FEEDBACK – Update on Running with brushes
Vandy Massey updates us on her 1000 paintings project for charity. The Running with Brushes goal of painting and selling 1000 paintings was starting to feel unachievable, but when we sent out our appeal last year, the SEAW artists who responded all helped me get…
MEET THE FRIEND – George Grayland
When did you start painting? Other than my art O level and a single oil painting many years ago, it was only on holidays in France that I managed a few watercolours. My first paints/paper came from a French supermarket as an impulse buy. I…
MEET THE MEMBER – Anthony Mashman
When did you start painting? I have painted as far back as I remember as a small child. I have always enjoyed painting in watercolour all through my life. What led you to start painting AGAIN? I began painting more in the late 1990’s when…
MEET THE FRIEND – Scilla Devenish
When did I start painting? I started attending a watercolour class in 1990. I absolutely loved it from the first lesson and kept going every term for several years. I then began to travel with my husband on trips around the world with his work. …
MEET THE MEMBER – Linda Purdy
When did you start painting? I drew as a child and began keeping sketchbooks as a teenager/young adult. Wanting to try watercolours I bought equipment and a book but struggled without a tutor. In 2006 I went on a three day course with Ian King…
MEET THE MEMBER – Lesley Munro
When did I start to paint? When I look back on it, my interest in art probably originated from finger painting at nursery. I was drawing the whole time, on any paper that my dad brought home from his printing job and even the cardboard…
MEET THE MEMBER – Alan Noyes
Other art societies you belong to: Member of the Cambridge Drawing Society. What led you to start painting? Both my parents were artistic, my mother particularly and I remember being encouraged to draw and paint at a very early age. At school I enjoyed both…
MEET THE MEMBER – David Harrison
Other art societies you belong to? Institute of East Anglian Artists. What led you to start painting? I’ve been painting since I was a child and remember the thrill of using poster paints. In fact, after 40 odd years I’m still using the medium in…
MEET THE MEMBER – Bridgette James
Name: Bridgette James Societies you belong to: I became a member of the Society of Botanical Artists in 1993, I am now a Fellow Member. I am also a member of the Iceni Botanical Artists. What led you to start painting: I am a ‘self taught’…
Newport Walks by Tony White
Past SEAW President, Tony White takes us through and unexpected benefit of lock-down. I have always painted and drawn. For some reason painting has taken a back seat for the last year or so, whilst I have been occupied with some print-making projects. Maybe painting…