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Write-Ups
​of past events

Demos, Workshops, Exhibitions, Plein-Air Days & other events ...
If you can't see what you're looking for in the list below, please use this search box, which searches the entire site.


​Thank you for your patience while more write-ups are being added from our 10yrs+ archive !
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The write up's from our old site are currently being re-formatted to appear on this new site.
Until we complete this, they can still be found at 
https://www.ottervaleartsociety.com/archive-of-meetings


The following write-ups (with big thanks to Chris Poole and Penny Lamb) are now available for viewing

Listed alphabetically by first name of visiting artist;


Adrian Sykes - 2018 demonstration - Acrylic & Oils

AGM - 2018


AGM - 2019 incl Griffin Trophy Competition & Talk from Simon Gray

AGM - 2020 incl Griffin Trophy Competition
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Alex Boon - 2025 demonstration - Nature Journaling & Inktense

Alison Whateley - 2025 demonstration - Mixed Media Textiles

Amelia Webster - 2024 demonstration - Oils Portrait Painting

Anna Brewster - 2022 demonstration - Flowers & Veg; Reeds & Inks

Anna Brewster - 2023 workshop - Reeds & Inks

Anne Blankson-Hemans - 2023 demonstration - Portrait in Oils

Catherine Beale - 2020 demonstration by zoom - The Wave in watercolour

Chris Forsey - 2020 demonstration by zoom - River Scene in Acrylics/Mixed Media

Colin Allbrook - 2019 demonstration - Lambing Pen Scene, in Pastels

Colin Brown - 2018 demonstration - Paris in Acrylics

David Norman - 2022 demonstration - Street Scene in Watercolours

David Webb - 2025 demonstration - Brixham Harbour in Watercolour

Double Elephant - 2022 demo & workshop - Monotypes, Collagraphs and Etchings

Dugald Stark - 2022 demonstration - Impressionist Garden in Oils

Griffin Memorial Trophy 2018

Hannah Twine - 2020 demonstration by zoom - Charcoal, Polychromos, & Oils

Hashim Akib - 2020 demonstration by zoom - Two Contrasting Scenes in Acrylics

Hester Berry - 2021 demonstration - Saunton Sands in Oils

Hester Berry - 2022 workshop - Trebarwith Strand in Oils

Jake Winkle - 2021 demonstration & workshop - Venice in Watercolours

James Tatum - 2019 demonstration in Acrylics

James Tatum - 2019 workshop in Acrylics

Julie Dunster - 2020 demonstration by zoom - Rural Scene in Oils

Julie Dunster - 2023 art critique

Julie Dunster - 2025 demonstration - Painting in Oils, en Plein Air

Karen Wones -2023 demonstration - Working with Mosaics

Kaili Fu - 2025 demonstration - Traditional Chinese Art Painting

Liese Webley - 2024 demonstration - Towards Abstraction

Linda Hampson - 2022 demonstration - Drawing a Pet with Pastels

Linda Hampson - 2023 Drawing Workshop

Lisa Parkyn - 2025 demonstration & workshop - Abstract Floral Painting

Lisa Takahashi - 2023 demonstration - Expressive Drawing, Reed & Inks

Louise Bougourd - 2018 demonstration - Watercolours

Louise Nowell - 2020 demonstration by zoom - Wet Felting & Needlepoint

Lynda Kettle - 2022 demonstration - Autumnal Woods in Pastels

Lynda White - 2019 demonstration - A Snowy Lane - Intense pencils & blocks

Owen Williams - 2023 demonstration - Landscape in Acrylics

OVAS Critique 2018 - Nick Watton

OVAS Critique 2020 - Matthew Davison

Maria Rose - 2023 demonstration - Painting Landscape in Oils

Maria Rose - 2024 demonstration - Painting Landscape in Oils

Matt Culmer - 2019 demonstration - Street Scene in Oils

Matthew Davison - 2022 demonstration - Cloudscape in Acrylics

Nick Watton - 2018 Sketching in Beer

Phil Creek - 2019 demonstration - Sidmouth Beach in Acrylics

Phil Creek - 2019 workshop - Acrylics

Phil Creek - 2020 demonstration by zoom - Beer Boats in Acrylics

Phil Creek - 2024 demonstration - Painting Snowscapes

Professor Anthony Slinn - 2019 lecture - Vincent van Gogh

Rebecca de Mendonca - 2018 demonstration & workshop - Working with Pastels

Rebecca de Mendonca - 2023 demonstration - Dartmoor Scenes in Pastels

Rob Dudley - 2018 demonstration - Watercolours

Rob Wareing - 2021 demonstration by zoom - Portrait in Pastels

Robert Dutton - 2021 demonstration by zoom - Mixed Media

Rod Ashman - 2018 demonstration & workshop - Acrylics/Deconstruction

Simon Gray - 2024 demonstration - Woodcarving a Duck

Terry Whitworth - 2021 demonstration - Flowers in Watercolour
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Tom Gowen - 2021 demonstration by zoom - Landscape in Oils

Tony Hogan - 2019 demonstration - Watercolour, Panpastels, Ink

Tony Homer - 2023 demonstration - Harbour Scene in Acrylics

Tom Stevenson - 2024 demonstration - Painting Beach Scene in Oils

Trevor Waugh - 2019 demonstration - Roses in Watercolour

Vicki Norman - 2021 demonstration & workshop - Colour Mixing & Landscape in Oils

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  • Latest News
  • OVAS 2026 Programme
  • About/Join Us!
    • The Tuesday Group
  • Exhibition: 2025
  • Members' Galleries
    • Andrew Pitts
    • Carol Shaw
    • Celia Risso
    • Chris Poole
    • Cynthea Gregory
    • Fiona Gale
    • Francis Callender
    • Jacqueline Ward
    • Jenny Savage
    • John Atkinson
    • Linda Hampson
    • Margaret Bargmann
    • Margaret Kingdon
    • Maureen Stone
    • Nickie Bitschi
    • Norma Walton
    • Penny Lamb
    • Phil Reed
    • Roland Ebdon
    • Simon Gray
    • Sue Williams
    • Terry Davies
    • Valerie Faulkner
  • Mike Bird
  • Write-ups of past events
    • Alex Boon 2025
    • Alison Whateley 2025
    • Amelia Webster 2024
    • Anna Brewster Workshop 2023
    • Anne Blankson-Hemans 2023
    • David Webb 2025
    • James Tatum Workshop 2019
    • Julie Dunster Critique 2023
    • Julie Dunster 2025
    • Kaili Fu 2025
    • Karen Wones 2023
    • Liese Webley 2024
    • Linda Hampson Workshop 2023
    • Lisa Parkyn Workshop 2025
    • Lisa Takahashi 2023
    • Maria Rose 2023
    • Maria Rose 2024
    • Owen Williams 2023
    • Phil Creek 2020
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