A new project for 2025
This year Fareham Art Group is 75 and our group project will be a way of celebrating our anniversary.
We want as many of our members as possible to take part and produce a small painting on a canvas that we will provide in much the same way as our Shop Fronts project.
The subject is ‘Views of Fareham Past and Present’. We would like recognisable views from within Fareham, but from any time in the past 100 years, using either old photos or memories as reference.
Canvases and instructions can be picked up at our Tuesday afternoon group, Thursday evening meeting, or by arrangement with a committee member. We ask for a donation of £5 for your canvas, which is then yours to keep after being displayed at our annual exhibition.
The deadline for handing in your paintings will be at our Annual General Meeting in September so you have plenty of time to get your paintings finished, We look forward to seeing them.
Past Projects
Our 2024 group project was a calendar for 2025 depicting seasonal scenes.
Our 2024 project was ‘Shopfronts in Fareham’. Members painted the shopfront of their choice and these were exhibited together as a group at our 2023 annual exhibition.
In recent years we have run an annual art club group project where members each produce part of a larger piece of work.
We have completed some ‘wall art’ works in which our artists were challenged to produce a painted canvas based upon a small section of a well-known painting. When the individual squares were joined together, the bigger picture is revealed. Paintings have included Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Gaugin’s Tahitian Girls and Cezanne’s Kitchen Table.
A very successful Shop Fronts project was completed with around 60 canvases of local shops displayed together as a street scene in Fareham shopping centre.
We have also produced calendars composed of seasonal and local scenes which were sold with profits donated to charity.
Fareham Art Group entered the first Art Club of the Year competition run by The Artist and Leisure Painter magazines and were one of ten shortlisted clubs whose work was displayed at the Patching’s Festival in Nottingham.
We have completed some ‘wall art’ works in which our artists were challenged to produce a painted canvas based upon a small section of a well-known painting. When the individual squares were joined together, the bigger picture is revealed. Paintings have included Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Gaugin’s Tahitian Girls and Cezanne’s Kitchen Table.
Our Lockdown project in 2020 was a group painting project which members completed at home. We created a collage of their contributions creating a large painting of Garrowby Hill by David Hockney.
In June 2020 we began our Summer Sketchbook Project to keep members busy during the lockdown period.
