Art Of Washes For ‘Terrified’ Painters

Members were treated to a superb evening this month when artist Glenda Maynard, from Wookey, explained, and made relatively simple, the intricacies of methods of painting in her Painting for the Terrified session.

With everyone seated at tables and provided with palette, brushes and water she led us, by example, through the art of washes – making paints and water work together.

Who would have thought that splashing considerable amounts of water onto paper, prior to adding a variety of colours, would cause them to “melt” into such beautiful art forms?

I felt she also possessed another art, that of making us feel, rightly or wrongly, that we were all artists in the making.

Well done, Glenda. We just hope that she was as pleased with us as we had enjoyed doing it. And for once I was not ashamed to bring my own efforts home, though I doubt they will ever make Sothebys.

The Home Group met on April 17, for an Old Postcards from Priddy evening.

Thanks to Ann Shepherd for arranging the trip to 42nd Street at Strode Theatre, in Street – an excellent production and thoroughly enjoyed.

A request for help at the Institutes’ Tea Tent at the Royal Bath and West Show has been received and president Jenny Burton has purchased a Diamond Rose for planting in our Jubilee Tub outside the village hall later this year.

Plans are well ahead for our Coffee Morning with a Difference on Saturday, May 12, with a photograph quiz, a Guess the Farm Implements competition, the Village Millennium Books on display for perusal and the sale of homemade cakes – which we’re rather good at. Please do join us.

At our next meeting on May 8, we shall be discussing resolutions for the national annual meeting.