Bruton Art Society

Art of Snow and Ice
2025-02-07 14:30 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Caryford Community Hall, Ansford Park, Castle Cary, BA7 7JJ
Jenny will look at early examples of artists who have made ice and snow a subject since at least the 15th century when winter scenes began appearing in illuminated books of hours. She will show Breughel; take in the much loved Skating Minister, Japanese prints and some Impressionist, Post Impressionist and early C20th works, ending with the contemporary artists Peter Doig and Andy Goldsworthy.

Paper Art
2025-02-20 10:00 - 2025-02-21 16:00 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
Tutor : Naomi Kendall
Thursday 20th and Friday 21st February, Hadspen Village Hall BA7 7LW
10am – 4pm
Book £75 online by 18th February
Naomi is an artist based in Somerset who makes art using paper.
She is a member of the paper Artist Collective and features as a master artisan in the Michelangelo Foundation’s Homo Faber Guide.
In 2022 she was the Evolver Magazine Prize winner and has exhibited her work both here in the UK and abroad.
In her own words,“ Paper is versatile and strong and comes in an endless variety of colours, weights and textures. It’s such an every-day material yet it can be transformed in so many ways.”

Expressive Acrylics - Land and Sea
2025-03-07 10:00 - 16:30 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
‘Lynn is an award winning expressive artist, who is infused with an unwavering passion for painting’ .
‘I paint what I feel, the energy of the subject and the emotion it evokes in me.’  This immersive one-day workshop is perfect for beginners and those wishing to loosen up their painting style and discover new techniques.

Portraiture; a route to character and likeness
2025-03-13 10:00 - 2025-03-14 16:00 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
Tutor: Toby Wiggins RP
Thursday13th and Friday14th March – Hadspen Village Hall BA7 7LW
10am – 4pm
Book £80 online by 6th March.
We are fortunate to have Toby, who is an elected member of the Royal Portrait Society, to guide and inspire us to paint a portrait(s) over two days, using real life models.

Expressive drawing with willow charcoal
2025-04-10 10:00 - 16:00 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
Tutor: Kate Lynch
Friday 10th April, Hadspen Village Hall BA7 7LW, 10am – 4pm
Book £40 plus £5 for materials, online by 4th April
*Note: Book both Kate Lynch workshops for £75 in total.
Kate will be sharing her approach to expressive charcoal and soft pastel drawings which her illustrations of traditional rural crafts in Somerset, are so well known.

Expressive drawing with soft pastels
2025-04-11 10:00 - 16:00 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
Tutor: Kate Lynch
Friday 11th April, Hadspen Village Hall BA7 7LW, 10am – 4pm
Book £40 plus £5 for materials, online by 4th April
*Note: Book both Kate Lynch workshops for £75 in total.
Kate will be sharing her approach to expressive charcoal and soft pastel drawings which her illustrations of traditional rural crafts in Somerset, are so well known.

Painting day at Redwood Rare Breeds
2025-05-07 10:00 - 15:30 | Redwood Rare Breeds, Station Road, Wanstrow, near Frome, BA4 4SZ

Cut, paste and sew Fabric Landscapes
2025-05-08 10:00 - 2025-05-09 16:00 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
Tutor: Imogen Bittner
Thursday 8th &Friday 9th May, Hadspen Village Hall BA7 7LW, 10am – 4pm
Book £75 plus £5 for materials, online by 1st May.
Imogen will be showing and encouraging us to create fabric landscapes using her unique practice of working in a variety of media, which includes an Aladdin’s cave of colourful and patterned textiles, mixed media, drawing and soft sculpture; often mixed altogether.

BAS Trip to Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
2025-05-15 | Mall Galleries, London, SW1Y 5AS
Mall Galleries, London SW1Y 5AS
President’s Tour with Anthony Connolly RP
Thursday May 15th 2025
Booking for the tour of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition has now closed.

Painting Day at Pitcombe Village
2025-05-21 10:00 - 15:30 | Pitcombe Village

Franz Marc and Der Blaue Reiter
2025-05-24 10:00 - 16:00 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
Tutor : Sally Ridout
Saturday 24th May, Hadspen Village Hall BA7 7LW, 10am – 4pm
Book £40 online by the 16th May.
There will be a visual presentation of approx one hour, followed by a discussion and practical exercises related to the topic.
After lunch each applicant will create their own composition(s) based on the Expressionistic examples of Franz Marc and his contemporaries in the early C20th.

