‘Can’t draw, can’t paint, haven’t done art since school’

These were things a group of novice artists said on their first evening at Wing draws Wing in October 2022.  

They had answered an invitation from Ian Newsham, a long standing resident of Wing and recently retired Associate Professor of Drawing at De Montfort University.  He was inspired to do a community project where the people of Wing were both the artists and models.

He was confident he could get the group to draw and paint and in doing so tell the story of the people in Wing. So every week they gathered and tried to learn how to really look, draw in proportion and perspective and along the way they had fun and learnt something as a group.

This Wing draws Wing exhibition is the result of their labours both behind and in front of the easel.