Two groups of artists have combined to bring you this exhibition – the Grey Bear Artists’ Collective and the Tillbridge Art Group.

Grey Bear was started by Steve Pursey, as a way to hold life drawing sessions at his house. Over the years it has grown with new members recruited locally and from various art classes. With the new membership and possibly encouraging the growth of the same, the scope of the group now includes a serious appreciation of CAKE as well.  Bill Baker is the member with responsibility for providing cakes and pastries, which must be GF and it is desirable they contain some form of alcohol, beware of the ginger parkin.   

Although the main purpose of meetings is to perfect their life drawing skills all the artists have their own art forms which they execute in a number of media, styles and subjects.  This led to the group becoming formalised and the search for a name of sufficient gravitas to suit such a serious undertaking. The original suggestion, as the Group meet in Scothern,  was “Scothern Lincolnshire Art Group Society” SLAGS!  Back to the drawing board and a more suitable name was devised – Grey Bear Artists Collective, named after the house where the Group meet.   Much more appropriate!

The Tillbridge Art Group started off as a group of amateur artists taking guidance from the mentorship of local artist Ann Stoker, when she retired from teaching the group decided to soldier on as a self-help basis.  The group is thriving and always on the lookout for new members, they meet at the Village Hall, Sturton-by-Stow 10am to 1pm every Wednesday.  The artists have worked hard and honed their skills to produce very creditable works as you can see here.

The groups have had a number of successful exhibitions including a couple in the sorely missed Sam Scorer Gallery. This new venue ‘Indigo Crow’ is a very welcome addition to the artistic life of Lincoln and we are proud to be able to show our work here.