News

17-January-2026

Our annual Skittles social evening will take place on the 31st March 2026 open to all members in good standing.  If interested, please,  contact Karen for food booking and payment.

11-January-2026

For the club, 2026 started on the 6th January, with our first meeting of the year at the Oasis Academy. This term will run until the 24th March, with no break for half term.

Each term we have one or two themes for members to use as a starting point in their work. Themes for the new term are:

• Faces – 6th January to 10th February: explore different techniques, medias and styles to paint famous faces, dear faces or just some interesting ones. They don’t even need to be human.
• Using Primary Colours – 17 February to 24th March: challenge in creating artwork with the use of Primary Colours only (yellow, red and blue), with the addition of white and black only. A great way to review your colour chart knowledge! On the 17th, William will be demonstrating his colour mixing skills and showing us the wide palette that just three colours can produce.

The themes are for guidance only. Members can decide to create something else instead if they don’t feel inspired. Everything is optional!

All artworks created during the term are then shared with the members in our summary evening on the last term meeting.

Karen is also working on getting a skittles social event, more information to be shared at a later day.

CONGRATULATIONS LINDA!

Our lovely member Linda Penny won the prestigious Red House Open Art 2025, by the Hampshire Cultural Trust
Linda, who is a real star and inspiration when it comes to pastel artworks, entered her painting called “Structure 5” (see image below) in the Red House Open Art 2025, an exhibition run by the Hampshire Cultural Trust at the Red House Museum in Christchurch. She was announced as the winner on Saturday 25 October 2025.

All of the art club members are wishing the best for this victory and we hope she can enjoy a good celebration!

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