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The Fishermen's Chapel, New Road, Leigh-on-Sea

Art exhibition: Dorisarty (4-11 June)

Dorisarty came back to the Fishermen’s Chapel on the 4th June this year for a week long art exhibition.

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We are a trio of local artists comprising Emma Mills, Claire Burgoyne and Anne Pettenuzzo, and we want to invite you to see our new work.

Emma Mills’ work been inspired by the magical power of the number 7. It is stated in folklore and scientific research that the human body’s cells mostly replace themselves every seven to 10 years. Our bodies are in a constant state of flux. Emma has set herself the task of drawing different parts of her body seven times in seven minutes. This ongoing series of work is a response to this decade of rapid changes by noticing small things and being present in microscopic acts of magic.

emmamillsart.com

Claire Burgoyne has been fascinated and inspired by the Greek Mythology of Arcadia. A Utopia rich in nature. A place of Greek Gods and creative thinkers. She paints in watercolours on paper, produces lino cut prints and some mixed media pieces.

Instagram @claire.juliette.burgoyne

Anne Pettenuzzo is inspired by events and places. Usually there is something about the colours and light or lack of it that appeals to me. I want to capture what I felt at the moment I saw the image wherever it was – either inside or outside of my head or an atmosphere that was present at the time.

annepettenuzzo.com

Instagram @anne_pettenuzzo

Easter 2022 image

An image from Easter 2022, by Dave Walker

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Easter events that people from the Chapel participated in:

Good Friday (15th April)
9.30am Stations of the Cross – a walk from St Clement’s, pausing at various works of art depicting the Stations of the Cross that will be in windows of shops in the Broadway. These include a piece by Dave Walker from the Chapel. Meet inside St Clement’s at 9.15am. Duration: approx an hour and a half.

On Good Friday morning we walk the Stations of the Cross ( entitled Leigh in Lament) visiting the shops who have graciously accepted the stations created by varied artists. Some are already in place! But if you wish to join us please come along at 0915 ( meet in St Clement’s) it is a powerful act of witness that had to be cancelled the last two years. With thanks to all artists and shops Ruby Room, Clink, Children Society, Belle Fabrics, Store Thirty3, Lalis, Leigh Music, Rectory Flowers, Truly Scrumptious, Puddle and Goose, Treasures on Sea, Hatton Jewellers.

Easter Sunday (17 April)
8am Sunrise Service. The Salvation Army will be holding their usual Sunrise Service this year at Bell Wharf.

Update on services and events at the Chapel

Our 9.30am Communion service on the first Sunday of the month is now taking place in the Chapel once again.

Some other groups and activities are now able to meet in person if they wish – please contact the leader of the group to find out what they have planned.

Our Coffee morning, every Wednesday morning are now back in the Chapel community room at 10.30am. Please keep an eye on our Fishermen’s Chapel Facebook page for any changes to this.

The Gospel Service is now being held in person in the Chapel once again, on the second Sunday of the month, but also broadcast on Zoom. See this page for details, and sign up to our newsletter if you’d like the Zoom link each month.

Mindfulness: We are running ‘Mindfulness, every fourth Sunday of the month, at 7.30pm. If you’re interested please follow Mindfulness at the Fishermen’s Chapel on Facebook and check there for details.

Bible studies take place on Zoom every first and third Sunday. Contact Pete via peter.moorhouse@methodist.org.uk for details if you’d like to join in.

Please follow our Fishermen’s Chapel Facebook page and sign up for our email updates to keep in touch. The Methodist Church, of which we are a part, also has ways we can stay connected in our worship, prayer and mission work: methodist.org.uk.

Love
All of us from The Fishermen’s Chapel xxx

Artisan Markets

Thanks to everyone who supported the Fishermen’s Chapel Christmas Artisan Market

Find out more about the artists who were selling their creations via our Facebook page.

We’ll let you know the date of the next Market when we know it.

 

Pop up art sale: Dorisarty

A message from Anne, Emma and Claire, following the art sale they held at the Chapel (details below).

“A heartfelt thanks from Dorisarty to the Fishermen’s Chapel for allowing us to stage our pop-up art sale in the community room for the last two weeks of April. We were overwhelmed by the support and comments from the many people who came to see our art. Many visitors commented that the venue was an ideal exhibition space and that they would certainly want to attend any future events held there. Given the restrictions the vast majority of people who came to see our art were from the local community and many of those were entering the building for the first time. The three of us who comprise Dorisarty – Claire Burgoyne, Emma Mills and Anne Pettenuzzo felt our two weeks at the Chapel to be a joyous and life enhancing experience and we want to thank everyone involved but most particularly Paul and Hilary Wornell for making us feel so welcome.”

