Our first Challenge of 2026, fifteen entries in a variety of media and styles. Read more

On Thursday 11th December we brought in our artistic creations for the ‘Stormy Landscape or Seascape’ 2025 winter Challenge. As always the work was stunning, the subjects covered by the artwork were varied, testament to the personal interests of our members, depth of thought and research.  After much deliberation we voted for our favourites, the Read more

On Thursday 24th July 2025 we brought in our creations for the ‘Flight’ Challenge. These photos show the breadth of subjects this challenge inspired.  The standard of work was very high, from concept to execution many, many hours of work went into every one. After much deliberation we voted for our favourites, the votes were Read more

The Challenge was 'Africa'. We brought our finished work along on 17th April and voted for our three favourite pictures. Sue L. was in charge, she counted the votes and announced the winners. We scrutinise all group members' work very carefully, there will be important decisions to make. Although really - it's just a bit Read more

Having judged our Autumn Challenge, members had mulled wine and mince pies and then took part in a ‘Frolic’ – the members were divided into two teams and members of each team had to paint elements of Frans Hals’ ‘The Laughing Cavalier’ as quickly and as accurately as possible without the portrait being drawn first Read more

At our meeting on the 9th May, members came with their artwork for our 1st art challenge of the year with the theme ‘Dickens’. This was a very wide theme with plenty of potential subjects for members to draw and paint including characters, places and particular scenes from across all of Dicken’s books. We had Read more