Painting Day at Sexeys Hospital
2025-06-04 10:00 - 15:30 | Sexey’s Hospital, Bruton, BA10 0AS

Painting Day at Wells Market
2025-06-18 10:00 - 15:30 | Wells Market, Market Place, Wells, BA5 2SG

Painting Day at Zeals Green House
2025-06-25 10:00 - 15:30 | Zeals Green House, Zeals, BA12 6NH

Painting Day at Parsonage Farm
2025-07-02 10:00 - 15:30 | Parsonage Farm, Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, SP3 5NU

Painting Day at Sturminster Mill
2025-07-17 10:00 - 15:30 | Sturminster Mill, Newton Hill, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2DQ
(Image: Marilyn Peddle/Sturminster Mill)

Handing in day for Annual Exhibition
2025-08-09 10:00 - 13:00 | Memorial Hall, Kings Bruton, Plox, Bruton, BA10 0ED
Handing in times are between 10am – 1pm
Successful entrants will be sent more specific details beforehand. Please keep to your time slot if you are given one.

72nd Annual Exhibition
2025-08-16 - 2025-08-23 | Memorial Hall, Kings Bruton, Plox, Bruton, BA10 0ED
Open daily from 10am – 4pm including Saturday and Sunday
Showcasing the work of many of the members of Bruton Art Society, this is one of the best regional exhibitions that you will find. Over 300 pieces of art for sale, paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings set in the historic Memorial Hall at Kings School.
Exhibition closes at 4pm on Saturday 23rd August.

Life painting - the clothed Figure
2025-09-18 10:00 - 2025-09-19 16:00 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
Tutor : James Budden
Thursday 18th & Friday 19th September, Hadspen Village Hall BA7 7LW
10am – 4pm
Book £75 online by 11th September.
James is a well known local artist and teacher and has become one of our most regular and popular Bruton Art Society Tutors. Under his guidance, we will be painting a clothed figure directly from ‘Life’.

Botanical Illustration in watercolour - Autumn
2025-09-25 10:00 - 2025-09-26 16:00 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
Tutor : Sarah Sherrington
Thursday 25th & Friday 26th September, Hadspen Village Hall BA7 7LW
10am – 4pm
Book £75 online by the 18th September.
Sarah creates beautifully detailed botanical illustrations that inspire and connect with nature. She has chosen ‘Autumn’ to work with us, so we will be concentrating on Berries, Conkers and Autumn leaves.

Adventure, travel and sculpting with Mark Coreth
2025-10-17 14:30 - 16:30 | Caryford Community Hall, Ansford Park, Castle Cary, BA7 7JJ
Friday 17th October, Caryford Community Hall, Ansford Park, Castle Cary, BA7 7JJ
2.30pm – 4.30pm
Members free, guests £5.00.
Mark is internationally recognised as a master sculptor of animals in motion. As a child he grew up on a farm in Kenya which is where his love of animals was awakened. He works in clay directly from his subjects, which he says captures the spirit of the animal as well as that of their environment and energy.
Mark will be giving us a 1/2 hour talk and movie based on one of his many projects and or commissions and will also be sculpting an animal for us during the afternoon.
Note: This lecture was originally scheduled as a workshop at Hadspen Village Hall but has now been relocated to make it available to all members. Attendance is free for members who are also welcome to bring guests for a small charge of £5 payable at the door.

Gelli Printing
2025-10-18 10:00 - 16:00
Tutor : Jenni Richards
Saturday 18th October, Hadspen Village Hall BA7 7LW 10am – 4pm
Book £40 online
Jenni is a Founder member and Tutor of the South West Art Courses Centre at Compton Studios in Sherborne. She is an experienced printer and textile artist, who will delight us with a day of ‘ Gelli printing’ ; a relatively new( to some ), quick and easy form of printing which people are talking about and want to try.

Coach trip to the 172nd RWA Annual Exhibition
2025-11-08 | Royal West of England Academy
Annual Bruton Art Society Coach Trip to the Royal West of England Academy
Queen’s Road, Bristol BS8 1PX. Saturday 8th November
It is a regular feature of our calendar that every year a coach trip is organised to allow Bruton Art society members and guests to spend a day together perusing the galleries at the RWA annual open exhibition.
This year a 36 seater coach has been booked and members are invited to book their seats if they would like to participate in what promises to be a very enjoyable day out.
The coach will leave Wincanton Memorial Hall Car Park at 9am promptly. Parking there for the day is free.
A second pick up point will be in Castle Cary Millbrook Gardens Car Park in the centre of town (opposite the Fire Station), leaving at 9.15am. There is long period free car parking there too.
The Coach cost per person is £20 for BAS members and £25 for guests.
The entrance fee at the gallery is £9.90 and is not included. Members should pay this individually at the desk on arrival.
If you would like to book seats for this trip please complete the form below which will allow you to book and pay for up to 4 seats.

