ISOLartION – George Grayland’s ongoing portrait journey
In season 1 of IsolARTion, Friend of the SEAW, George Grayland shared a view inside his studio and the portraits he was painting. In the months since that article, he has continued to work in portraiture. He shares that journey with us now. When I…
ISOLartION – Carol Whitehouse on a painting journey
When I was asked if I would like to write a piece for ISOLartION I was about to start working on a painting of purple tulips. I began to think of how I go about producing my art. I liken this to a journey –setting…
ISOLartION – Helen Otter on patterns, rhythms and sequences
I’ve found third lockdown harder partly because I’m missing our sons. The youngest spent the first lockdown with us and we got fit with jogging and badminton, made and drank elderflower champagne and laughed a lot. I’ve also found the lack of light hard, felt…
MEET THE MEMBER – Helen Otter
Website address: www.helenotter.co.uk Other art societies you belong to: NSEAD, SAA Role in the SEAW : I have recently volunteered to be the Treasurer When did you start painting? As a child I loved painting, I would spend my Christmas money on poster paints and…
MEET THE MEMBER – Penny Newman
Other art societies you belong to: Ely Art Society Role in the SEAW : I have recently volunteered to be the liason person for The SEAW Friends quarterly newsletters. The newsletter is a valuable way for Friends to find out more about our wonderful watercolour…
Selected Exhibition 2019 Workshops
After the popularity of our series of workshops at Wells Maltings in February this year, we are staging some full day workshops run by our members. All workshops will be held at the Babylon Gallery, Waterside, Ely. Unless otherwise stated, workshops will run from 10am…
A sideways look at the magic of watercolour
Thoughts of a striving painter – Part 1 by Alan Noyes Whatever jottings and ramblings I put down here can either be attributed to ideas and advice I have gleaned over time from numerous books in my studio, (How to Paint like Turner by Tate…