Our Autumn Exhibition of member's artwork was held at the Guildhall, Lichfield in October.

Attendance was down a little on expectations thanks to storm Amy, but we still had over 800 visitors recorded with 21 works of art sold to visitors with a sticker price total of over £1,400. 

The exhibition was opened by Lynda Jones, Chair of Trustees at Shenstone Community Library.

Local artist Carl Knibb judged our artwork and commented: "I Just wanted to thank you again for inviting me to judge your wonderful exhibition. I really enjoyed seeing the work and I hope my decisions weren't too controversial. I hope that the exhibition is going well; it very much deserves to."

Awards were given as detailed below:

• Armour-Brown Award for Best in Show went to Nikki Carpenter for "Ma Copina".
• John Sanders Award for Innovation and Creativity went to Mariana Karasel for "Silent Voyage".
• Award for Best Newcomer went to David Griffiths for "View from the Atomium".
• Sybil Clarke Award for Sculpture / 3D went to Shaun Bowden for "Arrangement".
• Dorothy Godfrey Award for Best Cityscape / Landscape went to Maggie Wilcox for "Night Jam".
• Eilidh Barnardo Award for Drawing went to Sasha Lauer for "Winter".
• Michael Fabricant Award for Flower Art went to Helen Appleby for "Wisteria".
• Daphne Gick Award for the Natural World went to David Collins for "North Staffordshire Moors, Stormy Weather".
• Peoples Choice Award went to Dennis Harper for "School Lane, Hints".
• Awards of Excellence went to Ray Blundell, Stuart Burn and Anne Jackson.

Photographs of the award winning artworks are shown below.

Many thanks to all those involved in setting everything up.