Exhibition Stand Painting 2024

The 2024 exhibition got underway on Saturday 23rd March when members of the society gathered to refresh the exhibition boards. We had good team work and a bit of fun, as well as a productive day – all the boards are painted, we will have some follow up work to apply a couple more coats but this should not take…

March 2024 – Max Hale

Max Hale visited the society in March 2024 and saved the day due to a short notice cancellation of our advertised artist. Max gave us a fun and entertaining demonstration, painting a “Cafe” scene using Acrylics and demonstrated techniques in blocking to create the image. Maxwell Hale, (Max) is an artist/painter with a depth of experience spanning almost five decades.…

January 2024 – DJ Art

Dave Johnson (DJ) visited the society in January 2024, our first demonstration of 2024!. DJ’s demonstration centred on a painting of the Aurora Borealis and techniques to help blend oils.  The presentation was well received and by the society and DJ kept us entertained with his engaging style. About DJ: https://www.artbydj.co.uk/  https://www.facebook.com/artbydjdj I have been drawing and painting for as…

November 2023 – Sara Wykes

Sara, our own Secretary, made the November presentation, saving the day, having had a call from the planned artist who had a medical problem and could not make the planned event. One of Sara’s “art” passions is Glass Fusion so in a matter of a couple of hours put together a multi-media presentation explaining the technicalities of glass fusion along…

October 2023 – Steph Coley

Steph visited the society in October 2023 and demonstrated her mixed media portrait art. Using torn book and song sheet pages glued to the canvas, over drawn with a ball point pen or biro! and a little ink and acrylic paint to produce a stunning portrait image. About Steph:  https://stephcoley.com/ A mixed media artist born in Derbyshire, UK, where she still…

September 2023 – Tim O’Brien

Tim made the visit to the society in September 2023 arriving with just seconds to spare due to traffic but was unperturbed by this and continued to make a very interesting 2 part presentation to the society showing how first to draw wheels with perspective and moving on then to produce a painting in under 45minutes of racing cars on…

August 2023 – Heather Griffin

Heather Griffin visited the society in August 2023, this being her second visit to the society having  helped us out at short notice in 2022.  In 2022 Heather painted in oils and created a Pig painting, this year moving on to Sheep! To re-cap on the “Pig” follow the 2022 link Heather in 2022 Otherwise see here the 2023 Sheep…

July 2023 Colin Joyce

Colin had travelled the UK on his way to the Patchings Art Festival and was able to demonstrate to the society on-route in July 2023, demonstrating the painting of a “sea scape” scene using oils as the medium. The scene was based on a view of the Forth Bridge from long distance, although not in the painting, but having a…

June 2023 Graham Laughton

Graham Laughton visited the society in June 2023 to give us an interesting demonstration of making a portrait drawing in pastel, Lynda, one of our members, was the lucky person asked to sit for him as the model. By clicking on the image below you can see the progression of the drawing from initial lines to the final portrait

May 2023 Phil Biggs

A change in the programme due to ill-health of the planned artist saw Phil Biggs visit the society in May 2023, Phil’s second visit to the society, the first in 2014, to show us how to construct a landscape in Watercolour based on a Lake District scene.  Throughout the evening Phil was seen “painting” behind the easel – this turned…