FLEET
ART SOCIETY
2025 Summer Exhibition August 30th to September 7th at The Hart Centre, Fleet
Our exhibition looked fantastic, as you can see in the photos below. We are very grateful to the management of the Hart Centre, for allowing us the use of one of their retail spaces for our exhibitions. We were able to put on an excellent display with paintings on the walls and ceramics, glass and jewellery on tables. There was also a good selection of original greeting cards for sale.
Friends, relatives, local residents and people just passing by came to visit and our artists received many favourable comments on their talents, and on the interesting range of styles and subjects. Sales of art works totalled £3,900 and the raffle raised a very impressive £850. Thank you to the artists and all the members of public who helped us achieve this.
The winners of 'Favourite Painting' in the exhibition, as voted for by visitors were 1st 'Take Me Home' by Christine Francis and 2nd 'Clouds that Flow in Indigo' by the ever-popular, Noel Kendall.
Summer Exhibition 2025
'Take Me Home' by Christine Francis
'Clouds that Flow in Indigo' by Noel Kendall
Our charity - Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice
Many thanks to all Fleet Art Society members and our exhibition visitors - from our raffles and sales at exhibitions and demonstrations, we are very proud to support Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice. The Summer 2025 exhibition raffle raised £850 - our best ever result! With the commission on sales, we are delighted that we will be able to donate over £1,000 to the charity from this exhibition alone.
The surprised winner of the 1st prize in the raffle was one of our artists, Nancy Butler, seen here holding her winning ticket, with exhibition steward, Mark Wells. The 2nd prize was won by a visitor to the exhibition, Keith Smith. They both received John Lewis vouchers.
November 2025 Painting Challenge
This month's theme was 'Animal Life' and was very popular with our members. The variety and quality of the paintings and drawings brought along was impressive.
The winner, as voted for by members, was the delicate portrait of a deer by Sylvie Peacock and the runner-up was a painting of cattle next to a river bank by Maria Haythornthwaite. There are shown with their paintings below being congratulated by guest artist, Catherine McVean.
