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Completed artwork for Pride/unity and Pride/roots - Black History Month 2025

  • sarah816202
  • Oct 9
  • 2 min read

This was a great week; the art group had an interesting discussion and a great deal of nostalgia, especially with some of the competitors of the major sporting events associated with moments in time. We also spoke about people involved in the music industry and particular pop idols, as well as people in history, involved in activism and raising awareness. It was fantastic listening to others while drawing. Not everyone completed their artwork. Here are the pieces that I have received so far for this topic..


Background of 4 interlocking hands of different coloured skin tone of brown through to white. Centrally, the artwork is a front facing portrait of a lady with skin tone that is light brown, dark brown eyes, black short hair, light pink/lilac full lips, smiling, gold hoop earring, small wearing a lilac double breasted jacket
Completed Artwork for Black History Month 2025 by Barbara

Barbara - Painted in watercolour the portrait of 'Claudia Jones'. Barbara told us about this amazing lady and also wrote her bio. Claudia Jones organised the first Caribbean carnival in London in 1959, which is considered the precursor to the Notting Hill carnival. She was a black activist and also had some chronic health conditions, so she was representative of the disabled community, too. This lady is stunning and has given a great deal to the community.


Background of 4 interlocking hands of different coloured skin tone of dark brown through to white. Artwork in centre is bands of pink yellow, green and red, writing around a stick figure girl and a butterfly outline to the left in pink
Completed Artwork for Black History Month 2025 by Noor

Noor - explained that she used the colours of red, black, green, and gold in her artwork to add power to her drawing and recognise and celebrate the topic this week. She used Sharpie pens as they have strong pigments.


Background of 4 interlocking hands of different coloured skin tone of dark brown through to white. Artwork centrally is a pattern of triangles, squares and curves, horizontally banded using red, dark blue, light blue, orange and yellow with a small amount of green on a white background
Completed Artwork for Black History Month 2025 by Andy

Andy - Created this fantastic African-inspired pattern using soft pastels. Incredibly vibrant and eye-catching.


Background of 4 interlocking hands of different coloured skin tone of dark brown through to white. Artwork centrally placed, digital drawing of a smiley face, short black hair, green hair scarf, large gold earrings, orange and yellow stripey top. On a colourful background with pink, yellow, blue and orange on a white base
Completed Artwork for Black History Month 2025 by Phil

Phil - used a paint app and made a very colourful representation of Tina Turner.

A bit about Tina, born in Tennessee, a singer-songwriter and actress, she is known for breaking racial and gender barriers in the rock industry and is one of the best-selling music artists of all time.


Background of 4 interlocking hands of different coloured skin tone of dark brown through to white. Image centrally shows on L side a tree trunk with small hands as leaves with inspiring words in yellow, blue, green and orange. R Side is a head profile face with horizontal bands of red, yellow and green with a black outline
Completed Artwork for Black History Month 2025 by Donna

Donna - an inspirational piece of artwork, celebrating and showing respect for others. with the words she chose to include. Fantastic symbology and use of colours.


As I explained, other members of the art group worked on portraits of people associated with Black History Month. Once I receive those, I can bring them to you in an edition with perhaps other finished artworks from our art group.


Hope you enjoy the gallery from last week. Let me know if you enjoy browsing the gallery. It would be great to hear from you.


As always, you are welcome to join us, Wednesday, 7:30pm, UK time, via the link here, click on All4Art https://linktr.ee/all4inclusion


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