Lincolnshire Artists’ Society - Maggie Dean award

The highly successful Lincolnshire Artists’ Society Summer Exhibition has finished. There was a steady stream of visitors to the Exhibition with an enthusiastic response from visitors.

Maggie Dean, a long-standing member of the Society left an endowment to the Society to fund an annual award to the ‘most lively’ work in the Summer Show. For the first time the award has been made through a visitor vote during August. The vote proved a popular and a lively talking point, with many lively family discussions between visitors and who was going to vote for which work. There were also some lively discussions on what a work needs to be lively. A total of 890 votes were cast with the award going to Lesley Collins’s outstanding scene of a canal in Amsterdam, Prinsengracht 2.

The remaining nine of the top ten of the vote in ascending order were: Clive Redshaw - Spring Lookout, Paul Harrison - Steeping Stones, Paul Harrison - The Doodle, Cliff Baxendale - The Corner Of The Field, Lea Goldberg - Tumbling Hare, Lea Goldberg - Feeding Time At The Farm, Ken Lee - Diana & Actaeon, Jacky Lee - Echoes, Denise Hawthorne - Melting Snow.

All the pictures in the show can be seen shortly on the Society’s blog via the link below:
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The Lincolnshire Artists’ Society, founded as the Lincolnshire Drawing Club, celebrated its Centenary in 2006. Inspired by the Cambridge Drawing Society founded in 1882, it was followed by the St Ives Society in 1927.

Primarily an exhibiting society welcoming artists from all over the county, the L.A.S. started out with an Annual Exhibition in the loose boxes of the stables at Monks Manor, Lincoln, the home of its founder, Miss Elsie Ruston, and her art collecting industrialist father, Joseph. It moved to the city’s Exchange Arcade in 1910 following interest from the press and public, then to a room in the new Central library eventually finding its ideal home in the Usher Gallery from 1927. A great survivor, it emerged from an enforced period of inactivity in the First World War and has had an unbroken run of exhibitions in Lincoln and around the county ever since.

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