Tag: Kendal
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A much-loved barn?
Here’s a quick pen and ink sketch of a lovely old barn I spotted from the train window on the way to Kendal the other day. I loved the way the old tree seemed to have an arm out protecting the barn!
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Manna House art exhibition
As promised, here are some more details about the charity art exhibition one of my pictures will be featuring in soon. The ‘Keep the Door Open’ exhibition will be open, free of charge, at the Manna House HQ at The Stephenson Centre, Ann Street, Kendal, on several dates in October as follows: Sunday 4th October,…
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Charity exhibition alert!
New exhibition alert! ‘Wheel of Time’, a charcoal and pastel drawing of one of the old water wheels in Coppermines Valley, Coniston, is on its way to a charity art exhibition in aid of Kendal homelessness charity Manna House, organised by local artist Jess Levine in October. Stay tuned as I’ll have more details soon, including the…
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Practising with oil pastels
The TG Jones/WH Smith branch in Windermere is closing down and has some good bargains on art materials. I treated myself to a box of oil pastels, which I’ve been itching to try for a while, and messed around seeing what I could do with them. They’re a lot more like wax crayons than I…
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Old Kendal bridge
The other day we had coffee outside the Waterside Cafe on the banks of the River Kent in Kendal. They were busy and the drinks took a while to come, so I whipped out my sketchbook and drew the view of Miller Bridge. It’s a lovely old structure which dates from 1818 and still carries…
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Green Door Artists
I’m absolutely delighted to announce that I’ve been accepted as a member of Green Door Artists’ collective / general support group, based in Kendal. It’s been a dream for the year and a half that I’ve been doing art, so you can imagine how excited I am! I’m really looking forward to getting to know…
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Rolling along…
There was supposed to be another outdoor art session for members of Windermere Art Society in Kendal yesterday. I really wanted to go because it was based in the grounds of Abbot Hall, a very beautiful Grade I Listed manor house on the banks of the River Kent, which would have been wonderful to sketch.…
