Roundabout Publications

Community magazines for local advertising in Monkseaton, Tynemouth, and Whitley Bay

  • Home
  • Advertising & Prices
    • About Advertising
    • Advertising Prices
    • Advertising Terms & Conditions
    • Deadlines & Distribution Dates
  • Articles
    • By Author
      • Angela Melvin
      • Anne Morrison
      • Carole Saville
      • Charlie Steel
      • David Tickner
      • Geoff Holland
      • Gill Crann
      • Helen Bowman
      • Jenny Foster
      • Katherine Wildman
      • Lesley Anne Collins
      • Terry Took
    • By Topic
      • Adventures of a North Sea Pilot
      • All at Sea
      • Art and Culture
      • Business
      • Entertainment
      • Family Life
      • Food and Drink
      • General Interest
      • Great Days Out
      • Health
      • Local History
      • Pirates
      • Shopping List Shorts
      • Sport and Leisure
      • Technology
      • Travel
      • Walks
      • Young Life
  • About Us
  • Contact
    • Advertising Enquiry
    • Community Entry Enquiry
    • General Enquiry

North Shields Art Society

September 29, 2012

About 1987 a group of amateur artists got together to form a club under the guidance of a well known local artist, Harry Powrie. Advertisements were placed in the local press and a good response followed. Subsequently, North Shields Art Society was founded in 1991. A committee was elected, without any real experience, which set about creating the kind of club the members wanted. A venue was established at Linskill Centre, then a community meeting centre, in the room now recognised as the Art Room.

We still meet at Linskill Community Centre, on Tuesday evenings between 7pm and 9pm, and are now a well established part of North Shield’s community groups. In 2004, when Linskill was threatened with closure and demolition, we moved to St Cuthbert’s Church Hall. By 2006 the centre was reopened and we returned to our old room, by invitation, and have happily stayed their ever since.

We held a successful exhibition in November 1995, at St John’s Church Hall on Ilfracombe Gardens in Whitley Bay, and have continued this annually –  this year it will be held on the 17th November. The event has become our mainstay exhibition and is always well supported, with refreshments and a picture painted at by a local professional artist is donated and raffled, with the proceeds going to Newcastle Freeman Hospital.

We remain a welcoming and friendly group with young and older members of all abilities. We benefit from regular demonstrations by well known professional artists. Members enjoy a low membership fee, supported by funds raised at the annual exhibition. The Society welcomes new members; for further information contact Ray on 0191 252 4693.

by Ray Nugent

Filed Under: News & Views

Small Business owner?

Want to advertise?

The deadlines for the 2020 issues are:

MonthDeadlineDistribution Dates
January 20205th December (2019)27th, 30th, 31st December (2019)
February 20209th January29th - 31st January
March 20206th February26th - 28th February
April 20205th March27th, 30th, 31st March
May 20209th April28th - 30th April
June 20207th May27th - 29th May
July 202011th June26th, 29th, 30th June
August 20209th July29th - 31st July
September 20206th August26th - 28th August
October 202010th September28th - 30th September
November 20208th October28th - 30th October
December 20205th November26th, 27th, 30th November
.

Copyright © 2021 · Roundabout Publications· Log in