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.

Art Sessions

Online Art Gallery

Online Gallery

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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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.

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News and Articles

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DUPONT ART EXHIBITION RESULTS

October 31, 2025
the 2025 Dupont Art exhibition was a resounding success. We exceeded the football from previous years and sold 12 paintings...
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Dupont Video Workshops

September 25, 2020
You can see Art Tutorials on Dupont’s You Tube by Dupont Art Club's two excellent instructors, Lucy Parker and Caroline...
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Art Demonstrations

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Wet into Wet Watercolour

February 28, 2025
Wet into wet watercolour
The demo today Caroline chose a winter photo of a small brook and trees in quite dull mono tones. She mixed a yellow quite watery and washed over the sky, she then...

Watercolour Negative Painting

February 13, 2025
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Watercolour Negative Painting Caroline explained that we will be creating the positive by painting the negative. She started by painting areas of colours yellows, reds, oranges, and browns with a...

Critique of a Painting

February 3, 2025
 How to critique a painting. Caroline explained that in looking at any picture one should follow the line, colour, tonal value, contrast and how the eye is guided through the...

Painting like Wayne Thiebaud

January 22, 2025
 Wayne Theibaud was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting common place objects, such as pies, cakes, lipsticks, paint, cans, and ice cream, cones, etc. He was born...

Drawing Complex Building Scenes

December 7, 2024
Drawing Complex Building Scenes Break the building scene into shapes of small, medium and large and start with the large shape. Finding the middle of the photo draw in the...

Portrait in Charcoal and white Pastel

November 23, 2024
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Portrait Drawing in Charcoal and Pastel White This exercise by Caroline is on tonal values. She started with a light grey drawing of the face. The charcoal was then used...
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