Author: Amanda
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Afternoon Tea, anyone?
We are doing it again! After last years very popular and successful afternoon tea and art sale in aid of Breast Cancer Now, we decided we’d quite like to hold another one. On Sunday the 23rd of August from 12:00 until 15:00, you can join us for some delicious cakes, sandwiches, teas, coffees and wonderful…
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And the winner is…..
If you visited our recent exhibition, you were very likely asked to vote for your favourite picture. The competition was fierce, we had around 200 votes and we have a winner! The best picture winner was Heron by the very talented Paul Hanson, this was one of 5 pictures entered into the exhibition by Paul,…
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Silk Painting April 2026
Our silk painting group have been very busy recently, producing some stunning work. If you are thinking of visiting our exhibition next month (the exhibition will be running from the 15th to the 24th of May, see here for more information) you could pick up a beautiful piece of silk for yourself (we normally have…
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Spring Exhibition May 2026
It’s almost time for our Spring Exhibition, a busy time for our club and its members. It’s a chance for us to share our art with visitors to the club and it’s your chance to buy some arts and crafts for yourself! Our exhibition opening hours will be: Friday 15th May 2026 Opening Evening, with…
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Annual General Meeting
Our AGM will take place on Wednesday the 15th of April starting at 7pm and running until approx. 9pm. The meeting is where members have a chance to vote on changes to the club and raise any items that they may have. New committee members are also elected at the AGM, so it’s important that…
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Pastel workshop with June Walker
This is a great workshop which is run annually by June Walker, one of our fabulous artists. The workshop will take place on Sunday the 26th of April 2026 and will run from 10:00 – 15:00, we ask that attendees are at the club and set up to start at 10:00. June shares her knowledge…
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Themes for the canteen 2026
This year, instead of asking a single artist to put their pictures in the canteen area each month, we will be asking for everyone that wants to participate to bring in a picture reflecting that months theme. So far we have had “snow” for January, “love” for February, and for this month (March), we are…
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Life Drawing Session
These are some of the drawings from our latest life drawing session which took place yesterday evening (4th March 2026). We would like to extend our thanks to our model from the session: @shanesteele_artmodel – thank you Shane. You can see some of the drawings of Shane below:
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Watercolour with Stephen Coates
We had a wonderful watercolour painting workshop with Stephen Coates on Saturday 27th of February at the club. Stephen is a professional watercolour artist who led a workshop for us last year, which was so popular that we decided to ask Stephen back again this year. We all had a great day and learned lots…
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Print Club
Our printing group met up again on Tuesday 17th February, they were in a creative mood and produced the work below.
