Saturday 30 October - Saturday 20 November 2004
Annual Exhibition
The 2003 Exhibition attracted 11, 944 visitors!
Fruit Stall Norwich by Peter Howitt - Chairman Guildford Art Society
Over 160 abstract works, landscapes, portraits, still life and flower paintings, as well as examples of sculpture, ceramic ware, and glass will be on show by members of this local art society, all selected by an external jury to show the best that Guildford Art Society has to offer.
Founded in 1926, the Society now has over 370 members which, unusually for an art society, include professional artists as well as amateurs, helping to ensure a high standard of exhibits. Local companies and businesses have sponsored prizes for different categories of work and Guildford Borough Council is supporting the exhibition.
Work will be for sale.
Since 1926 this well-established exhibition provides exciting opportunities for the Society's members to show off the best of their previous 12 months' work, from seashore to studio, street scene to sky and portrait to pot. Amateur and professional members come together to provide a visual delight of pictures, sculptures and craftwork, all of the very highest standard. The aims of the Society have not changed - to encourage the visual arts, hold an annual exhibition, and arrange a programme of practical activities, such as lectures, demonstrations, workshops and outdoor sketching excusions.
Peter Howitt - Chairman 2003
Peter studied at Manchester Regional College of Art. He was awarded a County Art Scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
Following a period in the army, he entered the grocery industry. He recently retired as a Director of Safeway. Although he did not pursue painting and sculpture as his professional career he continued to practice and exhibit throughout his working life.
He has exhibited with the Royal Insitute of Painters in Watercolour, with the Society of British Artists in the Mall Galleries and is a regular exhibitor with the United Society of Artists at the Westminster Gallery. He is a member of the Surrey Sculpture Society, chairman of the Guildford Art Society and a member of Woking Society of Arts.
He has exhibited at other galleries in London, Farnham, Guildford and Woking. He has had one-man exhibitions in Woking, Chobham and Knaphill.
His paintings are mainly atmospheric landscapes using a variety of media to capture the light, colour, textures and patterns of nature. His sculptures are figurative. He often works directly with resin to create rhythmic sculptures of animals and people. He is married with two children and is active in his local church.
Messenger (Bronze) by Peter Howitt
New Forest 2 by Peter Howitt
Seated Dancer by Peter Howitt
Staithes by Peter Howitt
Alan Hunt MA FCSD
Alan Hunt trained at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, and his tutors included Pasmore, Minton, Colgstream and Monnington. He was awarded the National Diploma in Design 1951.
From 1953 to 1967 he was employed as an industrial designer in private industry in the UK and overseas, specialising in furniture products and interiors. He was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers.
In 1967 he joined the London College of Furniture as Senior Lecturer and subject leader for interior design and at the same time established his own design consultancy with Pat Campbell Hunt.
In 1974 he was appointed Principal Lecturer in Design, and his subject areas included all forms of visual communication, design theory and practice, design history and professional and management studies.
In 1990 Alan Hunt was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Further Education from the University of Greenwich. He retired as Principal Lecturer at the John Cass Faculty of Art, Design and Technology at London Guildhall University in 1995.
Since 1992 Alan has developed an interest in painting as a member of Epsom and Ewell Art Group, and Guildford Art Society. He has exhibited in various group shows, and his work appears in private collections in the UK, USA, France and Italy.
Alan lectures on different aspects of art history to various groups and organisations. Alan Hunt was formerly Chairman of Guildford Art Society.
Alan Hunt : Low Tide, Mevagissy (Mixed Media)
Alan Hunt: Polperro Harbour (Mixed Media)
Alan Hunt: A Summer's Night (Mixed Media)
Alan Hunt: Fowey (Watercolour)
Alan Hunt: Deserted Beach (Watercolour and bodycolour)
Carol Orwin
Carol Orwin studied at High Wycombe College of Technology and Art, and at St Martin’s School of Art. Studio at the Barbican, London from 1974 to 1977, then moved to Guildford. She has taught Sculpture in Adult Education Centres since 1973, and still teaches at the Harvey Centre in Guildford.
