Warsash Art Group

  Bursledon Brickworks Industrial Museum Thursday 29 th  July 11.00am – 4.00pm Those attending were spoilt for choice of painting and sketching subjects here, inside and out: the steam powered brickmaking machinery, the large collection of chimney pots and tiles, the Penny Arcade. Southampton & District Transport & Heritage Trust are based here with their collection of buses. Before we started, some of us enjoyed  tea / coffee cakes at Wonderberry’s Café, now open seven days a week.   More information about the collections and the full history of brickmaking at Bursledon is on the Museum’s  website https://thebrickworksmuseum.org/ One of our members, Steve Whitehead is a resident artist at the Museum, with work for sale in their shop. Image: Mike Ryde, the Brickworks chimney (work in progress) Gallery of mixed media sketches, mainly  by Joan Lee at Bursledon Brickworks 2011 onwards Joan Lee's sketches of chimney pots and decorative tiles

2021 is the 150th anniversary of the consecration of St. Mary's Church Warsash, nextdoor to the hall where Warsash Art Group normally meet for first Thursday evening artist demonstrations and Tuesday classes.  Revd Nicky-Sue Terry, the joint vicar at St. Mary’s Warsash , has been delighted with the response from our members to paint and draw the church during this anniversary year. Some of us sketched in the churchyard in April and May. The front cover of the July edition of the   Warsash Parish News    featured the wonderful drawing Tina Shaw produced from her sketches; and August's cover has Joan Lee's mixed media painting of the cast iron lampost and lych gate (left), built up from her sketch in the churchyard. Printed copies of Warsash Parish News are available from Warsash One Stop-cum-Post Office for 45p each they and can  be downloaded from the St. Mary’s website if you register: https://www.stmarywarsash.org.uk/parish-news/ There will be a flower festival in the chu

  Lee-on-the-Solent - 8th July Audrey Sawdon -   sketched the views of town houses and shops along Marine Parade West Linda Amor -  Linda organised this meet-up and stayed for several hours sketching beach huts among other things Joan Lee did two sketches looking across the Solent to yacht racing off Cowes and the view towards the (still standing) landmark chimney at Fawley Power Station. These filled four 15cm x 21cm (A5) sheets of her homemade concertina sketchbook which folds away nicely for lightweight portability on a bicycle. 

 This is a gallery of Warsash Art Group member Joan Lee's mixed media sketches at Bursledon Brickworks Industrial Museum 2016-18.

  Image here: "At the End of the Tunnel" - painted in oils by Rob Trent as lockdown restrictions in England began to be lifted in  the early spring.   The links below go to timelapse videos of him  painting in his new studio. He has been a member of Warsash Art Group since 2018 and has attended Kay LePoidevin's Tuesday classes. He is also a full member of the  Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (MFPA) . When he is not painting, he's AccessAdvisr which reviews the accessibility, and otherwise, of many places around the world to people with disabilities.  For more, please subscribe and share his art and access content on his You Tube and Instagram channels: Instagram @robtmfpa  https://www.instagram.com/robtmfpa/ On You Tube:  Tour of the new art studio  Parrot Bournemouth - a tonal study Funky Zebra

 News updates copied from our website March - April 2021: Image: "Early Spring" Jan Milsom, acrylic, 2021 Next Online Demonstration - Thursday 8th April 6.30pm for 7.00pm Ronnie Ireland -  The Humble Pencil Ronnie says, “ I’ve only got a pencil -  Never overlook the humble pencil - it’s our best friend! Different types of pencil, different techniques for different reasons from quick sketches to larger scale finished works, the pencil can do them all!” A Zoom invite went out to our Members by email on 31st March, and again after Easter on 6th April. Ronnie will be hosting the meeting and will begin his demonstration at 7.00pm. People will be able to join from 6.30pm onwards meaning there'll be a good half hour to welcome everyone, pass on any messages and to sort out any technical glitches. During the demo, we ask everyone to mute their mics and also turn off their videos and ask any questions via Chat (text only)This is to conserve bandwidth and avoid connectivity issues