OULTON BROAD ART CIRCLE
Oulton Broad Art Circle was founded in 1974 when Alice Welch, with around twelve friends, held a meeting at the Welch’s home in Caldicott Road, Oulton Broad in the early autumn of 1974. At the first meeting, Alice Welch was chairman and Derek Plant the secretary and the meeting was attended by Derek Knights, Derek Plant, John Holmes, Douglas Urquhart, Douglas Hosea, Harold Cushing, Alice Welch, Joan Margaret Tusting (1922-2021), Carolyn Reeder, Peter Fletcher, David Balder and others. The first president was Jason Partner (1922-2005) with Douglas Hosea, chairman; Carolyn Reeder, treasurer and Joan Tusting, secretary. The Oulton Broad Art Circle is a friendly club of amateur artists with a wide range of artistic abilities and interests in all mediums. The Club meets on the second, third and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Oulton Community Centre in Oulton village at 7.30 p.m. Club evenings consist of demonstrations by artists in various mediums and workshop evenings along with the occasional talks. The club holds a highly successful annual exhibition where members can display their works for sale. Suffolk artists who have exhibited with the Oulton Broad Art Circle include Charles Rowland Abbott, David Balder, Sam Capps, Harold Cushing, Norman Harper, Douglas Hosea, Dorothea Gertrude Overton, Donald Arthur Rose, Jack Savage, Kevin Barry Thompson, Douglas Urquhart and Alice Mildred Welch.
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