Speed Sketch Night

07/10/2026

Model Chat.
Susan Backhouse talks about Fashion Antidote, her clothing brand named to counter the heady days of the fashion industry of the 90's.

Next week: a Toulouse Lautrec inspired-evening awaits.

05/10/2026

The postcards have arrived! Norman gives a seal of approval with his best Morgan Freeman promo spiel.
Whats new at Speed Sketch?

We are now encourgaing ways to fill your sketchbook and
trying out Model Chat.

What's that? Model whilst telling a story about something creative you were involved in and we sketch you, ask questions and say nice things.



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22/09/2026

Speed Sketch Night has the pleasure of Harish Banarzi showing and helping us how to make our own handmade sketchbooks and providing materials to make our own striaght after.

Great to get a peek into the sketchbooks that we brought in. Harish brought in a few including his first ever from the 1960's.

Great night.
More sketchbooks will feature in the year ahead.

The Village Green is the perfect venue with large tables to experiment and create work in a friendly social setting.




Mondays 6.30pm

20/08/2026

Thank you Tara Wilson for finally being free on a Monday night to lend your dulcetly smooth acoustic Jazz vocals to Speed Sketch club.

Simon Kane, you are the perfect accompanying guitar player who was given a lovely compliment I have yet to pass on for his Harvest Moon vocals.

We coincidentally serenaded the moon properly this session Aug 2026 when the world stopped to watch it eclipse the sun!

🌜🌙🌚🔵🔴🌗🌛

26/05/2026

A quick change up in energy through vocal warms ups, courtesy of Norman Bailey.

24/05/2026

24/05/2026

22/05/2026

⭐️Bank Holiday Speed Sketch Night

Mon 6.30-8.30pm
Holding Coolness in Heat

This week we’re working with three painters who each offer a different way of holding coolness inside warmth. From the still air of an interior to calm colour planes to lifted desert light, the room will move through three quiet temperature states.

*Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin* (1699–1779)
Genre: French still life and domestic interior painting
The coolness of shade inside summer heat. Soft light on everyday objects. A grounded, steady atmosphere.

*Milton Avery* (1885–1965)
Genre: American modernist colour field figuration and landscape
Open colour. Calm planes. Warmth held lightly, with space to breathe.

*Agnes Pelton* (1881–1961)
Genre: American transcendental abstraction
Desert radiance. Glowing inner light. Atmospheres that rise and expand without heaviness.

Warm ups in the first half.
Longer drawing on mount board in 2nd half.

Picture: Search Gazers by Mikton Avery

18/05/2026

Always tickles when someone arrives tired or jet lagged and leaves energized.

Tonight's brief:

⭐ Monday 18th May

Shaping Calm

*Etel Adnan · Richard Diebenkorn · William Scott*

After last week’s silhouettes and cut‑out theatre, we’re moving into a *portrait‑free session*
A quiet modernist evening focused on colour, shape and spatial calm.

Artworks inspired by:

*Etel Adnan*
Small radiant landscapes, soft geometry, distilled colour.

*Richard Diebenkorn*
Berkeley and early Ocean Park periods.
Air, structure, gentle spatial thinking.

*William Scott*
Quiet forms, domestic abstraction, soft edges.