Houghton Conquest Art Society
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Houghton Conquest Art Society was founded in 1995 by 8 local villagers and over the years expanded to its present membership.
The Society produces an extensive yearly programme of demonstrations and guided sessions featuring art techniques ranging from pastels, watercolour, pen & ink, pencil, clay modelling, acrylic paint, acrylic inks, paper making, lino printing, calligraphy, speed sketching, portraits, plaster cast painting and printing using our own printing press.
Each year in May we hold an Art Exhibition in the Village Hall where members' work is put on display for sale.
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Membership Fees
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We welcome new members....From 1 January 2024, fees will be:
a) Adult membership £30
b) Student membership £20
c) Child membership £15
d) Member session attendance £2 per session
e) Visitor session attendance £6 per session (£3 for under 16s)
Our Saturday Workshops are more extensive than our evening meetings, usually from 10 am until 4pm, with a guest demonstrator. All workshops are open to non members if spaces are available.
During mid-summer we enjoy outdoor painting sessions to capture the vibrancy that daylight brings to a painting and in previous years we sketched from a boat on the River Ouse. Another highlight is our “Big Paint” where a painting by a well know artist is chosen, enlarged and divided into equal sections for members to copy, with the sections joined together later like a jigsaw producing a larger than life reproduction and then is put on display at the annual Exhibition.
Executive Committee 2024
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President - Dave Williams
Chairman - John Broadhouse
Secretary - Karen Wilson
Treasurer - Karen Moynihan
Membership Secretary - Karen Moynihan
Programme Secretary - Derrick Lawrence
Publicity Manager - Barbara Boxshall
Vice Chairman - Dave Williams
Website Manager - Sue Jones
Events Organiser - Sarah Burrows
Village Hall Committee Representative - Mariya Montgomery