Category Archives: Talks

ONE WEEK TO ENTER

To submit your work first join the society ( if not already a member)
brutonartsociety.co.uk/membership-form/ then go to
brutonartsociety.oess1.uk to register and enter images of up to 5 works.
(Entry fee is £7 per piece)
Work eligible for entry includes paintings, drawings. original artist prints, (etchings, linocuts, woodcuts etc) & sculpture.

Work selected must be taken to the exhibition venue at
King’s School Memorial Hall, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0ED for final selection and hanging on 14 August
The Exhibition runs from Saturday 21 – Saturday 28 August
Collection of unsold work is on Sunday 29th August

Full entry details will be found on the OESS website above when you register and enter your work.

Ipad Workshop – a few spaces left

Would you like to be able to paint on an iPad like David Hockney?

If you have seen his exhibition “The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate in East Yorkshire” which he did in 2011, you will know how enchantingly fresh and unfettered his digital paintings are.

We have a few places left on a workshop on Saturday and Sunday the 12th and 13th of June at Hadspen Village Hall, Castle Cary, Somerset. We are lucky to have Diana Seidl, a well known artist, author and teacher in this “new” medium to help us develop (or begin in some cases) our digital experience.THE ART OF THE IPADDiana says

“This two day course will not only teach you to paint and draw on an iPad, but will also show you how it can be the most valuable tool to aid and improve your traditional painting. The technology is more simple than you think and students will be drawing and painting within 15 minutes of starting the course.” http://dianaseidl.co.uk/

The course costs £65. If you are interested, please book your place by emailing paybrutonart@nullgmail.com

Tessa McIntyre

We were very saddened to hear of the death of Tessa McIntyre in early February. Tessa was a fine and highly respected painter and printmaker. Her work has been a key feature in many exhibitions in this region for many years. Tessa was a great supporter of the Bruton Art Society and had many friends there. She will be much missed by all who knew her.

We hear there will be an exhibition of her work in Shaftesbury at a later date and we will post details when we know more.

The Bruton Art Society will mount a special display of a selection of her work at the Annual Exhibition in August.

Will Vaughan (Chair)

Here’s an earlier interview and profile of Tessa by John Baxter

Tessa’s website

Tessa’s Page on our website

Portrait Painting/Drawing Challenge

Anthony Connolly RP was to run a portrait workshop for Summerleaze Gallery last week at East Knoyle,  but as it couldn’t go ahead he sent daily images to would be participants & others over the 4 days & followed up with a critique of their work.

12 of our members enjoyed the challenge of these exercises.

Here are some examples of their work.

http://www.summerleazegallery.co.uk/contact.html

https://www.anthonyconnolly.co.uk/portrait-paintings

Our January Lecture following the AGM

Trees in 19c British & American Art by Professor Christiana Payne

16 January 2020

Report by Will Vaughan

Photo JB

Christiana Payne, Professor of the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University, has had a distinguished career researching British landscape art and genre painting of the nineteenth century. In recent years she has been exploring the representation of trees and the significance that they had for artists and amateurs in the period. Her recent book, Silent Witnesses; Trees in British Art 1760-1870, focussed on the work of British Artists, but in this lecture she extended the theme to cover American artists of the period as well.Perhaps it was as a reaction to the growing urbanization caused by the Industrial Revolution that artists in the late eighteenth century became increasingly involved in representing the natural world. Trees particularly

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Christmas Lecture 2019

‘Winter Landscapes’  by Colin Wiggins                                        

11 December 2019

Report by Will Vaughan   

Colin Wiggins (photo-J Baxter)

Once again the Bruton Art Society has enjoyed the pleasure of a talk by Colin Wiggins, former lecturer and curator of special exhibitions at the National Gallery. Colin is well known for the high quality of his lectures, in which he combines entertainment and information in his own unique manner. Last time he spoke to us four years ago, he told of his activities at the National Gallery, in which he encouraged leading contemporary artists like Peter Blake, Sean Scully and Paula Reago to produce works that engaged with major works in the Gallery’s collection. This time he was inviting us to look again at the seasonal theme of Winter Landscapes, with a particular emphasis on snow scenes.

He took us from the earliest representations of snow in the late middle ages – in such exquisite works as the Tres Riches Heures of the Duc de Berry – to fascinating colour explorations of Monet and other Impressionists. He also brought in treatments outside the European tradition, in particular the marvellous winter scenes of Japanese woodcut artists like Hokusai.

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