ART CLUB MEETINGS
Our 2 newly-named groups launched in September 2022, when the Art Club year began. More information is available on our Membership page.
If you are not yet a member and would like to join, please contact Maggie Read by email: pirbrightartclub@btconnect.com or mobile 0799552780
The Exhibiting Artists group allows our more experienced artists to work on their own projects, if they choose to, although there is usually an optional 'theme' set for those who feel they need inspiration! This group is geared towards members who wish to exhibit.
The Leisure Artists group is more focussed on painting and drawing for pleasure and learning. Maggie sets the 'themes' for each group and demonstrates at most of the group meetings and when relevant.
All meetings are on Thursdays and they take place at Lord Pirbright's Hall, on Pirbright Green (all meetings are in the Main Hall). The hall is spacious and members normally have a table to themselves, where possible.
CLUB MEETINGS - Summer 2024
Leisure Artists: meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month 1:15pm - 4pm
July 18th
August 15th (*first session of the new Pirbright Art Club year)
Garden Flowers - a scene from a garden you have visited - with statues or fountains or other man-made features (could be a rose-arch or dovecote).
Try using watercolour washes with added detail in pastel pencils, working on 'not' surface watercolour paper. Bring your own photos if possible please. There will be some available as backup.
September 19th
Apples, Courgettes & Sunflowers - a study in pen and watercolour wash
Please bring some of your own objects (whatever fruit and veg/seed-heads you can find) for your still-life set-up. I will have some spare objects in case anyone needs them
Bring watercolour paper - preferably HP (smooth); permanent (waterproof) pens - with black or sepia ink; watercolour paints, brushes and palette. You will need two water-pots, HB pencil & putty rubber.
October 2024
No session this month - (this year only, as Maggie is away)
November 21st
An illustration for a children's story -The Yellow Rabbit - illustrate one of the stories (provided) in a medium of your choice. Your painting could be chosen to be used (with your permission) in a book being put together as a leaving gift for the editor of the Pirbright village newsletter, who has written these stories for several years!
Bring the materials you prefer to use and I will give out the stories on the day. The original artwork remains your own property to use as you wish (to frame and exhibit and/or publish as cards). I will guide you (I was a childrens' book illustrator in a former life!!) I will give ideas and demostrate some techniques and will have examples for inspiration. Maggie
December - November 30th & December 1st (Sat & Sun) - Annual Exhibition
(No art sessions in December)
Xmas Social will be in the New Year - all details to follow
Exhibiting Artists: meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of the month 2pm - 5.30pm
July 25th
A Summer Seascape - including beach & cliffs - a study in your preferred medium
Bring your own reference or choose from photos provided - I have several from a recent art trip to the Dorset coast. Those who accompanied me may wish to develop or complete paiintings or drawings started in Dorset.
We have our first meeting of the new Pirbright Art Club year* in August 2024 (this year is an exception, as we have no meetings in October 2024 - see below.)
August 22nd (*first session of the new Pirbright Art Club year for members who renew)
Garden Flowers - a scene from a garden you have visited with statues or fountains or other man-made features (could be a rose-arch or dovecote). Optional media but you could try using watercolour washes with added detail in pastel pen or pastel-pencils, working on HP watercolour surface (or *HP board)
Bring your own photos if possible please. *I will show examples on watercolour boards
September 26th
Apples, Courgettes & Sunflowers - a study in acrylics (optional) painted on blue ground
Please bring some of your own objects (whatever fruit and veg/seed-heads you can find) for your still-life set-up. I will have some spare objects in case anyone needs them
Bring board or canvas ready primed with a mid-tone blue (opposite on the specrum to the warm colours of the objects selected) - choose a blue-violet or purple if your objects are mainly yellow
October 2024 -
No session this month - (this year only, as Maggie is away)
November 7th - NB. revised date!
Pricing for exhibition ~ work on own projects during session (no optional theme for this meeting). Bring your exhibition entries for comments and pricing... You could still continue to work on entry paintings for completion, if you are sure you can get them mounted/framed in time.
Also - bring your unused or unwanted spare frames to sell if you wish (perfect condition only!)
November 30th & December 1st (Sat & Sun) - Annual Exhibition
No art sessions in December - Xmas Social deferred to January - date to be confirmed!
Maggie Read is always on hand to help members with their work on an individual basis. Maggie is a qualified art tutor, teaching all aspects of drawing and painting in many different media.
For further information about Maggie Read, visit her own website www.maggieread.co.uk
There is an optional theme and suggested medium each month for anyone who needs inspiration! Members are encouraged to bring their own reference photos or source material to work from and use their own style and imagination to create original work...
We believe that art should express our own ideas and copying other artists' work is strictly forbidden, especially when it comes to exhibiting and selling art. Copyright rules are respected.
Our members work in a wide range of media, including drawing materials; watercolour; pen & wash; acrylics; pastels and oils.
(Please note, oil painters should only use water-mixable or low-odour oils.)
Tutored painting meetings: members may purchase a Voucher Card for 5 x sessions at a slight discount from the monthly fee of £10 (cards are £45). These cards are stamped each time a member attends a group meeting. Voucher-cards can be purchased at meetings.
LOCKDOWN 2020
Polperro Harbour
Staged demonstration
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by Maggie Read
May 2020
The November theme for one group was "A Frosty Garden Scene in White Pastel Pencil on Black Paper". Maggie produced a series of demonstration photos and a slide-show, based upon her own painting for members to view on YouTube, as we entered another period of lockdown. Some of the staged photos are shown below.
2020's April theme was "An Interior Scene in Half-light" in watercolour. Maggie produced a series of demonstration photos from her own painting on this theme, see below.
The pictures should be viewed in conjunction with these documents, which can be viewed in either doc or pdf format.
