The Picture Puzzle has been completed

 

Congratulations to all those people who completed a piece. What it does show is how accurate people were in measuring and matching joins and also colour matching especially as different techniques were used.

 

1. Autumn Term 2026

The club reopens on Tuesday 1^st September and runs until the 15^th. December.

The sub for this term remains at £40. There is a small surcharge of £10 for those people staying on for Steve Cale’s afternoon painting session on the 29^th. September.

Old friends and new are welcomed back. Old themes and new ideas.

Hope to see you there.

 

  A second diary note

November 17^th.

A return visit arranged by Jim of Sara Freakley and her model for a morning of life drawing. Further details will be provided next term but in essence this only really requires drawing implements and paper to draw on – lots of it!

The cost will be covered by club funds. A drawing class not to be missed.

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Returned by popular demand

 

Note for your diary: Tuesday September 29th. We have booked Steve Cale for a club day course. There will be a small surcharge for those people staying for the afternoon session suggested at £5 per head unless the afternoon attendance is less than 10 people.

Further details will be advised in due course. The majority of the cost for this visit will be met from funds in hand. This is a trial venture but can be repeated next year if there is sufficient demand. 

 

The club reopens on Tuesday 14^th. April and we look forward to seeing everyone back.

The subscription for this term is £40.

As usual, at the commencement of a term, we will be holding a members’ discussion to decide what people would like included in this term’s programme. If you have any ideas or wishes this would be a good opportunity to raise them.

Hope to see you then.

 Picture Puzzle March 2026

Instructions for our latest picture puzzle

click on the picture to enlarge.

Things to Note

The museum does not specify the actual dimensions of the picture. For our puzzle I have divided the picture into 10 pieces. Height 5.5 inches by 11 inches width. Although the picture was originally painted as a portrait the most practical way to arrive at our required number was to divide it was into landscape slices – see above.

Whilst there is no restriction in your painting medium bright bold colours would follow the artists intension, think David Hockney. The main object is for the pieces to match up so careful placement is suggested, especially at the edges.  Our final picture, when all the pieces have been completed,  will be 27.5 inches height and 22 inches wide.

If you go online  you will see that I have cropped the top slightly to get to a workable size.

Hilary Pecis has a slightly whimsical style. The nature of each object is more important to her than an actual geometric copy.

If you want to match her colours use the picture on the blog as matching with printing ink is very difficult. However, by way of consolation, the picture of your piece is actual size.

One additional thing to note . The pieces were divided by yellow lines to enable cutting. If any of these lines appear at the edge of your piece ignore them.

 

Best of luck.

We are open again on Tuesday 6th. January