Plein Air meeting today!

To be announced

Keep an eye out for more information and directions on the Plein Air Group of the RAS facebook site.

Members who can help take down the exhibition please email the committee. Take down will start at 10am immediately after remaining works have been removed. Please help with take down if you can please.

This is the last day of the Summer Exhibition and doors will close at 4.45pm

Our thanks to all who came to see our artwork and those who purchased works of art!

Please come and join us at Greyfriers for an exhibition of Ringwood Art Society members’ exhibits

Open to the public Monday to Saturday 10.00 am to 4.45 pm, and Sunday 1 pm to 5pm.

The Exhibition is open daily between 14th and 26th August.

The preview evening for invited guests, in the presence of Rae Frederick, Mayor of Ringwood, commences at 7pm with award presentations at 8pm. Our exhibition adjudicator this year is the very talented Stuart Beckett.

Members exhibiting at the Annual Summer Exhibition can hand in and have exhibits adjudicated today.

Hand in at Greyfriers Community Centre in the Hilary Christie Room

2.00-3.00 12th August Hand in (Morning helpers to be able to hand in at 11.00 and Lead Stewards to be able to hand in at the end of the briefing)

Each exhibitor to be provided with a pack containing:

• Name header

• Artwork labels

• Cloakroom tickets with their catalogue numbers

• White tac

  Exhibitors to white tac the cloakroom ticket and name label to the correct picture before handing it over to the hanging team. Hanging team to display work with labels by the work, (cloakroom tickets on the frame clearly visible to the photographer) and name header on the board.

Plein Air meeting today!

We are heading to a private garden overlooking Linford Bottom.

Keep an eye out for more information and directions on the Plein Air Group of the RAS facebook site.

Or email ringwoodartsocietyuk@gmail.com to request to be added to our plein air whatsapp group.

We welcome back Maxine Marsh for a demonstration in the use of Acrylics, Inks and Watercolours.

This event is free to members and £5 on the door to non-members.

Plein Air meeting today!

……will be at Linford Bottom!

There are Forest views, a stream (perhaps, if not dry by now) and a bridge.

Lunch is proposed at the Alice Lisle afterwards.

Meet about 9am.

Keep an eye out for more information and directions on the Plein Air Group of the RAS facebook site.

Sadly, this event is cancelled.

Saturday workshop day with tuition by local artist Helen Talbot.

This workshop is open to the public to book at £35 for the day.

Members are invited to bring in their works for critique by a professional artist Danny Bryne.

Be brave and bring in as many works as you wish. This is usually a very worthwhile exercise!

Danny has become a highly successful painter and has received many prestigious awards. He has exhibited in all the major art societies and in most of London’s key galleries. These include:

• The Royal Academy

• Royal Portrait Society

• Royal Institute of Oil Painters

• Royal Pastel

• Royal Society of Watercolour Artists.

He has also exhibited at the Royal Academy Bristol and since 2000, has been a regular exhibitor with the Holburne Art Gallery and Museum, Bath.

He has been a member of the Society of Equestrian Artists for over 20 years and won ‘Best Painting in Exhibition’, 2011.

Paint Out Ringwood - Open Plein Air Competition

Saturday 8th June Great RAS Paint Out

A new venture especially aimed at those who can't usually join us on our weekday Plein Air sessions - and anyone who hasn't joined in a plein air session before. Members and non-members will be welcome.

We'll be working from 10.00 - 2.00, so bring your sketchbooks, coloured pencils, charcoal or paints along and have a go in the (hopefully) glorious sunshine. It’s going to be very informal. You can work where you like, in whatever medium you like and for as long as you like. Bring your work along at 2.00 to share it with the rest of the participants.

We'll have some judging at 2.30 and there will be a small prize - which you can enter if you like.

We’ll have some photos of points of interest on this page soon just to help you decide where to go.

Timetable:

10.00 Check in the Market Square in front of the church

10.00-2.00 Artists work in and around Ringwood for as long as they want.

2.00 Artists finish working and return to the Market Square in front of the church

2.00 – 2.15 Artist set up their work along the wall. Mutual admiration!

2.30 Judging, for those who want to enter their work, followed by a small prize.

Let us know you are coming…….

