Martin Webster
Chairman and Newsletters

When I retired some seven years ago, I decided I needed to join an art group to
progress my painting. My painting before that had been on the odd day off and was
progressing slowly.
After moving a chance encounter led to a kind member taking me to a Friday
afternoon social painting session - and I was off!
Such a warm and encouraging welcome, Friday afternoons are now a mustn’t miss
occasion. Then joining in some workshops and sketching opportunities, having
helpful conversations, exhibiting with the Group, has meant that my art has
progressed in leaps and bounds.
Somehow, I have ended up as Chairman, it is a delight and joy to work with such a
friendly and broadly based art group, with some 200 plus members drawn from
Salisbury and surrounding villages.
If you would like to know more about the art group, please do contact me or the
membership secretary.

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Beverley Singleton
Treasurer and Workshops Coordinator 

Friday Art is a safe space for me to play amongst real artists and now friends. I use different mediums, from acrylics, water colour and pastels to needle felting. Everything is an experiment and if I produce something ok that’s good, but I enjoy the process and company more. And we get tea and cake! An cheese and biscuits sometimes too.

Having joined SGA, I have attended most workshopslearning new techniques and buying more tools.If you feel you have techniques to share and could run a workshop get in touch! There is interest in acrylic pouring so if you know anyone let me know.

Having returned to the committee to run Workshops I am now also the Treasurer. These two roles fit nicely and I will be able to see who has booked and paid!  The committee all have the Group’s interests at heart and there are no egos. It’s a privilege to belong to a warm and welcoming group.

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Jill Tomalin
Exhibitions Team Coordinator

I moved to Salisbury with my husband Mike in 2019, following the arrival of our first grandchild here. Mike is a pastellist, and joined the SGA soon after – though Covid was to prove an unwelcome interruption! In the following years, we saw how welcoming the group is, and I decided to offer help with running the SGA exhibitions, a role I had done for three years in Totnes for the Art Society there.

I now find myself as the new exhibition co-ordinator, working with Annie George (who will continue to curate the exhibitions) and a team of lovely volunteers.

Although not an artist myself, I console myself that I can at least appreciate art and admire the creative process that members demonstrate so ably.   

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Jane Hanbidge
Minutes Secretary

When not painting, a lot of my time is spent volunteering for The Salisbury Museum, working on finds brought in by members of the public, and researching for the new galleries amongst other things. This is retirement from thirty years of teaching and ten years as a PA . The latter is the only excuse for anyone thinking I can do minutes!

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Pauline Oliver
Memberships

My working background was in legal finance (for over 50 years) and I worked all over the South of England. 
On my retirement in 2014 I returned to live in Salisbury, together with my daughter, son in law and their three children.
I am looking forward to becoming more involved with the SGA. 

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Mark Elling
Committee Member

My background is founded in graphic design having worked in a variety of creative agencies in London and South West England. In more recent years I have worked in the charity sector as a fundraising manager in hospices and emergency food provision.
Painting has always been a very important part of my life and especially as a happy outcome of the pandemic - no excuse to not reinvigorate my more artistic, less rigid designer tendencies to seek a more relaxed, uninhibited expression of my skills. 
Belonging to SGA is a privilege and it is my intention to help support the group when and where I can be useful. The regular exhibitions provide great encouragement to continue to study and learn from the wealth of talented artists' work. 

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Jim Nevens
Committee Member

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David Davies
Committee Member

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