Share your work with your friends at Derby Sketching Club with snacks and drinks provided. Bring in your sketch books, recent pictures from home including perhaps a work-in-progress. A social night where you can share what you’ve been working on outside of our scheduled sessions. Swap ideas and brainstorm or just be inspired by your fellow artists. All DSC members welcome. A free evening.

All DSC members (with optional Plus One) are invited to our annual social evening. There will be wine, party snacks, a quiz, music and a review of the year. Free, informal  social event. No dress code but if you have a Christmas jumper it wouldn’t look out of place!

On 17 October local artist and tutor Denise Cliffen was our guest for a landscape workshop with a difference. Denise Cliffen was a semi-finalist in Sky Landscape Artist of the Year in 2022. She has exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists and Royal Society of Marine Artists. She runs Easel Weasel Art Workshops in the Peak District. Working on black A3 paper, the landscape scene is sketched on with chalk pastels then the acrylic paint applied in short brush strokes creating an almost mosaic effect.

On 9 October we took a Skills coach to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. Alongside their vast permanent collection, there were various free exhibitions including Hong Kong artist Cheung Yee, sculptures by Daphne Wright: Deep rooted Things’ and some incredible kimonos. The main exhibition ‘This Is What You Get’ featured art work from Stanley Donwood that was created at the same time and in the same space as the music of Radiohead and Thom Yorke. Unusual and inspiring.