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‘Life in Lockdown’ by Ed Isaacs RBSA
On Wednesday night Ed treated us to his story of his very busy Lockdown. Ed has a passion for both drawing and the history of art. Although having no formal art training, he always made time for these passions even whilst working full time and bringing up a family....
Life Drawing with Tina Willis Jones – 6 January 2021
Lockdown has provided us with the opportunity to create portraits via Zoom and using photographs. Knowing the sitter and something of their personality can also add value to the process. It can be strongly argued that the best portraits are those taken from a ‘real...
Painting Winter: Snow Scenes in Art by Stella Grace Lyons
Art Historian Stella Grace Lyons, who is an Arts Society Accredited Lecturer, presented to the Society a special Christmas Lecture entitled 'Painting Winter: Snow Scenes in Art' via Zoom.This was our first Webinar – we are so getting used to this technology now!...
Life Drawing with Tina Willis Jones – 2nd December 2020
We have been so lucky to be able to offer a life drawing focus to our members as part of our Programme. We are even more fortunate that the very talented Tina Willis Jones agreed to lead the demonstrations which have been both interesting and informative. I felt that...
A Conversation with Jessica Cooper RWA 18th November 2020
This evening we were delighted to welcome Jessica Cooper who joined us from her studio at the Newlyn School of Art in Cornwall Jessica has been an artist all her life and has had a successful career for many years with her paintings which capture a mindfulness and...
Life Drawing with Tina Willis Jones – 4th November 2020
In the 4th November session we decided to have a little bit of fun with Portraiture. Time to loosen up, mix the materials up a little and not worry about the likeness in our portrait. Instead, we enjoyed the energy and freedom of the continuous line. All high risk...
Guest Artist – Sarah Stokes – 20th October 2020
Tonal Demonstration with Sarah Stokes (For more information and advice Sarah can be contacted via her website https://www.sarahstokesartist.co.uk ) We had a fabulous turnout for - one of our members even zooming from a rainy Spain! We were certainly in for a treat....
Guest Speaker WSA President Keith Oram -16/09/2020
The Japanese ‘Floating World’ of the Edo Period Keith’s presentation was a fascinating exposition of how artists recorded every aspect of the ‘Floating World’ of the Edo Period in Japan (1615- 1868). Japan was going through a relatively calm period in its history....
Life Drawing with Tina Willis Jones – 9th September 2020
During these difficult times, the opportunity to draw a model from life has become almost impossible for the Artist. However, the next best thing is a tutorial and demonstration from Tina Willis Jones via Zoom. Tina is an expert in rendering the human form and she...
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR TO THE MEMBERSHIP
Dear Members, I am writing to inform you that due to the concerns surrounding the current Coronavirus pandemic your Committee have decided that it would be in the best interests of all members for us to cancel all Society meetings and programmed events for the...
Guest Speaker Rob Leckey 19th February 2020
Painting without Brushes Rob Leckey- ARBSA Rob has always painted and over a period of time his painting style has developed where he uses the paintbrushes less and instead experiments with lots of different tools to create texture and a depth to his paintings....
Centenary Exhibition – Final Event
Our final event of the exhibition centered on sketching sculptures, however our most regular visitor decided to pay her tribute to Percy Shakespeare's nude and produced a delightful watercolour sketch. The rest of the group took inspiration from the lovely sculpture...