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Chatteris

Art

Status:	Active, open to new members
Group email:	Art group
When:	Monthly on Friday afternoons 2:30 pm-4:30 pm 1st Friday of each month
Venue:	King Edward Community Centre

Group Leader: Peter Leeson

An introduction to graphic expression.

Every month, a different theme will be proposed, and participants will be encouraged to create something that corresponds to the theme. Themes may include subjects, supports, techniques and other things. Participants are invited to bring their own material if they have it, though some will be available for the session. Participants are not required to follow the theme and may work on their own pictures if they prefer to do so.

Upcoming themes and topics

June 5: Give it a try - we are inviting people who do not draw, who believe they cannot paint, to come and try something new... Material and tutorials available.

Past Events

1 May 2026 - Outdoors

Making the best of sunny and warm weather, we had an outside sketching and painting session outside Chatteris Church of St Peter & Paul.

It is always nice to be able to set up shop outside and work from reality rather than from pictures or paintings.

3 April 2026 - Movement

Today was about movement... How do you paint or draw movement?

Participants had tried to represent movement in different media and styles, mostly based on the looped film of a ballet dancer.

As the dancer went through the movements, leaping, spinning, crawling... we tried to represent the movement they inspired rather than drawing the dancer directly.

Of course, as always, participants were allowed to work on their own topic if they preferred.