The Hesketh Hubbard Art Society has been holding weekly life drawing classes since its foundation in 1930.
[2] An early member was Grace Golden (1904 – 1993), author, illustrator and artist, an extensive collection of whose work is in the Museum of London.
[3] The society awarded a first prize to Leonard Bennetts (1933 – 2005), a New Zealand artist who settled in London and described himself as "the original retrogressionist (the way forwards is backwards)".
He began painting in the Royal Navy and his work is in the Imperial War Museum.
[5] The current president of the society is Simon Whittle, and the vice-president, David Cottingham.