Skip to content

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.

Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • Interior of a Cafe from a Sketch or a Photo

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Use any medium to paint or sketch the interior of a cafe.  You can take your idea from somewhere you have been and sketched, or have taken a photo.  You could make it up or take the idea from famous artists like the French Impressionists who often did paintings of cafe or restaurant life.

  • Through the Garden Gate

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Any medium to paint or sketch through a garden gate using a previous sketch or a photo, or it could be made up.  Use your imagination on this one!  

  • Life Drawing or Painting – Saturday Session

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    We will have the lovely life model, Andrea, today.  It will be £20 for the day and please book in plenty of time.

  • Sea and Sky Painting, using a Limited Palette

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Use any medium you like to paint or draw a sea and sky scape.  We will be using two consecutive sessions using this subject and will try to use a limited palette. This technique is used by many great masters, including John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet and Anders Zorn. A limited palette can mean selecting…

  • Sea and Sky Painting using a Limited Palette

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    As last week, use any medium you like to paint or draw a sea and sky scape.  This is the second of two consecutive sessions using this subject and technique. The technique is used by many great masters, including John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet and Anders Zorn. A limited palette can mean selecting the fewest…

  • Critique of Paintings

    Abbot Hall Adult Social Centre Dowker Lane, Kendal

    Bring any of your paintings in that you would like to discuss with the other members.

  • Sketch in Kendal Parkside Road Cemetery

    Kendal Football club Parkside Road, Kendal

    Park in Kendal Town FC carpark on Parkside Road and cross over the road to the cemetery.  It's a very pretty place with lots of mature trees, wonderful in the spring when the snowdrops, crocus, then daffodil and primroses are out. This time of year there are shady walks and a lovely path through some…

  • KAS Annual Art Exhibition

    Stricklandgate House Library Road, Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom

    Annual Exhibition open from Saturday 31st May to Saturday 7th June but closed on Sunday 1st June.  

  • Visit to Lucy Sclater’s garden

    Cook House Church Road, Levens, Cumbria

    Our first garden visit this year is to the beautiful garden at Cook House, Levens, with stunning flowers and views to sketch and paint.  Parking is not too bad in the area but its a good idea to share cars if you can. Meet around 10.00 for coffee.

  • Sizergh Castle and Grounds

    Sizergh Castle Sizergh Castle, near Kendal, United Kingdom

    Sizergh Castle is a lovely place to visit any time of the year.  It is a National Trust property and so free if you are a member, but I would suggest that you try to car share with a member because the carpark is not cheap. Meet in the cafe at 10.00am before either going into…

Scroll To Top