The Central Coast Watercolour society will hold its springtime exhibition, showcasing the unique translucency of watercolour in a wide range of styles and subject matter, from September 25.
The free exhibit will be held at the Gosford Regional Gallery at East Gosford between 10 am and 4 pm daily.
Paintings of the natural world by local artist, Carol Edwards, will be featured, with her painting of Sandhill Crane being the raffle prize for the exhibition.
Watercolour is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution and has been particularly associated with England for several hundred years.
Other than the English, artworks dating back to the middle ages were made by pigments consisting of earth or vegetable fibres ground to powder and bound with gum or egg.
Paintings were applied to vellum to adorn manuscripts and depicted religious and secular scenes.
Artists Joseph Mallord, William Turner, William Blake, and Albrecht Dürer are among a select few whose work still influences the craft today.
Members of the Central Coast Watercolour Society meet monthly every second Wednesday of the month, from 9.30am-noon at The Entrance Community Centre.
Jacinta Counihan