Art sale at the Chapel was from 19th April – 1st May 2021 – pictures on our Instagram page.

DORISARTY

Dorisarty is a trio of local Artists who have used this time of pandemic and lockdown to create new art work.

Anne Pettenuzzo‘s work aims to express some of the innocent pleasure that she and many others have rediscovered in and around the sea this year.
annepettenuzzo.com

Claire Burgoyne’s work is inspired by the sights, colours, shapes and thoughts during her local lockdown walks around Leigh-on-Sea. She mainly paints in watercolour and crochet yarn. Claire likes using these mediums because of the bright, intense, clear colour they have. She is also drawn to striking, flowing shapes, and how these can affect emotions.

Emma Mills has been drawing and painting during lockdown in response to what is happening in the world. She has been inspired by the courageous actions of Colin Kaepernick and all those who undertake peaceful protest about injustice and inequality. Emma made these works with this Wesleyan venue in mind, a movement who historically worked hard for social reform.
emmamillsart.com
Emma Mills on Instagram

The Chapel on the Radio

On 5th January the Sunday Service on Radio 4 came from Rayleigh, with the music being led by our very own Fishermen’s Chapel Gospel Choir.

If you missed it you can listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000cyv1

At the start of the new year Methodists make a distinctive resolution. The covenant service, often celebrated on the first Sunday of the year, is at the heart of Methodists’ devotion and discipleship, and their dedication in working for social justice. What God offers is a loving relationship. The Covenant is not a contract in which God and human beings agree to provide particular goods and services for each other! Rather, the Covenant is the means of grace by which Methodists accept the relationship and then seek to sustain it.
Live from Rayleigh Methodist Church, South East Essex, with the Minister, the Revd Dr Calvin Samuel, and the Revd Emma Nash, who is part of Methodism’s national Evangelism and Growth Team. Directors of Music: Heather Simmons and Dave Cook; Organist: Keith Norman; Producer: Philip Billson.

Gospel Vespers

The Gospel Vespers service at the Fishermen’s Chapel is an informal service including traditional gospel music from the Fishermen’s Chapel Gospel Choir and the Monday Singers, along with readings and reflections. Everyone is welcome.

Our next Gospel Vespers services are every second Sunday of the month at 7.30pm. Refreshments are served from 7.

At Gospel Vespers we will now be collecting donations for Southend Foodbank. See here for the items that they really need (avoid pasta and baked beans!)

You can join the Gospel Choir too – come along on a Tuesday, 7-8pm in the community room.

Art in our Community Room

We have art on display in our community room. Do pop in and see the work at any time that the Chapel is open, so on Wednesday mornings or before and after a service.

Currently we have work by Nicola Osborne Art on display. See Nicola’s Facebook page.

Previous artists

Claire Thompson, aka Eyeseethingsdifferently is our artist in residence at the Chapel.

At the beginning of 2018 I decided to undertake an artistic challenge of completing a page in my sketchbook everyday.
The challenge allowed me to experiment with different mediums and different ways of working.
I intuitively decided to break each page into 4 smaller squares and stick to a limited colour palette of 2/3 colours.
Whilst experimenting with different mediums, I picked up my watercolour paints and the subsequent sketchbook pages that followed seemed to flow easily from my brush.
Nature is and always will be a huge source of inspiration to me and whilst I was undertaking the challenge I was intuitively thinking of new life, hidden growth and what happens to our natural world during the Winter months.
The ‘Grow’ series is my intuitive response to the start of a new year and how you can develop and ‘Grow’ by stepping outside of your comfort zone and trying something new.

Claire is Eyeseethingsdifferently on Facebook / Instagram.

 

Eco-Wind Publishing is an illustration partnership between Architect / Sailor Chris Page and Animator / Perspectivist Amber Young.

Our combined passion for visual storytelling first ignited with the realisation that we could bring people back in time using digital apps when in 2009 we realised that were lucky to be at an amazing period in time when you could interact with another person through an application on a phone at any single point in time to provide them with new information wherever they may be. Never before had a product allowed a viewer to experience events true-to-timescale in such a manner than we were able to achieve with the technology of notifications within smartphones. We created our own art form called ‘iPT-A’ or ‘i-Push Time-Alternation’ to explore historic events and magical sporting spectacles from the past century in true to time, 1st person illustrated accounts.

