HAPPY NEW YEAR and THANK YOU to everyone for your continued support for Chalk Art Group during 2024, attending sessions and painting along at home.

Membership

We will finance M&C this year with an annual subscription of £84 to cover the hall hire fees for 2025.

Alternatively, equal payments of £28 will be due 3 times this year in January, May and September. If you choose to pay in instalments you are committing to pay for the whole year. Without this support we will not be able to raise enough funds to hire the hall. Steve emailed everyone on 21st December with details of how to pay by bank transfer, cheque or cash Please look back to his email as there is important info about the art group’s name at the bank. Please pay promptly as this saves members being emailed and phoned to be reminded to pay!

Please pay your membership fee by the end of January to continue to be a member of the art group. Thank you :o)

Sessions

Our sessions will be on the second Wednesday and the fourth Saturday of the month, with session ideas being published on the 1st of that month.

You don’t have to paint the suggested ideas, you’re welcome to come along and paint anything you want to. Or if you come on a Wednesday and want to paint the Saturday idea or vice versa, that’s no problem at all.

Free tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided at all sessions so if you just want to come and chat with your art friends then that’s fine too!

Workshops

If we have any workshops they will have the usual ‘first come, first served’ policy of putting your name down, with an additional amount to pay to cover the tutor’s fee. If more artists wish to attend the session than the tutor has room for, we’ll have a waiting list and you have a chance of getting a place as members do pull out at the last minute. 

Even if you don’t want to attend a workshop you will have already paid for the hall hire in your subs. You are therefore welcome to sit and paint quietly at the kitchen end of the hall whilst the workshop session takes place towards the window end of the hall. 

Here are the session dates for 2025

Please print them out or write them in your diary or calendar. Some months have 5 Saturdays but we meet on the 4th one.

Open Day is on Saturday 22nd November, with hanging the evening before.

2025	2nd Wednesday    7-9pm	4th Saturday   10am-3pm
January  (subs)	8th	25th
February	12th	22nd
March	12th	22nd
April	9th	26th
May (subs)	14th	24th
June	11th	28th
July	9th	26th    (not at hall)
August	13th	23rd  (not at hall)
September (subs)	10th	27th
October	8th	25th
November	12th	FRI 21st  – Hanging evening  SAT 22nd  – OPEN DAY
December	10th – Christmas Party