Outdoors Painting May 2025
Tuesday 3rd May 2025 outdoor painting Well it had to happen, after weeks of unseasonal, consistently dry and sunny weather, our first outdoors meeting to paint together was at best…
The Craft of Acrylics
12 enthusiastic artists,- members and non members enjoyed 6 sessions of exploration, experimentation, and" messing about" with acrylic paints, with guidance from Mandy McAllen. Topics covered included; colour mixing, applying…
May Workshop with Belinda Reynel, 2025
Belinda Reynell, the contemporary landscape artist, gave an inspiring workshop on how to produce different textures in acrylic or water based oil paints, using a palette knife and a limited…
Glastonbury Mural Trail
Thursday 15th May marked the beginning of our outdoor activities. Six of us had a jaunt around Glastonbury on the mural trail on a lovely sunny morning followed by…
Richard Turner Demo in May.
May saw the welcome return of Pastel Artist Richard Turner to our evening meeting. Richard looks to paint shapes (not things) with tones, colour and texture working in 3 stages…
Neil Whitehead. Urban Landscapes
At our evening meeting inApril, Neil demonstrated his fast and fluid style using ink and watercolours on Intense Paper. Rarely lifting the pen off the paper, and with great…
March Evening Meeting With Margaret Micklewright
Surrounded by evocative paintings of cliffs and wild seascapes, Margaret told us of her love of painting outdoors, of wild weather, and depicting the relationship between land, sea and lake,…
January evening meeting
It’s all about the layers A high energy talk and demonstration from Sarah Bernsten left many of us feeling motivated to “let loose” with our artwork as a New Year’s…
xmas draw
A Happy raffle winner at our recent Christmas Social, and Art Materials sale!
A lovely evening was enjoyed by all who came to buy, drink, eat and take part in the raffle and excellent Art Quiz, set by Katie Holland. A magnificent total…
November Life Drawing Workshop
Twelve members enjoyed a morning of life drawing at Long Sutton Village Hall last Saturday. We were a group with differing levels of experience, from complete beginners, to old hands,(…