Workshop Information

Our workshops are held at Bramcote Memorial Hall between September and June on a Saturday. The programme includes workshops with professional tutors working in a variety of mediums and styles. Non-members can do one trial workshop for £35 . Members price is £30 a tutored workshop. We also have occasional members days which provide an opportunity for us to meet and share ideas.

To Book a workshop please contact. Janet Waters janetwaters32@gmail.com

Saturday 21st February 2026 – FULL DAY MIXED MEDIA WORKSHOP WITH DOREEN HUNT – £30 (members) (£35 visitor).In the morning based on portrait painting, some collage, drawing, painting. In the afternoon abstracts in monoprint. Artist referenced. Just a basic art kit will be useful, Doreen brings everything else.  Doreen is a very popular tutor.

Saturday 21st March – FULL DAY “RUB OUT WATERCOLOUR WORKING FROM THE MID TONE” WITH JULIAN BRAY – £30 members (£35 visitor).Learn a different technique Julian has developed with his work. Julian is a well known Nottinghamshire Professional Artist/Tutor, who sells his work world wide. 

Report on NSA Gallery Exhibition Summer 2025
Thank you to Linda Sadler for all her work on behalf of the SDAG over the years
which included post exhibition reports. This is my very first! I discovered it was my
job as we were packing up. When arriving home I sort out Linda’s previous reports
only to find I was without all the information necessary to report on. I have,
therefore been bombarding, by text, the other members of the exhibition team for
the data I needed for this report. I only hope I can attain the high standards of my
predecessor.
Thank you to the 14 artist’s who submitted their work to this years SDAG
exhibition at the NSA. This is an unusually low number and may be down to the
August holidays and Nana & Grandad duties. 43 works were submitted which
meant the gallery walls were sparsely adorned. A big thank you therefore to
Sandra and Janet who came to the rescue with an overnight valiant effort to
supply the exhibition team with more works to display.
A big thank you also to Pam Earlam, Sandra Everatt, Ju Smith (that’s me thanking
myself!!), the other members of the exhibition hanging team, for their work in
making sure the exhibition went to plan. Maureen Scott, our Chairperson, also put
in a substantial shift in setting up and we must not forget the wonderful volunteer
stewards without whom no doors would have been opened and no sales would
have been made. Here’s hoping stewards enjoyed their experience and are willing
to do it again. An acknowledgement is also absolutely necessary to the bill paying
work of our treasurer Richard Eddleston and publicity by Janet and Pam Glover.
Congratulations to all involved.
We had a total of 290 visitors though the door and some of them even parted with
their money! We sold 3 paintings, 8 works from the browser and lots of cards. The
3 paintings sold were purchased by a young couple, I think, to adorn a wall
together because although very different in subject matter they all had orange as a
principle colour. I think they will look wonderful together.
As in previous years we had a Visitors Choice competition and interestingly for the
first time the Visitors Choice and the Judges Choice were aligned.
We had asked Rita Mitchell, one of our favourite workshop tutors, to be this years
judge but sadly she was poorly and we had to find a new judge at short notice.
Paul Searson an accomplished artist and very active members of the NSA kindly
stepped in.
Congratulations Andrew Craig for being the Visitors and the Judges Choice with a
delightful little watercolour called ‘In the Light’. The winning visitor, drawn out of
the hat, was Monica Bryce from Bulwell. Both Andrew and Monica will receive a
£20 gift voucher.
Further congratulations go to those artists’ who’s works were Highly Commended;
they were by Rebecca Hock ‘My Grandmothers Spirit’, Pam Earlam
‘Stanage Edge’ and Janet Waters ‘Baobab Tree’.
Having perused comments in the Visitor’s Book two caught my eye.
This charming one from Toni and Tito (a chihuahua) who wrote ‘Stumbled across
this with my dog! We both loved it! Thank you’. Apt I thought but Tito had no
spots.

D. Eustace wrote ‘ Wonderful pieces – Loved the boxes – great idea – Wonderful
Inspiration. Thank you’. D. Eustace was a visitor from Holland so we can now claim
international fame.
If you didn’t get chance to see the exhibition the boxes referred to were 11 three
dimensional collages summitted by SDAG members who attended my workshop
last February. Some of these works were submitted by members who had never
exhibited before. The works filled the central space and added further interest to
the exhibition. Thank you to all those who could take part.
Finally if you would like to see Andrew’s winning watercolour it is on the poster,
designed by Janet, for our exhibition next month at Beeston library.

Ju Smith

Member’s Day

Saturday 17th January 2026

Members day. It was great to see everyone bringng a variety of projects to work on. There is always such variety in media, subjects and confidence! This was a lovely safe place to chat and discuss artwork informally and make connections with like minded creatives.

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Saturday 18th October, 2025
AGM 10am to 12noon.
CLUB AFTERNOON

Saturday 15th November, 2025
Doreen Hunt – Mixed Media.

*Saturday 20th September, 2025
Marie Williams – Layers & Landscapes: Drawing with Charcoal, graphite and
mixed media.

21st June 2025 Claire Leggett ” A Birds Eye View”

A welcome return of a much loved tutor. A day observing objects from different points of view- had us up and down challenging the traditional way of looking at still life. We enjoyed the challenge of revisiting still life using our favourite media.

June 2025 Claire Leggett ” A Birds Eye View”

A welcome return of a much loved tutor. A day observing objects from different points of view- had us up and down challenging the traditional way of looking at still life. We enjoyed the challenge of revisiting still life using our favourite media.

17th May 2025 Jenny Mckenzie – Creative Drawing , Composition and Colour

A morning of experimenting through sketching , colour work, composition with different mediums and still life objects. The main medium used were Indian inks, watercolour, wax, collage and oil pastel but our members also bought their own media to explore. In the afternoon we put it altogether to make creative still life pictures. A great day learning and playing with new ideas with the expert guidance of Jenny.

17th March Doreen Hunt Mixed Media surprise

The great thing , one of them, about Doreen is that she brings such creative ideas to experiment with. To begin with we looked at Moira Huntley’s Sewing table painting. This is a watercolour built of layers of paint adding detail and interest. It was quite a challenge and one everyone tackled in their own way. Doreen had provided plenty of haberdashery supplies for us to sketch and patterns to help us generate random lines…. not everyone liked random lines! The afternoon saw a totally different challenge based on the work of Sonia Delaunuy, a 20th Century textile designer