Jenny French Watercolour Demonstration 10th February

Jenny French joins us on the 10th February and will paint a scene of Burnham Overy Staithe, North Norfolk.  Start time is 10.00 a.m.

Spring Term Tuition

We will have 3  tuition sessions this term.

January 13th with Alan

Mountain Scene  This allows us to look at skies, people in pictures as well as finding another use for all the plastic cards we have in our wallets and purses - we will use them to scrape out rocks!




















March 3rd with Colin Steed - Watercolour 


April 7th with Alan 

Waterfall - Mixing colours on the paper, dropping in colours for texture, and blending are all skills used to create the waterfall rocks. Painting negatively is used to create aspects of the waterfall and we look at two ways of creating water spray effects..

Winter Waterfall

Writtle Art Group looks at Silver Birch Trees

Wet in wet, painting negatively, using side brush techniques for texture, and the use of the rigger brush where skills applied in our latest tutorial.  We've even added a tree loving animal painted by Paul!

We hope you enjoy our work.

Writtle Art Group Autumn 2013 Exhibition

Over 300 paintings and a craft exhibition ensured that all who visited the exhibition on Saturday 26th of October had an enjoyable and interesting time.

To see more of the exhibition click on the slideshow opposite

The Leslie Bass Trophy

The Leslie Bass Trophy is awarded annually to the member's painting voted by visiting public as their favourite painting.   This year it went to Alan Vann for his watercolour painting "Heybridge Basin".

Peter Robson and Peter Pegg were joint second with their paintings "The Cherry Tree" and "The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil", after Claude Monet

Trevor Harwood Pastel Demonstration

Trevor Harwood gave a very informative and inspiring demonstration of his pastel techniques when he visited the Writtle Art Group on Monday the 30th of September.  Over 50 members where taken through the initial stages of how he would tackle a hedgerow composition and his infectious enthusiasm will no doubt result in many members having a go, or another go, at using this delightful medium.

Trevor has promised to complete the work and we will show it as soon as possible.

The Medium

Source Material

An underpainting completed

After 2 hours we have reached this point

To see more of Trevor's work go to the "Links to Artists" of the right.

James Merriot visits Writtle Art Group

James Merriot entertained and informed a group of over 40 members of the Writtle Art Group on Monday the 3rd of June. Painting Hallingbury Water Mill in watercolours, James's distinctive colourful style, coupled with his humourous dialogue, ensured that all present had a very enjoyable morning.

To see more of the demonstration click here.