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What's On 2021
Discover the events Leicester Sketch Club has to offer and what our members are up to. |
LEICESTER SKETCH CLUB – PROGRAMME 2021
Outdoor sketching
Thursday 17th June Kirby Hall, Corby, Northamptonshire - more details here
Members will need to book in advance via English Heritage - entry is free for English Heritage members, otherwise £9.00 for a standard adult ticket, or £8.10 for concessions (over 65) - with a 90p optional donation
Please let us know as well that you will be coming (email enquiries@leicestersketchclub.co.uk)
Saturday 10th July Medbourne - more details to follow
Upcoming events
June 2nd, via zoom, at 7pm. Tony O'Dwyer - members' talk - 'An artist and his work from the 1960's to the present.’
Tony’s talk has been recorded and will be followed by live questions and answers.
“I am a figure painter who takes frequent excursions into landscape. My figure paintings are usually of the nude and I also a paint portraits, when I can find a sitter. I have a passion for urban sketching and am currently developing that. I paint in an improvised, on the spot way, taking the image from realism to abstraction - and back again sometimes. I go out sketching at least once a week to locations in the Midlands and I keep a small sketch book for daily studies.
I retired from being a librarian with Leicestershire Libraries and was a mature student at De Montfort University (BA Fine Art). I kept a small studio in Ireland for several years and my work has found its way into several galleries there, and was included in an exhibition of Irish artists at Denver University in 2006.”
July 7th - will be a social IN PERSON at Leicester High School - more details to follow.
August - no meeting
Sept 1st, 7pm, Leicester High School - Wayne Attwood - artist talk
October 6th, 7pm, Leicester High School - Jo Sheppard - Critique
November 3rd, 7pm, Leicester High School - Emma Fitzpatrick - Artist talk about her monoprinting work
2021 online exhibition
We are planning an online exhibition to take place in early Autumn - more details to follow....
PAST EVENTS
May meeting
This was a portrait in oils demo by Rob Wareing - see the members' page for the video.
For more details about Rob, visit his website at https://www.robwareing.com/
April meeting
Thursday 15th April, 7 pm
Our April meeting was an appraisal by Peter Clayton, on Thursday 15th April at 7 pm.
See the members' page for a recording of the evening.
March meeting
Wednesday 3rd March 2021, 7pm
Printmaker Sally Hirst was our guest for the March meeting. Sally is an experienced and talented printmaker who will be concentrating on monoprinting which requires simple equipment and no press.
For more details visit her website at https://sallyhirst.co.uk/
See the members' page for a recording of her talk.
February meeting
Wednesday February 3rd 2021, 7pm
A demonstration/talk by Chris Forsey. Chris works in acrylics, watercolour and mixed media. His work focuses on landscape and architectural subjects using texture and expressive techniques. He used acrylics and some ink in this demonstration.
See the members' page for a recording of the demo and the completed painting.
January meeting
At this meeting, Sketch Club members Vanessa Parkinson and Maxine Dodd shared some of their personal techniques.
Maxine Dodd: “My work is inspired by sport, movement and other fleeting moments. Drawings, paintings and combined media, including pen, ink, watercolour and pastels. Subjects include cycling Tour de France, Six Nations rugby and more.' You can read more details on https://maxinedodd.com/about/”
Vanessa Parkinson: “For a couple of decades I have taken part in Tudor re-enactments as Lettys, poor gardener and have built up a lot of knowledge about plants and their uses. During lockdown I kept a record of some of the plants/weeds I grow and used a variety of art techniques to log these. After a few false starts, I finally found a way to display the plant images in the form of “Lockdown Gardener’s Tatter Hat”, which was accepted for the cancelled Leicester Open”
Outdoor sketching
Thursday 17th June Kirby Hall, Corby, Northamptonshire - more details here
Members will need to book in advance via English Heritage - entry is free for English Heritage members, otherwise £9.00 for a standard adult ticket, or £8.10 for concessions (over 65) - with a 90p optional donation
Please let us know as well that you will be coming (email enquiries@leicestersketchclub.co.uk)
Saturday 10th July Medbourne - more details to follow
Upcoming events
June 2nd, via zoom, at 7pm. Tony O'Dwyer - members' talk - 'An artist and his work from the 1960's to the present.’
Tony’s talk has been recorded and will be followed by live questions and answers.
“I am a figure painter who takes frequent excursions into landscape. My figure paintings are usually of the nude and I also a paint portraits, when I can find a sitter. I have a passion for urban sketching and am currently developing that. I paint in an improvised, on the spot way, taking the image from realism to abstraction - and back again sometimes. I go out sketching at least once a week to locations in the Midlands and I keep a small sketch book for daily studies.
I retired from being a librarian with Leicestershire Libraries and was a mature student at De Montfort University (BA Fine Art). I kept a small studio in Ireland for several years and my work has found its way into several galleries there, and was included in an exhibition of Irish artists at Denver University in 2006.”
July 7th - will be a social IN PERSON at Leicester High School - more details to follow.
August - no meeting
Sept 1st, 7pm, Leicester High School - Wayne Attwood - artist talk
October 6th, 7pm, Leicester High School - Jo Sheppard - Critique
November 3rd, 7pm, Leicester High School - Emma Fitzpatrick - Artist talk about her monoprinting work
2021 online exhibition
We are planning an online exhibition to take place in early Autumn - more details to follow....
PAST EVENTS
May meeting
This was a portrait in oils demo by Rob Wareing - see the members' page for the video.
For more details about Rob, visit his website at https://www.robwareing.com/
April meeting
Thursday 15th April, 7 pm
Our April meeting was an appraisal by Peter Clayton, on Thursday 15th April at 7 pm.
See the members' page for a recording of the evening.
March meeting
Wednesday 3rd March 2021, 7pm
Printmaker Sally Hirst was our guest for the March meeting. Sally is an experienced and talented printmaker who will be concentrating on monoprinting which requires simple equipment and no press.
For more details visit her website at https://sallyhirst.co.uk/
See the members' page for a recording of her talk.
February meeting
Wednesday February 3rd 2021, 7pm
A demonstration/talk by Chris Forsey. Chris works in acrylics, watercolour and mixed media. His work focuses on landscape and architectural subjects using texture and expressive techniques. He used acrylics and some ink in this demonstration.
See the members' page for a recording of the demo and the completed painting.
January meeting
At this meeting, Sketch Club members Vanessa Parkinson and Maxine Dodd shared some of their personal techniques.
Maxine Dodd: “My work is inspired by sport, movement and other fleeting moments. Drawings, paintings and combined media, including pen, ink, watercolour and pastels. Subjects include cycling Tour de France, Six Nations rugby and more.' You can read more details on https://maxinedodd.com/about/”
Vanessa Parkinson: “For a couple of decades I have taken part in Tudor re-enactments as Lettys, poor gardener and have built up a lot of knowledge about plants and their uses. During lockdown I kept a record of some of the plants/weeds I grow and used a variety of art techniques to log these. After a few false starts, I finally found a way to display the plant images in the form of “Lockdown Gardener’s Tatter Hat”, which was accepted for the cancelled Leicester Open”