Wallingford Art Club is taking part in this year’s Christmas Fayre by displaying members’ artwork at St Mary-le-More Church on Sunday 6 December, from 11.30 am to 4 pm. The Christmas Fayre brings many visitors into Wallingford, and the church will also host refreshments and children’s lantern-making. This is a lovely opportunity to showcase our […]
On Tuesday 17th November at 7.30 pm, Wallingford and District Art Club is delighted that James Ort, a wire and ceramic artist, will join us again. He is a local Oxfordshire artist who creates exciting animal sculptures and this time James will focus on his use of sketchbooks as part of his creative process. The […]
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 Saturday 3rd October, Robin Danely will be making a return visit to the Wallingford and District Art Club. She will run a workshop focusing on a portrait in oils or acrylics. This is a follow-up from her enjoyable, instructive demonstration in July last year. Robin, who lives in Oxford and has featured on Sky […]
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 Saturday 18th July, Catherine McVean will be making a return visit to the Wallingford and District Art Club. She will run a workshop focussing on a still life in oils, using a silver object. This is a follow-up from her enjoyable, instructive demonstration in March. Catherine explained she loves doing still lives, using objects […]
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 […]
Our Spring Art Show was held over the weekend of 8–10 May at Centre 70. I wanted to say a huge thank you to everybody who helped make this year’s show such a success. Many visitors remarked on the quality and variety of the paintings on display, and it was wonderful to see the exhibition […]
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 Annual General Meeting took place at 7pm on Tuesday 17 February at Centre 70, where our chairman gave a brief overview of finances for 2025 and plans for 2026. Here is his report in full. Over the past twelve months, the club has continued to do what our constitution asks of us. We have […]
