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Meetings held at Pontargothi Memorial Hall 2nd & 4th Thursday afternoons of the month

CARMARTHEN SKETCH CLUB

& ART SOCIETY

CLWB ARLUNIO CAERFYRDDIN

Secretary: Ros Osbourne rososborn1@yahoo.co.uk

Carmarthen Sketch Club meets in Pontargothi Memorial Hall (free parking)

The Membership for Sept. 2024- June 2025 will be £25. The Open workshop times will be 12-3pm - (2nd Thurs of the month)

The Guest artist workshop times will be 11-3pm - (4th Thurs of the month)There is a £10 fee for members to pay on the day, when we have a guest artist visiting.

Please bring your own materials, water pot and waterproof cloth to cover entire table.

New members are always welcome. Secretary: Yvonne Davies 07933333795

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Exhibitions for Carmarthen sketch club and art society, 2024 - 2025

Thurs. 27th Feb 25, Guest artist, Diane Mathias visited us. We used pastel chalks and pastel pencils to create a seascape. Diane showed us ,step by step, how to layer the pastel colours to create the sky, the movement in the waves on the shoreline and how to use colour changes for the depth and distance of the rocky headlands.

27th March 25, Peter Davies, Artist member of sketch club talked to us about his approach to his painting and led our workshop today. We worked on a seascape of the Gower coast, Worm’s head.

Watercolour artist Graham Hadlow joined us again and his workshop, in April 25, helped us to learn how to use wet into wet technique and then to build up the layers of paint to create depth and atmosphere, as we worked on an image of Carew castle, Pembrokeshire.

in May 25 we all enjoyed a Gelli printing workshop with Margaret Carlsen.
Margaret showed us how to use Gelli plates to create pattern and texture, to use stencils to print shapes and how to merge colours through printing techniques. It was good fun to try a new medium and experiment with ideas we can use in many ways in our future artwork

Guest artist, Phillip Huckin visited us at Pontargothi hall in June 25. Phillip's work can be seen at King St Gallery, Carmarthen. With his experience in teaching art Phillip encouraged us to bring our own subject matter, photos,and sketchbook images to work from. He emphasised the importance of this and how sketches can be the starting point for a finished work, helping us home in on what attracts us in the visual world and to find ways to express this using our chosen materials.
Some of used pencils, others acrylics or pastels. It was a great way to learn how to motivate ourselves, to work freely and to find our own individual personal inspirations.

An Art Workshop with Guest Artist Ruth Lewis Sept 2025 Ruth brought images for us to work from and gave a demonstration to show us how to work with ink and watercolour. We drew the basic shapes in pencil and then used waterproof ink for the trees, stonework texture of the building and grasses in the foreground. Watercolours, cobalt blue,violet and burnt umber made a warm grey for the sky. The white of the cottage could be masked or simply left white. The foreground colours were cadmium yellow, raw sienna and burnt sienna with burnt umber for the background hill.

Art Workshop October 2025 - Abstract art. Club members took part in an Abstract art workshop with Yvonne. We used a ‘painting on a grid technique’ to freely make pattern and mark making to create texture using acrylics. Yvonne and Pamela used the colourful art produced to make gift cards and tags for a Winter fair

Geoff’s art workshop with us , 26th March 2026

Geoff talked to us about Abstract and semi-abstract art, showing us examples of how artists such as Mondrian, Hockney and Kyffin Williams had chosen certain aspects of what they saw and simplified the subject matter, concentrating on shape , form and colour in a non- representational way.

Geoff had asked us to bring our own images, photos, and sketchbooks to select and develop a painting from. We worked on preparatory sketches to form ideas for a good painting, well balanced and simplified, with different aspects and different views.

Guest artist Elaine Graham visited us, Feb 2026

Elaine encouraged us to paint big, big brushes and paper and working with acrylics she gave us a demo. of a seascape, drawn from an image of Llanstephan with the reflections in the wet sand of an ebbing tide.

She showed us by painting step by step and advised us on colours to mix.

We could use the same approach on a similar image or work on an image of our own choice, concentrating on the light , energy and atmosphere of the scene.

Carmarthen Sketch Club and Art society host

The Three Towns Exhibition 2026

Monday 11th - Thursday 19th May, 11-3pm

An Exhibition of Art from

Carmarthen Sketch Club and Art Society,

Amman Valley Art Group

and Llanelli Art society

Carmarthen Library Gallery,

9, St. Peters St, Carmarthen, SA31 1LN

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Guest Artist Jane Boswell visited us Jan 29th 2026.

Jane’s work can be seen at Origin Dyfed, Carmarthen. (origincarmarthen.com/jane-b-fine-art ) Her work includes semi abstract seascapes and also ceramics.

Jane helped us work on images we had chosen and brought along to the workshop. Exercises building knowledge of our subject matter helped us to explore the use of line, monochrome and then colour.

Guest Artist, Sally Jane Webster visited us in November 2025 . She worked with club members, giving us inspiration to make nature based art. Sally encouraged us to bring in natural objects and seasonal foliage to work from. We also worked a communal piece of art which we later used at a Winter Fair at Pontargothi hall.Sally’s work can be seen at her website wildpracticearts.co.uk