Our next meeting
Our next meeting is on 20 May 2025 and will be a landscape demonstration in oils by Nick John Rees. Please make every effort to attend.
Previous meetings
For reports of this year’s previous meetings, please click here.
Derrick Turner Images
Please see all the galleries for the Derrick Turner competitions from 2017 onwards.
Unfortunately, as these images were taken on the evenings, not all the information (artist, title, medium) was available to me - I should be grateful therefore if you would contact me if you can add any more details.
The images also may contain reflections, which is sometimes unavoidable. If you have a better image that you would like to be used instead, please send it to me and I shall change it.
Photo Album
I have added a new feature to the website - ‘Photo Album’. This is intended to show photographs from the Society’s archives, going back up to about 40 years ago! If you have any photographs which you think may be of interest or you can help to identify past members shown in photographs already posted, then please let us know. You can find Photo Album here. More photos will be added in due course.
Members Gallery
Members may have any of their painting images posted here and these may be for sale if you wish. However, please see the note below re sales. If you have any images you would like posted in this gallery, please send them to the Website Manager. The Members’ gallery is online here.
The 2025 SWAS AGM was held on 25 March 2025.
Volunteers needed
SWAS is urgently in need of volunteers to join the committee. Most of the existing committee took up the reins in 2022 when necessity required, having all done previous periods of serving on the committee. They have all done more than their fair share and would now like to step back from their committee duties. For this society to continue, it is essential that more volunteers come forward to take over. In particular, the positions of Chairman and Secretary still need to be filled for 2025. There is no reason why these jobs shouldn’t be shared between two (or more) individuals.
If you have enjoyed what we do, please consider helping to take this society forward. If not, this society, founded in 1887, will cease to exist.
Please direct any questions to the chairman, secretary or any other member of the committee.
Derrick Turner Competition 2025
Congratulations once again to Joe Rhodes, who won this competition at our last meeting on 11 March 2025. Please see here for a report of this event.
Lee Wright portrait of Roger Farrance
Lee has now finished the portrait of Roger, which he started at SWAS in a demo on 16 April 2024. Roger now has the painting. You can see it at the bottom of this page.
Next London Trip
The Society has arranged a trip to the Royal Academy, for their Summer exhibition, on the 9th August 2025.
Everyone is welcome to join us, SWAS members will have first choice, after which the list will be open to ex members and friends.
The coach will depart from the British Legion, Earl Haig club at 0800, the return journey will leave the Green Park tube station, next to the Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, at 1700.
Tickets, £32.00, payment, four weeks before date.
Names, to the reception desk, or telephone, Anthony Batey,
07871102025. Email anthonyb919977@gmail.com
