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The Pastel Society (PS) Annual Exhibition 2025 is being held at Mall Galleries from 22 January to 8 February 2025. The exhibition is available online now to browse and purchase.This year there is a special display on the theme of 'Benchmark', highlighting skill, inspiration and enthusiasm, and will include work from established members and those recently elected, alongside accomplished artist …

Working in pastel, Tanya Avchinnikova paints large seascapes and landscapes of the UK, focussing primarily on closeups. Her work relies on spontaneous mark making to create the illusion of presence and a deep unity with nature. 'Tactile sensation, direct communication with pure pigment, freedom of applying it on surface straight away, that’s what I love about pastel. There's something very in …

Cheryl Culver is pastel artist, focussing on landscapes in her surroundings. 'Cheryl's work has always been about ‘how it feels’ rather than ‘how it looks’.'It is good to be humbled by nature and what better than a vast and powerful landscape or a mighty oak tree to do just that. Mankind needs to learn his place in the grand scheme of things. We have an amazing world around us, which survives in s …

Working in pastel, Liz Balkwill enjoys painting the figure and still life, capturing gesture and using colour to evoke mood.'No matter what the subject my main aim is to capture the way that light and shadow transforms everyday objects from the mundane to the beautiful.The combination of the colours and texture were the concept that led to me putting this piece together. A neighbour grows org …