Five of members formed a group and meet at various times to give each other support in working through Julia Cameron’s ‘The Artist’s Way’ a course in discovering and recovering your creative self.

We have established trust and are accountable to one another to complete the tasks.  Our monthly two hour lunches are an uplifting experience as we laugh our way through the highlights and lowlights of the intervening time. 

We are learning to be more assertive and challenging each other to try things we wouldn’t have done before…………..watch this space!!!

If you are interested in forming another group to follow The Artist’s Way please call Melanie Makinson on 01280 848328 begin_of_the_skype_highlightingend_of_the_skype_highlighting and she will either set up an initial meeting or put people in touch with each other.

Five Women Artists

Heather Sequiera, Debs Last, Lindsey Graham, Zoë Day, Lynne Cameron

We came together in 2009 as one of the first Bafa networking groups. Each of us

was looking for other creative people with whom we could share the struggle of

making art.

Our starting point was the book “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron,

which we committed to reading and working on one chapter a month.

We meet each month for lunch; to share our lives and our art. We set ourselves new

tasks each time, and feel a sense of accountability to the group to meet these challenges.

As time has gone on, we have built up trust within the group and it has become what

Julia Cameron calls ‘a sacred circle’.

We paint together sometimes and regularly share our work with each other,

expecting and learning from honest critiques.

Starting in 2009, from two novice artists meeting to encourage each other, the Friday Group now consists of six regular members.  Encouragement and support has stayed as our main aim, helping each other to improve skills in a relaxed and sociable atmosphere.

Each week we work on an individual interest /picture of the moment or more cooperatively in an area of concern for more of the group.  We have tried new media and focussed on colour, tone and shadow.

We have become a group of friends, often lunching together and including in our activities visits to galleries, lectures at other art groups, special exhibitions and art fairs. Thanks to one of the group we have also been able to obtain materials at more reasonable prices by sharing an order.

Sustained by plenty of coffee and tea, we have seen our work improve, enjoyed each others’ company and had fun. 

The problem of space and extra cost, make it difficult to extend the group but Barbara, Marion, Swee Har, Peter, John and Jen recommend this way of encouraging and enjoying working together.