Kendal Art Society meets on a weekly basis throughout the year, with several outdoor meetings during the summer

Members and non-member guests are all welcome. If it is your first time, please introduce yourself or feel free to get in touch online ahead of a meeting so that someone knows to look out for you.

Our regular base is the Abbot Hall Social Centre in Kendal on Thursday mornings but please check here for timings and venues for individual events and meetings.

Kandinsky style, still life painting

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

  Welcome to this fun session of making a Kandinsky style still life. For this session you will need a large sheet of paper, pencil and rubber, a thick and thin waterproof ink pan and colours of your choice (watercolour or gouache is best).  You will also need several articles for your still life.  It…

Caravaggio – a talk by Anne-Marie Michel

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

Please come along to this talk by Anne-Marie Michel on Caravaggio. She is a really entertaining speaker and I know that you will really enjoy it.   There will be a charge of £5.00 for the talk but tea, coffee and cakes will be provided free.

Group Caravaggio painting

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

Together we will paint a Caravaggio painting.  Please bring paints and brushes, but we will supply the paper.   Tea, coffee and biscuits £1.00

Saturday Monoprinting Workshop with Karen Lester

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

Try a day monoprinting with Ksaren Lester. £20.00 for the day and booking is essential.  Tea and coffee available but please bring your own lunch.   Contact Gill Impey on gillimpey@hotmail.co.uk

Tonal drawing

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

Use pencil, charcoal or pens to create a tonal picture.   Tea/coffee and biscuits £1.00

Charcoal drawing on big sheets of paper

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

Get out your comfort zone and try to draw on a big sheet of paper using charcoal. If you don't have any large sheets of paper (at least A3 or A2), or charcoal, we can supply it. Please bring a cover to protect the tables, it is messy!   Tea/coffee and biscuits £1.00  

Flowers using your own choice of medium

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

This is an open day where you can paint from a photo, bring in your own pot plant, or a bunch of flowers, or follow on from last weeks charcoal drawing. the choice is yours.   Tea/coffee and biscuits £1.00

Kendal Art Society’s Annual General Meeting.

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

Our Annual General meeting at the Abbot Hall Social Centre.   This will be a Jacob's joint so please let me know if you can supply some food for the occasion.   Gill Impey on gillimpey@hotmail.co.uk

Landscape or seascape in collage or paint

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

Your choice of medium for this general morning of landscape or sescape painting.   Tea/coffee and biscuits £1.00

Watercolour Painting, by Bob Henfrey.

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

Many of you will Know Bob Henfrey and will have seen the sketches, on Facebook, he did over 'lockdown' and when the new bridge over the Kent was built. So motivating! Bob is coming to KAS to talk about his watercolour painting.   There will be a charge of £5.00 for this session but tea/coffee…

Keeping an Art Journal or Diary

Abbot Hall Social Cee Dowker Lane, Kendal, Cumbria

Followng on from last week's tallk, we will look at starting, or continuing, to keep an Art Journal or Diary over the summer months.  A perfect time to start. We will look forward to seeing what you produced when we meet again in the Autumn.   Tea/coffee and biscuits £1.00    

Outdoor Sketching in Parish Church Area

Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

Our first day of outdoor sketching will be in the vicinity of the Abbot Hall Social Centre.  Lots to see and draw including the church, the park, Church Lane and Ring-O-Bells pub.  Coffee and biscuits in AHSC