Club nights

Club nights are held in the Cossham Hall on the first Wednesday evening of each month. They are free to all members. The format of the evening is usually a 7:30 start for the presentation or demonstration. There is then a short break for coffee and the evening usually finishes at 9:30.

Wednesday February 6 2008

AGM Wine and Cheese

Wednesday March 5 2008

Christine Russell

How to Make Your Pictures Appear 3 Dimensional. - Pastel Demonstration

What makes a subject appear 3 dimensional? We will explore the "visual trickery" required to render a 3-D subject on to a 2-D surface.

Wednesday April 2 2008

Water and Reflections in Watercolour - Watercolour Demonstration

A range of techniques in a series of "camera" studies, rather than one 'big picture' to present rushing rivers to surf through to lakes and puddles

Wednesday May 7 2008

Robin Gray

Painting and Drawing Techniques, Caran d' Ache. - Demonstration

Robin will look at numerous new materials with suggestions of how materials can work together or against each other in mixed media.

Wednesday June 4 2008

Paul Weaver

Sketching from Life — The Clothed figure - Demonstration

Learning to see and render form, structure and tone, and the clothed figure provides the perfect subject.

Wednesday July 2 2008

Kate Lynch RWA

From Lambs to Loom - Talk with slides.

Kate spent the last seven years documenting rural farming life in the Somerset levels and now she is focussing on the sheep farming year and associated trading and crafts. This is a preview of her touring exhibition and publication of these documentary art journeys. Her paintings and charcoal drawings capture the relationships between farmer and animal.

Wednesday September 3 2008

Glo Williams RWA - Oil demonstration

Personal Approach to Still Life

Glo's demonstration willl be a personal approach to still life. Painting with the emphasis on design, colour and texture.

Wednesday October 1 2008

Peter Latham

An illustrated talk on composition

Peter will be looking at the elements that come together in the picture, then using slides to illustrate how famous artists have utilised these elements to great effect.

Wednesday November 5 2008

Janette Kerr RWA

In Pursuit of the Elements - Talk with Power Point presentation of her own work in oils and sketchbooks and paintings

Painting by day and Night. Janette will be talking about her personal responses to the landscape, also the work for her PhD, 'Night and Indeterminacy': a study of night painting.

Wednesday December 2008

Christmas Social.