Membership & Subscriptions
For your annual subscription you will receive four copies of the Guild's journal which has over 20 pages, most of them in colour, filled with information about silk painting, events, exhibitions, techniques, Guild news, personal profiles from artists from Britain, and all around the world.
In Britain and abroad there are groups of silk painters who get together once a month or so and spend the day working together. Very often they put together an annual exhibition or demonstrate at an arts & crafts show. Being a member of the Guild puts you in touch with these other painters. (Left: Maureen Walker and friends in Vancouver, Canada. Right: The Essex branch of the Guild, UK)
The Guild of Silk Painters have a weekend of silk painting somewhere in Britain every year or two. We have an exhibition, suppliers stands, a competition, numerous workshops by well-known painters and an evening meal together. 2005 was our anniversary so we gathered in St. Albans, home of the Guild chairman, Tessa Barnes.
(Left: workshop in progress at the Avoncroft Show. Right: the team who put on the show in Cambridge).
Members who teach can have their classes and workshops listed on our Classes page free of charge, this list also goes into the journal. Members of the Guild and visitors to the website can book with you direct using your listed contact details.
(Left: Mandy Southan and right: Isabella Whitworth).
Finally, don't forget that when you pay your subscription to the Guild you are financially supporting this website which is bringing silk painting to the eyes of the world. The work done by the committee and officers of the Guild is unpaid and often no claims for expenses are made, we rely entirely on membership fees to cover all our running costs. You can now join the Guild or renew your membership directly via this website using our new PayPal system (see below).
To read the Constitution and a list of current committee members click here - Constitution.
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