We hold monthly meetings from September to June and four outdoor painting days at venues around Hampshire in the summer. The meetings are varied in content with demonstrators in all mediums; speakers on various aspects of art, and members meetings involving group activities, such as life drawing. We hold at least four workshops in the winter months with tutors in watercolour, oil, acrylic, pastel or specialised subjects like Chinese Brush painting.
The Society runs daytime and evening classes, which are open to all, to help budding artists improve their painting techniques, as well as life and portrait classes for members.
The Society holds an Annual Exhibition in the Alresford Community Centre every summer that is open to all members regardless of ability; a running exhibition that is changed every three months in the Alresford Surgery, and a selection of paintings are hung in the corridors of Makins Court for the benefit of the residents.
Our email address is artsociety@alresford.org and we appreciate it if members who are on the net could let us have their email address so that we can send all relevant information out in that way.
ART MATERIALS
The society has obtained discount arrangements with Artworthy Framing in Alresford (15%), The Little Green Dragon Bookshop and Artists' Materials shop in Alton (10%) and with The Picture Framing Shop on Hiltingbury Road, Chandlers Ford. (7.5%).
As the Society is affiliated to the SAA we can also buy materials of all kinds, books, videos and DVDs at greatly reduced prices. A catalogue will be available at the monthly meetings and members can order then.