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32 | THE COLONY NEWS | JANUARY 2022 | CLUB NEWS Please join us on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 10:30 am in the Meeting Room, where we will discuss The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner. This is a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction. Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it is home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals, among them a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor and a movie star, come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. Our book for Feb. 9 will be the classic Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Book Club By Pamela Fisher Artist and Fine Art Photographer Nancy Roux is our Artist for January. She is presenting her artwork for the first time in our Clubhouse Lobby. Nancy is from Providence, Rhode Island and moved to Southern California in 1983. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Studio Art and has had a lengthy career as a freelance Designer/Producer. In 2011, she pursued Fine Art Photography full time. Nancy has excelled in "Abstract Nature," textiles and natural materials such as tree bark, leaves, woodgrain, florals, succulents, water and stone. Nancy designs and integrates custom-crafted backings of hardwood and copper to compliment Special Editions. In 2016, her unique Mantelpieces Work attracted the attention of the Cove Gallery in Laguna Beach, as the gallery's 3D Photographic Artist. She was jury-selected as the Southwest Arts Festival's 2017 Poster Artist, and her imaginative 360-degree rotating desertscape, "Mole's-eye View," was chosen to be the featured artwork for the Festival's 2017 poster and promotional materials. She has exhibited her work at large numbers of prestigious Southern California fine art shows, including Laguna Art-A-Fair, one of three iconic Laguna Beach Festivals. In her seven years with the show, Nancy received three back- to-back Artists Choice awards, served as a juror, and has represented the Festival in local radio interviews. In 2015, her work was selected to represent the Laguna Art-A-Fair in a prestigious Orange County Magazine feature. Exhibits include Fine Arts Festivals 2017, Southwest Arts Festival, Indio; Indian Wells Arts Festival; Balboa Island Art Walk, Newport Beach; Redlands Festival of Arts; San Diego Festival of the Arts. In 2016, Art Under the Umbrellas, La Quinta; Southwest Arts Festival, Indio; Calabasas Fine Arts Festival, and numerous others back to 2011. The groups Nancy has exhibited with is incredibly vast. We thank you, Nancy, for sharing your beautiful artwork in our Clubhouse Lobby. Happy New Year, everyone! Our January Watercolor Workshop is scheduled to be held in the Annex on the last Thursday, Jan. 27, at 9:30 am. Back by popular demand is our award-winning instructor, Betty Pilley. The cost of the Workshop is $30 per person, prepaid. Upon payment you will receive a supply list, colors of watercolor paints to bring and a pattern of the subject to be painted. Space is limited, so please call me at 818-667-1766 and reserve your space if you are interested in participating in this Workshop. Artist of the Month Watercolor Workshop By Sylvia Maxwell, 818-667-1766