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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.

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  • Large Still Life

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Please bring in something interesting to add to a large arrangement. £1.00 for coffee and biscuits

  • Group critique

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    This sounds a little disconcerting but please come and join us.  It will be a chance for you to discuss, in a friendly atmosphere, how your painting or drawing is getting on. Nobody will pull your paintings to pieces but may be able to help you with colour, tone, design, or how to continue.  We…

  • Develop a painting.

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    This should be fun. It will give you a chance to develop a painting fom a small piece of an old master or a photograph, using any medium you like. Use your imagination and see what you can come up with.      

  • Develop an abstract painting.

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Another amusing session. This time develop an abstract painting from a small piece of a coloured photograph or painting, which will be supplied, using only the colours on thst example. I've done this before and it was great fun.  You can stick the piece you are given on your paper and extend the colours, or…

  • Collagraph Workshop

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Collagraph is an exciting and expressive method of printmaking. The method involves sticking materials on to a piece of mount board (called a plate) or cutting into the plate. Through this method you can create interesting textures and patterns. The plate can be printed as a relief print using a roller or as an intaglio…

  • Potrait Morning

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Practice drawing a fully clothed model.

  • Sketching inside Kendal Parish Church

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Based at the Social Centre, we will walk along to the Parish Church to do some sketching, then back to the centre for coffee.

  • Problems with Perspective

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Ian Royle will attept to take away some of the mystery from perspective drawing.

  • Thefts, Fakes and Forgeries

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Please come to an entertaining talk by Ann-Marie Michel on Thefts, Fakes and Forgeries in Art.  

  • Charcoal sketch of any subject that interests you

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Using charcoal is a an interesting medium if a trifle messy.  I would advise good quality cartridge in a decent size, and an easil helps (table top is fine).  If this all makes you shudder just come along and do what you want.  

  • Full day life drawing or painting

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    A chance for you to sketch or paint a life model.  There is a fee of £20 for this full Saturday session. Tea and coffee available all day but bring your own lunch with you.

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