Ross-on-Wye Paintaway 2024
Sadly, wall to wall sunshine for the Paintaway did not materialise this time around, so we were “blessed” with cooler and wetter weather for our stay at the Royal Hotel in Ross On Wye. But, undeterred, our intrepid sketchers and painters were treated to the urban and rural landscapes of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and across the border into Wales on their forays far and wide from base camp. Gardens, castles, river views and cathedrals were on the menu. Big thank you to Beverley Wightman for organising the trip and looking after the group including a stretching art quiz and our traditional last evening show and sharing of the sketch books. Glimpse our glorious 2024 Paintaway location above.
Some recent and past day trips, weekends and Paintaways…
Skelwith Bridge Paintaway 2023
Thank you to all who made our May 2023 Paintaway to Skelwith Bridge so enjoyable. Click HERE to read our blog post and see more photos!
Gallery Weekend Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 2023
Our Gallery Weekend on the weekend of 24th to 27th March was a great success.
Click HERE to read our blog post and see more photos!
Oxford Gallery Day Trip 2022
We enjoyed a fabulous trip to the exhibition PISSARRO: Father of Impressionism in March 2022. Click HERE to read our blog post and see more photos!
Liverpool Gallery Day Trip 2021
Our Gallery Day Trip to Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery, to see Sickert: A Life in Art, on Saturday 30th October 2021, was a great success. Click HERE to read our blog post and see more photos from the day.
Some information about our normal programme
When possible, we organise day trips to galleries as well as residential city breaks and Paintaway holidays, for our members and their guests. In recent years we’ve visited cities as far apart as Leeds, London, Bristol, Aberystwyth, Edinburgh and Wolverhampton on our gallery day and weekend excursions. And, we’ve taken our popular Paintaways to beautiful places like the Lake District, Wales and Norfolk. We design our trips to combine visits to one-off exhibitions with the established and permanent gallery collections, while offering the non-artists in our party the opportunity to explore great British cities and scenery. We always do our best to keep costs to a minimum to make these activities accessible.
Please apply promptly for all Shropshire Art Society excursions as they are extremely popular and usually sell out fast. We hope you will join us!
To give you an idea, here’s a flavour of some other places we’ve visited…