Autumn - Printmaking, using a variety of techniques including monoprinting and foil collagraphs
2025-11-13 10:00 - 2025-11-14 16:00 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
Tutor : Jackie Curtis
Thursday 13th and Friday 14th November, Hadspen Village Hall BA7 7LW
10am – 4pm
Book £75 online
Jackie is a regular and well liked Tutor of the Society. She is an innovative artist /printmaker based in Somerset, inspired by the natural world.
We will be shown and experiment a variety of printing techniques including monoprinting and foil collagraphs, around the theme of ‘Autumn’.

Christmas Lecture by David Chandler
2025-12-03 14:30 - 16:30 | Caryford Community Hall, Ansford Park, Castle Cary, BA7 7JJ
Lecturer : David Chandler
Wednesday 3rd December, Caryford Community Hall, Castle Cary BA7 7JJ
2.30 – 4.30pm
Members are free and guests are welcome for a small fee of £5 on the door, no need to book.
David is a well known artist/teacher and lecturer based in Frome. He will give us a talk about the book he wrote in collaboration with the Tate gallery in 2023, on Masters of watercolour based on his research at the Tate.
This will be followed by our Annual Christmas party.

Annual General Meeting followed by a talk from Anthony Connolly RP
2026-01-14 14:30 - 16:30 | Caryford Community Hall, Ansford Park, Castle Cary, BA7 7JJ
Annual General Meeting of Bruton Art Society; Reports, Elections, Future Planning etc.
Followed by a talk from our patron Anthony Connolly RP:
Why drawing matters and when it doesn’t.
‘I can truly say that a single drawing changed my life.’
Anthony will explain why that drawing was so seminal. He will illustrate his thoughts as to why a drawing might have such a profound effect on anybody and how the encounter continues to inform the way he looks at the world.
Members free, guests £5 to be paid at the door.

‘Nikki de Saint Phalle - Rebel with a Cause’
2026-01-23 14:30 - 16:30 | Caryford Community Hall, Ansford Park, Castle Cary, BA7 7JJ
Friday, 23rd January 2026. 2.30 – 4.30pm
Lecture given by Arantxa Sardina, a credited lecturer of ‘The Arts Society’.
Caryford Community Hall, Ansford Park, Castle Cary, BA7 7JJ

We are very grateful to Aranxta who we asked to come especially, to coincide with the Exhibition on Nikki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely at Hauser and Worth, which closes on the 1st February. This will give our members who wish to attend this lecture the opportunity to see Nikki’s work in real life, if they haven’t already been.

FREE to members £5 for guests payable at door

'Gouache Paint' Taster day
2026-03-13 10:00 - 16:00 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
Friday March 13th 2026. 10am – 4pm. £40
Tutor: Kate Cochrane
Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW

If you have often wondered what ‘Gouache’ paint is like to work with or you would like to learn more about it, Kate is a master in this medium, exhibiting widely here in the South West and is back by special request, having given us a workshop two years ago. If you have gouache paints do bring them, otherwise Kate will provide them.

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‘Oil and cold wax painting’
2026-04-09 - 2026-04-10 | Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW
9th & 10th April 2026. 10am – 4pm. £80 + £5 for materials
Tutor: Jenny Graham’
Hadspen Village Hall, Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, Castle Cary, BA7 7LW

This workshop will cover the process of working with oil paints and cold wax medium, which Jenny uses in her work to great effect. Quote: “We will be using a combination of layering and scratching to create images with depth and vitality. Please bring your usual oil paints, scrapers or redundant credit cards and several boards to work on, I will provide the wax medium.”

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Paint & Sketch Day, Kilver Court Gardens
2026-05-06 10:00 - 15:30 | Kilver Court Gardens, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 5NF, Kilver Court Gardens, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 5NF
Kilver Court Gardens, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 5NF
Formal and informal gardens, including a massive rockery, surrounding a lake, combine to create a stunning landscape set against a viaduct built in 1874.
Scope for serious sketching here. The viaduct is framed by mature trees and the gardens provide a wealth of texture.
Entrance fee £5 or free to RHS members and cafe facilities for coffee or lunch.
