Don't delay for your chance to acquire works by local artists

The pictures featured in the St. Michael and All Angels advent calendar are to be auctioned this Sunday lunchtime (Jan 5) to raise more money for the Church's Christmas Charity Appeal.

Almost £2,000 has been pledged in highest bids so far, and the church hopes this total will rise, as people make further bids and counter-bids between now and Sunday. 

The 24 pictures are the work of local artists. smaaa.org.uk/advent/artists.php

Christmas Birthday

The highest bid so far is £350 for Christmas Birthday by the award-winning painter Alfred Daniels. The second highest is £250 for a watercolour of the interior of the church by another well-known artist, Francis Bowyer RWS, who currently has an exhibition at the Royal Academy. You can see the current highest bids, and link to the pictures, here:  smaaa.org.uk/advent/bids.php

St. Michael And All Angels by Francis Bowyer

The auction party will be on Sunday January 5th starting at 11.30am at St Michael & All Angels, in the Parish Hall. If you cannot be there, you can ask someone to bid for you by proxy. And  you can also bid for the pictures by email up till midnight on Saturday January 4th. For details of how to bid by proxy and by email, please contact : torindouglas@aol.com 

The picture lots will close in turn, as follows. Nos 1 to 8 at 12 Noon; Nos 9 to 16 at 12.30pm; and Nos 17 to 24 at 1pm. See below for further details and rules on how to bid

Silent Auction: How to Bid

1. Bids may only be made in person in the church – but the top bids will be updated on the website. 

2. There is one bidding sheet for each of the 24 works, and each has a reserve price, set by the artist.

3. Each bid must exceed the previous one by a minimum of £1.

4. Clearly write your name, phone number and bid on the bidding sheet – and your e-mail address if applicable. Please keep a note of your bid, and the date when you made it. You may need to re-visit the auction to see if you have been outbid.

5. The auction will close just before lunch on Sunday January 5th 2014, at a party in St Michael’s Parish Hall, starting at 11.30am. Final bids may be made then.

6. The lots will close in sequence, every 30 minutes, as follows: Lots 1 to 8 at 12 Noon; lots 9 to 16 at 12.30pm; lots 17 to 24 at 1pm.

7. Works must be paid for before being taken away. Cheques only please.

8. Works not collected at the closing party may be collected by arrangement with the Parish Office on 020 8994 1380.

9. At least one-third of the purchase price of each work is kindly being donated by the artists to the St Michael & All Angels Christmas Appeal. Our thanks to them all.

10. Three charities will benefit from the Appeal: The Upper Room, feeding the community in need in West London; Hamlin Fistula UK, a medical charity helping women in Ethiopia, and The Mulberry Centre in Isleworth, offering support to anyone affected by cancer.

St Michael’s Angel by Liz Butler

Chiswick Churches by Deirdre Greenwood

January 4, 2014