www.dgaa.net          

Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association
ANNAN MUSEUM             Gracefield Arts Centre
Bank Street                     28 Edinburgh Road
Annan, DG12 6AA            Dumfries, DG1 1JQ
Tel: 01387 253383
Fax: 01387 253303
Email: alan@dgaa.net

Annandale & Eskdale Painting Challenge 2004                 Calling All Artists

Enjoy dabbling with watercolour or pottering with pastels?  Then the Annandale & Eskdale Painting Challenge 2004 is your opportunity to spend a day doing just this and maybe win a generous prize for your efforts.  Amateur or professional artists are invited to enter the one day Painting Challenge on Saturday 19th June and create a painting in Annandale & Eskdale. All entries will be judged on Sunday 20th June and the prize-giving held at 12 noon on Sunday 20th June at Annan Museum. The paintings will then be exhibited in Langholm Town Hall Gallery the following week.

The top prize for the open category is £1000 cash. In addition there are prizes for the best painting by a resident of Annandale & Eskdale (sponsored by Alba Printers), a young person under 10 years old and a young person in the 10 - 16 years age range (sponsored by the Bank of Scotland) and a special category for the most positive image of Annandale & Eskdale (sponsored by the Friends of Annandale & Eskdale Museums).   The competition started 3 years ago in the aftermath of FMD born from a desire by a local resident to see beautiful images of Annandale & Eskdale in contrast to the previous months.

SAM MULLEN EXHIBITION
To help give you a head start local artist, teacher and judge in last year's competition, Sam Mullen is exhibiting in the Annan Museum, Bank Street, Annan from 9-19th June with a beautiful collection of pastel landscapes to truly inspire.  Open Wednesday-Saturday 11-4 Admission Free.

Competitors need to register on Saturday morning at Clip ICT, 40 High St. Annan between 8am and 2pm or at Langholm Town Hall between 9 and 10am and have their board, paper or canvas stamped. Completed entries need to be submitted at Clip ICT in Annan between 2pm and 5pm on Saturday 19th June.

The judging panel will be led by Dr. Jan Hogarth, a well known sculptor and director of Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association. Langholm based landscape artist Julie Dumbarton and Doris Rohr, visual arts lecturer at Cumbria Institute of the Arts complete the panel.

In order to see the paintings created and some of the artists at work during Painting Challenge 2003 look on www.annan.org.uk

For further details call Anne Ramsbottom at Annan Museum 01461 201384 or Alan Thomson, area development coordinator at DGAA on 01387-253383.