Art for Art's Sake, Bristol UK

A friendly group for practising artists at every stage of their creative journey. We are working in the visual arts, particularly painting, and welcome beginners as well as more experienced practitioners.
We are each developing a thoughtful, explorative individual art practice and enjoy sharing and discussion with others. We provide a positive, supportive, and fun community, helping each other develop our individual styles.
For us, devoting time, an inquiring mind, and a desire to express something of ourselves, is more important than realism.
Our events are community-led by artists who have experienced the creative process. Our activities include:

• Discussion evenings: We research a topic in advance, then get together to discuss what we've learnt and how it applies to our practice.
• Virtual art days: Participants commit to a day of creativity. We start with a 30 min Zoom call sharing individual objectives for the day. We share midday results over lunch. At the end of the day we meet again to discuss how we got on, show results and share positive feedback and constructive suggestions.
• Visiting art exhibitions: We look round the exhibition then meet in a cafe afterwards to discuss what we've seen
• Film evenings: We gather to watch a film with an art or artist theme and then meet up afterwards to discuss what we've seen
• Catch up gatherings:
  Get-togethers and socials where friends and family are also invited. These events will be clearly marked in the write up as ‘social’.

The group will always run on a not-for-profit basis. I'll ask regular attendees for occasional donations to share costs.