Virginia Water Art Society 2026

 Calling new members!! Virginia Water Art Society is delighted to invite you to take out annual membership for 2026 at a reduced price - now £35. Monthly demonstrations by professional artists, the chance to exhibit with us in new venues, and a friendly, welcoming group of new friends. 

Enquiries to 07740587483

Social evening at Virginia Water Art Society with Guest Artist Kim Page

 We enjoyed Kim Page’s wonderful appraisal and advice session last night as part of our Summer Social. Thanks to Kim for his thoughtful and encouraging response to members’ work, to Doug for the food, and to members who braved the weather to join us!

Demonstration By Sera Knight improving painting

 

We’re so pleased that Sera Knight was able to come and join us on Wednesday evening when she demonstrated her ways of looking again at pictures with which she was not very happy, and working to improve them. Absolutely fascinating, and at times very funny, the evening spoke to all of us who have ever discarded an “unsuccessful” painting. Thank you Sera

Workshop with Dave White 11.7.25

 Superb workshop today with Dave White, on painting the sea and sky in acrylics. We were packed out and everyone enjoyed themselves and learned a lot. Well done everyone and enormous thanks to Dave!

 

demonstration by Melanie Paice oils 2nd July 2025

 Thank you to artist Melanie Paice for her information and entertaining demonstration last night, a Devon view in oils.

Virginia Water Art Society Display at Line Village Hall 14 June 2025

 Our display at Lyne Village Fair is looking good!

This year the Art Society had to postpone their display on the Station Approach Green in Virginia Water from 7th June due to possible rain and wind conditions so the event took place on 14th June which was also the day which had been booked to take part in Line Village Fair. Amazingly they managed to do both events well done everyone.

 Dear Members and Exhibitors and visitors

The forecast for tomorrow is pretty bad, so the Committee have sadly decided that we have to postpone our exhibition from tomorrow to Saturday 14th June. 

Demonstration by Daren Mason 4.6.25

 Daren Mason gave us a very entertaining demonstration of how he enables the people who attend his classes to create an expressive and personal portrait of a bird or animal. Using a lion as an example, he demonstrated some methods new to many of us.

Demonstration by Sharon Hurst 7.5.25

 Another inspiring and very enjoyable evening with artist Sharon Hurst last night at Virginia Water Community Centre. Sharon used the challenge of depicting the favourite flower of this time of year, bluebells, to show us a huge amount of watercolour techniques.

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Demonstration By Ian Henderson 5.3.25

 Last month Ian Henderson gave a stunning demonstration of his animal portrait technique.

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Demonstration By Mark Warner 2.4.25

 Mark Warner last night showed us what the word 'brushmark' really means, demonstrating a helpful approach to a challenging landscape via colour.

Workshop with Ian McKillop 28.3.25

 We enjoyed a highly enjoyable and instructive day yesterday with Ian Mckillop Artist drawing various groups of challenging objects and having a go at portraits of each other. Some very good work was produced and we had great fun.

 VIRGINIA WATER ART SOCIETY PROGRAMME 2025

n. VWCC Virginia Water Community Centre Beechmont Avenue Trumps Green Virginia Water Gu25 4EY

 FEBRUARY 5th (Wed) Demonstration Kim Page VWCC 

 MARCH 5th (Wed) Demonstration Ian Henderson Dog Portraits, soft pastel on tinted paper. VWCC

 MARCH 28th (Fri) WORKSHOP Ian McKillop Drawing LYNE APRIL 2nd (Wed) Demonstration Mark Warner Landscape in Acrylics VWCC 

 APRIL 11th (Fri) PAINTING DAY with Doug Coe Glass, Perspective LYNE 

 MAY 7th (Wed) Demonstration Sharon Hurst Bluebells in Watercolour VWCC 

 JUNE 4th (Wed) Demonstration Mark Fennell Oils VWCC 

 JUNE 7th (Sat) EXHIBITION n/a 

 JULY 2nd (Wed) Demonstration Melanie Paice Landscape in oils using brush & palette knife VWCC

 JULY 11th (Fri) WORKSHOP Dave White Seascapes Workshop LYNE 

 AUGUST 6th (Wed) Demonstration Ian McKillop Seascapes in oils VWCC 

 SEPTEMBER 3rd (Wed) Summer Social n/a VWCC 

 SEPTEMBER 6th (Sat) EXHIBITION n/a VWCC 

 OCTOBER 1st (Wed) Demonstration Paul Oakley VWCC 

 OCTOBER 10th (Fri) WORKSHOP Kim Page Autumnal Landscape using watercolours LYNE

 NOVEMBER 5th (Wed) Demonstration Rodney Kingston VWCC 

 NOVEMBER 7th (Fr) PAINTING DAY n/a LYNE DECEMBER 10th (Wed) AGM and Christmas Party n/a VWC

For further info Contact v@vanessagordon.co.uk 07740587483

Demponstration by Kim Page 5th February 2025

 Kim Page gave us an excellent demonstration on Wednesday evening, using an image taken locally at Virginia Water lake to demonstrate how to convey recession with colour when painting with watercolours. Kim is running a workshop for us in October. Interested? Put your name down in case we have too many people hoping to come along. All-day Friday 10th October at Lyne Hall, cost £40.

Demonstration by Jo Harris 6.11.24 Virginia Water Art Society

Jo Harris demonstrated many techniques of drawing the human figure on Wednesday evening. She showed the effects to be achieved by taking your time, and by capturing the essence of the figure in a few bold marks. She demonstrated using negative spaces and highlights to guide your work. We had an enjoyable and instructive evening.