Birstall and District Art Society
Meeting Notices
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Wednesday Evening,
Informal, Art Sessions
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Click Here for details
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Friday Morning
Informal, Art Sessions
9:30am to 12:00pm
Click Here for venue
and other details
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Live Art Demonstration
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Our next live art demonstration
Tuesday 13th May
Demonstrator: Helen Brown
Subject: Introduction to oil painting
Medium: Oil paint
Birstall And District Art Society
Welcome to our web site
We hope that you will enjoy your visit
For more information please click on the index above or on the Click Here links
Latest Update:
9:15am Wednesday 2nd April 2025
New to our website?
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on what we do
and what is available.
The email contact for our secretary is: sec@badas.uk
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The email contact for our Chairman is: chairman@badas.uk
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The email contact for web site items is: web-site@badas.uk
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Wednesday: Early evening, informal art session
Friday: Morning, informal art session
What's on this week
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No live art demonstration in April
It is members appraisal evening
on Tuesday 8th April Members - You can bring along up to three pictures for appraisal by Amanda Jackson
Click here for details
B.A.D.A.S.
Art Classes / Workshops
Classes and Workshops
run by other groups or individuals
(Not endorsed by BADAS)
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Bromleys Art Supplies have some good Acrylic Painting Ideas on their website
[28 Curated Video Demonstrations & Tutorials] Click here to view
Click here to view our Gallery page where members can display, up to, six items of their work at any one time.
These items can be for sale
Please keep us supplied with new material. email them to: web-site@badas.uk
Exhibitions
If you know of any Art Societies / Groups that are
having an Exhibition,please let us have the details
at: web-site@badas.uk
we can then add it to our notice board
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Monday art classes have finished
for the time being
Samples of the great work produced in the second three weeks is shown further down this page
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Thank you to everyone that was able to get to the Special General Meeting on Friday 7th March. The three proposed amendments to the society's rules were all passed unanimously.
Click here if you would like to see a copy of the society's rules.
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Our latest live art demonstration by
Caroline McFarlane
Portrait in pastel
Click here to see a review
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A Report on our previous Live Art Demonstration
Vision & Composition in Watercolour
By Stephen Coates
To view the report of the demonstration Click Here
To view photographs from the demonstration Click Here
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Advance Notice
Starting at the Demonstration on June 10th the charge for non-members to the live Art Demonstrations will be £5.00
The price for Members remains at £3.00
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The Second Set of Spring Art Classes have finished.
Maxine Dodd took the class.
The subject was, Exploring Ink and Wash
Here is some of the excellent work produced
To see an enlarged version of a picture just click on it
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Notice from Patchings
There will not be a
Patchings Art fest this year
Due to have been held from Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 July 2025. There are a number of reasons for taking this step, which includes developments and plans we have for 2026.
The dates for 2026 are Thursday 9 to Saturday 11 July.
If you have any queries as an artist or maker and would like to apply to take part, please let us know.
We look forward to welcoming you next year for our 32nd Patchings Art fest.
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It is the 30th anniversary of the society this year.
The committee are making arrangements to hold a celebration
It will be held on Sunday 20th July at Syston Rugby Club
Full details to follow (but please put it in your diary now)
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If there are any difficult weather conditions, or situations, that could cause problems with accessing any of the Classes, Art Sessions, Demonstrations etc. then a message will be posted here on your website as soon as we are aware of it.
We will also do our best to send an email out to all members, advising them of what is happening.
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Birstall & District Art Society
29th Annual Art Exhibition
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Details of the awards at the exhibition
Click here to see the results
Display of all the wonderful entries
to this years exhibition
Click Here to view.
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Mary Hirst Memorial Prize
for the painting voted the public's favourite
in the exhibition presented to
Charlotte Stephenson
for
Red Boats - Evening
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Previous Art Demonstration
Nick Birchall - Still Life
Line - Watercolour - Ink
Click Here to see review
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Members, Art Appraisal Evening - 2024
by Amanda Jackson
Click Here to read a review of the evening
Click Here to see some of the wonderful selection
of pictures produced by the membership
Click Here to see links
to "Art" articles & Info.
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Sue Phipps is a volunteer at
The Wigston Framework Knitters Museum.
She has produced some pictures for their,
"Secret Garden" Booklet and Cards,
some of which she has kindly shared with us.
Click Here to view them
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If you are wondering:
1. How you would like to develop your art, or
2. Where to get inspiration for your next project, or
3. Where you can just look at work that has been produced by well-known artists.
Then, as well as the Classes, Demonstrations and the Informal art sessions that we run, there are a great number of websites to get help from. Here are just a few that I hope you will find of interest:
Raphael's Rooms, Sistine Chapel and many others in the Vatican: Click Here
The Met - New York - So much to look at if you have the time: Click Here
The National Gallery - Virtual Tours: Click Here
The Louvre - So many fabulous Paintings & Drawings: Click Here
Have a look at our "Art Articles and Information page" - Click Here
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Artvee.com. has a variety of art works that are in the public domain, which you can browse, and download high-resolution copies of any that you particularly like. Click Here to visit the site.
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If you know of any sites that would be of interest to members
please let me know at : web-site@badas.uk
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If you know of any Art Societies / Groups
that are having an Exhibition,
then please let me know the details at:
web-site@badas.uk
