Meetings are at 7.30 pm on most Wednesdays evenings at Bourne Hall in the Camelia room. Visitors are welcome to meetings (apart from workshops, critiques and zoom meetings) at £6 per person per visit. If you would like to attend as a visitor, please email eeagmembership@gmail.com.
Zoom meeting links will be emailed to members before the meeting.
16 Sep
Demo – a local scene in watercolour
Following on from his zoom demonstrations, Frank will paint one or maybe two local scenes.
Frank is a successful watercolour artist and teacher, he exhibits regularly and is a well-practiced demonstrator. This is the third time that Frank has painted for E&EAG – on zoom in 2024 also on zoom earlier this year.
30 Sep
Workshop – oil landscape with lots of texture and palette-knife work.
Melanie uses a variety of brands of traditional oils, plus Cold Wax Medium to create her atmospheric landscapes. Painting big skies has become more of a trade mark since lockdown, painting both landscapes and seascapes where she aims to capture a feeling of space and distance in her work. She works both from sketches and photographs to demonstrate a landscape view.
More about Melanie…
My main artistic influences come from nature, particularly the English coastline and the open Downland near to my home. Both places have such wide open spaces and big skies. Light, colour and atmosphere are inspirational to me – even an empty beach, if there are interesting cloud formations can be the starting point for a painting.
Whilst at school, I did not flourish in art and so ended up at business college and went in to an office environment to earn a living. Painting took a back seat. However, by 1998 the drive to paint was getting far too strong, so I took an opportunity to work part-time to spend more timing developing my art. After several years came the chance to take redundancy and step out fully into the art world. So here I am now, painting, teaching, developing my own colours and brushes and following my passion.
7 Oct
Workshop
Life Model. Laura (she will come with Robin next month with advice on how to get the best results). Members only.
14 Oct
Talk – Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré was the foremost French illustrator of the 19th century. His ability to conjure up fantastic scenes of natural grandeur was unparallelled. It was said he could convey more atmosphere in black and white than most great masters could do in colour. He produced thousands of illustrations to epics such as the Bible, Dante’s Inferno and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. In London he reveals a city where fantasy and reality fuse, bearing witness to the contrasts of work and play, wealth and poverty of the nineteenth century. Dominated by his mother, he never married, though repeatedly fell in love. The lecture draws us into Doré’s astonishing world through a selection of his greatest works.
More about Gabriel …
Gabriel is an excellent lecturer and is now an accredited lecturer for The Arts Society.
He took up lecturing on art history in 2015, building on a lifelong interest in the arts during a career as a social researcher and policy analyst. His subjects range from the early northern Renaissance to Russian and Ukrainian painting of the 19th and 20th century.
He is the author of a wide range of studies of community development and a number of plays on contemporary topics. Following his book on Shakespeare and Democracy (2015) he ran a small theatre company till 2020. He was awarded an MBE for services to community development in 2009.
28 Oct
Artistic feedback and friendly critique
Jenny Whalley will host an informative and fun art criticism. She has done demos for us in the past, and this is an opportunity to receive feedback about something you may be working on for the exhibition. Please bring one painting, we will allow approximately 3 minutes per picture. If you bring more than one, we will look at if it time allows. Members only.
Thur
5 Nov
Open evening
Gallery open evening at The Horton
An opportunity to show off your art work and invite your guests. Cash bar available.
11 Nov
Workshop
Robin Rutherford (Artist) and Laura (Life Model) – how best to paint/draw the human body. Members only.
25 Nov
Demo – Seascape in acrylic
Mark is an experienced practicing artist who works from his studio in Shropshire.
More about Mark …
Line and colour is at the heart of Mark’s work and this is informed by sketching and plein air work. It is integral to the development of the piece and sometimes forming part of the work itself.
He continues to draw inspiration from the landscape and adores using colour while interpreting the light, contrast, weather and a love of the materials.
Mark developed his passion for Landscapes and Seascapes while growing up on the West Wales coast at Borth and Aberystwyth. The rolling hills of Shropshire and North Wales also enable him to experiment with colour and line further.
Mark exhibits work in numerous galleries which have included several solo shows, including at MOMA Machynlleth.
He is currently developing work for a large solo show at Oriel Môn on Anglesey for 2027
Mark has many works in private collections the UK, Europe, USA & Australia.
He runs painting workshops as well as regularly tutoring painting holidays in the UK, France and Italy.
He is an enthusiastic painting demonstrator for Art Societies throughout the UK and has become increasingly popular working both online and in person.
2 Dec
Workshop
Life Model – Kumi. Members only.
9 Dec
Heather Burton
Zoom workshop/demo – still life. Members only.
Heather will be joining us from her studio in Yorkshire. You can either join in at home or just watch. She will try and give feedback to all members who participate.
Heather says …
I’ll start the session with a short demo to explain basic techniques of palette-knife work, including how to hold the knife for best results, paint quantities, and effects that can be achieved with a knife that can’t be created with brushes.
You can then create a palette knife still-life painting of your own. I’ll offer guidance and tips throughout the session, helping anyone who gets stuck. Don’t expect to complete the painting by the end of the session – you can go back to it at leisure.
What to prepare:
An easel; canvas/canvas board or acrylic paper; a palette; a selection of acrylic paints; two or three palette knives of different sizes (avoid totally flat knives – the best ones have a ‘step’ or bend between the blade and the handle); a rag for wiping the knives; your still-life composition; desk lamp if required.
Still-life composition:
You might want to use a piece of fabric to neutralise the background. Select 3 or 4 household items of different shapes and sizes, but which work cohesively. For example:
- A large jug, a cup and saucer and perhaps a single flower in a small vase,
- Baking paraphernalia
- A bowl of fruit
Add extra items as you see fit or choose something different that inspires you.
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Previous programmes are available from our publicity secretary.
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