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One of our families is in need of short term housing in if anyone can help please drop us a message 👍🏼😊

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2020-09-04

Secret Art sale All the unsold work from 2018/19/20 now in a big Sale! Only £10 each + postage. Visit the website https://t.co/6sJAqxxZYM Grab a bargain!

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2020-09-02

Members Monday

Each Monday we will be highlighting one of our Colchester Art Society members, taking images from our members galleries on our website.

Colchester Art Society Member: Jo Hollis

Cabo de Gata, Oil on paper, 51 x 50 cm

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2020-09-01

Members Monday

Each Monday we will be highlighting one of our Colchester Art Society members, taking images from our members galleries on our website.

Colchester Art Society Member: Jo Hollis

Cabo de Gata II, Oil on paper, 79 x 62.5 cm

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2020-08-31

The best (and perhaps oldest) burger in Colchester is certainly in our museum stores! Who knew there were Big Macs at the last supper? Painting by unknown artist (c.1700-1900). https://t.co/NGu9roTVXJ

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2020-08-22

Throwback Thursday

Each Thursday we will be highlighting one of the many pieces in the Colchester Art Society Permanent Collection.

Simon Carter (b.1961)

Hipkin’s Beach, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 80 cm, Signed and dated on reverse

[CAS 69]

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2020-07-31

Finished my latest today. This is Libby a nurse in Colchester bravely working up front in the battle against Covid19. I don’t think it needs much more work, just warming a little.

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2020-07-27

I had (and still have) the Ladybird book of Julius Caesar AND Roman Britain

The one with Boudicca arriving at Colchester in a wedding dress and the Romans napalm-bombing Stonehenge

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2020-06-16

Members Monday

Each Monday we will be highlighting one of our Colchester Art Society members, taking images from our members galleries on our website.

Colchester Art Society Member: Elizabeth Morris

Smack in Besom Fleet, Etching, 29.5 x 36 cm

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2020-06-16

Each Thursday we will be highlighting one of the many pieces in the Colchester Art Society Permanent Collection.

Jennifer Andrews Des RCA (b. 1935)

Harebell round a White Rose, 1960s, Watercolour on hot pressed paper, 5 ¼ x 6 ¾ in, Signed

[CAS 19] Acquired in 1972

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2020-06-04

It’d be easy to forget that it’s Spring out there, so here’s a reminder...

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2020-04-13

Reports of large reptilian creatures stalking the colchester area at night have been flooding the local police station...

Totally not jumping on the bandwagon 👀

Thanks to for the photo in the bg
Full version should be up tomorrow. Still gotta polish him up

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2020-04-10

Here we have a bumblebee robberfly, also known as an assassin fly. It hunts beetles, grasshoppers and spiders, as well as any other invertebrate it can get its claws on!

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2020-04-03

Going to Colchester, Auntie Win might choose some wallpaper for her bedroom. I shall see if I can get some shoes.

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2020-03-22

This oil painting from the collection is by member, Sylvia St George (1881-1950), and depicts Castle Park in the Spring 😍

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2020-03-21

Upcoming events by some of Colchester Art Society members

For more details please contact the artists directly - information within the images

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2020-03-14

This louse-fly (aka Hippobosca rufipes) started its life in Botswana. It would normally eat cow and horse blood, but it ended up hitching a ride to St Albans on some meat!

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2020-03-13