2013 - 2014 Syllabus

Last updated 19 Dec  2013 (by Ian Hobson 01943 877555)

September 2013
2  MEMBERSHIP & Book Swap - Re-join, order materials & bring art books to swap.
9  WORKSHOP* - Tracey Krupianka - Bring your favourite materials.
16 DEMONSTRATION - Stephen Coates - Watercolour Reflections.
23 DEMONSTRATION - Chris Wormald - Clay Sculpture.
30 PICTURE NIGHT - Pam Bumby & Tom Thomson - Bring your problem (finished or unfinished)  paintings for help & advice.

October 2013
7  ILLUSTRATED TALK - Peter Bradshaw - The Great Pyramid.
14 LIFE CLASS - John Ridyard - Bring paper & pencils or paint etc.
21 LAST EVENING FOR AUTUMN EXHIBITION ENTRIES
21 ILLUSTRATED TALK - John Billingsley - The Luck of the House; traditional protective designs and artefacts.
28 TALK & DEMONSTRATION - Brenda Chappell - Caran d'Ache art products.

November 2013
4  ILLUSTRATED TALK - Steve Drinkall, photographer - Wildlife & Wild Places.
11 DEMONSTRATION - Sue Ford - A Street Scene in Collage.
16 - 17 - MENSTON AUTUMN EXHIBITION
18 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Malcolm Oxley - Titian & Venetian Painting.
25 DEMONSTRATION - Rosemary - Brush Making & Using. Includes a set of brushes for at least one lucky member.

December 2013
2 PASTEL WORKSHOP* - Barry De More - Bring oil or soft pastels, and also pastel paper, if you have some.
9 CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

January 2014
6 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Jane Lazenby - The Horse in Art Through the Ages.
13 DEMONSTRATION - Mildred Foster - A group of figures in Charcoal & Watercolour.
17 (Friday) Workshop at The Manor House, Ilkley - 1pm - 4pm
20 ILLUSTRATED TALK / DEMO & WORKSHOP - Sue Kershaw - Mosaic Methods & Materials.
25 (Saturday) Workshop at The Manor House, Ilkley - 11am - 1pm
27 COSTUME/STILL LIFE* (with bicycle) - Tom Thomson - Bring your favourite materials.

February 2014
3  DEMO/WORKSHOP* - Kathryn Oubridge - Explorations in Printmaking: the low-tech approach. An introduction to printmaking techniques.  All materials will be provided - so just bring yourselves.
10 WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOP* - John Ridyard - bring own materials.
17 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Janet Pickering - Wood, Paper, Stone: a look at some German Graphic art.
24 FILM NIGHT - David Myers - The Art of the Moving Image 2.

March 2014
3  DEMONSTRATION - Ruth Fettiss - Lino/Woodcut.

8&9 HANDING IN DAYS for Manor House Exhibition 10 ILLUSTRATED TALK - David Alred - The Algarve, Venice, Las Vegas and more.

15 Manor House Exhibition begins
17 DEMONSTRATION - Robert Brindley - Oil Landscape.
24 PICTURE NIGHT - Judith Tomlinson - Bring your problem (finished or unfinished) paintings for help & advice.
31 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Brian Howard - Emily Carr (artist) of British Columbia.

April 2014
7  WORKSHOP* – Bring paints or pastels, BLANK sheet & photo(s) you have NOT painted successfully.
14 LAST EVENING FOR SPRING EXHIBITION ENTRIES
14  DEMONSTRATION - Nick Summerbell - Painting with Chinese Brush.
21  NO MEETING (Easter Holiday)
28 AGM

May 2014
5  NO MEETING (May Bank Holiday)
10-11 - MENSTON SPRING EXHIBITION
12 TALK/WORKSHOP* - Keith Arrowsmith - A Light-hearted History of Drawing & Painting. Plus a portraiture demo & workshop - bring pencils & paper etc.
19 DEMONSTRATION - TV Artist, Granville Danny Clarke - Watercolour Dynamics: landscape composition, fluid skies, impressionist & realism, the green factor solved, & more!
26 NO MEETING (Spring Bank Holiday)

June 2014
1 Manor House Exhibition ends
2 DEMONSTRATION - Iain Will - An Illustrated Talk & Demonstration of Wildlife Painting using Oils on Acrylics.
9 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Valery Shepherd - Eric Ravilious & Edward Bawden, Graphic Artists.
16 ORIGAMI WORKSHOP - Katie Chaplin of Japan Crafts.
23 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Alex Purves - Artists & Their Habitats - Studios: places of work & inspitation - from Rembrandt to present.
30 STILL LIFE - Angela Hammond.  Bring your favourite materials.
July
7  SOCIAL EVENING

September 2014
1 Membership - Re-join, & order materials.

