The winners of the Johnson Matthey awards are as follows:-

Favourite ‘Our Planet’ Painting: Jill Elliott

Favourite Framed Painting: T John Jarratt

Favourite Artist: Julia Malakouna

The winning raffle ticket numbers are:-

  Yellow

  Pink

  White

 Apricot

Our Autumn Exhibition in the Town Hall commences with a preview evening on Friday 27th September starting at 8pm and all are welcome.

The exhibition continues on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th September from 10.00am to 5pm each day. Why not come and view a wide variety of art from local painters and perhaps pick up an early Christmas present or two?

Admission is free and the catalogue is a bargain £1.

 

RAS Young Artist Awards

1st Prize Curwens Solicitors Young Artist of the Year Award ( £100 + exhibition) winning entry ‘Submersion’ in oil, adhesive and sand -by Annabel McCraith age 18

2nd Prize Royston Rotary Art Inspiration Award (Tate one year membership + one) winning entry ‘Welcome to my Home’ in watercolour and biro by Annie Jordan age 17

3rd Prize Great Art Supplies award (£100 Art Supplies Hamper) winning entry ‘Belly Rub’ in charcoal by Mae Norman age 20

4th Prize Gravelly Barn Art Tutorial Award ( £80 Workshop voucher) winning entry ‘Growth’ in Acrylic with soft pastel by Roxanna Salamian age 21

5th Prize Creative Royston Art Award (One year subscription to Artist & Illustrators magazine) winning entry ‘Our Planet’ in gouache with stencil images by Alexander Burgess age 15

Creative Royston ‘Our Planet’ Prize ( £50 voucher) also awarded to Annie Jordan

AUTUMN EXHIBITION ENTRY FORMS

Although our Members Exhibition at Royston Museum will run until Saturday 20th July we are already planning for our Autumn Exhibition. This will be held on the weekend of 27th to 29th September 2019 to coincide with the Royston Arts Festival whose theme in 2019 is “Our Planet” and we will be running a competition to find the best painting reflecting that theme. The themed paintings will be displayed in a prominent area and Creative Royston which organises the festival will put up a prize for the best one as voted by the visitors to the exhibition.

As usual there are two separate entry forms which can be downloaded by clicking on either the one for MEMBERS or the one for NON-MEMBERS. All the instructions for completing and deadlines for returning both forms can be found within.
The deadline for entering paintings and cards into the Autumn Exhibition is Saturday 31st August 2018.

The Royston Fringe is again staging their Junior Artist Competition as part of the 2019 Royston Arts Festival. Click on the poster on the left for more details or click HERE to the website.

We are delighted to announce the launch of our Young Artists Awards for 2019 and perhaps you would also like to visit our Members Exhibition – see poster on left and previous post.

Young Artists wishing to submit an entry to our 2019 Awards have a choice of completing the online application form below, or clicking on the image on the right (scroll down on mobile phones) and downloading an offline version which contains instructions and terms and conditions. 

The deadline for entry is 31st July 2019.

Royston Arts Society Spring Exhibition

…. will be held in the Royston & District Museum and Art Gallery from Saturday 25th May through to Saturday 20th July 2019.

RAS members (who have paid their membership subscription for 2019/20) are invited to enter up to:

Two Framed paintings (hanging fee £2.00 per painting)
Three unframed paintings (hanging fee £0.50 per painting)
One set of up to 25 Cards (hanging fee £1.00 for the set)

The deadline for entering your artwork for this exhibition is Friday 3rd May 2019 and late entries will not be accepted.

The checking in time for paintings is Saturday 18th May 2019  between 2.00 and 5.00pm.

The time to collect unsold work is Monday 22nd July 2019 between 10.00 and 12.00am.

If you would like to enter some paintings them simply download the attached entry form by clicking HERE, print it out, then complete and return it to Chairman Richard Clayton at the address on the form. Please make sure that you read the terms and conditions carefully, especially with regard to the requirements for framing and labelling your work.

There will be a preview evening on Friday 24th May 2019, between 7.30 and 9.30pm. All RAS members, plus their friends and family, are invited to this event whether you are exhibiting or not.

The exhibition is for fully paid up RAS members only! So, if you have not already taken out or renewed your RAS membership then please see the previous post below.

We are delighted to announce the launch of our Young Artists Awards for 2018 and perhaps you would like to visit our Members Exhibition – see poster on right. 

Young Artists wishing to submit an entry to our 2018 Awards have a choice of completing the online application form below, or clicking on the image below our exhibition poster on the right (scroll down on mobile phones) and downloading an offline version which contains instructions and terms and conditions.

*** WELCOME TO OUR NEW WEBSITE ***

This is the new website for Royston Arts Society which has been in development for the past three months.

We have more direct control over the content of this new website as the website administrator sits on the RAS committee. Communications between the committee and members and the public at large should be much better and you will see the names of ‘committee’ members on the page listed under ‘ABOUT US’ on the top menu. Also, under the ‘CONTACT US’ page on the top menu are email addresses for all the committee members.

This ‘Home’ page is actually a ‘post’ and you can view ‘RECENT POSTS’ by clicking on the appropriate post on the left side of the Home page. You can also subscribe to receive a notification by email each time a new post is placed on this website – see bottom right of Home page.

If you have a look under the ‘ARTISTS’ entry on the top menu you will see a number of members have up to 6 examples of their work on display and visitors to this site will be able to contact the artist by email to enquire about their work using a special form that does not reveal the artist’s email address. However, artist’s website addresses and facebook links can also be displayed if so desired. If you are a member and would like your work displayed on the website please email the website administrator and you will receive a reply with details of how to proceed.

We hope you will see the new website as a big improvement but do have a look around and if you have any suggestions or comments then do feel free to email them to the website administrator.