Wallingford and District Art Club invites you to come along to our next demonstration at 7.30pm on Tuesday 24th October, in Centre 70, Wallingford. Aurora Spain, a Berkshire-based artist, will be showing us the stages she works through when painting abstract trees. She expects some of her techniques will be new to us. Aurora says […]
On Tuesday 15th September Mark Wood, a Wallingford based artist, gave a demonstration on painting seascapes in acrylics. Here are notes Nicola took on the night. Scilly isles beach. 3 photos as reference, beach, sky, foreground. Split canvas into 3rds – land, horizon one third and third of sky. Draws simple sketch to start. […]
On Tuesday 16 June from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, Buckinghamshire based artist Nicky Hunter gave a live demo on creating flamboyant florals in watercolour. Below are notes taken by Nicola Webb throughout the demo. Uses 300gsm weight paper. Rougher paper and larger brush to get expressive marks. Lots of water! Uses 4 brushes including 2 squirrel […]
On Tuesday, 19th May, from 7.30 to 9.30pm, we will be welcoming Jan Gaska back to Centre 70. Jan is a landscape and portrait painter based in the Chilterns. He uses oil paints and has a particular love of working outdoors. We will be treated to a demonstration where he uses oil pastels and focuses […]
On 21 April from 19.30 to 21.30, we will be welcoming Jennie Whaley, a mixed media artist who will demo painting a wildlife scene. She has lived in Berkshire for twenty years contributing to Berkshire Artists and art events in the UK. Her early life was in Zimbabwe where shortages of art materials meant she […]
WADAC’s 2026 AGM was followed by a short illustrated talk by David Woodward entitled Odd Types – a fascinating journey through the history of typefaces. He started by explaining that a typeface was a family of fonts, including – for example – the bold and italicised versions, while a font was one particular style within […]
On Tuesday 20th January, we had a live demo by Claire Cross – watercolour with salt Morning tutor, Claire Cross, demoed to a good turn-out of around 30 people, including 6 new visitors. Claire is interested in incorporating watercolour mark-making techniques into real paintings. During the demonstration she used salt to meaningfully create a beautiful […]
Tuesday 18th November, live demo by James Ort – Animals in Clay, 7.30pm Centre 70 James says: Clay is a fascinating medium – I love it. Life can evolve from it and with each firing in the kiln a sculpture can become more and more breathtaking. I’ve always admired the movement and poise of all creatures great and […]
Tuesday 21st October, live demo by Sarah Martinez – Pop Art Screen Printing, 7.30pm Centre 70 Sarah Martinez runs Berkshire Printmakers with her artist husband Cipriano Martinez. They teach silkscreen printing in art centres, colleges and schools to adults and children. With over 20 years teaching experience, the couple set up Berkshire Printmakers after realising […]
On Tuesday 16 September, artist Mark Wood demonstrated his lively, expressive style, creating a landscape of Wittenham Clumps in acrylics. Mark worked from three separate photos he took, combining elements of each and adding a few that weren’t in the photos. He uses student quality acrylics and basic stretched frame canvases, but good quality brushes […]
Tuesday 19 August, live demo by Melanie Cambridge – Seascape in Oils, 7.30pm Centre 70 Melanie says: She insists on doing a compositional sketch first, then taking photos as reference. She combined elements from 3 photos into her painting – the headland, near shore and close-ups of people. She used an 18 x 22” canvas, […]
