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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.

  • Leighton Moss with Fiona Clucas

    Leighton Moss Storrs Lane

    Map reference SD 476750 Leighton Moss is an RSPB reserve so there are charges, but the carpark and access to the cafe is free. We will meet in the cafe between 10.00 and 10.30 Fiona Clucas will be around in the morning to help you with your painting and composition.

  • The Canal at Crooklands. Park at Map ref SD536831.

    The Canal at Crooklands Milton Lane

    Another day painting at the canal just over the bridge from Crooklands Hotel.  There is minimal parking along the road to Milnthorpe but you can usually find somewhere down Milton Lane.  Sharp left over the bridge, and use the map reference rather than the incorporated map which is too far along Milton Lane. Meet at…

  • Art at the Abbot Hall Social Centre

    Abbot Hall Social Centre Dowkers Lane, Kendal, United Kingdom

    This is a painting day, which could be painting local views such as the church, castle  or Abbot Hall, or Portraits if we have a model for the day.

  • Frances’s Winder’s garden

    8 Oxenholme Road Kendal

    Weather permitting we will be meeting in Frances Winder's garden.  There are 3 parking places on the drive and there is a layby nearby.

  • North Yorkshire Open Studios 2022

    Take an artistic tour across breath-taking scenery this June. Discover secret studio spaces Watch artists at work Buy contempory art and design direct from the maker

  • Lucy Sclater’s garden

    Cook House Church Road, Levens, Cumbria

    Another lovely venue.  Roses, wisteria and many beautiful flowers in this magic garden

  • Staveley Weir

    We will meet at the weir map ref SD 470988, as the nearest cafe is the Eclec and I don't know it at all. There are parking places along the road.

  • Abbbot Hall Social Centre

    Abbot Hall Social Centre Dowkers Lane, Kendal, United Kingdom

    We wil be at Abbot Hall Social Centre from 10.00 until 1.00pm, where you can do yor own thing or we could do short sketches of each other which is always fun. I look forward to seeing you there.

  • Capturing the past before it disappears: Vernacular buildings between the Lakes and the Dales – Caroline A Metcalfe-Gibson

    Ruskin Museum Coniston

    Ruskin Museum is on Yewdale Road, close to the centre of the village, behind the Coniston Institute. Free parking can be found at the side of the road beyond Herdwick's cafe on Yewdale Road and also on Coppermines Road behind the Museum. Free time-limited parking spaces can also be found in marked found on Yewdale Road.

  • 2022 Kendal Art Society Annual Exhibition

    Stricklandgate House Library Road, Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom

    Receiving day - July 8th 2.00om  -  4.00pm Private View - July 9th from 7.00pm - 9.00pm    

  • Trip to the Burrell Museum, Glasgow.

    County Hall Busher Walk, Kendal

    We will be Picked up from the County Hall by coach at 8.15am, and will leave Glasgow at 4.30pm The cost should be around £20 depending on numbers. Entrance is free.

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