Each month (usually on the first Monday) a professional artist shows us his or her method of working. So we learn how to achieve a variety of effects in many different mediums – everything from willow sculpture to watercolour, impasto oils to pastel portraits, acrylics with a knife to collage, caricatures to book illustration. Once a year members’ work is assessed by a professional artist, usually by our illustrious President, Alan Cotton. Above on the left Alan is seen appreciating Pat Wright’s innovative use of plastic bags to create a painting and he points out the success of Karen Charman’s work in acrylics.

These meetings are free to members, funded from our subscription and the Exhibition sales. Visitors are welcome to these monthly meetings at a cost of £3.

At the meetings, the librarian offers our small collection of art books, loaned free to members for a month, and a number of art videos/DVDs which cost £2 to borrow for a month.