JOHN HORTON, 7.30pm, THURSDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER   This month John Horton will be demonstrating a landscape with birds for WSA.                    John’s favourite medium is watercolour and his art covers a wide variety of subject matter from general landscape and wildlife through to animal portraiture. He specialises […]

Local artist Adrian Clamp is our demonstrator on Thursday from 7.30 to 9.30pm.  Although he works in a variety of mediums using different subject matter, he will be demonstrating portrait painting using acrylics for us. Adrian began exhibiting his works after leaving art college. On the strength of his exhibitions he gained his first job […]

‘WALSALL TO WESTON’ exhibition. Our exhibition at the Granary gallery certainly drew the visitors on Sunday. They began arriving well before the 2pm opening.                                                               […]

Transformations, mixed media.   Admiring the work of Hundertwasser, I am very much looking forward to the demonstration this week. Claire lived and worked in Scotland for 18 years, before moving to Worcestershire in 2010. She has worked in a variety of media including textiles and printmaking. Over the last 10 years she has worked […]

WSA’s ‘Walsall to Weston’ exhibition, 29th June -30th July.   A big thank you to all the artists who managed to get to The Granary Gallery, Weston Park by the 10.30 deadline to deliver their works. Selection took place as the works were being registered so the ‘hanging committee’ were able to crack on with […]

Pascale Bigot, who had not visited WSA before, certainly enthralled members with her pastel work demonstration last week. Sketch books and numerous examples of her work, in various media, were available to be looked at.                   Painting and mixed media works.   Pascale explained how she initially drew and […]

Pascale Bigot, born in France, is now based in Stourbridge. In France she originally studied architecture and later took  evening classes in drawing concentrating on using charcoal and sanguine. She now works in a multitude of media, acrylics, water colours, inks, pastels.                           […]

At 7.30pm at St Martins Church Hall we shall be welcoming Wayne Attwood as our guest demonstrator. Wayne graduated from art school with a diploma in Art and Design. He became successful at painting large historical works, some being commissioned for heritage buildings in England. ‘St Martins, Thawing Snow’ After working as Creative Director for […]

This Thursday we welcome Linda Nevill as our guest demonstrator. Fine Art printmaker Linda, who also paints in oils on canvas, uses the world around her as stimulus for her creations. Her work reflects a range of social issues such as homelessness, social control, war, as well as natural images, moods and light.     […]

Well our first critique event prove to be a success. I’m basing this on the favourable comments I’ve received since the evening. Thank you to the members who submitted works for the event. There was quite a variety. Here are a few.                              […]