I hope you are looking forward to another year of sketching in and around Salisbury. 

It's difficult to find an indoor location we can go to in the winter months. However, St.Thomas's church has welcomed us back again on the afternoon of Sunday 16 February, so this will be our first indoor venue for the year from 2.00 pm until 4.00 pm. (If you are brave you can sketch outside as Sharon did last year!)

I have also arranged for us to return to Salisbury Museum on the afternoon of Sunday 16 March. The visit in November was very popular - there are so many interesting objects to draw there. 

I thought I would give you all the dates for this year so you can put them in your diaries. I have planned visits up to May and I will confirm other locations in due course.

Sunday 16 February
St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury (See report below)

Sunday 16 March
Salisbury Museum, The Close.

Sunday 13 April (first outside location)
St.Anne's Gate, Exeter St/St.John's Street, Salisbury.

Sunday 18 May 
Wilton House

Locations to be arranged for

Sunday 15 June
Sunday 20 July
Sunday 17 August
Sunday 21 September
Sunday 19 October
Sunday 16 November

As usual, I will send regular sketchers a reminder and more details a week before our planned visits.  

If you would like to join us or would like more details, please contact me.  Everyone is welcome!

I hope you will be able to join me at St Thomas's church.

I am looking forward to sharing these afternoons with you all.

Loraine

Salisbury Sketchers visit to St Thomas's Church, Salisbury
Sunday 16 February 2025

This was our first sketching opportunity of 2025, and it was good to see fourteen members turn out on a chilly, grey afternoon to sketch together.
The church was warm and welcoming and members appreciated the quiet and peaceful interior, that provided some great architectural features to draw and paint.It was a good start to the year and we are looking forward to visiting Salisbury Museum next month on Sunday, March
16th.Please email Loraine for more information.
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Visit to Salisbury Museum   
Sunday 17 November 2024

Our last Sketchers event for the year was very successful with fifteen members taking part.  There was a wealth of subjects to draw from within the museum collections and at the end of the afternoon, over a cup of tea, it was good to look at each other's drawings depicting a variety of subjects from Flintstones to a fireplace!

The Trinity Buoy Wharf drawing exhibition elicited a few comments about some of the more controversial works on display.  The first prize had gone to a wall display of wire objects that didn't appear to conform to the dictionary definition of drawing:  'a picture or diagram made with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint'.  But it's always good to engage in conversations about what is considered to be worthy art.

I would like to thank everybody for coming along and supporting our sketching group.  It's very rewarding at the end of a session to see the artworks produced, from simple line drawings to colourful paintings.

Salisbury Sketchers Visit to the Maltings
Sunday October 20 2024

A report by Loraine Sherlock

After a truly miserable and wet morning I thought that perhaps I would be sketching on my own at this location.

So many thanks to the six members who turned up to join me and made the afternoon an enjoyable event.  

The city was bustling with families going to the annual Charter Fair but we found quieter spots in sheltered doorways or sitting on benches on the green space by the river.  One member chose the warmer interior of the Turkish coffee shop where, over a cup of coffee, she drew some of the beautiful coloured lights hanging there