FPS committee and BBC2 Art Series Call Out

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Dear FPS members 

2011 was a successful year for FPS. We explored taking a smaller group of members to the Untitled Chelsea Art fair in June and then ran a larger exhibition in a prestigious gallery 'La Galleria' on Pall Mall in November. Next year we will be focusing on our 60th anniversary which promises to be a really exciting year so watch this space!

Please find the committee members as voted in at the AGM on the 27th November:

Chair: Loretta Windsor- MacKenzie
Secretary & Blog : Pete Murry 
Treasurer: Grace Kimble
Membership: Secretary Gabriel Parfitt ( Exhibitions tbc)
Creative Design: Mike Garland
Special Events: Flora Helmke
Marketing: Press Bruni Schilling (Newsletter and Press)
Sculpture Trustee: Malcolm Franklin 

Below is a brilliant opportunity which is open to all FPS members please let me know if you enter.

Thank you Loretta Windsor-MacKenzie
Director Chair FPS Free Painters- Printmakers and Sculptors



Creative Skills
Creative Skills would like to make everyone aware of this exciting opportunity...

We are making a brand new series of 'Show Me the Monet' for BBC Two, the first series transmitted earlier this year in May.

As before, our Hanging Committee of three art experts is looking for great art - painting, drawing, photography, prints, sculpture, textile art (as hangings not textile design or fashion) - to put into their prestigious exhibition in London where members of the public together with the great and the good of the art world can view and buy the work that is on display.

We are looking for both amateur and professional artists from across the nation to apply.

Applications are to be made on line at our website and will open during the week of Monday 12th December 2011 and will close when we have received 3,000 applications or on Sunday  8th January 2012at midnight (whichever is sooner).

To apply:Visit our website:  www.showmethemonet.tv  Please keep checking back to the website for further details.

Please note that we are only accepting the first 3,000 applications for the series and any applications received after this cut off point cannot be considered.

You can follow us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/ShowMetheMonetor on Twitter @MonetTV

To view a clipfrom the last series: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h3x3w

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me and many thanks for your time.

Many Thanks

Kay Green
t. 0203 189 3313 
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