October Newsletter

Welcome to our October Newsletter. This month should prove to be an interesting month for us with two demonstrations taking place. The first is on 10th (rearranged from 17th) and is by Roy Francis Kirton.
Having studied Art & Industrial Design, Roy worked in interior design before travelling the world & began drawing & painting in earnest. Having returned and had various jobs including an Art & Design unit, in 1995 he began working as an artist full-time. Since then Roy has exhibited in the North East, Edinburgh & London on an ongoing basis with many successful one- man exhibitions featuring architectural work in watercolour. He has had work accepted by the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters in 2001 & 2003 which were exhibited in The Mall Galleries, London.Roy is now expanding the range of his work to include pastels and oils.

The second of our demonstrations is by David Haldane. This one on 31st of the month.

David studied graphic design at Northumbria University and after obtaining a degree began working for Northern Press newspapers based in South Shields. While there he developed a freelance career providing cartoons for Punch magazine, Private Eye and Oink, a Viz –type magazine from Manchester. After going completely freelance he provided daily cartoons for the Mirror and the Sun, while also developing “Agent Orange”, a comic–strip for Punch. He also created “Wild Child”, a strip whcich appeared in the Guardian. At this time his first children’s book “The Zoo Goes To France” was published by Methuen. After various other jobs, (which included writing for “Spitting Image”) he currently produces a daily business cartoon and weekly topical cartoons for The Times and a weekly topical column for the Sunday Express.