowflow**
For the first time, Michael Stubbs will present new paintings as an installation in his Sizewell studio. He will transform his working space, including his paint splattered floor, into a painting environment that has been specially curated in conjunction with his friend, the artist Glenn Brown.
Opening Friday 4th August 1-8pm.
Crownlands Studio, Grimseys Lane, Sizewell, IP16 4TR it stand out

I am delighted that Ryan Gander, a founding member of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach, was elected a member of the Royal Academy last year. We are all invited to his studio in Melton this Saturday.

Everything Broken Down curated by Ryan Gander

I am opening the doors to the gallery at my studio this summer for the exhibition. In case you fancy some Suffolk seaside sun, friends, drinks and hot dogs.

Everyone welcome!

Opening: Saturday 5 August, 11am–5pm

Ryan Ganders Studio, Solid Haus, Saddlemakers lane, Melton, Suffolk IP12 1PP

Open: 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 August

Or by appointment: 01394 383618

**The Bard of Dunwich by Caroline Gay Way**
A time-travel play drawing inspiration from climate change future and the city that drowned. Saturday 5th August, from 7.30pm. it stand out

Snooks Alerts the Lifeboat by Resa Barber
Resa Barber is delighted to announce the launch of her new children’s book ‘Snooks Alerts the Lifeboat’ on Sunday 13th August at Aldeburgh Gallery

**Degard presents The Visionaries at The Atlantis Bookshop Thursday 10th August-Friday 18th August 10.30-18.30pm**
Step into the mystical realm of 'The Visionaries' at The Atlantis Bookshop in London, where Visionary artist Degard unveils a captivating exhibition like no other. Delve into the enigmatic auras of renowned Visionaries and mystics, including Aleister Crowley and Madame Blavatsky, as their essence is brought to life through Degard's mesmerizing Aura Portraiture.
Get your tickets here!

Summer courses at Mill Street Etching Studio
Summer courses begin on July 30th. Catherine Greenwood will be exploring new ways of using Sugar Lift, Aquatint, Soft Ground Techniques and bringing colour into your prints using the wonderful array of Cranfield and Charbonel etching inks. Click here to reserve your place.

**George Farnham Gallery**
Our late summer show, “Summer Sensations 2023”, opened at the Gallery on Thursday 20 July and runs through to September.

We are delighted to be displaying work by over 30 artists - paintings, prints, ceramics, wood, hand moulded glass jewellery & other handcrafts with prices from £5 - £400 … so something for everyone. We look forward to seeing you.

SAVE THE DATE!
Jenny Hall invites us to SHAKE Festival 2023 October 7th and 8th Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall and Cinema.
SHAKE Festival, the celebration of Shakespeare which began in Halesworth in 2019, is moving to Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall this year for a fascinating weekend of talks, performance, comedy, music and sculpture!
The festival includes performances of new plays inspired by Shakespeare, comedy improv, talks by leading international directors, actors and academics, workshops, film, music, and performance art/ sculpture. Books will be on sale courtesy of Aldeburgh Bookshop.
Get your tickets here.

In memoriam. I am sad to let you know that one of our founding members, Peter Dickinson CBE, died last month. Here he is (second to right) at the WH Auden concert he organised at The ArtHouse in 2017.

SUBMITTING A NOTICE

Don't forget to send me an image of yourself and a paragraph about you for the ARTS CLUB MEMBERS page of the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout website. The easiest way to submit a notice is to send it to caroline@carolinewiseman.com