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A Community based Art Society Artists range from beginners to seasoned professionals who are more than willing to share their techniques and knowledge.

The Howick Arts Society or HARTS held its first meeting on 21 August 1991 and has grown into a vibrant collection of artists from all walks of life who meet to inspire and encourage one another and have a lot of fun in the process. To this end workshops (for a very nominal fee) are held on a monthly basis on different aspects of visual arts. Meetings are held on the first Monday of every month, unless it falls on a public holiday. Then the meeting is held on the following Monday. The meetings currently take place from 2.00pm - 4pm at St Luke’s Church Hall in Howick. Guest speakers are invited to do a presentation at the meeting on topics of interest to artists and a workshop on the topic the following Monday. At the monthly meetings members may bring along and exhibit their latest works and receive a critique. Members in attendance then vote for their favourite works. Points are accumulated over the year and at the end of the year the artist with the most points wins the prestigious Asselberg Cup and a year’s free subscription to HARTS. Over the years, H A R T S has built up a comprehensive library of books and magazines on art. Many past members have donated books, but HARTS also subscribes to a number of local and overseas magazines, keeping up to date with the latest art news. Members may take these out on a monthly basis. A newsletter is sent to members every month, keeping members up to date on past and forthcoming HARTS events, as well an active page facebook.com/HowickArtsSociety and Webpage http://howickartssociety.org/

Art exhibitions are held at suitable venues during the year. Artists have plenty of opportunities to market and sell their work. Publicity is arranged in the local media and each month an artist from HARTS is featured in the local press as “Artist of the Month”. A Year End Luncheon is held in November, the Asselberg Cup winner is announced, as well as The Lorna Pierson Trophy presented to the most improved artist of the year. The members choose a theme each year and enter a painting anonymously, which is judged by an art expert and the winner is also announced at the Year End Luncheon. Subscription fee for the year is R150.00 payable at the Annual General Meeting in September, at which the new Committee for the year is elected. There are lots of good reasons why people in the area with an artistic bent should become HARTS members and make the most of all the activities and excitement to be had at the Howick Arts Society.

16/10/2026

Continuing the Asselbergs theme Any Fungi or mushroom, here are are the rest of the entrants.

09/10/2026

08/10/2026

HARTS members had fun with our theme this month - Any fungi or mushroom.
Ist PRISCILLA ALLEN 2nd BABS RONALDSON 3rd LYN SACKS

01/10/2026

28/09/2026

Another talented HARTS Artist of the month
My Journey into Art by Avril Invernezzi
“I wish I could tell you that I excelled in Art at High School and that I went on to study for a Fine Arts Degree, or that I was tutored by some well-known artist. Unfortunately, that would be a lie. My springboard into Art began with sibling rivalry. In my teens my elder brother began producing beautiful landscape paintings, much to the admiration and acclaim of all the family. Naturally, I could not allow this to go unchallenged, so I picked up a paintbrush for the first time”.
A few years later Avril enrolled in Training College to become a Primary School teacher, where Art was one of my subjects. She went on to teach Primary School until she retired at 65. In 2020 her family moved from Durban to Howick and her husband passed away a year later. It was only then that she threw myself into Art. “I was captivated by all that I saw. Not only the beautiful landscape but also the rural and township scenes, the goats and cows that wandered randomly and the waste pickers carrying enormous bundles of plastic waste on their heads. I wanted to paint it all.”
“I joined HARTS soon after and have found somewhere where I can meet like-minded souls and where the monthly art challenges motivate me to develop and grow.”

16/09/2026

The rest of Asselbergs entries for the September theme "GREEN"

11/09/2026

Asselbergs Cup theme for September is "GREEN"
We certainly received some wonderful entries.
1st ROWENA WILKINSON 2nd PRISCILLA ALLEN Joint 3rd BELINDA HAMLYN & JUDITH SIMPSON

27/08/2026

7 SEPTEMBER 2026
Speaker LOUISE RASH

23/08/2026

AUGUST ARTIST OF THE MONTH
JUDITH SIMPSON

Judith says that she grew up believing that her prize-winning sister was the artist in her family so she stuck to knitting. When her daughters were in high school she started painting and was inspired by Ina Millman in Johannesburg. She has been trying to juxtapose light against dark ever since.
She sees the magic part of watercolour as the paint that is added to the water on the paper and says that the “challenge of appying jewel colours onto wet paper is overwhelming”. She tips her paper and uses gravity to create images. “I often feel like a conductor urging all the instruments of the orchestra into a crescendo of movement and brilliant exclamation marks”. Judith’s style is fast and loose and she paints from the heart.

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Howick

Telephone

+27769817458

Website

http://www.howickartssociety.org/

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