Membership
We invite you to join Thornbury Art Club, a welcoming community where individuals from diverse backgrounds come together to share their passions. Whether you have a long-standing interest in art or are completely new to it, you will find a place here.
Engage in lively conversations with fellow members during our studio groups, where you can learn from one another. Our breaks of tea and biscuits provide a perfect opportunity to connect with other members, sharing stories and experiences that you won't find on any platform.
Our club is open to everyone, regardless of artistic experience or medium. Some of our members just paint for fun, while others are successfully running their own art businesses.
Feel free to ask for advice and tips — the wealth of knowledge within our community is a valuable resource.
Creatives of the Thornbury Art Club enjoy experimenting with innovative mediums and techniques. This is why we extend invitations to accomplished artists to deliver talks and presentations during our monthly club gatherings.
In our studio groups, the atmosphere is relaxed. We focus on painting while enjoying each other’s company, often engaging in conversations that can take precedence over our painting. Currently, our studio groups meet weekly, and as our membership grows, we are planning to add more time slots.
Join us and become part of a vibrant group where art and friendship flourish.
Choose your starting point
Explore memberships & events
Club Nights for Non-Members
£6
Talks and painting demonstrations by accredited artists.
Tickets can be purchased at the entrance.
You can pay card or cash.
Free car park on the premises.
Membership
£42/year
Club nights
2. Monthly newsletter
3. Exhibit in club exhibitions(excludes hanging fees)
4. Day workshops (additional fee required)
5. Members only groups via Discord & WhatsApp
Membership & Studio Group
£117/yr
Club nights
2. Monthly newsletter
3. Exhibit in club exhibitions (excludes hanging fees)
4. Day workshops (additional fee required)
5. Members only groups via Discord & WhatsApp
6. Studio groups every week to paint together with other members
7. First visit is free of charge for you to try before you buy
Our Studio Group Times
Non-Members are welcome to visit during our studio hours to see what we are up to and to ask about memberships in person.
First visit in the studio group is free of charge.
Bring something to draw, paint or craft and have a cup of tea with us before you make a decision.
Tuesday 1.30pm - 4.30pm
St. Mary’s Church Hall, BS35 1DR
(free car park)
Thursday 1.30pm - 4.30pm
St. Mary’s Church Hall, BS35 1DR
More Fun & Success Together
More lively and fun
There is always lots of fun in groups, and the way people bounce ideas off each other often leads to some highly interesting results.
Bring your ideas to life
As well as learning a lot from how other people use the pencil, joining an art club is a great way to meet new people with shared interests.
Sell your vision to others
Benefit from the knowledge of our members in the member area of our website where everybody is invited to share their experience and support each others. Some of us are professional artists. Learn to present your work and ideas with confidence.
Make friends
You might be surprised how many likeminded people there are in your area. Some of us are professional artists and some just paint for fun. We all enjoy spending time together. Not everything has to be about painting together. Sometimes we just want to enjoy coffee and cake or go for a walk with other creatives. Why not?
What our members are saying
Colin
joined in 2008
Question: What’s best about art club?
Apart from tea and biscuits, you mean?
It's a great group. People are very friendly, they are happy when they can talk about your painting. You can go around and look at other people's paintings and what they are doing. And they do varied things. They don't do all the same by any stretch of imagination. They do all sorts of different things. It's very interesting to see what other people do. Sometimes you get comments on your own and sometimes they are pretty direct.
Pat
joined in 2011
Question: What is the art club for you?
It's my life, my social life!
The best thing about art club is the friendliness of the group. Everybody is so friendly, and they are all able to give advice when you need it.
Mary
joined in 1969
You can allow yourself that certain time every week where you're able to do some painting. At home you're always much too busy doing other things. But here you just come along and sit and do your own thing for three hours and it's lovely. And also the people are lovely as well.
If you like making things or making marks. It's all about making marks. You can come along and bring anything really. If you fancy painting or drawing or even stitching. You can come along and sit with us. And then in our lovely break, where we have tea, coffee and biscuits, we all wander around looking at each others work, have a good discussion about it and get ideas.
Pat
joined in 2013
The art club is good for my mental health because I live with a husband with dementia. I just enjoy the socializing as much as the artwork and learning from others. When I joined I didn't know anybody here but I found good friends at the art club.