Plein Air meeting today is Breamore House

Meet at Breamore around 0900. There are views of the clock tower and the grounds or you could walk behind the church for views of Breamore House.

Keep an eye out for more information and directions on the Plein Air Group of the RAS facebook site.

Join Club night with a demonstration by Helen Talbot

Plein Air meeting today!

May 1st Plein Air will be at Keyhaven near Lymington. Meet at the Keyhaven car park (SO41 0TP) around 9am.

The Gun Inn is open from 11.30 for those who wish to do lunch.

Should be views of the spithead as well as the Isle of Wight.

Keep an eye out for more information and directions on the Plein Air Group of the RAS facebook site.

Saturday workshop tuition with Sue Smith

This workshop is open to the public to book at £35 for the day.

About Sue -

​I have always loved to draw and paint.   It wasn't until moving to Bournemouth in 2001 that I decided to take it more seriously and I had some professional watercolour instruction learning many new techniques.  Then in 2008 I found myself signed to an Agency who employed teachers of art on cruise liners. I have since then been lucky enough to travel the world doing what I love to do and pass on my knowledge of watercolour techniques.​

I now do regular demonstrations to local art groups, teach in my studio at home to small groups, and Chair a local Art Group as well as being a member of two more groups.  My first love is watercolour although I am a pastel painter as well; having this year had a pastel accepted in the Patchings International Open Art Exhibition in Nottingham.

​In 2010 I was Highly Commended in the SAA Artist of the Year Competition. 

Join Club Night this month for a charcoal drawing fest! Bring your boards, paper and charcoal and join in.

Free to members, £5 on the door to non-members.

Plein Air meeting today!

April 3rd Plein Air will be at Wilverly Plain off the Burley Road (see map). Park in the Wilverly Plain Car Park around 9am.

Keep an eye out for more information and directions on the Plein Air Group of the RAS facebook site.

Join Stewart Beckett for a day tutorial in oils - Capturing the Landscape.

This workshop is open to the public to book at £35 for the day.

Attendees can use oils or acrylics, but this workshop is not suitable for watercolours.

Join Club night with a demonstration of collage by Sue Smith

About Sue -

​I have always loved to draw and paint.   It wasn't until moving to Bournemouth in 2001 that I decided to take it more seriously and I had some professional watercolour instruction learning many new techniques.  Then in 2008 I found myself signed to an Agency who employed teachers of art on cruise liners. I have since then been lucky enough to travel the world doing what I love to do and pass on my knowledge of watercolour techniques.​

I now do regular demonstrations to local art groups, teach in my studio at home to small groups, and Chair a local Art Group as well as being a member of two more groups.  My first love is watercolour although I am a pastel painter as well; having this year had a pastel accepted in the Patchings International Open Art Exhibition in Nottingham.

​In 2010 I was Highly Commended in the SAA Artist of the Year Competition. 

Apologies, but due to a lack of attendees we have to cancel this workshop.

Join Club night with a demonstration in oils by Stewart Beckett.

Members who have exhibits at the Salisbury Exhibition are invited to collect work from Greyfriers

Open Monday to Saturday 09.30 am to 5pm.

We welcome Virginia Whiting for a morning’s tuition - Using Cold Wax

This workshop is open to the public to book at £25 for the day. There is an additional charge for any materials provided by the Tutor.

I am primarily a painter of contemporary landscapes and seascapes having been born and brought up in rural Northamptonshire with the freedom to roam and develop the love of the countryside which has always inspired my work.

Based in Cranborne Chase for over thirty years, I now feel a strong engagement with the rolling chalk downlands and woodlands close to my home, as well as the nearby New Forest. The rugged coastal areas of North Cornwall and Pembrokeshire, which I have visited regularly since childhood, are another deeply important influence.

We welcome back Lindsey Cole with a demonstration - Exploring the Landscape with Mixed media.

This workshop is open to the public to book at £35 for the day.

Open Monday to Saturday 09.30 am to 5pm, and Sunday 09.30am to 12 midday.

Members who have submitted works for the Salisbury Exhibition are invited to present these work to the commitee for transportation today

Members and their guests are invited to the Society Christmas Party at Greyfriars Community Centre - please see details on the invitation and please remember to RSVP.

Members wishing to exhibit in this years Salisbury Hospital Exhibition should submit their entry forms no later than 5pm today please.