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Club News 2026

Next meeting:    
Wednesday June 3rd, 7pm -  Sarah Kirby - artist talk
‘A Printmaker’s landscape / a walk in the park’

Leicester High School for Girls,
454 London Rd, Leicester LE2 2PP

Sketching days
Thursday 18th June - ​Left to Draw Studios and Market Harborough Canal Basin
10.30am at Left to Draw Studios, Union Wharf, Market Harborough, LE16 7UW

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​​​Coffee and sketch at the Cosy Club - on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, from 10.00 till 12.30 

Last year's club news here

What's coming up in 2026


2025 slideshow - here's a reminder of all our activities over the last year 

2024 slideshow 
2023 slideshow 
2022 slideshow




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Tues 19th May - ​sketching at Stonehurst Family Farm & Museum
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Sunday 17th May - Carne Griffiths - Order and Chaos - in watercolour, inks, alcohol and tea 
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Wednesday May 6th - Paul Bailey - Demo - Abstracting the Rural Landscape
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The painting at the end of the demo
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Paul's new edit next day. "The changes were reasonably significant - basically, I wanted to tone-down the colours a fair bit. Some of the original version is still visible."

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Wednesday 22nd April - Sketching at Kibworth Antiques Centre
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Saturday 18th April - Jemisha Maadhavji     Portraiture in Oils
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Wednesday April 15th - ​Critique with Heather Harley
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Saturday 7th March - Kevin Holdaway     Reduction Lino print workshop
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Wednesday March 4th - Henrietta Corbett - Artist talk  Raku fired ceramic sculpture
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Saturday 21st February - Workshop with Carol Pairaudeau
Ways to incorporate gelli printing into a fine art practice 
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Wednesday February 4th (ZOOM)  
Fun evening - Sharing work on the theme of growth and decay - Take a literal or sideways view of the topic.
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Wednesday January 8th (ZOOM)
Members' talks: We welcomed three members of the Sketch Club who have been invited to talk about their work, share images and explain their developing practice - Ian Cox, Maria Potemptski, and Maxine Dodd.

​If you would like to watch a recording of the evening, it's available here:  January Members' Talks
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