Portrait Painters Hunter

Portrait Painters Hunter is a sub group of the Society of Artists Newcastle.

Our members meet every Monday morning at the Society’s rooms in Lambton Newcastle from 9.30am until about 12.30/1.00pm.  Drawing and painting the face is the primary focus of this session along with sharing ideas and enjoying each other’s company.
Every two weeks we have a model who sits for us for a 3 hour session. The model is often one of the group’s family members, friend or acquaintance. The longer session allows the painters in our group to work on one piece and complete a portrait. 

Every other week we encourage drawing a number of quicker poses of 15 minutes and we use the group members as models. All mediums are used and many artistic styles are evident.
A very successful exhibition has been held in March in the last two years to coincide with the Archibald Portrait Prize. Some of our members have entered works in the Archibald Prize and these paintings are exhibited with the group’s portraits.
Our participants come from Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Upper Hunter, Port Stephens and the Central Coast.  
Commissions are taken by our members and examples of their artistic styles are shown in the above video. To make contact, please visit the Contact Us page and leave an email address so that we may follow through.