HCA Exhibitions In the Frame Bredwardine Art Group

Bredwardine Art Group

Bredwardine Art Group meets weekly in the village hall where we work side by side on our chosen artwork, support and encourage each other. We have a membership of around 15 women who use a range of media: oils, watercolour, acrylics, inks, charcoal, pencil, lino cut, collage.

We used the Zoom video app to meet the challenge of Covid-19. Even when we briefly resumed face-to-face in August – September, we kept Zoom contact as several shielding members were not ready to meet. Zoom sessions have been a lifeline for all of us.

Weekly themes kept us focused in-between sessions. We shared our work on our Facebook page. Art-based themes included: abstracts, monochrome work, self-portrait; subject themes included birds, autumn, dragons. However, we also chose themes that made us think about the pandemic and what was happening for us. We have chosen our images from these.

Our very first theme was ‘isolation’, followed by ‘goats’ inspired by the wild goats roaming quiet Llandudno streets in lockdown. As time went on, especially for those of us shielding, we tackled ‘a view from a window’, ‘something we miss in lockdown’, ‘something that makes me smile’ and recently ‘light at the end of the tunnel’. All the images exhibited express how we have coped, turning the stress of 2020 into art, holding family while at a distance and making the most of Herefordshire’s beauty – as well as escaping into other places through our art. We hope you enjoy our work.

Theme: Isolation

Above: Lockdown by Gill Sergeant, watercolour

The Lawson Family

Theme: Isolation

Top left: The elusive tree by Jenny Johnston, watercolour with acrylic highlights
Top right: Family Lawson in lockdown’ by Kari Manning-Lawson, acrylics