The Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Art Society are currently exhibiting their artworks at the Hunter Botanic Gardens, Hexham, until June 1st.  All artworks are for sale and can be viewed in the foyer next to the Cafe.  Come along, have a cuppa, enjoy the gardens and view some beautiful artworks by local artists.  

We had a wonderful demonstration by Bob Saxon at our general meeting this February.  Bob likes to paint ‘plein air’ impressionist style paintings and searching for subjects locally and across the country has become a passion and a life style of his. Bob was very generous with his knowledge in oil painting.

The beautiful painting by Rod Bathgate which was raffled at our Belmont Exhibition 2021 was won by Gay Cheshire.   Thank you to all who supported and congratulations Gay.

Also some of our Highly Commended and Commended artists, Michelle Strong, Jenny Elks, Gay Cheshire, Gordon Finlayson and Janet de Vries.   Well done everyone.

Our winner Bronwen Tyler and second place getter Wendy Lesniak with their certificates.   Congratulations Bronwen and Wendy.  

06/11/2021 – The Belmont exhibition is now on and it’s great to be able to get out and share our works again with the community.  This year we have been extremely fortunate to have renowned local artist Jill Campbell judge the Des Vout Memorial Award, making a lot of people very happy. The full list […]

31/10/2021 – After so many months of uncertainty and disappointment our Belmont Citi Centre exhibition is ready to start tomorrow. Featuring the Des Vout Memorial Award this exhibition is always popular and with our previous exhibition at Lake Macquarie Fair being cancelled due to Covid19, everyone is super keen to get going again. To make […]

04/08/2021 – Unfortunately we have cancelled the Ellen Kilpatrick Award at Mt Hutton this year due to Covid 19 restrictions and the current lockdown. Hopefully we’ll see you all at Citi Centre Belmont in October for  the Des Vout Memorial Award. Fingers crossed this current Covid situation will have settled enough by then for us […]

23/06/2021 – The weather is so far smiling on our exhibition at Rathmines, with lovely sunny days and beautiful lake scenes. Today we had a  group of pastellists out enjoying the winter sunshine and having a chat with local art lovers. Tomorrow the Rathmines Theatre will come alive with classes, demonstrations and more paintings on […]

22/06/2021 – Wow! Our exhibition at Rathmines is all set up in the Boiler Room behind the Rathmines Theatre and it looks great. We were blessed to have a sunny day to set up in  this lovely place, with many people strolling by and popping in for an early look. Several paintings and raffle tickets […]