Newsletters

Greetings artists Things are getting busy as we head into the first exhibition.  The cut off date for “Watercolours in Blue” is 8th April, with drop off between 10 and 11.30 am on Monday 28th April at WA Shipwrecks Museum.  There is an opportunity for members to run workshops in ...

President’s Report Presidents chatter: Welcome to the new year with loads of fun things and opportunities for all coming up. I hope you have all had the chance to look at our collection of paintings on the website.  I think they look great. One day we will have a home ...

President’s Report What a year! Some of what we have we done….. We have had 5 new venues, The Inglewood Hub for our general and committee meetings, IWEx 2024 at Central Park and Perth City Farm for the AAE. The storage facility was moved from North Freo to Embleton. Members ...

President’s Report November 2024 What a great time was had by all who went to York this year for the annual getaway! A wonderful, detailed and carefully curated itinerary was put together with different opportunities each day for our members and friends on the getaway.  We painted around Hillside where ...

President’s Report October 2024 What an amazingly busy year so far. So many opportunities for members within the society and in other circles of watercolour within the community. An annual favourite of mine is coming up, the Getaway at York.  For those who have not been on our getaways, it ...

President's Report September 2024 Congratulations to everyone involved in the Annual Awards Exhibition this year.  Over 200 paintings exhibited, with 30 sold and over 1000 people coming through to look at our exhibition, and particular 250 on opening night in really bad weather. It was a big change, and it ...

Greetings members and welcome to our new Friends of the Watercolour Society. The Annual Awards Exhibition is nearly here, and the pool of prize money and vouchers is growing and close to being finalised.  More details about that at the meeting.   Entries close on Friday 23rd for the AAE, please ...

President’s Report: I look forward to seeing many of you and your portraits at the AGM. An absolute honour to have Eudes Correia as our judge and then giving a demonstration to us. At this point we will be trying to video his demonstration and put it on the members ...

President’s Report:  Hello everyone and what a busy time our society is having. Our plein air event went off very well as a start to our third international watercolour exhibition.  Than you to Sue Bass for organising and all the volunteers who made this happen. Newsletter No. 444 - June ...

President’s Report:  Welcome back to your first newsletter for the year. The IWEx is well underway with the sub-committee working hard to make all the final arrangements.  you will all receive an invitation to opening night on Monday 10th June at Central Park and I hope you can all come ...