Dupont Art Club Hove

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Dupont Art Club in Hove

Welcomes everyone from absolute beginners to professional artists.

You can have as much or as little help as you would like.

Weekly Art Sessions in Hove

We have a tutor at each session on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

YouTube Videos

See Art Tutorials by Dupont Art Club’s two excellent instructors, Lucy Parker and Caroline Marsland. An excellent way to keep your painting skills up.

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Proud member of
Brighton & Hove Arts Council

Dupont Art Club was formed in 1981

You can read more about our club here

We meet at the Ventnor Hall at the Central United Reformed Church, Blatchington Road, Hove, BN3 3YF

Exhibitions

Dupont Art Club has regular exhibitions at Joliffes cafe in Brighton, our members also exhibit in Brighton and Hove Open Art Houses in May and December, Brighton and Hove Arts Council Art Show and Dupont's own annual exhibitions. See more information on our exhibition page.

News and Articles

Penny Marler’s painting Sussex Pond

DUPONT ART CLUB ANNUAL SHOW 2024 RESULTS!

the 2024 Dupont art club show was very successful. This year we sold 13 pictures for a total of £572...

DUPONT ART CLUB ANNUAL EXHIBITION!

Come visit us at Ventnor Hall at Blatchington Road in Hove (BN33YF) to see our annual ART EXHIBTION open daily...
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Dupont Video Workshops

You can see Art Tutorials on Dupont’s You Tube by Dupont Art Club's two excellent instructors, Lucy Parker and Caroline...

Art Demonstrations

You can see over 100+ articles and demonstrations by our art tutors and visiting lecturers

Collage with Acrylic Paint

Collage with acrylic
Caroline sketched out the head of a tiger, then using non shiny magazine pictures she picked out different coloured paper, some with interesting patterns, you could also use old postage...

Mark Making and Tonal Values

Mark Making
Tone, texture, colour and line! Caroline had quite a boring picture of brown cliffs going into a distance. With the use of acrylic paintsShe mapped out a rough line of...

Abstract Ben Nicholson style

HEIF Image
Caroline had a still life picture of a fruit bowl, Nicholson would pick out and separate the main shapes. Caroline drew the out line in Sepia ink with a small...

Expressive Loose Watercolour Animals

Expressive watercolour painting
Caroline sketched an outline of squirrel. She mixed the water colours ready for use ranging from raw sienna, ultra marine, red, yellow ochre, green pthalo, and mixed to form lights and darks...

Painting watercolor skys and Clouds

Watercolor clouds
 Caroline instructed us to have all of our colors mixed ahead of time. She used yellow ocher  and ultramarine to make the grays. All primaries mixed together will also make...

Ripples and Reflections with Coloured Pencils

Caroline often starts in the middle of the picture and works out. The dark/light contrast attracted her so that was where she started drawing the buildings, measuring shapes in comparison...