Welcome to the DGA Website

Thank you for visiting the Dorking Group of Artists' website.

The Dorking Group of Artists is a thriving non-profit making art society with over 200 members from the local community and surrounding areas. Friendly regular meetings take place throughout the year providing members with a full programme of activities in which to practise, exchange and develop their artistic skills.

The Group runs two exhibitions a year giving members the opportunity to show original work to fellow members and the general public and an opportunity to sell such work. These lively events display a high standard of traditional and contemporary paintings covering a diverse range of subjects for sale at very reasonable prices. 

We hope you find our website informative. We always welcome new members, with new ideas, skills and inspiration they may bring to what is already a progressive forward thinking Art Group.

To find out more information about the Dorking Group of Artists please continue to browse through the site.

Kind Regards,

Karen Pearson
Chairman

In celebration of its Diamond Anniversary and in conjunction with the Arts Alive Festival, the DGA not only put on an exhibition at Denbies Wine Estate but also organised a double public painting event, ‘Painting in Public’ and ‘Creating in Colour’ for the children on Saturday 6th October 2007.

The whole day was a great success! There was lots of dialogue with the public who were very kind and we sent a lot of people down to our show. Weather was perfect. The children’s event was a big hit, even with the adults. It was just a shame we didn’t photograph the guy with helmet on painting! It was great the adults wanted to have a go, we obviously got their creative juices going and they just couldn’t hold back!

One artist was drawing charcoal portraits for charity (Rainbow Trust) and we had a collection tin at the children’s event too. It will be interesting to see how much money we collected (tbc). A final montage of children’s work will be presented to the Rainbow Trust Charity for Chilldren.

The show has been very successful too with nearly 2500 visitors which is fantastic and many paintings were sold. Following this busy weekend, we have had a lot of people enquiring about membership which is great news  for the Group as new blood means new ideas, new skills and new friends.

A warm thank you to our sponsors and supporters: Arts Alive, Mole Valley Arts Forum, Surrey County Committee for Mole Valley and Dorking Town Management.

Annual Exhibition
at Denbies Wine Estate
October 2008

Our Exhibitions are supported by
Mole Valley Arts Forum

Our Diamond Anniversary has been kindly supported by
Surrey County Council’s Local Committee for Mole Valley