Welcome to the Somerton Group of Artists.

Are you interested in art? Why not join us!

Here you will find a very friendly local artists group from Somerton and the surrounding areas, Somerset, UK. We welcome all new members who are interested in art. You don’t even have to be a painter yourself to get involved – you may just want to meet other people with the same interests. We are well established and have around 60 members of all ages and abilities.

We hold a year round programme of talks and demonstrations by professional artists with occasional day-long workshops. We have ‘painting together’ sessions and outside painting and sketching sessions in the summer. These are usually held with somewhere for lunch or tea nearby! In the winter, some members also meet weekly to paint together every Tuesday morning from 10am. to 12pm, and 3 times a year you can sign up for our popular Life Drawing sessions with a live model.

We hold an annual exhibition of our work, and all members are invited to participate.

If you are interested, or have any questions, please contact us for a chat or just turn up to one of our events or sessions. You will be made very welcome!

 

Lisa Takahsshi Demo; November

 

               

Paul Oakley is an artist living in Wiltshire who is the Director of Pewsey Vale Studios dedicated to teaching  oil painting within small groups which allows him to give one to one tuition.  
 
He is predominately a landscape artist who also enjoys still life and who is always looking for new ways to paint everyday objects which he so expertly showed us in his demonstration.  He mostly uses oils but his techniques , as he told us, can just as easily be applied to  acrylics. Understanding how paints work and how values change is key to his approach.
 
For a full review click on “News ” above

 

Newsflash: Act Now

To sign up for a November Workshop with Paul Oakley

click on “Future Workshops” tab above.

To sign up for November Life Drawing

Click on Future Workshops Tab above