Our Exhibition is to go ahead this August – our first online exhibition.

We’re really looking forward to receiving, selecting & showing our members’ work to what we anticipate will be a much wider audience.

Artist members, this year, can enter work for the exhibition without submission fees or having to pay commission on sales. In other words it will cost them nothing except time!

Thinking of joining us? We have about 230 members which include amateur & professional artists. Every August you will benefit from the chance to show work with what has become a popular & regionally respected art society. Membership costs just £15 per annum

Membership Form           May 2020 Newsletter           Programme 2020 

This year’s most popular work in our 66th Annual Exhibition was

“RIver I” – a large oil painting by Anne Wills

Thank you to all visitors who took time to vote for their favourite piece.

Congratulations to Narnia Van Heerden who has received Bruton Art Society’s Award to a King’s School Pupil . We hear she has excelled at her A levels this year across the board and gained an A* in Art. Well done Narnia! You can see her work on the easel in our exhibition.

On Saturday 2 March a new art gallery opened in Castle Cary High Street. It is in the former premises of the Natwest Bank and is a branch of the David Simon Contemporary Gallery in Bath. Continue reading “Picasso’s Muse” in Castle Cary; A New gallery Opens. →

Making Art Matter: Clifford & Rosemary Ellis  Victoria ART Gallery, Bath,  8 September to 25 november 2018  |  Normal  admission charges apply Continue reading Making Art Matter: Clifford & Rosemary Ellis. Victoria Art Galllery Bath →

Sacred Spaces is the title of BAS member Julie Jenkins’ exhibition for Somerset Art Week 15^th to 30^th September.   It is open 11-6pm Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in her home no 2, the Old Police Station, South St., Wincanton BA9 9AZ. 
Continue reading Julie Jenkins. Sacred Spaces 15-30th September. →

Opening to the public on Saturday 18th and running until Saturday 25th 11-5 pm daily at the Kings’ School Bruton, our annual exhibition is an event not to be missed.

The exhibition is a great opportunity to enjoy the work of local artists and to purchase, cards, mounted but unframed work as well as the selected framed works. This makes it all a real opportunity to buy fine affordable art.

Committee members, helpers and judges have a quick lunch together during the key days when the selection , judging and hanging all came together.

Every year, (for about 30 years now) I go up to London to take in the RA Open Exhibition and the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery.  Continue reading BP PORTRAIT AWARD and Michael Jackson 2018 →

Just a taster to encourage you to go.  The few images I have chosen simply reflect my search for the “wow factor” and a bias towards the figurative.  Continue reading Royal Academy 250th Summer Exhibition →