Don’t forget to pop along to the Christmas Exhibition, taking place at the Exchange Gallery, Saffron Walden library. Art and Cards for sell. Chance to buy affordable artwork from local artists.
Friday meetings
SWAS meet on the 3rd Friday of the month at Katherine Semar School, Ross Close, Saffron Walden CB11 4DU. The hall is open from 7pm. We start promptly at 7.30pm, finishing at 9.30pm. Entrance is £2 for members and guests are warmly welcomed, £5.
We have a refreshment break, with tea or coffee provided. There is an opportunity to see the artist’s work close up and to socialise with members and friends. Members can also borrow books from the Saffron Walden Art Society library, available at Friday meetings.5
Click on the pictures below if you would like to see the artists website, if they have one.
2026
Friday 16th January, Wildlife, Acrylic, Marie Antoniou
ZOOM MEETING
Ever since leaving school, Marie continued her art education through to university, where her love of animals and nature led on on to further study Scientific Illustration. Since graduating Marie became a self employed artist teaching art privately as well working in adult education teaching drawing and painting. Other projects include delivering art related activities at corporate and community events. When Marie is not teaching, time is spent in her studio painting. She prefers to work in Acrylic as it suits her approach to painting. Marie's paintings are an impressionistic interpretation conveying traditional subject’s in a more contemporary style. For me this is explored through expressive brushstrokes and bold colour giving a slight abstract feel to the work.
Friday 20th February, Portrait, Oils, John Wiltshire
John is a figurative painter, an observer often working in series around subjects close to him. Recently relocated to East Kent, some of the initial work made in the region has been in response to this new landscape, seeking out some connection or some meaning in the atmosphere of the locality. Other work centres around objects and notes collected from these expeditions, this all accumulates into a sense of belonging and familiarity with the environment. Wiltshire has been painting for around 40 years, first selling his work at the age of 9. He has shown widely since graduating from Kent Institute of Art & Design (now UCA) in 1992, including at the RA Summer Exhibition, the Royal Watercolour Society (twice first prize winner) and at The Collection and Usher Gallery, Lincoln.
Friday 20th March, Annual General Meeting
It’s AGM time, we hope as many members as possible can make the evening and join us for refreshments. It’s an excellent way to find out what the society has done during the year, and thank people for their contribution/efforts throughout the year. Painting challenge competition theme, set by 2025 winner Elaine Purcell is Big Sky. You have plenty of notice to get painting for March 2026. There will be a prize for the winner and the winner will choose a theme for the following year. Pictures must have been started since the challenge was set.