Highgate Watercolour Group

Welcome to our new website. It offers members of the HWG an opportunity to showcase more of their work, and we hope that you will enjoy looking at the variety of painting we produce in our Gallery Pages.

Please visit our Members' Gallery

Latest Member News

HWG member Vanessa Whinney will be exhibiting her new work at THE LONG ROOM GALLERY BARN, HADDISCOE HALL, Norfolk, N14 6PE (off the A143) on MAY 26 - 27, open 11am - 5pm For more details please go to Vanessa's website.

Vanessa is also participating in Norfolk and Norwich Open Studios at WATERSIDE GALLERY,MILL POOL LANE, next to Ellingham Mill),ELLINGHAM,BUNGAY NR35 2EP from JUNE 2 - 5,and June 9 - 10,Open 11 - 5

Highgate Fair in the Square

Once again the HWG are delighted to be participating in the popular Highgate Fair in the Square on Saturday 16 June and we will have a stall displaying unframed works and cards. Further details nearer the time.

Annual Exhibition

Our 2012 Exhibition will take place at Lauderdale House, Highgate, from 13 November to 25 November. Further details nearer the time.

Who are we?

The Group was founded in 1980 as part of the Highgate Society with the aim of enabling enthusiastic watercolour painters to work together in an informal atmosphere. We are a mixed bunch – some of us have painted professionally over a lifetime (and are members of top London art societies, and in one case, an international art society), some are newer converts to the joys of watercolours and other paper-based media. Some of us also paint in oils and acrylics.

We are based in 10A Pond Square (the Highgate Society) where we paint regularly on Thursdays, but we quite often go out and paint together either locally or further afield. We also have periodic visits from professional tutors and models.

We have an autumn show annually in Lauderdale House, and occasionally elsewhere. There are nearly 30 of us, and although our numbers are constrained by the size of 10A Pond Square, we are always interested in hearing from any experienced watercolourists who would like to join the Group. If you like the sound of the HWG, please contact our Membership Secretary Sara Kaye on 020 8340 1624.

Please contact Sue Lees at: susan(at)lees.org.uk if you are interested in any of the paintings in the Gallery (some, but not all, will be for sale), or would like to commission a painting.