Success for Spring Flingers

These happy Spring Fling artists were photographed outside the Royal Scottish Academy building on the Mound in Edinburgh, last Thursday night, 18th March. They were attending a Salon Evening organised by the Friends of the RSA to publicise the work of exhibitors.

From left to right, they are- Jennifer Watt, Silvana MacLean, Patti Lean, Denise Zygadlo, Gill Shreeve, Bella Green and Dougie Muego. Not present, but also exhibiting, were-Hazel Campbell, and Sam, Nancy and John Chinnery.

All these artists were successful in having their work selected for the recent annual exhibitions of premier Scottish Arts Societies held at the RSA. Their work was shown at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, the Scottish Society of Artists or Visual Arts Scotland exhibitions.

Fierce competition comes from artists from all over Scotland for places at these prestige
shows. It is a mark of the quality of the work produced in Dumfries and Galloway and by Spring Fling artists that so many successful artists were selected from within this region.

Well done to all!

MMV Art Painting Course.

Painting The Nude.

A two day life painting course led by Dougie Muego DA
at Gracefield Art Studios in Dumfries.
Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th November from 9.30 – 4.30 each day.
The cost is £85/£75 concession and places are limited, so please book early to secure a place. Contact Dougie on 01387 279888 to book. Please make cheques payable to MMV Art Limited. In the event of insufficient numbers, cheques will be returned.

This is an opportunity to try life painting in a small group with appropriate support or a chance to revisit it for the more experienced.
The model will pose from 10.00 – 12.30 and from 1.30 – 4pm with an hour for lunch and short rest breaks.

Dougie studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art and has long experience of working from the figure. Morning coffee is included. Morning coffee is included - participants can buy lunch in the Gracefield cafe or bring their own if preferred.

Dougie and Morag Muego

Dougie and Morag Muego are at studio 16 on the green route of this year’s Spring Fling at MMV Art, Heathhall Business Centre, Dumfries. Their studio is perhaps untypical of most, but nonetheless ideal for their needs. “We have a wonderful fresh, modern workspace, close to the town, which has very easy access and good facilities. It’s a treat to use and a great place to welcome visitors in. Although we have been mainly working on paintings recently, our IT suite has proved good at handling the digital processes when we’re involved in screenprinting, photo etching and photography. It’s been a great help with the teaching side of the business as well. For our first Spring Fling, both of us have been fortunate in having separate adjacent exhibition spaces. This has allowed us to clearly display our individual ideas. Dougie is showing a range of still lives and landscapes as well as figurative work.

while Morag has been producing larger paintings and has added monoprints and screenprints made after visits to the Cairngorms and Sutherland.

Like everyone else in the Fling, we are working flat out to finish mounting, framing and presenting our new work and the days are too short and too few!
You can see more of our work on our website at:- http://www.mmvart.com/