Art Appreciation
| When | 3rd Monday in the month, 2:00-4:00 |
| Where | Meeting Room, Machars Action, Wigtown |
| Facilitators | please use the link top right to send a message |
Next meeting 15th April - possible visit to view the windows at Sorbie Church, Millisle.
New members welcome, please contact the facilitator for details.
See the Groups Bulletin for details.
Previous meetings
- March - a workshop felting, led by Wendy Erskine
- February - a Snowdrop Walk
- January 2024 - Planning meeting
- November - studio visit to local landscape artist.
- October - collection of tapestry & embroidered pictures, and lace at a member's home
- September - studio visit and workshop cancelled due to ill health of host
- August - a conducted tour of the historic graveyard in Minnigaff Parish Church in Newton Stewart, led by our member Elbeth.
- July - visit to Lucy Wright, a local art restorer for a demonstration and talk of her work. Our members were left in awe of the work this husband & wife team achieve. They demonstrated and explained the process from receiving damaged paintings into the studio, stripping them down, cleaning, rebonding, and touching up before finally varnishing and reframing them.
- June - visit to Kirkcudbright Gallery where it was first day of two new exhibitions. Featured artists: Joan Eardley who is famous for her paintings of Glasgow children playing on streets, and Ewan McClure (resident artist at Broughton House).
- April - tour of three exhibitions held in Kirkcudbright Galleries. Two where very traditional artworks and the third was a collection of work from sixty studios across Scotland.
- March - visit to the studio of weaver Wendy Erskine.
- February - Snowdrop walk and a visit to Creetown Church.
- January 2023 - Guest speaker local artist Rosie Dobson from Fountain Croft Studio (Bladnoch).