Phil Mead has tried all the art mediums, but it is the magic of water colours which he has finally settled on.
Phil Mead with his prizewinning The Sounds watercolour. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
It might have taken him more than 20 years but his success as overall winner at the Cambridge Society of Arts annual exhibition in 2023 with The Sounds seems to confirm his decision.
“You wet the paper, pick the paint, apply it and hope it works,” the 89-year-old retired forest manager told The News during the society’s Art in the Park exhibition on Sunday.
Art in the Park: Cambridge Arts Society members had their art on display outside the Thornton Rd clubrooms. From left: Ian Lewell (treasurer), Joanna Holmes (secretary) and Phil Mead. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
The society has about 80 members but is always on the look out for more. Cambridge News’ person of the year Jared Milbank is a recent addition to the ranks who meet in The Painting Place above Lake Te Koo Utu on Thornton Rd.
Twice a year the society is represented at the Art Alive exhibition in the Cambridge Town Hall. In August, more than 120 pieces of work were on show, most of them for sale.
The exhibition will also be featured at next month’s Autumn Festival.
Jared Milbank at the Cambridge Society of Arts open day. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
Hard at work inside the Cambridge Arts Society open day in Thornton Road were, from left: Jill Wilkinson, Erin-Monique O’Brien, Jared Milbank and secretary Joanna Holmes. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
