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Landscape sketching and colour pencils

Landscape sketching and colour pencils

Saturday 18 July
10-15 Southampton park - 10am - 2 Hours
Southampton Art Group
Aaron
Join us for a relaxed outdoor sketching session at Southampton Common. We'll explore landscape sketching using colour pencils, focusing on light, shade, and composition. Suitable for beginners and experienced artists alike.

Please bring your sketchbook, pencils, colour pencils, and eraser.
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£28      
Creative Seascapes Meetup

Creative Seascapes Meetup

Saturday 18 July
Lepe, Southampton SO45 1AD - 2pm - 2 Hours
Southampton Photography Group
Nikki Wileman
Opportunities for photography at the beach are endless and this meetup will be a chance to explore some of these. We'll be focusing on composition and the use of light and colour as well as the idea of the abstract seascape. As always we'll encourage you to improve your skills in using your camera manually.
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£28      
Flower Photography Meetup

Flower Photography Meetup

Saturday 15 August
Jermyns Ln, Romsey SO51 0QA - 2pm - 2 Hours
Southampton Photography Group
Nikki Wileman
Learn all the tips and tricks you need to take stunning pictures of flowers. We will discuss composition, the use of light and colour, and other aspects of photography that will help you create unique and artistic images.
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£28      

Acrylic and watercolour landscape painting

Acrylic and watercolour landscape painting

Saturday 22 August
Bassett entrance, north side of Southampton Common - 10am - 2 Hours
Southampton Art Group
Aaron
Join us for a relaxed landscape painting session at Southampton Common. We'll explore acrylic and watercolour techniques, covering impressionism and realism styles. Suitable for artists of all levels.

Please bring your own materials including paints, brushes, and a surface to paint on (canvas or board).
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£28      
Beginners Photography Class

Beginners Photography Class

Saturday 05 September
Palmerston Rd, Southampton - 2pm - 3 Hours
Southampton Photography Group
Nikki Wileman
Whether you are photographing people or plants, making memories or making art knowing how to use your camera is key.The class will give you the knowledge you need to expose, to compose and to create the images you have always wanted to. Learn the basics of photography including using manual camera settings for perfect exposure and tips for good composition. The session will look at ways to improve composition using light, colour and perspective.
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£72      
Creative Forest Photography Meetup

Creative Forest Photography Meetup

Saturday 24 October
Brockenhurst, United Kingdom - 2pm - 2 Hours
Southampton Photography Group
Nikki Wileman
The forest is a much-photographed subject and photogenic in any season providing endless subject matter. This session will give the opportunity to explore the forest and the impact that framing, depth of field, use of light and colour can have, as well as to wander through some of the tallest trees in the New Forest.
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£28      

Long Exposure and ICM Photography Meetup

Long Exposure and ICM Photography Meetup

Saturday 14 November
Above Bar St., Southampton - 4pm - 2 Hours
Southampton Photography Group
Nikki Wileman
The city is a common photographic location and provides endless subject matter: buildings, people, street scenes, etc . One way to make an image more interesting is to use a long exposure to blur movement.
This session will be a chance to explore the use of long exposures, but also ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) and other techniques to create impressionistic images, as well as to capture light trails.
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£28      
Beginners Photography Class

Beginners Photography Class

Saturday 05 December
Palmerston Rd, Southampton - 2pm - 3 Hours
Southampton Photography Group
Nikki Wileman
Whether you are photographing people or plants, making memories or making art knowing how to use your camera is key.The class will give you the knowledge you need to expose, to compose and to create the images you have always wanted to. Learn the basics of photography including using manual camera settings for perfect exposure and tips for good composition. The session will look at ways to improve composition using light, colour and perspective.
book now
£72      
ABOUT SOUTHAMPTON
WATERCOLOUR
GROUP
Come along to our meetups to improve your art in a relaxed and social atmosphere and under the guidance of a professional instructor. Complete beginners to experienced artists all welcome.

Our 2 hour meetups are held in a different location each time, usually outdoors.

Bring your own materials. If you are a complete beginner all you need to start is a set of watercolour paints, brushes, and water container.

Who can attend? Open to all skill levels, from beginners to experienced artists. The instructor is there to help everyone.

The meeting point and full details for the day are sent in the booking confirmation email to the email address you provide at time of booking.

Join the Southampton Watercolour Group on Facebook to share your art and enjoy the art of other locals.
REVIEWS
Very good
5/5
Gary
2025-10-06
PHOTOS
Birmingham Watercolour Group
2026-06-19
Title or Location: Secret garden
I inspired this painting from a walk on an island. I was walking on a path without knowing where it would take me. Soon I found myself surrounded by plants and seasonal flowers in a beautiful and peaceful garden. All I could hear was the birds. I stayed there for a while. Sometimes we all need a quiet place to collect our thoughts, be grateful and relax. That's what this painting is about! The painting is an original artwork on 100 silk textiles. Dimensions: 40cm x 30cmTechnique: aqua
Credit: Persephone Sextou

Brisbane Watercolour Group
2026-06-15
Title or Location: Brisbane
After being a potter for many decades, arthritis has decided it?s time to do something less strenuous, so now I?ve fallen in love with watercolour and it?s special magic. I?ve spent many hours fiddling with granulating paints, mainly DS lunar black, trying to get it to make rivulets. These eerie trees and rocks are the closest I?ve managed so far,
Credit: Gillian Warry
Facebook: Gillian Warry
Instagram: @gillianwarry
Brisbane Watercolour Group
2026-06-08
Title or Location: Cultural aesthetics of a family portrait
This watercolor painting features a celebration of a father and daughter: the father is in a refined Western formalwear, and the daughter through a stylised Chinese-inspired dress, blending two cultural aesthetics into a single elegant family portrait.
Credit: Gary Zhai

Nottingham Watercolour Group
2026-06-07
Title or Location: Photo was taken by myself of a painting I created.
This is titled I?ll forget you not, Ron.Inspired by my late grandfather and the roses that are in his garden planted with his ashes.
Credit: Lorna Simpson
Facebook: Lorna Simpson
Instagram: Lorna_simpson88

Adelaide Watercolour Group
2026-06-07
Title or Location: Just for fun
Illustration is my favourite style of painting. I did this one just for fun. That?s why it?s the tile of the artwork. Would love to illustrate children?s books. I paint just as a hobby though.
Credit: SJ?s Artwork
Liverpool Watercolour Group
2026-06-03
Title or Location: Bromborough, Wirral, UK
A morning with the Wirral Urban Sketchers. A quick 2hr sketch of Victorian School building in pen and watercolour, in A3 sketch book.
Credit: Richard Oldfield
Facebook: richard.oldfield.752
Instagram: @richardmo55

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