She has exhibited with the Young London Sculptors in Tavistock Park, and Waterlow Park. As a member of Surrey Sculpture Society she has exhibited at Guildford House, Osterley Park, Chilworth Manor, Petworth House and annually at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, Wisley. She has had various shared exhibitions at, The Harvey Gallery, Chase Art Gallery, Wonersh Gallery, The Yvonne Arnaud Summer Art Exhibition, Society of Women Artists at the Westminster Gallery, and the Fire and Iron Gallery. She has recently won the award for a sculpture by a non-member and been invited to become a full member of the Chelsea Art Society.
Carol is an Animalier, interested in the muscular form and movement in the animals that she models. She works in clay, then makes rubber moulds in a limited edition. She casts in Polymer resins using metal fillers such as bronze, brass, copper, pewter, and also marble. She has work cast in Foundry bronze, prices on application.
Juliet Renny N.D.D.
Juliet trained in Fine Art. Initially, she worked as a freelance designer/illustrator for Penguin Books, Faber and Faber, and BBC Publications. She specialised in illustrating books on cookery, including Elizabeth David's 'French Provincial Cooking' and 'The Penguin Cordon Bleu'.
Now concentrating on painting and drawing, she exhibits at the Mall Galleries, with the Marine, Pastel and Watercolour Societies. Her work has been purchased for collections in France, Germany and Canada. Twenty-one of her paintings were selected to hang in the First Class cabins of Swan Hellenic's new cruise liner, MB Minerva. That led to an invitation to tutor and demonstrate drawing and painting on Minerva's cruise to India and South East Asia, in December 1997.
Juliet teaches regularly and travels to countires as diverse as Borneo, Turkey, Portugal and France, where she especially enjoys drawing and painting 'on the spot'.
Nola Armstrong SFP
After completing her studies at Homerton College, Cambridge, Nola found the teaching of art and craft to children highly rewarding during her professional career. She started painting for her own pleasure about nine years ago and particularly enjoys the varied approach of mixed media. Exciting colour is an important feature of her work and she has been much influenced by the late John Blockley RI, PPPS, NEAC in the development of her bold and impressionistic treatment of floral and still life subjects.
In 1999 she held a highly successful solo exhibition at the Showcase Gallery in Bramley, near Guildford, leading to a commission for a series of paintings of wildflowers in the French Alps and sales to a local gallery.
She is an exhibiting member of Guildford Art Society and has had paintings in their annual exhibition for the past seven years, twice winning the prize for the best flower painting.
In 2000 she was accepted as an exhibiting member of the Society of Floral Painters and has had work accepted for all their subsequent exhibitions.
Her paintings have been accepted for the Pastel Society annual exhibitions at the Mall Galleries, London, for the past three years. She has exhibited with the Socity of Botanical Artists in the Westminster Gallery, and with 'Exhibit A' in Sweden. She will also have four paintings in the 2003 Christmas Exhibition in St. David's Hall, Cardiff.
Her paintings are in many private collections here and abroad.
Jackie Barrass
Jackie is a self taught artist working mainly in water colour but also in acrylic, pastel and oil. She injoys the freedom of outdoor work. She has a particular interest in the effect of light on matter and in capturing a mood and atmosphere.
She spent sixteen years working in international banking but in 1989 decided to go part time allowing her to develop her painting. In 1999 she gave up work in order to paint full time. Since then her work has been exhibited at the Society of Women Artists in Westminster, the Laing Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, the Victoria Gallery in Bath, Guildford House Gallery, the Fisherton Mill Gallery in Salisbury and a number of other locations.
She has published several books with Search Press offering tuition in water colour.
John Walker
John has worked in Environmental Engineering, mainly in the home counties but also Spain and France. He lives in Liss.
He has undertaken courses in the production of Stained Glass at Richmond College and Goddard and GIbbs Limited in London. In the 80s he was taught oil painting by Joan Workman, wife of the President of United Artists. His work has been seen in exhibitions across the south of England, including Smith Gallery in Teddington, the Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham and the Guildford House Gallery in Guildford. In 1997 John was short-listed for the RA Summer Exhibition.
