Summer outdoor painting programme 2025

Date	Venue	Points of interest	Address	Facilities
Apr 29	Dorking St Martins Walk Square	Churchyard, cafes, people	RH4 1UW St Martins car park
May 6	Forest Green	Houses, views, pub	Parrot. Horsham Rd, Forest Green, RH5 5RZ
May 13	Polesden Lacey - National Trust	House, gardens, views	use KT23 4PZ	Café and toilets Free entry and parking for NT members
May 20	Deerhurst, Westcott	Follies, boathouse, trees	Deerhurst, Coast Hill Lane, Westcott RH4 3LJ
May 27	Reigate Heath	Trees, views, houses	Car park - Flanchford Rd, RH2 8QR	Black Horse or Skimmington Castle
Jun 3	Shere High Street private garden	Gardens	The Lodge, Upper Street, Shere GU5 9JA
Jun 10	Denbies	Vineyard, hills	RH5 6AA	Café and toilets. Free parking
June 17	Knepp Wilding Estate	Ruins, farmyard, orchard, café	Worthing Rd, Dial Post, Horsham, RH13 8NQ	Café and toilets. Free parking
June 24	Bletchingley near Hawthorns school	machinery, fields, farm buildings	Pendell Rd, Bletchingley, Redhill RH1 4QH
July 1	Bev Graham garden	garden	Briarsfield, Brighton Rd, Monksgate RH13 6JD

DGA NEWS

These three lovely paintings by Denise Doran have been accepted for the Society of Women Artists' exhibition at the Mall Galleries 24th June to 28th June 2025.

Tessa Spantaon's paintings 'The Dancer' has been accepted for the Society of Women Artists' exhibition at the Mall Galleries 24th June to 28th June 2025.

Two of Alan Brown's paintings have been accepted by the RBA in the upcoming exhibition at the Mall Gallery. The first, a view of allotments painted with the Surrey Hills Plein Air painters and the second, the High Street Oxford, painted in Alan's studio. He usually limits himself to a couple of hours when painting in the studio to try and keep the freshness and simplicity of a plein air study, otherwise the temptation is to fiddle about too much! Both subjects portray a rather dull day but this can produce a quiet and reflective atmosphere - still a good subject to paint. The exhibition is currently on line, and is open to view at the Mall Gallery 26 February to 8 March.

We are delighted that Colin Twinn's gouache painting, of the Compton Allotments near Guildford, has been selected to be included in the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. The painting was largely done during DGA member Deanna Sargent’s excellent workshop. The exhibition begins on the 26th March 2025 and ends on the 5th April. 10.00 - 5.00pm daily.

Colin Twinn's painting ‘The Unseen Army’ and Laura Ritchie's 'The Piano' have both been accepted into The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. The exhibition runs from the 28th November until the 14th December.

NOVEMBER 2024

Prize winners announced, below from our autumn exhibition at Denbies Wine Estate

The winner of the visitors' vote at the 2024 exhibition at Denbies was Jane Anderson-Wood with 'Dark Reflection, Highlands'.

Brian Ingram won the Denbies 1st prize for 'Roller at Castle Gardens'.

Colin Twinn won the 2nd Denbies prize for 'Riders at Forest Green'.

David Barnard won the Denbies 3rd prize for 'Cedars of Lebanon'.

Heather Moore won the Natasha Claridge award for 'View over a Potager at Nanteul-en-Vallee, Charente'.

Diana King won the award from Pullingers art shop with her painting 'Celebration'.

Fiona Hooper won the award from Cassons Framing with 'Spring is on the way'.

David Runnalls won the Barbara Johnson award with 'Sunset from Mudeford'.