Art Appreciation Outings
Leaders: Linda Davidson & Lyn Tobin
Outings to galleries for prearranged guided visits, live film presentations, coffee or lunch before/after session to discuss future activities/current outing.
- Zoom meetings
Art Improvement Workshop
Leader: Barbara Jackson
Contact point: Hazel Finn
The art improvement group is for members who have painted before but want encouragement with their artwork. Our tutor Barbara Jackson is an accomplished artist. At present the group is full but we have a waiting list.
- When: Thursday 2.30–5.00 pm
- Location: Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way, NW11 6YD
- Frequency: Fortnightly
- Important note: Fellowship House requires all attendees to have received both doses of a covid-19 vaccination
Bead and Jewellery Making
Leader: Monica Peiser
Monica was trained in jewellery at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Her own work is mainly in precious metals. Monica taught her craft at The Institute for over 30 years and some years at Hampstead School of Art. She has been fascinated by beads since childhood and has run many bead sessions.
She will be running a fun workshop using lovely glass beads where members will put colours and shapes together to create pretty necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Learn the tricky business of fastenings, choosing threads and wires and needles.
All you need is reasonable eyesight, some manual dexterity, patience and above all a love of beads! All materials provided.
- When: Thursday 10.00 am – 12.30 pm
- Frequency: Fortnightly
- Location: Leader’s home in East Finchley
- Cost: Contribution of £6 per session to cover cost of materials
Drawing for Beginners—Basic Techniques
Leader: Mary Whiting
A full-year course in drawing starting from scratch. Structured sessions covering the essentials such as observation, perspective, shading and proportion, and including how to draw plants, faces, figures, still lifes, and how to compose a good picture.
- Weekly: Monday 11.00 am – 12.30 pm on Zoom
Drawing: Improvers
Leader: Mary Whiting
This course is intended for people who have completed Mary’s Drawing for Beginners course and want to carry on, or who have had some drawing experience elsewhere.
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- Monthly: Monday — 2.00–3.30 pm on Zoom
Enjoying Art
Leader: Angela Cox
This is for everyone who shares the pleasure of looking at and discussing works of art. No special knowledge is necessary, just interest and the pleasure of discovery. Angela is an art historian, a former Head of Education at the National Portrait Gallery, with many years’ experience teaching adults at courses for Birkbeck College, the V&A, and elsewhere.
- When: Second Monday of month, 10.30 am – 12.30 pm
- Frequency: Monthly
- Location: Oriel Room, HGS Free Church, North Square, NW11 7AA
- Number of places: Group is currently full, but you can apply to be on the waiting list
Knit
Leader: Elizabeth Alcock
Let’s all be Tom Daley!
Knitting is alive and well in HGS U3A! This craft group responds to local charity appeals alongside their own projects. The group is designed as a social gathering for all skill levels — from beginners to improvers, to share and learn from each other. Thanks to Tom, we all know that knitting is relaxing and good for our mental well-being!!
- When: Tuesday 2.00–4.00 pm
- Location: Leader’s home in N3
- Frequency: Last Tuesday of each month
Learn how to Draw and use Watercolours
Leader: Shizue Takahashi
A course for absolute beginners. Anyone can learn how to draw, according to Shizue Takahshi. Through many years of teaching, she has developed a simple method based on 3 key principles: Proportion, Angle and Tone. By understanding these principles, you will be able to draw pictures conveying a sense of light, space and depth. You will also learn how to create fresh/vibrant watercolour paintings.
- Friday: weekly 10.00–11.00 am on Zoom
Outdoor Sketching
Leader: Bernd Marenbach
Meet outdoors at various venues to practise drawing and/or painting outdoors.
- When: Wednesday mornings
- Where: Varies
Photography in London
Leader: Myke Jacobs, assisted by Roger Cookson
Group photo shoots will resume in October, with members sharing their best photos on Zoom two weeks later.
It’s intended to be a fun-oriented group rather than a technocratic, competitive society.
- Group photo shoots at various locations in London
- Photo sharing sessions on Zoom
- When: Wednesday 10.30 am – 12 noon
- Frequency: Fortnightly
- Number of places: 15
Sewing Circle
Leader: Diana Darrer
Expert needlewoman Diana Darrer provides members with 9-piece patchwork kits to sew for charity. This is a brilliant opportunity to learn and extend your sewing skills.
- Restarting in-person sessions in February 2023
- When: Thursday 2.00–4.00 pm
- Frequency: Weekly
- Location: Leader’s home in NW11
Stained Glass & Glass Mosaic
Leader: Sharon Cavendish
Designing, cutting coloured glass, and laminating it onto a clear glass panel. Sharon is assuming leadership of this group, which was previously run by Ruth Jacobson.
- When: Wednesday 2.00–4.00 pm
- Location: Free Church Hall, Northway, NW11 6PB
- Frequency: Weekly
Weird Antiques, Gadgets & Contraptions
Leader: Maish Collins
Collecting unusual and eccentric artefacts over 40 years have led to an understanding of the history of the times through those items, the collection is mainly set in the Victorian and Edwardian period, and are, in the main consumer products, what people used, and the innovations that possibly made some wealthy and others, sadly, broke.
The idea of the series is to explore the products themselves, the people who created and developed them and to look at the way they were advertised and marketed in the context of the period, so from the clockwork 1903 Teasmade to the 3 at a time knife cleaner — all will be revealed.
- When: Tuesday morning 10.00–11.30 am
- Location: Elders’ Vestry, Free Church, North Square, NW11 7AA
- Frequency: Monthly: third Tuesday of the month