News Update at 30th Dec 2020
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We wish you all a happy new year and hope you will remember to renew your membership for 2021.
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There has been a change to our April booking which will now be a Zoom demo of portraiture in pastels from Rob Wareing.
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There is an EXTRA too! The opportunity to paint along with NZ artist Richard Robinson on 14th Jan. Fiona Gale gives all the info you need to know HERE
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Otter Vale Art Society
Art has always been part of my life. My father was an accomplished amateur water colourist and I hope I have inherited some of his skills! It has only been in the last ten years or so that I have taken up painting more seriously and I have my own studio in which to work. I would describe my paintings as being traditional but quirky and I work in water colour, pastels, acrylics and oil. My personal taste in art centres on the Newlyn School and the Glasgow boys. I admire their style of blending realism with impressionism.
My preferred subjects are marine, seascapes, landscapes, nature (flora and fauna) and occasionally, portraits.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
APP Art
Odiham
Farnham Art Society
Fleet (including the hospital)
Bentley (water colour only)
Odiham Cross Barn
Petersfield Twort Gallery (including a one woman show)
Aldershot West End Centre
Southern Nature Exhibition Hampshire
Southampton Civic Centre
New Forest Agricultural Show
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2018
Mottesfont National Trust Exhibition
Email: susieclairewilliams@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram: Harford Art Sue Williams
Web: suewilliamsartwork.co.uk
Sue Williams Web: suewilliamsartwork.co.uk
Congratulations to Sue from all of us at OVAS for being selected two years running for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Sue writes:-
I really can't believe I've done it two years running!! I was encouraged by a family member, who had taken photos, to paint the Mersey ferry.
The Pop Artist Sir Peter Blake [most famous for the cover of Sergeant Pepper (CP) ] was commissioned to decorate it as Liverpool was celebrating the end of WW1 amongst other things. The ferry has become a moving work of art! It's bright geometric colours bring a smile to one's face and it is particularly popular with tourists as well as Liverpudlians.
My painting sold before the exhibition opened to the public and, as a result of it being in the RA, I have had enquiries about my work and further sales! Anyone can submit a painting to the exhibition. The whole process has been such fun for myself, family and friends. My painting was even seen in a photo published in The Times! Selling was the icing on the cake! I would encourage anyone to enter.
2019 RA Exhibition: 'Razzle Dazzle Snowdrop'
2018 RA Exhibition
