HAPPY NEW YEAR and THANK YOU to everyone for your continued support for Chalk Art Group during 2025, attending sessions at the hall, Chalk Church and Rochester Cathedral and painting along at home.

Membership

We will finance Chalk Art Group in 2026 with an annual subscription of £90, to cover the hall hire fees for the year.

Alternatively, equal payments of £30 will be due 3 times during the year in January, May and September. If you choose to pay in instalments you are committing to pay for the whole year, not coming for a few months then stopping then starting again. Without this support we will not be able to raise enough funds to hire the hall. Steve emailed everyone on 31st December with details of how to pay by bank transfer, cheque or cash. Please check his email as there is important info about the art group’s name at the bank. If you pay promptly 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!

Sessions

Our sessions will continue to be on the second Wednesday evening 7-9pm and the fourth Saturday of the month 10am to 3pm, 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 that’s okay!

Workshops

Any workshops 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 sometimes pull out at the last minute. 

If you don’t want to attend a workshop you 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. 

Session dates for 2026

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 26th September, with hanging the Friday evening before from 7pm.

2026	2nd Wednesday    7-9pm	4th Saturday   10am-3pm
January  (subs)	14th	24th
February	11th	28th
March	11th	28th
April	8th	25th
May (subs)	13th	23rd
June	10th	27th
July	8th	25th   (not at hall)
August	12th	22nd (not at hall)
September (subs)	9th	FRIDAY 25th – hanging evening SATURDAY 26th – OPEN DAY
October	14th	24th
November	11th	28th
December	9th – Christmas Party