Fame for a month – Facebook group report October 2022
Are you enjoying our monthly Facebook competition? We have a very loyal group of Members and Friends who regularly contribute posts of their wonderful paintings to the dedicated SEAW Members and Friends Facebook group, following the theme set for the month. And it is always…
Exhibition report from Mel
We were delighted to hold our third WaterWays Exhibition at the Babylon Gallery, Ely, between 1st – 25th September 2023. We hung 110 framed paintings including several Friends paintings and we had a variety of unframed artworks and cards. We encourage our Friends to enter…
RESOURCE – Top tips for painting outdoors in winter from Linda Purdy
My name is Linda (you may know me as the SEAW Secretary). My favourite pastime is sketching outdoors – in any weather, at any time of year. There is no ‘best’ time as every season brings its own joy. Top Tips – these work for…
TUTORIAL – Considering Composition with Astrig Akseralian
For this exercise I have set up a small still life on a turn table using some of my hand painted collage paper and a remnant of patterned fabric. It’s important to be inspired by what you have set up so it’s worth spending some…
MEET THE MEMBER – Sarah-Cate Blake
Featured image: Joyful Sea by Sarah-Cate Blake When did you start painting? I’ve always enjoyed painting and I’ve kept some of my paintings from as far back as 5 years old when I won a prize for a very jolly clown! Seriously, I trained as…
MEET THE FRIEND – Chris Wright
When did you start painting? In 2015, I suffered from burn out and was out of action for three months. I had experienced this previously in my formative roll as a Police Officer and latterly working in education. This provided me with the opportunity to…