Bohemia Village Voice

– by Bert Northwood

EXHIBITION OF CERAMICS, ETCHINGS & CARICATURES opens at Empress Art, Tower Road on June 7th for three weeks. American born and London based Charlotte Foley will be showing a range of functional stoneware. Ian Hersee studied printmaking at Hastings College of Art; his etchings have been exhibited in Europe and Britain and have been accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Show. Stewart Buchan’s cartoons have appeared in local newspapers and national publications. His caricatures include well-known personalities like Rudolph Nureyev and Peter Sellers. A special A4 size (twice the size of this page) print of Bob Geldof will be on sale during the Exhibition at £1.30p and the profits from this print will go to the Band Aid Trust.
 IAN LAURIE EXHIBITION Etchings from July 21st to August 6th, daily 9-5. Ian Laurie was born in Scotland in 1933. He is self-taught and his etchings are mostly developed from snatched mental images gained whilst motoring in the Sussex countryside. He is attracted to natural earth tones and the subtle colouring of evening skies which he endeavours to incorporate in his simplified versions of nature. His etchings, in limited editions of one hundred, each numbered and signed, are sold in many leading galleries in this country and abroad.
 THE NORTHWOOD PAPERWEIGHTS August 24th to 30th. I have been making paperweights in polyester resin for around 20 years, off and on. In that time I have developed a number of my own techniques and in the process I have been able to produce some quite unique items. Last year you backed me generously in a sponsored walk to raise funds for the Jubilee Sailing Trust. I clearly cannot ask you to repeat that. Therefore I am offering my paperweights for sale to raise funds for that charity and our own Benevolent Fund. They will not be cheap – one I donated to the Winkle Club earlier this year sold for £50 …

[Taken from the local news magazine Bohemia of June 1986, edited by Bert Northwood, journal of the Bohemia Area Residents’ Association. Thanks to Vic Watson].