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What's On 2021
Discover the events Leicester Sketch Club has to offer and what our members are up to. |
Coffee and sketch at the Cosy Club - on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, from 10.00 till 12.30
Next meeting: October 6th, 7pm, Leicester High School - Jo Sheppard - Critique
Members are invited to bring along a piece of work for Jo to give some feedback. This can be a finished piece, or work in progress.
Members are invited to bring along a piece of work for Jo to give some feedback. This can be a finished piece, or work in progress.
Upcoming events
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November 3rd, 7pm, Leicester High School - Emma Fitzpatrick - Artist talk A talk about Emma's artistic journey over the past 5 years from Urban Sketcher (including her commission for St Martin's Lodge), through her art retreat in Ireland and DYCP Arts Council grant up to her current work as a printmaker producing monoprints. The talk will highlight the underlying importance of outdoor sketching to her work. |
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December 1st, 7pm, Leicester High School - AGM and social evening
2021 online exhibition
The 2021 Leicester Sketch Club exhibition is going to be online, here on our website.
Launch: Wednesday 29th September 2021
Exhibition dates: Thursday 30th September to Friday 31st December 2021
PAST EVENTS
September meeting
This was an artist talk by Wayne Attwood, back meeting up in person at Leicester High School. A fascinating talk about his work as Artist in Residence during the demolition and reconstruction of Birmingham New Street station.
July meeting
This was an online meeting where we had a look at pages from members' sketchbooks, and talked about how we use these in our work.
June meeting
This was a talk by member Tony O'Dwyer - 'An artist and his work from the 1960's to the present.’
There is a link to the recording on the members' page.
May meeting
This was a portrait in oils demo by Rob Wareing - see the members' page for the video.
Update 25/8/21 - sadly Rob's wife has informed us that Rob passed away last week - "Rob was really looking forward to starting live workshops again and inviting you all to his new studio but sadly this was not to be."
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”