Volume2, Number 1 March 2011 Home Departments UK Art Scene Sketches Contours Detours About AFAS Printed Back Issues 16th Amelia Show St John's Concours Maher Profile Hale Revisit UK Art Scene Select Issue   The 2011 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance kicks off the show season of AFAS. This is Bill Warner's 16th Annual Event and will be held Sunday March 13th on the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club grounds at Amelia Island, Florida. AFAS has been proud to be associated with this premiere Concours since its inception. Bill Warner is a pretty special fellow with a keen sense of auto history, both racing and design. He knows how to mix and match different styles and eras. Every year, the Concours field is a surprise for the eyes and ears, for this Concours has, since day one, celebrated the Race Car. All Grand Marshalls have been figures of racing import. This year will have three time CART Champion and Indy 500 winner, Bobby Rahal. To signal the start of the Concours one LISTENS to the honored Racer drive one of his cars to position, and, unique to the Amelia Concours, let the show begin! It is in this atmosphere that the AFAS show displays, it's quite a magic surrounding. Please visit us on the showgrounds on Sunday March 13. We will be showing Thursday March 10 through Saturday March 12 in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Plaza Ballroom. This is an excellent opportunity to preview the show and meet the artists in a relaxed atmosphere, not to mention acquire your choice of art work. Featured guest artist, Danny Pro, from Las Vegas, NV will present his interpretive illuminated sculpture. Attending AFAS artists are listed in this issue of afasJournal.com. As of this writing, I'm pleased to learn of Tony Clark's reportage from England and the Continent will join the afasJournal.com line-up. Tony's contributions to the AFAS Journal as our Continetal Correspondent made each issue informative and extra special. Also in this issue, AFAS members Tom Hale and Charles Maher will be highlighted. I'm often asked what is the philosophy or credo of the AFAS? It is a subject even discussed currently by our members as we approach our 30th year of our founding. Perhaps we can find direction by looking back to where we started. May I suggest the following, reprinted from the first AFAS book, Automotive Fine Art-AFAS. The book was published in 1987 (and is still available). Dedicated to AFAS Members Emeritus John Burgesss, Walter Gotschke and Peter Helk: each a gentleman and inspiration to us all. We the members of the Society of Automobile Fine Artists, in order to establish a standard of excellence in the field of automotive art, do hereby proclaim: To endeavor to excel in the artistic representation of the automobile and pursue this excellence as established in the greatness of Peter Helk, Walter Gotschke, Gordon Crosby etc. That we do profess to have a genuine admiration and affection of the automobile, it's past, present and future; and to the people and events that have made it so; and to share our efforts, through our work and co-operation, with those who would share our admiration and affections. AFAS Preamble August 1983 This statement made sense to us then, still sounds good today. JSJ     16TH AFAS AMELIA EXHIBITION Visit with AFAS artists that showed their new work at the 16th Annual AFAS Amelia Island Concours Art Show. ST. JOHN'S... A NEW BEGINNING Continuing the Meadow Brook Concours legacy in an outstanding new location in southern Michigan. CHARLES MAHER PROFILE Elected to membership in 2009, we feature the work of the Society's newest member Britain's Gary Whinn. TOM HALE REVISIT It has been twenty years since our last feature of painter Tom Hale's work... here's a fresh look. UK ART SCENE Noted automotive art commentator and expert Tony Clark returns to offer his views on the continental art scene.                           Sketches    Detours    Contours    About AFAS    Journal Back Issues    CONTRIBUTORS FOR THIS EDITION: Tony Clark Jack Juratovic Tom Hale Dennis Hoyt Charles Maher Jim McCarter Kevin Wilson and AFAS members Advertise with us  Contact Us  Privacy Policy  Terms of Use  Disclaimer  afasJournal.com Copyright 2010-2011 Knightbridge Publishing Inc, All Rights Reserved General Manager: Lindsay Evans Creative Head: Michael Koka Publisher: Jay Koka Knightbridge Publishing Incorporated PO Box 395, Waterloo, ON, N2J 4A9 Canada Site design, management and hosting by WEBVUES   The AFAS logo is the property of the Automotive Fine Arts Society LLC. Used with permission. The images presented throughout this publication are protected by copyright, the property of the various artists and are used with permission. Reproduction is prohibited without prior consent. Please respect the artists' property and contact us for image licensing information.