WHO ARE WE AND WHAT DO WE DO?
 

We are a friendly group of around 40 to 50 local artists.  All CRAG activities are organised by volunteers from within the membership and there is a Committee managing the Group’s expenditure and programme.  All in the group are encouraged to help with events and exhibitions.

Our membership tends to attract people who enjoy painting and who want to improve and try out new techniques. We are not geared up for complete beginners, although most of us are beginners in some subjects and media.

 

Starting from late September through to the end of April we meet on Friday mornings for what we call ‘Studio’ sessions.  These sessions include an organised programme of tutorials and demonstrations by invited professional artists/tutors to talk about how they paint and to show us some of their techniques.  We usually follow these with workshops and/or free-painting sessions where we try out those techniques with some coaching from the tutor. Participation is optional and members are free to work on their own projects or in their own preferred media.  There is plenty of flexibility.  Please see the Programme page for more details.
 

During June through to mid August we hire a large room in the Crowborough Community Centre where some of us meet on Friday mornings to work on our own projects without any tuition.
 

CRAG is funded totally by members paying an annual subscription (currently £150.00 per person). For the room hire for Summer Painting we pay £5.00 for each week we attend.