Liz Gray organised the first visit this year to St John's in Sidmouth. We were greeted with cake and coffee and then taken on a fascinating tour of the grounds and chapel by the headmaster. We were given a recital from the organist who rescued the organ from a church in Bristol which was closing and installed it at the school when he was the music teacher.

Lady Anne Boles, chairman, presents awards to pupils of Honiton Community College at The Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton. Thanks to a grant of £250 from The Arts Society Honiton the pupils were able to undertake two workshops as the first step of their Arts Award.

During the workshops at the gallery, the group created an artwork with renowned paper artist Sophia Clist. They created paper sculptures in response to the exhibition On Paper - an Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition. These artworks were then exhibited in THG’s exhibition Paper Play (25 May – 22 June).

The students completed four parts to the award: exploring the arts as a participant, reviewing an Arts event, describing their Arts inspiration and sharing a skill. 5 students achieved the Bronze award : Amelia Ford, Aleisha Offer-Hoar, Hannah Empson, Sarah Patch and Maicey Bennett. Four of the students are now Year 8 and one student in year 9. They are all studying the KS3 curriculum and one student is going on to take a Fine Art GCSE. 

This year's Summer drinks party was held in David & Janet Ward's garden in Honiton.

Members enjoyed the quiz and the opportunity to meet before the summer break.

Heather was pleased to judge the competition and chose the butterfly as the winner.

Our Antiques Evening on Wednesday 29th May at Chilcotts Auctioneers & Valuers, Honiton was a great success. We would like to thank Duncan & Liz Chilcott for making this event possible and for putting together a fascinating quiz which was won by Helen Wale and her team. The sale on Saturday 1st of June included 'The Pamela Schneider collection of jewellery', Silver, ceramics and glass, the uniform, journals and medals of an RAF officer and a model steam engine! We will be making a donation to 'Devon Air Ambulance', one of Liz & Duncan's chosen charities.

This was a good start to the Christmas festivities!

A group of over thirty new members and members of the committee spent a very pleasant afternoon at Fursdon House. There was a tour of the house followed by a cream tea.We were extremely lucky with the weather. It was a good opportunity to meet the new members.

See Anne Sebba talk about 'Les Parisiennes' on YouTube - she was our lecturer on 13th June
https://youtu.be/h9bC217NHgQ

Over forty members joined us for an evening of Fine Art & Fun, with drinks and canapes! Antiques from a forthcoming sale were on display with questions from Edward Whitton, the auctioneer, about some of them. He went on to give a short talk about the pieces. We are very grateful to Edward & Maria Whitton for making the evening possible.

At the recent AGM in Birmingham the new operating name for NADFAS was adopted and in future it will be known as "The Arts Society"