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Future Events

Free Events for members: We hold our twice monthly meetings at Holy Trinity Primary School, CV37 9QN, on Thursday evenings starting at 6.50pm and ending around 9pm. There is usually one demonstration and one Looking at Art meeting per month. Occasionally the meetings will be via zoom rather than in person. There are no meetings in August due to our Annual Exhibition. For details of forthcoming demonstrations, scroll down this page.

Events for Members charged at cost: We run workshops, Art Appreciation Trips and Art Classes. For more details of workshops and trips scroll down this page.

Special Ticketed Events for Members and their guests: We run several extra social events during the year, which are ticketed and charged at a subsidised rate. This year we have had a BBQ and a lecture about putting on an exhibition and a Christmas Lunch in December.

12th December Monthly Demonstration

ON ZOOM ONLY

Andrew Barrowman: Oil Seascapes

A link will be sent to all members a week before the event.

Andrew Barrowman is a landscape artist based in Cornwall. He works en plein air and from his studio at Krowji, Redruth. He spends many hours walking and observing the varied Cornish landscape and coastline as the light changes throughout the day and time of year. In his work, he uses a variety of media but favours oils and charcoal. He is an addictive sketcher and can usually be found in the landscape sketching during his daily walks with his dog. In January 2024 he received The Artist Magazine Award at The Pastel Society annual exhibition held at Mall Galleries, London. In 2021 he won The Bowyer Drawing Prize at The New English Art Club annual exhibition and a Highly Commended Award at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists summer exhibition. In 2023 he was elected full member of the Pastel Society, London and an Associate member of Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. He featured as a main artist in Sky Arts ‘Landscape Artist of the Year’ in January 2024. Andrew exhibits regularly with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, New English Art Club at Mall Galleries London, The Drawing Society, and The Pastel Society in Mall Galleries London. In 2021 he published his first book featuring 120 oil studies painting the view from his studio window at Krowji Redruth, as it changed over the course of a year. He teaches oil painting with St Ives School of Painting, Cornwall School of Art in Truro as well as running small group sessions from his studio in Redruth. Website: www.andrewbarrowman.art

Instagram: andrew.barrowman

Seascape in oils I will be working in oils using the alla prima technique which roughly translates as ‘done first time’ - in one session (wet into wet). This is a technique I use most often when painting en plein air (outdoors) and requires some patience and skill to avoid colours going muddy. I will paint onto a plywood panel and describe my choice of colours, palette layout and why I use those particular colours. During the demo I will also talk about the brushes I use and any mediums I may add to the paint during the process. The subject will be seascapes. I usually paint scenes that I have a connection with - either through sketching or walking and observing the landscape. I will use a photograph for reference during the demo and will explain why I have chosen the particular scene and show the viewers the plein air sketch done on location, which will help me with the painting.

9th January Monthly Demonstration

Andrew Geeson: Loose Watercolour 

Live at Holy Trinity Primary School. CV37 9QN

6.50pm-9pm.

Andrew Geeson is famed for his speedy and loose watercolours. He is an entertaining speaker and shows how everyone can throw off their 'tightness' and paint in a lively loose style.

He started his career as a botanical illustrator, producing very fine detailed work for publishers throughout the world. He also delved in to the exciting and fun world of children’s book illustration, working for several years with Enid Blyton’s daughter on her mother’s creation Noddy.

It was only fairly recently that Andrew looked for a new journey to undertake, and discovered the beauty and inspiration of loose watercolours. It wasn’t an easy transition, having painted in such a tight manner for so long, but he took up the challenge of this fantastic and rewarding style of painting, learning from the very beginning whilst having to throw off his old style of painting.

 

 Kathryn Wickson: Watercolour Flowers  Workshop

At The Memorial Hall Art Studio, Hathaway Lane, Shottery, CV37 9BL

Saturday 25th January 10am-4pm

Cost £40

Learn to paint a beautiful sunflower in watercolour – techniques we will cover will be using salt to create texture, painting wet in wet, wet on dry, and negative painting. (There won’t be time to use clingfilm on this painting due to the drying time involved, but I can show you how to use this and you can experiment on a spare piece of paper, rather than on the actual painting.)

We will use good quality watercolour paper, which will be provided.

I paint mostly in watercolours and my paintings are inspired by nature. My favourite subject is flowers, but in recent years, I have been also painting landscapes, animals and birds. After taking some Botanical Flower Painting lessons, I started to try to develop a looser style and explore creating more abstract backgrounds, using clingfilm and salt to add texture and interest to my paintings. I have been doing demonstrations and workshops for local art groups for a number of years now.

