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Forthcoming Events

due to the coronavirus situation OUR Lectures AT the Radlett Centre and our Sunday Visits have been cancelled.

We are giving lectures online via Zoom for the rest of this year.  please see details below.  Joining intructions will be sent to members.

Our planned holiday in shropshire has been postponed to Septemer 2021.  details and a booking form will be published here when available.

we are also looking at doing some 'virtual' trips.  Again Details will be given here when available.

If you would like to see some of the works by our artists you can look at our pictures pages - click here or use the Pictures tab on the left hand side of this page.

We have also got a special page for 'lockdown' picture, items that were produced during the lockdown period or with particular relevance to it.  See here or the Lockdown Pictures Tab on the menu for these.

REVISED Lecture PROGRAMME FOR 2020
​ (CLICK HERE FOR orginal LIST)  

November 12th  - 7:45 FOR 8PM VIA ZOOM
American Realism 

​by Barry Venning 

This overview of American Realist Art from the late 19th  Century onwards includes celebrated images by Edward Hopper, Grant Wood and Andrew Wyeth; also examined are George Tooker the ‘Poet of American post-war anxiety’, and Archibald J Motley, African-American Chronicler of Harlem society. lesser known but with no less remarkable talents

Barry Is a historian of British Art. Currently an Associate Lecturer in the History of Art with the Open University.

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NEWSLETTERS

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54th Summer exhibition

Please note that due to the coronavirus situation we have had to cancel our summer exhibition.

Our 54th Annual Summer Exhibition in 2020 was planned to be held at again at Battlers Green Barn.  

Our sincere thanks go to Paul Howarth​ for offering the barn the venue for us. 

We hope that we will be able to run an exhibition in 2021.

Holiday

Due to the Covid-19 situation our holiday to Shropshire has been postponed to September 2021.  We hope to be able to keep to the itinerary planned for 2020 as shown below.

Holiday to Shropshire. We expect our holiday in 2021 will be to Shropshire staying at the Mercure Shrewsbury Albrighton Hall Hotel and visiting the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Shrewsbury town centre including the Abbey, Powis Castle, Attingham Park and Wightwick Manor.  More details will be published here when available.

Thursday Painting Workshop
We run a regular Thursday painting workshop for members.  Like other activities these are cancelled at the moment due to coronavirus. 

We are trying to run some summer painting sessions in people's gardens but due to Covid-19 regulations the attend at these is strictly limited.  Our artist members who attend the normal Thursday session are aware of the situation and have invites when appropriate.