REDBRICK ARTISTS

There were six of us at today’s meeting and most of us had pieces of work brought in for various reasons, such as advice, guidance and appraisal within a positive critique setting. The commentary, discussion and interaction flowed easily and naturally leading to constructive ideas for our techniques and practice. One of the noticeable aspects of the presented works was the variety of styles ranging from, townscapes, gardenscapes and abstract landscapes to life drawing and pur

Sue Ripley and Jean Bashford are in the spotlight for this month’s ‘Show and Tell’. The narrative of their joint enterprise of travelling together, embarking on an 800 mile round trip, to take part in Nick Boddimeade’s three day art course at “Emily Ball at Seawhite”, Partridge Green near Brighton was utterly compelling and instructive. First up was Sue who set up her sketches and finished pieces in beautiful water based acrylic paint evidencing the progression in her work on

Today is Halloween or the day before All Saint’s day - the eve of trick or treating when the kids dress up in scary costumes and ghosts and spirits are abroad, if you wish to believe it. Such an uncanny coincidence then that ten of us are here in the Dewsbury studio ready to create magic and mystery in this unique teaching session. Casting their spell over us are Jane and Sumi who are passing on their experiences of using out of the ordinary tools and working practices. Most

Life Drawing with Redbrick Artists It's another good life drawing session at Empire House in Dewsbury today. The usual friendly, quiet and focused atmosphere hovers over us as we start in the morning with short two minute poses and graduate up to longer poses of thirty minutes. After a chatty lunch the afternoon session allows for a longer pose of up to two hours or so. Participating with others in our life drawing group is always good for consolidating and developing obser

Two members of our Redbrick Artists group, Ann Raby and Sue Ripley, are holding an exhibition of their paintings in the gallery within...

Before we know it the year has advanced into Autumn. it is the 1st of September, it’s a Monday and we have a show and tell gathering in...

Many of our Redbrick Artists took part in the Holmfirth Art Week which ran from Sunday 6th to Saturday 12th July 2025. The gallery of...

It's Monday the 6th of May and we have a very reasonable attendance of six members for our monthly ”show n tell” session in our Dewsbury...

After some cancellations of previous sessions because of bad weather etc. we were back on track and there was good attendance for this...

Organised and facilitated by Redbrick Artist Jane Storr This is the second time Jane has run one of these workshops and it proved to be...

As one of the longer standing members of Redbrick Artists Group, Carole is dedicated to the creation of her unique works. She fearlessly...

…. and the weather was kind to us (eventually).   A few of the group took a trip to Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Monday 12th August for...

We've had another group exhibition, the second of the year, at Ilkley Manor House, Ilkley. It ran over 2 weekends during August, with...

We have more of our artists than ever before taking part in Holmfirth Art Week this week. The exhibition runs from 7th to 13th July 2024...

This was the first of 2 plein air sessions planned for the summer, however Summer decided to take a day off! A few of the Redbrick...

What an adventurous and inclusive experience this was. I’m almost reluctant to describe it for fear of allowing the magic to escape. Jane...

Untitled, Oil on Board Lesley cannot remember a time when she wasn’t creating drawings and making paintings. Visual art is an important...

We had a Gel Plate Printing Workshop on Monday 19th February and it was a great success! Look out for future events on our calendar.......

The Redbrick Artists group has regular get togethers, usually once a month, where we will talk about our work. We call these sessions...

Following some very enjoyable sketch days at York Gate Garden in 2023, we were inspired to create some exciting new artwork which is now...