During research to create the applications and their companion books, we begun to accumulate a substantial body of visual work and our two individual styles gradually converged into one playful, colourful aesthetic that we have utilised in each of our projects to date, initially starting work traditionally with hand drawn pen to paper illustration before moving into inks, watercolours and digital to complete the imagery. There is always a keen desire to retain the essence of being in the moment with retained freehand speed lines, raw edged borders, freehand text and sometimes jotted annotation.

Portrayals of the trackside at Le Mans, being in the pilots seat during the Schneider Trophy Races, at the launch site of a manned rocket, or on the waves alongside a C-Class Catamaran, by keeping our work looking slightly sketchy it helps feel like the drawings have been completed in the moment of these events.

We hope that our illustrations inspires onlookers to stay curious and look to building a better future by experiencing the past in as close to the road accounts as possible.

Prints can be bought via the Eco-wind website.

A cartoon A to Z of the Fishermen’s Chapel

A cartoon A to Z, by Dave Walker, cartoonist for the Church Times, and member of our steering group.

Art. We love artists. We have art displays in our community room, an Artisan Market several times a year, and Claire, our resident artist, runs Creativity Club on Friday mornings.

Bookings. The upstairs chapel is ideal for concerts, the downstairs community room for meetings, workshops and much more. See our hire page for details.

Coffee. Served on a Wednesday, before and after our Gospel service, and at any other time we can think of.

Delicious flapjack, made by Heather. Available every Wednesday morning.

Estuary. The wonderful view from our studio.

Folk Festival – we host two stages here every year.

Gospel choir. They sing at our Gospel Vespers, and rehearse every Tuesday evening, if you’d like to join. Any resemblance to any persons in this picture is entirely coincidental…

Happy Times, on a Thursday morning, is for elderly people, toddlers, and their carers. Details here.

Information. How we get our news out. Please follow us (Instagram / Facebook / Twitter), tell your friends, and sign up for our newsletter.

John Wesley first came to Leigh-on-Sea 270 years ago, and started the Methodist ‘society’ that went on the become the Chapel. Read more on our History page.

Kindness, acts of. We each receive a new Act of Kindness at our Gospel Service every month, and then (hopefully) put it into practice during that month.

Leigh-on-Sea. Where we are!

Membership. We’d love it if more people became members, signifying that this is their church and they belong here. Find out more on our Membership page, and do ask us about becoming a member.

New Road Methodist Church. This is what the Chapel was called before relaunching as the Fishermen’s Chapel in 2014. There have been four different chapel buildings in the last 270 years.

Organ. Played regularly. There is sometimes a queue on Wednesdays.

Pete. Our minister, seen here doing one of his trademark magic tricks.

Quiet. We have a Mindfulness event every 4th Sunday of the month.

Rehearsals. The Gospel Choir rehearse here on a Tuesday, and it is a great place to book for a rehearsal for your own band or choir.

Services. 1st Sunday of the month: our 9.30am service. On the 2nd Sunday of the month it’s the 7.30pm Gospel Vespers, with the Fishermen’s Chapel Gospel Choir. On the 3rd Sunday of the month: 11am (usually a parade service – but check with us for details as services are sometimes at ‘The Den’). The 4th Sunday of the month: 7pm Mindfulness.

Traffic. For safety reasons we really do need a crossing to the Chapel. It would be great if people could contact the council or your local councillor to request this.

Uniformed groups. We welcome the sea scouts and other groups to our parade service every month.

Volunteers. Thanks to the people who make the chapel function.

Wednesday coffee. Come along!

eXcellent acoustics. The Chapel is a wonderful place to hold a concert.

Your skills. We’d love you to join us in making this Chapel a brilliant place for the community. Please let us know if you’d like to get involved!

Zeal (a passion for something). At the Chapel we believe that it isn’t just the things we do here in the building that are important. Our faith inspires us to go our and make a change in the world around us. It’s something we’re passionate about, and we hope that the life of the Chapel continues to thrive. Please come and join us!

Thanks for reading!

Video of our Midwinter Carols

It was great to have a full house for our Midwinter Carols with the Famous Potatoes and guests on Sunday 16th December. Thanks to the band and everyone who helped with refreshments, etc. Here’s a sample for those who couldn’t make it – a video of the carol medley at the end of the service.

The Famous Potatoes can be hired for parties and events – see their website, here.

There’s a Facebook event page here – Midwinter carols – keep an eye on our Facebook page for details of events in the New Year.