*Members only (workshops)

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If you would like to be included in our next syllabus, beginning 8 September 2014, send an email to ianhobsonuk @ yahoo.com

Syllabus 2012 - 2013

Last updated 4 August 2012 (by  Ian Hobson 01943 877555)

2012


Sept
3  MEMBERSHIP – Re-join & order materials

10  DEMONSTRATION - Robert Dutton - Expressive loose pastels on watercolour paper - Coastal subject

17  ILLUSTRATED TALK - Malcolm Oxley - Turner in Yorkshire

24  WORKSHOP – Bring paints or pastels, BLANK sheet & photo(s) you have painted successfully

Oct
1  PICTURE NIGHT - John Rydyard - Bring your problem paintings

8  ILLUSTRATED TALK – Geoff Spurr – A Look at Life on the Inland Waterways

15  FILM(S) - David Myers – The Art of the Moving Image

22  Last evening for Autumn Exhibition entries

22  DEMONSTRATION – Bruce Mulcahy – Working with Gouache

29  LIFE CLASS - Caroline Hardaker

Nov

5   ILLUSTRATED TALK – Anthony Slinn – Picasso

12  DEMONSTRATION – Tim Rose – Watercolour Street Scene

17,18  MENSTON AUTUMN EXHIBITION

19  WORKSHOP - Luci Smith – Soft Pastel Landscapes

26  ILLUSTRATED TALK & DEMO - Jenny Stacey - Family Foundling. Also, Bags or Boxes Demonstration

Dec
3  DEMONSTRATION – Tracey Krupianka – African Scene in Acrylics CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW

10  Christmas Celebrations

2013
Jan
7  DEMONSTRATION – Mike Dobson MBE - Watercolour Landscape

14  ILLUSTRATED TALK - Trevor Moody – Frank Sutcliffe, Victorian Photographer. Also, East Riddlesden Hall

21  WORKSHOP – Tracey Krupianka – Painting African Scene (acrylics preferred)

28  TALK/WORKSHOP - Linda Birkinshaw – Illustration & Pop-Ups

Feb
4  DEMONSTRATION & WORKSHOP – Kelly Cox – Caricatures – bring pencils & paper

11  DEMONSTRATIONS – Four, or five, Artists/Members (£10 each?)

18  ILLUSTRATED TALK – George Morris – Western American Adventure

25  COSTUME LIFE - Trevor Ward

Mar
4  DEMO/WORKSHOP – Phil Taylor – Perspective – Bring Pencils, paper & ruler!

11  TALK/DEMO - Katie Chaplin - Kimono (Katie's most popular talk)

18  WORKSHOP - David Waddington - Indian Ink and/or own materials

25  ILLUSTRATED TALK – John Billingsley – Archaic Carved Stone Heads & more

April
1  No meeting

8  DEMONSTRATION – Paul Talbot-Greaves: Buildings in Watercolour

15  Last evening for Spring Exhibition entries

15  ILLUSTRATED TALK - Janet Pickering - Emil Nolde and the Case of the Unpainted Paintings

22  WORKSHOP – Bronwen & Rowena – Wet & Dry Felting

29  AGM

May
6  No meeting

11,12  MENSTON SPRING EXHIBITION

13  DEMONSTRATION - Jeremy Ford - Chalk Pastel Landscape

20  ILLUSTRATED TALK – Glenda Hunter – Fountains Abbey & St. Mary's Church

27  No meeting

June
3  TALK & DEMONSTRATION - Alison Bramley - Frazzled & Dazzled (raw-edged appliqué)

10  ILLUSTRATED TALK – Chris Helm – A Week in May (a fascinating journey)

17  PICTURE NIGHT - Anne Carr - Bring your problem paintings

24  WORKSHOP – Judith Tomlinson – Bring pencils & paper

July
1  Social Evening

Sept
2  MEMBERSHIP & BOOK-SWAP – Re-join, order materials & bring art books to swap