Fair Oak Art and Craft Society
Art and Craft in Fair Oak
Yet another successful Spring exhibition has now closed. We had a wonderful display of arts and crafts and some delicious homemade cakes in the cafe. The winner of the public vote for the best craft table was Sandra Lee with her delightful display of felted items and Eric Humphreys won the best picture vote with his oil painting entitled Green Pond.
This was a very successful exhibition with more visitors than in recentl years. Both the artists and crafters had some good sales which was very encouraging after the last 2 years of lockdowns and shutdowns due to the covid pandemic.
The winner of the most voted for craft table was a new member, Sandra Lee. She displayed a lovely selection of needle- felted items.
 |  |
The winner of the most voted for picture was Sara Sawers with her beautiful brown bear picture.
 |  |
On Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th November 2019 we are holding our anniversary exhibition to celebrate 40 years since Fair Oak Art and Craft Society was formed. This will be held in Fair Oak Village Hall from 10am to 4:30pm each day. There will be a wonderful display of arts and crafts for sale and a cafe so you can have a cuppa and slice of delicious cake! Do come along – you will be made very welcome.
Anne Humphries presented Kath Owen with the President’s Trophy for the ‘Best Dressed Craft Table’. Well done Kath!
Eric Humphries presented Marilyn Masters with the Maimie Dickins Trophy for the ‘Favourite Painting’ as voted by exhibition visitors. Marilyn’s beautiful picture is titled ‘Swan at Mottisfont’.
This weekend, the 10th and 11th November, we open the doors at the Village Hall, Shorts Road, Fair Oak for our Autumn Exhibition.
For a small entry fee you can browse and buy a variety of art and craft, with demonstrations taking place over the weekend and refreshments available too.
There is plenty of parking and good wheelchair access so come along between 10:00 and 4:30 Saturday or Sunday, accompanied children enter for free.
It was a great exhibition of our members work with a huge variety of styles and media, we were pleased to hear how difficult our visitors found it to vote for a single winning picture!
Crafts displayed included papercraft, soft craft and clay craft and provided a colourful backdrop to the pictures exhibited.
On Saturday 14th April and Sunday 15th April we will be exhibiting at the Village Hall in Fair oak between 10:00 am and 4:00pm. Join us in a weekend full of Art and craft displays and demonstrations.
Tea and Coffee will be available along with a selection of snacks, members will be on hand to talk about the art and our society, a small entry fee applies, accompanied children have free entry.
We are pleased to be exhibiting at Eastleigh Museum from the 7th April to the 5th May 2018
An exhibition of our works will be showing during Normal Museum opening hours, when you can enjoy looking at the art and craft on display and purchase works from the Museum.
there will be two very different workshop run by members during the exhibition.
this is a drop in workshop running on the 11th April from 10am until 2pm, where you can make pop up cards and Jack in the boxes. Cost is £1 and all children must be accompanied.
This is a bookable workshop running on Saturday 5th May at 10:30am and 12:30pm where you can make a small mixed media picture using various products and techniques. This is not suitable for small children, and older children must be accompanied. The cost is £5 and the workshop will last approximately an hour.
This weekend is the Annual Exhibition for 2017!
Opening at 10:00 on Saturday at the Village Hall in Fairoak (SO50 7EJ) there is a small entrance fee for adults but accompanied Children have free entry. There will be a selection of art in many media, typically Oils, Watercolour, Acrylics, Pencils and pastels are shown along with ink and mixed media. Many of the pictures are for sale and they make a great original Christmas gift!
Craft stalls surround the hall where textiles, silk painting, wood-ware, paper-craft, clay work and many more are represented. This is a brilliant way to start or finish your Christmas shopping as well as a chance to see the work done by the society members, some of whom will be demonstrating throughout the weekend.
A tombola stall will be running and there is tea and coffee available to buy along with a selection of cakes; there will also be a make and take to join for £1 per person, this will only be for 10 to 20 minutes and should be great fun!
We will be open both days from 10 to 4:30 and look forward to seeing lots of lovely visitors!
Fair Oak Art and Craft Society 