This year’s Spring Classwork Exhibition will be on display in the Reading Room 1st – 29th April and will feature work by the Watercolour, Mixed Media, Intermediate and Life Drawing students.
Art Group members are invited to drinks and canapés in the Reading Room to celebrate the opening of the exhibition at 6 – 7 pm on Tuesday 1st April.
The AGM will be held in the Reading Room a day later at 6 – 7pm on Wednesday 2nd April.
We look forward to seeing you.
Please book at reception if you would like to come to the art studio (as there is a capacity of 66 seats), as well as if you want to watch on zoom (so we can send you the link the day before the lecture).
If you are coming to the studio, please arrive a few minutes early so you can get to your seat.
The students in all of the classes have been producing some amazing artwork this term. As an incentive to get to your seats or to log onto zoom in plenty of time I will run a slide show of paintings and drawings by students from 7.50pm.
Edgar Degas said, ‘a painting requires as much fraudulence, trickery and deception as the perpetration of a crime’. Artists can manipulate colour, form, composition and subject matter (even facts), in order to explore universal themes such as life, death, feelings or politics, and to engage our emotional participation in the work.
We will examine the way that modern treatments of traditional genres, by artists like Manet or Picasso can add to or change, our understanding of the subject and its message. Also, how Poussin, Reynolds and Max Beckman frequently manipulate perspective, composition and reality in order to convey more than meets the eye.
Our lecturer, Frank Woodgate BA, ACIM, MBCS lectures at Tate Britain and Tate Modern and teaches for Dulwich Picture Gallery, Pallant House and The Art Fund.
If you’d like to try an art class, you can now take single lessons with ‘Pay Per Class’. Book an individual three-hour class for £23.50 – or £30 for Life Drawing – or come along to as many classes as you wish, subject to availability.
All daytime classes, apart from Thursday afternoon Acrylics, run for 10 weeks with a break for half term 17th – 21st February.
Thursday PM Acrylics runs for 9 weeks from 23 January with a break for half term 17th – 21st February.
Mondays 10am – 1pm 13th January – 24th March
Tuesdays 2 – 5pm 14th January – 25th March
£23.50 per session
Click here for the Tuesday syllabus
Click here for the materials list
Mondays 2 – 5pm 13th January – 24th March
£23.50 per session
Click here for the syllabus
Click here for the materials list
Wednesdays 10am – 1pm 15th January – 26th March
£30 per session including live model
Thursdays 4.15 – 7.15pm 23rd January – 27th March 9 weeks
£23.50 per session
Click here for the syllabus
Click here for the materials list
Full syllabus and materials lists can also be found in the hoppers under the Art Group noticeboard opposite Reception.
You do not need to join the Art Group to attend on a Pay Per Class basis. However, you will need to do so if you decide to sign up for the term.
Before your class either visit Reception or call the team on 020 8480 4200 (option 4). All Pay Per Class bookings are subject to availability.
Open Studio gives Art Group members the opportunity to paint and draw together on Saturdays and Sundays. It’s informal, untutored and free to join.
Please follow this link Open Studio – Roehampton Club to the Members’ website for the most up to date information about availability. Or log in and search ‘Open Studio’.
If you need help accessing or navigating the Members’ website, please contact Rahma Khairadin rahma.khairadin@roehamptonclub.co.uk
Richard Ramsey, Art Group Chair
