A View from the Chair

ANDREAS KLATT ARPS

This edition of Visual Art completes the first full publishing cycle of our magazine under its reorganised stewardship: three permanent guest editors (Nicki Gwynn-Jones FRPS, Linda Wevill FRPS and Ray Higginbottom ARPS) taking turns in six-month steps, an annual monograph for one of the troika who looks in need of something to do, and a designer (Paul Mitchell FRPS) who knows how to shape the matter into a paradigm of what the Visual Art Group stands for. This set-up is to ensure that the rotating editors break into no more than a gentle spin (with apologies to the pagesmith for whom there is no relief) whilst opening the mind to a maximum of cohesive variety and creativity.

I don’t know about you, but I for one am delighted with the results, especially when we keep in mind that the magazine - like everything this group offers to you - is the work of volunteers. It is quite evidently a labour of love.

In essence the magazine presents itself as a photographic publication, at the cost of more detailed reporting of day-to-day affairs. Step up our Honorary Secretary, Janie Chapman LRPS, who has started to e-mail a quarterly newsletter - informative and useful to all those of us who are