Elvaston Art Club

The Art Group meets once a week at Elvaston Village Hall. Members enjoy a convivial atmosphere where they can paint and explore different styles of art. Several times a year guest artists visit to teach and demonstrate their techniques and styles. There is an annual Art Club exhibition where members can display and sell their work.

The number of members in the club is restricted by the space available in the village hall and currently membership is at its maximum capacity, but if anyone is interested in joining the club please contact the secretary to add your name to the waiting list

Secretary: Carolyn Tong    email: whymill@live.co.uk

Meeting dates:  Every Thursday 10:30am - 12:30p

  ELVASTON ART CLUB CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION 2011 

     
  Fine weather,- a cosy fire, cups of tea ,homemade cakes, a raffle and paintings and crafts for sale, all helped to attract many visitors to Elvaston Art Clubs` Christmas Exhibition , at Elvaston Village Hall on 19th November.

 l to r  Maggie Strand and Heather Whitehouse with their prize winning pictures, seated Mrs Peggy Potter

With 115 painting entries; an attractive craft stall, which included a working 5` tall,  Skeleton Clock, hand-made from various woods by James Mould, and a display of members` old family photographs, visitors had plenty to look at this year.Our judge was Anne Pollard, who awarded the "JOHN POTTER CUP" to Heather Whitehouse for her amazing painting of the face of a black cat, entitled "Into The Light" and  the Second Prize winner was Maggie Strand for her magical painting "Guiding Lights".

  Mrs. Peggy Potter and her daughter Susan travelled down to see us ,and presented the Cups to the winners. Our charity collection raised £55 for Headway, The Brain Injury Association.

The last meeting of the Club before Christmas will be on Thursday 8th December, and we will resume on Thursday 5th January 2012.
 

July 2011 

We enjoyed two fascinating demonstrations recently; in April, Carol Hill, a skilled artist and teacher and President of Matlock Artists, demonstrated how to capture mood and atmosphere with watercolours. She painted a Derbyshire countryside scene, showing barns and winter trees, from one of her photographs. In june Norman Rossiter travelled from Lincolnshire to pass on many good tips and advice whilst he portrayed a kingfisher perched on a branch overlooking a stream.

We always enjoy these demonstrations, it is fascinating to watch paintings being created on a blank piece of paper and finished in less than two hours. The fact that the artists are teaching us and answering our questions at the same time is quite amazing! We always learn something, even if the subject or medium is not our usual choice, and we always come away feeling inspired!

 The following photos were taken at a recent meeting at which the artist Geoff Kersey demonstrated the construction of a countryside scene: