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Derek Snowdon

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Last active: 8 years ago
Posts: 849

Posted 10 Years Ago

I was told to resign last Friday. Personal - won't enlarge. Convinced a member had it in for me who harboured a press cutting nearly 5 years old. I will miss it greatly and still intend to paint, but not in the mood since then and my WIP bowl is on the easel.

Adele Elgood

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Last active: 8 years ago
Posts: 886

Posted 10 Years Ago

Derek, that doesn't sound good. Hope you didn't murder anyone! Perhaps there is a possibility you could start your own club. Fight back. Have a little time out - say 15 minutes and then crack on. Best of luck.

Derek Snowdon

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Last active: 8 years ago
Posts: 849

Posted 10 Years Ago

Thanks Adele, long and complicated and I am not squeaky clean but it seems she is determined not to allow me to get on with my life.

Adele Elgood

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Last active: 8 years ago
Posts: 886

Posted 10 Years Ago

Obviously you're a little tinker - hope they don't break your brushes in half. Good luck with sorting it all out, their loss!

Amanda Bates

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Last active: 6 years ago
Posts: 175

Posted 10 Years Ago

Sounds unpleasant. I considered joining an Art Group recently (partly for exhibition purposes - might have been your former group, Derek, considering where you live) but didn't because everything happened on Saturdays and - well, I have children, and the weekend is family time. I have friends in a different Art Group and the politics sounds off-putting (I don't do politics) and the pace staid. I shall continue to forge my own path... you might be best out of it, Derek.

Nick Rowland

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Last active: 5 years ago
Posts: 16

Posted 10 Years Ago

I am sorry Derek that you were outed, but please don't allow it to stifle your creativity. Unfortunately, there is a lot of nasty backstabbing and politicking that goes on in art groups and something I am no stranger to. I have found in my experience, it is the least talented who are the trouble makers.

Malcolm Buckley

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Last active: 5 years ago
Posts: 27

Posted 10 Years Ago

Derek, like most of us on this site, we only know each other by our art and writings, so obviously I do not know you or the others involved in this affaire at your art club, but that old saying (in respect of thoses who you believe are on a witch hunt) will always stand true, Let those without sin cast the first stone, I don't think many stones would be picked up in most situations. Forget it, move on you have your skill, count it as a new chapter that person obviously has the problem not you.