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Meetings are at 7.30 pm at Bourne Hall in the Camelia room. Visitors are welcome at £6 per person per visit. The cost for members is £2. Tea and coffee are provided – free if you bring your mug, 50p for a paper cup.
1 Mar
Practical art session
29 Mar
Jim Patterson
Talk- paper making
Jim and Lynne Patterson bought Pitt in 1986. The mill was renovated and their business, Two Rivers Paper, began production.
Jim and his team make beautiful handmade rag watercolour paper. Using an unusual mix of fibres and surface treatment, its receptivity to paint and resulting luminosity is reckoned to be unrivalled.
Jim will bring papers and sketch books to sell and he will have a card reader, so cash or card will be possible.
5 Apr
Practical art session
An opportunity to draw Jen, a life model, who will take several poses. Bring your own art equipment. This will be untaught, but members of the group are helpful and happy to give advice.
12 Apr
AGM
Brian Tipping Competition and Bring & Buy Plus a glass of wine or hot drink
The Brian Tipping prize competition is for artwork in Monochrome. This year’s subject is Science Fiction.
The AGM is a great chance to hear from your volunteer committee about the hard work they put in to keep the Art Group vibrant. We have more meetings and events than any other art group in the area, so we deliver great value for the membership fee!
Bring and buy sale – please bring any good-condition art supplies which you wish to sell. Label them with the price and your name. Please bring plenty of cash if you are a buyer or a seller.
19 Apr
Geoff Hunt PPRSMA
Demo – a dramatic scene of Durham, painting in oil from a previous plein air watercolour. Geoff is President of The Wapping Group of Artists and has spent most of the last four months writing a new book which has just gone to the publishers. It’s entirely devoted to painting watercolour outdoors, though in the final chapter there’s some consideration given to finishing or developing pieces in the studio where it’s been impossible to finish them outdoors.
10 May
Talk – a contemporary stained glass artist’s journey: from stained glass to paintings, a journey through colour and design.
7 Jun
Practical art session
An opportunity to draw Jen, a life model, who will take several poses. Bring your own art equipment. This will be untaught, but members of the group are helpful and happy to give advice.
14 Jun
Demo – an alla prima portrait in oil on aluminium
Rossella is a figurative, realist painter, specialising in portraiture and self-portraiture. Her work is vibrant and psychologically charged, inspired by personal memories along with observations from real life and imagination. Born in Sicily, Rosella has lived in London since 2000, training at the Royal Drawing School and the London Atelier of Representational Art (LARA).
Rossella has won several awards and her work is exhibited regularly in the Mall Galleries, Bloomsbury and The Strand Gallery. Her paintings have featured in magazines, and her portrait Young Climate Rebel was the cover image for the September 2019 issue of Arena Magazine (Australia).
5 Jul
Practical art session
An opportunity to draw a life model. Bring your own art equipment. This will be untaught, but members of the group are helpful and happy to give advice.
12 Jul
Demo – colourful still life using mixed media.
Adrienne studied Graphic Design in Durban, and moved to the UK in 1997. Her style is expressive, energetic and spontaneous: “I love the immediacy of mark making and the unpredictability of that approach. It enables me to combine all I have ever learnt about illustration, painting and design. This is when my heart beats a thousand times a minute … I am on edge and the adrenalin is flowing. I constantly endeavour to engage my viewers by drawing them into another world.”
Previous programmes are available from our publicity secretary.
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