This page is for images of drawings and paintings made by the members of our group at each of our meeting places during the year 2020.
Roll your mouse over the thumbnail images to find out the month, location and author of each one. Or click on an image to see an enlargement and then view all of the enlarged images one by one.
Carol Savage joined the group at the end of 2019.
Jan 2020 :RFH Central Bar (Marion Wilcocks)
Jan 2020: Waterloo Bridge (Marion Wilcocks)
Jan 2020. Across St Pauls (Stuart Stanley)
In March this year (2020), the Drawing London Group’s regular monthly meeting abruptly ceased with the lockdown. Not to be deterred, the group decided if we cannot have monthly meetings, then we will have weekly meetings instead! Using the magic of technology, we appear on screen, sometimes as many as 12 of us, clutching our coffee mugs and chatting about how to manage and stay sane during lockdown. After half an hour, we go off to paint whatever we can find, returning in the afternoon to show off our work. Lockdown has been kind to artists in many ways, giving us time and focus. Here are examples of work done during these interesting times!.
Mar 26th: Ocado Calls: Bill Aldridge
Mar 27th. Chris Great
Mar 27th. Jean Dollimore
Mar 26th. Jenny Fuery
Mar 26th, Marilyn Southey
Mar 27th. Jessica Saraga
Mar 27th John Crane
Mar 27th. Linda Mallett
Mar 2020. Trees. Wendy Winfield
Apr-4th, Carol Savage
Apr-4th, Over the fence, Islington. Jenny Furey
Apr-4th, Marilyn Southey
Apr 3rd. Steve Locket
Apr 3rd .Steve Locket
Wendy. April 2020
Apr3.Clare-Wetherill.
Apr 3 John Crane
April 3rd Holm Oak. Bill Aldridge,
May 8 th Steve Locket
May 8th. Jessica Saraga
May-8 Leni Oliver-Thalkirchner Strasse-Munich. Marcus Oliver
May 8th. Light and life. Carol Savage
May8. Marian Wilcocks
May 16th. Chris Great-
May 16th. Opening. Jenny Furey
May16th, Jessica Sarago. May16
Marilyn-Southey-May-16
What can you do if all your walks are by water May 16th. Jessica Saraga
May 16th. Marion-Wilcocks.
May 22nd. Bill Aldridge.-
From July, the Zoom calls stopped and the northern and southern groups met in separate locations in July and August (Kenwood and Waterlow Park and Painshill Park)
July 2020: Kenwood. Judy Hillman
July 2020. Kenwood. Jenny Furey
July 2020. Kenwood. Bill Aldridge
July 2020: Painshill, Wendy Winfield
July 2020: The Grotto Painshill. John Crane
July 2020. Painshill Marion Wilcocks
July 2020: The five arched bridge at Painshill Park. Jessica Saraga
August 2020. Lauderdale House. (Bill Aldridge)
Aug 20. Lauderdale House. (Jean Dollimore)
August 2020. Ghana embassy in Highgate. (Jenny Furey)
August 2020, Glimpse of the lake, Waterlow Park (Andrew Horrod))
August 2020, Etching:140 Highgate Hill. Jenny Furey
But as the news that the pandemic was increasing, Bill wisely decided to suspend all Drawing London meetings until the end of the year.
A favourite on Facebook has been Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week, a four hour long programme following one of their prize winning portraitists painting a well known sitter. The art, the chat, and the challenge of making our own work has been popular amongst us. The first series started on 26 April with Akram Khan and ended on 21 June with Mary Beard. A second series began on 18 October with Annie McManus
26 April. Akram Khan by Sue Smith (acrylic)
3 May. Bernadine Evaristo by Bill Aldridge (iPad)
10th May. Rankin by Clare Wetherill (watercolour)
17 May. Rob Rinder by Linda Mallett (pencil)
24 May. Will Young by Sue Smith (ink)
31 May. Prof Green by Clare Weatherill (w’colour)
7 June. Clare Balding by Jessica Saraga
14 June. Noel Fielding by Marilyn Southey (w’colour)