DEMOS AND WORKSHOPS FOR THE SPRING TERM Monday PM group

Term dates: 6th January - 14th April (15 weeks)

3rd Feb (2pm - 4pm) - Valerie Pirlot. Creating atmosphere with water based oils. Demonstration only.

3rd March (1.30pm - 4pm) - Pak Leong. Chinese brush painting. Workshop.

24th March (1.30pm - 4pm) - Rachel Moya. Animals in nature - creating texture in watercolour. Workshop.

Our topic for this term's project will be 'Atmosphere/textures'

WORKSHOPS, DEMO'S AND LIFE CLASS

Thursday 3rd September Steve Hall is doing a watercolour demo. All welcome £3 for Monday members.

31st Life drawing. Thurday members only.

7th Nov Valerie Pirlot demo. All welcome
£3 for Monday members.

14th Nov Pak Chinese brush painting. Thursday group only

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Steve Hall demonstration

AUTUMN TERM WORKSHOPS

30th September - Pak Leon, Chinese brush painting (bring your own watercolours but other materials provided). Note that the date for this may change as a couple of people who particularly want to do it are away on that date. I will let you know.

21st October - Jonathan Mulvaney, Impressionist landscapes in acrylic.

25th November - Catherine Beale, Deep woodland in watercolour. This fits in with our theme for this term (it scored 2nd highest on the list of prospective subjects last term).

Please note that all of these will be 'hands on' workshops and will begin at the earlier time of 1.30 (finishing at 4 as usual ).I will remind you of all of these things closer to the time.

Catherine Beale

END OF SPRING TERM COMPETITION

Our topic for this term's project was 'Sunrise/Sunset' - we had 25 paintings all featuring sunrise or sunset. Rachel Moya Williams, who led us in a watercolour workshop last month, came in to judge. She commented on the high standard of the work and found it very difficult to choose a winner and runner-up, but she finally settled on paintings by Trevor (winner) and Kay Jane's (runner-up) - keeping it in the family!

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DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS FOR THE SPRING TERM

19th February - Steve Hall will be doing a demonstration of a pastel painting on the subject of Sunrise/Sunset. Note that this is purely a demo so you will not need to bring any materials - a nice relaxing afternoon watching someone produce something lovely!

25th March - a mixed media workshop with Soraya French. This is a bit of a coup for us (thanks to Sheila!) as her workshops are booked up for months in advance and usually cost around £180 per person per day to attend! This will be an extended hands-on session running from 1.30 - 5.00 pm. Please let me know if you're interested and haven't already signed up.

Link to Soraya's post

20th May - Rachel Moya Williams will lead a practical watercolour workshop on the subject of Bluebell Woods.

Our topic for this term's project will be 'Sunrise/Sunset' and we're hoping that Steve Hall will be able to come back to judge our efforts on 10th June.

Soraya French 25.3.24

FEATURED ARTIST - STEPHEN TATE

Stephen is a self taught artist who has had no formal teaching but has studied watercolour painting, life drawing, picture framing, silk screen printing and print making at Wiltshire evening colleges. He exhibits locally and was the winner of the Bathampton art group's autumn competition 2017 with his submission 'Moon river'.

Away from the easel Stephen owns a sign company, designing and manufacturing chemically etched and engraved signs. He has also used this medium to create a variety of artworks in metal.

AUTUMN TERM COMPETITION - Theme - Capturing light

Catherine Beale was our judge for the end of term competition on a theme of 'Capturing Light'

WINNER: Trevor Janes - Dockyard - Watercolour

CATHERINE BEALE DEMONSTRATION - OCTOBER 2023

SPRING PROJECT - WINNERS 2023

Alan presenting winning work by Kate Wilkey with judge Vivienne Bolton - Secretary of the Bath Society of Artists on the theme of 'Waterscapes'

WINNER: Kate Wilkey - Tenby Band Stand - Oil

RUNNER UP: Chris Humphrey - Battersea - Watercolour