For more information email the team on workshops@stratforduponavonartsociety.co.uk

Estelle Robinson: coloured pencil and pastel on drafting film

At The Memorial Hall Art Studio, Hathaway Lane, Shottery, CV37 9BL

Saturday 15th February 10am-4pm

Cost £50

We are very pleased to be able to offer another workshop this year with Estelle Robinson who specialises in pastel, coloured pencil and graphite. The workshop will focus on a marine theme.

We will be working with coloured pencils and pastels on drafting film, a smooth opaque support which is perfect for creating perspective with great effect. We will use the pencils to layer up a sharp, detailed foreground whilst by contrast, pastel sticks afford a quick and atmospheric watery background. All materials will be provided.

Further details about further equipment needed will be provided nearer the workshop date.

The course is limited to 12 participants.

Refreshments will be provided but please bring your own lunch and mug.

Workshops are for members only. Non-members can join through this store.

Further enquiries: workshops@stratforduponavonartsociety.co.uk

Clare Henley Acrylics and Collage Workshop

At The Memorial Hall Art Studio, Hathaway Lane, Shottery, CV37 9BL

Saturday 15th March, 10am-4pm

Members Only £40

Claire will be working from a photograph to demonstrate some of the layering techniques she uses in her work. As well as painting, this will include collage, cutting, gluing tearing, scratching, spattering etc. She will bring some samples of her work for a ‘show and tell’ before we start.

You will need to bring your own acrylic paints, brushes and canvas or board. Some materials will be provided. For full details email workshops@stratforduponavonartsociety.co.uk

Refreshments will be provided but please bring your own mug. 

Claire has had a varied career as a professional artist and illustrator. After studying graphic design at college in London, she worked as a designer for a textile company in the Midlands. After becoming freelance, Claire began designing in a variety of fields such as stationery, giftware and toy manufacture before becoming a children’s book illustrator and writer.

In 2010 she began her move into the field of fine art by producing a series of paintings inspired by her love of the landscape and coastal areas of Britain, as well as her favourite urban scenes.

Claire exhibits in galleries from the West Country to Scotland, as well as in her home county of Warwickshire, where she paints in her Stratford studio. Her work is currently licensed by several companies and can be found on home furnishings, gifts, wall art and paper products.

19th January Art Appreciation Trip

Monet and Van Gogh Two blockbusters your choice

Courtauld Gallery London and Monet

No longer available through the store. Please contact Rosemary on Trips@stratforduponavonartsociety.co.uk

Claude Monet (1840—1926) is world renowned as the leading figure of French Impressionism, the movement that changed the course of modern art. Less known is the fact that some of Monet’s most remarkable Impressionist paintings were made not in France but in London. They depict extraordinary views of the Thames as it had never been seen before, full of evocative atmosphere, mysterious light and radiant colour.

Begun during three stays in the capital between 1899 and 1901, the series — depicting Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament — was unveiled in Paris in 1904. To this day, they have never been the subject of an UK exhibition.

Entry Cost £18 - You will need to purchase your ticket before the day. Tickets are likely to sell out so please don't leave it until the last minute. Monet and London. Views of the Thames - The Courtauld

National Gallery Van Gogh Poets and Lovers

The National Gallery is bringing together the most loved of Van Gogh’s paintings from across the globe, some of which are rarely seen in public. They will be paired together with his extraordinary drawings.

Over just two years in the south of France, Van Gogh revolutionised his style in a symphony of poetic colour and texture. He was inspiredby poets, writers and artists. The exhibition looks at this time in Arles and Saint-Rémy as a decisive period in his career. His desire to tell stories produced a landscape of poetic imagination and romantic love on an ambitious scale.

See up-close his ‘Starry Night over the Rhône’ (1888, Musée d’Orsay) and ‘The Yellow House’ (1888, Van Gogh Museum), as well as our own ‘Sunflowers’ (1888) and ‘Van Gogh's Chair’ (1889), among many others.

Entry Cost £24 Exhibitions | National Gallery, London

NB You need to book your visit to the exhibitions unless you are a member of the National Gallery

Coach only cost £25

Depart Henley 8 am

Rother St., 8.30

Stratford Race Course 8.45

Arrive Courtauld 11.20

Arrive National Gallery 12.00

Return National Gallery 4.00

Return Courtauld 4.30

Arrive Race Course 7.00

Contacts:-

Rosemary Cole rarbcole@btinternet.com,

Sue Werner sue.werner@hotmail.co.uk