January 2021, ISOLATION GALLERY
Posted on Feb 05, 2021First gallery of the New Year. I had, like many others, hoped we wouldn’t still be posting work in this way. This is our 11th month of Isolation Galleries and I’m amazed at the amount of work being submitted and very grateful to all those sending in their images. We have no further news as […]
Read more >WSA’s Young Persons Art Competition 2020
Posted on Jan 02, 2021As many of you will know the society launched an art competition for school age children in 2019. Schools within Walsall and the surrounding areas were contacted with the details and invited to take part. Several schools accepted our invitation and submitted pupil’s works, either by email or actual hard copies. Members of the […]
Read more >DECEMBER 2020 NEWSLETTER
Posted on Dec 13, 2020DECEMBER 2020 To tell the truth, I’m sat here mulling over what to write about this uneventful, eventful year. The last proper newsletter went out in January with new membership forms and a full demonstrators programme to look forward to, little knowing what was to befall us all. Some of you did pay your […]
Read more >‘WE’RE STILL HERE ISOLATION GALLERY NOV/DEC 2020’
Posted on Dec 13, 2020We’ve come to the final gallery of this frightening, intimidating, atrocious, nightmare of a year. Many of the works submitted over the time since March cheered me up and encouraged me to try to make the best of the situation we all found ourselves in. I hope, in some way, they have also helped many […]
Read more >8TH ISOLATION GALLERY, OCTOBER.
Posted on Nov 09, 2020Well another month of isolation, lockdown, immurement, incarceration, whatever you want to call it, with just a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel!!! I found this sentence on google when looking up ‘lockdown’ synonyms. ‘But survivors occasionally breached the lockdown and came to the fence to tell their stories, each one astonishing.’and […]
Read more >OCTOBER ISOLATION GALLERY
Posted on Nov 09, 2020Well another month of isolation, lockdown, immurement, incarceration, whatever you want to call it, with just a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel!!! I found this sentence on google when looking up ‘lockdown’ synonyms. ‘But survivors occasionally breached the lockdown and came to the fence to tell their stories, each one astonishing.’and […]
Read more >SEPTEMBER’S ISOLATION GALLERY
Posted on Oct 05, 2020Welcome to our September Gallery. As you will see we have a range of talented artists in our Society. I do appreciate them taking the time to send in the photographs of their works and allowing me to exhibit them on this site and on our facebook page. I already have some excellent works submitted for […]
Read more >August 2020 Isolation Gallery
Posted on Sep 03, 2020I’m finding hard to believe that it’s September already and our facebook Isolation Gallery has been showing works daily since March. Thanks again to all those of you who have submitted works, some of you many times each month, you have all kept the page going. I’m still including works from non-members because, […]
Read more >July’s Isolation Gallery.
Posted on Aug 01, 2020Unbelievable to think it’s August and we’re five months into our ‘Isolation Gallery’. The amount, and the standard of work, that’s been sent in shows the enduring talent and creativity of the group that is Walsall Society of Artists. THANK YOU. With venues opening up again and then new lockdowns being put in […]
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