The Guild, founded in 1953, aims to bring together all those interested in visual arts and the crafts. This is achieved by arranging a number of activities for members throughout the year.
New Events : We have recently held two "crit/networking" events which have proved very popular. Members were invited to bring along a piece of work for discussion, and also a couple of members were invited to talk about a selection of their work - we had a talk from a weaver, and a mosaic artist, which was stimulating and informative.
Landscape painting days are arranged in the summer months and indoor painting workshops are held during the winter, usually on a Friday, mostly at the Bix Village Hall.
Occasionally, other locations are chosen. A tutor is in attendance both on landscape days and during the
winter workshops, although this practice is varied from time to time according to popular demand. More recently, other activities have been introduced into a more varied programme (e.g. video mornings, factory visits etc)
An
annual exhibition of members' work is normally held in the autumn; there is also a smaller, more selective, exhibition in the spring. Pictures hung and craft displayed at the spring exhibition are usually chosen by someone who is an accepted authority on fine arts and who is not a member of the Guild. Both exhibitions are held in the Old Fire Station Gallery, Market Place, Henley-on-Thames.
See the exhibitions page for up to date information about other exhibitions that are on now or are coming up next year.
Programme cards, showing details of landscape days and tutored workshops, are distributed twice a year. A Guild newsletter is published quarterly accompanied by notice of exhibitions, other meetings and outings to London Galleries etc.
Henley Arts trail Look under the Henley Arts Trail heading to find out more about the trail, held on the second May Bank Holiday.
