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A "Wokingham and District Arts Group" was originally formed in 1956 when Mrs Jean Whitford and a group of local artists obtained permission to hold an open air exhibition in the forecourt of Montague House, Broad Street, Wokingham. This event was enthusiastically embraced by the public and was a tremendous success. The group changed its name to the Wokingham Art Society at the end of 2008 and now boasts a membership of well over 200.
Follow this link for information about our President, Paul Banning, including an interesting article about his life, written by his wife, Margaret, and this one for an intriguing suggestion by Maddy Hawes and the first two stories.

Past Demonstrations - 2007/8 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams The monthly demonstrations are an invaluable aid to progressing your own work as there is always something new to learn. So, for those that couldn't make it to the demo, and as a refresher for those that did, we will be archiving them from this page (early ones are PDF files). Unless I happen to be there, however, this will only happen if someone sends them to me. How to submit photos

2012
January	Soraya French "Acrylic Ink/Mixed Media, Floral theme", 17 Jan 2012

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2011
December	Christmas Tree decorations Sera Knight "Watercolour,Winter Townscape", 20 December 2011
November	Jonathan Newey "Acrylic landscape", 15 November 2011
October	Dee Cowell Demo/workshop (drawing), 18 October 2011
October	Tiffany Budd Workshop, 8 October 2011
September	Sharon Hurst "Fantasy Watercolour", 20 Sept 2011
August	Max Hale "Acrylic Still Life, 16 August 2011
June	Paul Weaver "Estuary boats", 21 June 2011
May	Derek Oliver "Pastel landscape", 17 May 2011
April	David Hyde "Acrylic Wildlife", 19 April 2011
March	Max Hale "Watercolor portrait", 15 March 2011
February	Pure Gold at the Mall Gallery, 17 Feb 2011, (33K PDF)
February	Paul Banning, President's Evening demonstration, 15 Feb 2011
January	Tiffany Budd "Fractured pastels", 18 January 2011

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The entrances to the loos at the Cesar Manrique Cactus Park in Lanzarote are nothing whatsoever to do with the WASoc - but they appealed to me (Webmaster).

The "Life Class" photo below appeared in the archives but I've found no record of any meeting at which it might have been taken. (Sam Dauncey)