Tuesday 17 June 2014

Summer drawing class with Stokey WI President Bridget Chetwynd. Plus Wool Against Weapons.

The class will be a simple project of drawing a still life, flowers in a vase. Anyone can have a go and learn to draw if they simply arrive with an open mind so enjoy it!

About Bridget Chetwynd
Bridget Chetwynd trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art and has always painted and drawn from life throughout her artistic career. She also does private 1:1 tuition in painting and drawing at her studio. She has also taught BTec design courses at Westminster College.
She learned to paint and draw with the painter Sargy Mann who taught at Camberwell School of Art, and she has continued to be influenced by his enthusiasm for observing and looking and seeing the effect light has on what see and translate onto paper.



She has designed sets and costumes for many plays and operas, worked as a project manager at Cameron Mackintosh and had exhibitions of her paintings, and designed best selling greeting cards for Camden Graphics. 

In 2010 Bridget also cofound Bee & Tea, a homeware business with her sister Natasha Chetwynd,www.beeandtea.co.uk with designs based on her botanical watercolours from life. Bee & Tea are stocked in Heal’s & Sublime as well as in France and abroad. She also has a paintings website which can be reached on the painting tab or for examples of her work, www.bridgetchetwynd.co.uk

Also, join in for some knitting! http://www.woolagainstweapons.co.uk/








Sunday 15 June 2014

Charity Tea a great success

The Bee & Tea Charity Tea last Saturday went really well, we managed to raise £500 for the Refugee Women's Association
based in Dalston Hackney and had 40 guests for tea. Cath & John played beautiful live piano and violin which wafted out the windows onto the patio where people sat in the sun drinking their tea and eating delicious cakes and sandwiches prepared by the stokey WI volunteers.

A Fab occassion and thanks to all who helped, and made it as I know how busy Londoners are and how many different events there were going on that Saturday including the Stokey Literary festival.

Thank you to the Stokey WI ladies who cooked such delicious cakes including chocolate and guiness cake, ginger cupcakes, coffee cakes, marmalade cake, teacake and helped out with serving teas on the day Bridget :)

Look forward to another successful Charity Tea in aid of the refugee women's Association ">http://www.refugeewomen.org.uk/