Calendar 2022
Activities October to December 2022
General information.
New members please note that you pay the leader at the first session of an activity, or if you make a single attendance, you are not required to pay in advance.
Please try to bring the correct money in cash or cheques made out to ‘Bexhill Artists’ Workspace’ to any activity where payment is involved.
The reason we make payment for a whole term cheaper than for paying for each one, is that single visit payments mean more work for the leaders of the activities and for the Treasurer.
Please take newspaper or a plastic sheet to protect tables and your own cleansing materials to all practical indoor sessions. No litter may be left at any venue but must be taken home.
October 2022
Open Studio working at Bexhill Museum – second Sunday of each month.
Sunday 9th October. The Studio will run from11.00 am-3.30pm, but we will have access from 10.30am in order to set up. £4.00 per session which includes tea/coffee and biscuits but please bring your own lunch.
The Education room has been updated and we now have trestle tables for our own use to work on and display our items for sale and we will not have additional display tables.
Space is limited and if you would like a place at the studio please call Elaine, contact details in the newsletter, or via the contact page on this web site.
Portrait/figure drawing group
St Peter’s Community Centre, Church Street, Old Town.
The 8 week term will resume on Monday 3rd October at 10.00 am.
Subsequent sessions: Mondays: October 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st, November 7th, 14th and 21st.
Bring any materials of your choice including protection for a table and floor if they are messy materials. Tea/coffee served by the centre is not included in the fees. Fees will be £40 for the term and £7 for any single session.
There are few parking places by the Centre. Parking can be (payment by machine) in the Manor Gardens Car Park. Nearest road parking is in Lychgates Close, north of King Offa Way if you can climb steps and have a head for heights to cross the footbridge over King Offa Way.
The Life Drawing Group.
The Life Group will resume its sessions on Thursday 6th October, 7.15pm at St. Peter’s Community Centre, Old Town, in the ‘Small Hall’. Subsequent sessions: October 13th, 20th and 27th, November 3rd, 10th , 17th and 24th.
We are now able to call on one gentleman and three ladies as models. Prices as follows: a block of eight sessions will be £60 and individual sessions will be £10.
Bring any materials of your choice including protection for a table and floor if they are messy materials. Unfortunately no refreshments are provided, however there is a ten-minute half-time break .
The 7.15 start-time enables attendees to make use of free parking in the Manor Barn car park after 7pm.
Details from Dave, or via the contact form.
Tuesday Workshops
The workshops will take place at St Stephen’s Church Large Hall, Down Road. Bexhill TN39 4HD, on Tuesday afternoons usually from 2.15 to 4.15. There is a small church car park in Down Road and also parking in Newlands Avenue.
1st Workshop, 11th October, 2.15: PAINTING SKIES with Madeleine and Maggie. £5.
Please scroll down to the bottom of this page for more information regarding the workshops, including what to bring.
**2nd and 3rd Workshops, 25th October and 8th November 2.15: LIFE DRAWING with a model. Local artist Sarah Flack will teach the session on the 25th October. £10 for each session.
Details from Dave or via the contact form.
**Payment for these two workshops which will cost £10 each MUST be paid on or by 11th OCTOBER to confirm your place.
Please scroll down to the bottom of this page for more information regarding the workshops, including what to bring.
November 2022
Open Studio working at Bexhill Museum – second Sunday of each month.
Sunday 13th November – please see the October entry for details.
Portrait/figure drawing group
Monday mornings 10 ’till 12 at St Peter’s Community Centre: November 7th, 14th and 21st (final session of this block). Please see the October entry for details.
The Life Drawing Group.
Thursday evenings 7.15 ’till 9.15 at St Peter’s Community Centre (the Small Hall): November 3rd, 10th , 17th and 24th (final session of this block). Please see the October entry for details.
Open Studio working at Bexhill Museum – second Sunday of each month.
Sunday 13th November – please see the October entry for details.
Tuesday Workshops
Please see October’s entry for details.
8th November: Life Drawing Session 2. Start time 2.15 pm.
This will be a continuation of the first session, but without tuition from Sarah. We will however have the same model as before, and expect to repeat and build on the lessons learned in the first session.
22nd November. 4th Workshop – from 1.15 – 4.15: WATERCOLOUR CHRISTMAS CARD with Lesley Smith.
Please scroll down to the bottom of this page for more information regarding the workshops, including what to bring.
AUTUMN EXHIBITION.
A table sale style Exhibition at the Studio of the DLWP will be held on Saturday 5th November. The exhibition will be open from 10 am ’till 3 pm. As well as the items for sale there will be a raffle.
For members – details of how to apply for a table, and other information – are in the newsletter.
December 2022
Open Studio working at Bexhill Museum – second Sunday of each month.
Sunday 11th December – please see the October entry for details.
Special Instructions for the Tuesday Workshops.
1st WORKSHOP. 2.15 11th OCTOBER. £5
PAINTING SKIES WITH MADELEINE AND MAGGIE
Constable said that the sky is always the key to a landscape panting and we all need to practise them. Come with several pieces of good quality paper with your watercolours, or thick paper, boards or canvas with your acrylics, to spend an afternoon perfecting your techniques.
Maggie will talk briefly about the watercolour techniques used by Turner and Madeleine will explain how her late husband Bill created his marvellous dramatic skies in oils.
Some examples will be provided but please try to bring examples of skies by any one of the great landscape painters to inspire your work. Do not bring photographs to copy, as the results would inevitably lack the original luminosity and be disappointing.
2nd and 3rd WORKSHOPS. 2.15 25th OCTOBER and 8th NOVEMBER
LIFE DRAWING with Sarah Flack and Dave Peters. £10 each.
Bring drawing boards or stiff pads of paper. Bring big sheets of paper and a variety of media including chalk and charcoal. If you have an easel and suitable board, bring that – a small number of easels will be available to borrow. If you prefer to work with pastels, bring black, white and dark-ish coloured pastel paper.
4th WORKSHOP. 1.15 22nd NOVEMBER. £5
WATERCOLOUR CHRISTMAS CARD WORKSHOP
Using natural plant materials, baubles and various Christmas decorations we will be setting up a small still life ready to paint for use as a personalised Christmas card or as a festive gift to give to family or friends. There will be lots of demonstrations and time for you to experiment with various techniques.
Items you will need:
. Your Watercolours and brushes
. Palettes
• Water jars
• Cotton rag or kitchen roll
• A rubber
• pencils and a sharpener
. Cooking Salt or rock salt, some cheap cling film. (Tutor will have some available to use.)
• Blu-tack and a few cocktail sticks to Keep things in position.
• your Favourite colourful baubles or Christmas decorations, maybe one that has sentimental value. Or any decoration you think you might like to incorporate into a still life. Ivy, mistletoe etc.
A limited amount of material will be provided by the BAW but if you have any plant material in your garden that you think would be suitable for your own use or that you think someone else would like to paint then please bring them along. The more variety the better. The tutor will have some card blanks for you to purchase on the day.
Optional extras :
. Gem stones and\or Glitter if you want to add some sparkle.
. Some spices if you have some available. Ie cinnamon sticks, star anise, nutmeg.
. Cones.
. Pritt stick to mount your masterpiece on a card. Or you can do this at home later.
. Masking fluid.
Lesley
All enquiries about workshops to Madeleine please via the ‘contact’ form.