At the beginning of our ISOLartION series, Annie Rice contacted us to let us know what she had been painting, and in passing mentioned that she was doing Facetime art classes with her grandchildren, so we asked her to share the experience. At the request…
Sue Downie has been making books during lockdown – she explains the process Making books I am really taken with making books. No, I don’t mean ‘How to paint bad watercolours in 5 minutes’ but unique artwork in book form. Until I started making books…
Since the beginning of lockdown, Alan Noyes has been amusing himself and the Hawkedon regulars with cartoons that illustrate life in lockdown, real and imagined. On April 24th he sent out a series about laying turf, with this message: It has been a while but…
This painting by Anthony Mashman, was chosen for our Spring Exhibition poster. Sadly, the exhibition was postponed. It is such a lovely image, we have decided to use it for our next exhibition poster as well. Anthony was kind enough to share a bit of…
Vandy Massey has found it hard to tackle large paintings during these uncertain times, but luckily, she has a marathon art project to finish and would like others to join her. VE was poignant for me – it reminded me of my grandparents and their…
Beverly Hughes shared some experimental work she has been doing during lockdown. Here is what she had to say about it: Like most, I love the transparency of watercolours but I also like the vibrancy which can be achieved by layering, thanks especially to David…
Penny Newman is an accomplished plein air painter, and has found being confined to the house during lockdown quite difficult as the countryside is her studio. Here is her story of this painting. I’d like to name this painting something like ‘Where are the elephants?’ It started off…
Our patron Lillias August responded to our call for a glimpse of work being done during lockdown. She shared her work in progress and the finished painting of a rooks nest found in her garden having fallen out of a tree. Because they’re usually high…
Mel gave us a look at the project she has been working on during lockdown “Last year, a Norfolk sailing friend of my husband Mark, came for tea. He asked me whether I would paint his boat, a Pegasus 800, with him on it, somewhere…
Most of you will have met Vandy in person during her tenure as Chair of the Society. As she takes a much needed break and hands the baton to Mel Collins, we thought it would be fun to find out more about her. Name Vandy…