The Bray Active Retirement Art Group meets weekly to share, stay connected and inspire one another with art. It is a relaxing group where the interchange of ideas and creativity are combined and this diversity is reflected in the resulting art. The group works in different media including oils, watercolour, acrylic and pencil.

We meet as a group every week for our painting class. A place to share, stay connected and inspire one another with art. Henri Matisse viewed his masterpiece ‘Le Bonheur de Vivre’ of 1905 as ‘Creating an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. An art that could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, or something like a good armchair that provides relaxation from fatigue’.