Past Events

The price for this workshop is £40 per person, or £35 per person per workshop if two or more workshops are booked. 

John will supply tea, coffee biscuits, but you will have to provide your own packed lunch.

Please click here for an application form.

Sonia Villers will be holding a painting workshop using a street scene from Cambridge. There are 12 places available, priced at £75 each. Please email info@theoldschoolstudio.co.uk  to book and for further details.

Jenny Wilson and her family are sending out an open invitation to view their paintings, drawing and photographs. A proportion of fund raised will go to the Parkinsons UK charity. Jenny has been an active member of the Cambridge Drawing Society since 1989, exhibiting her work regularly in the Society's annual Spring and Autumn exhibitions.

The price for this workshop is £40 per person, or £35 per person per workshop if two or more workshops are booked. The cost will include model fee.

John will supply tea, coffee biscuits, but you will have to provide your own packed lunch.

Please click here for an application form.

Various art courses May, June, September

First rate rt tuition 

Accommodation in country house with spectacular landscapes of rural France

Supberb local cuisine

The Exhibition runs from Monday 30 April to Saturday 5 May 2018; Mon 1pm - 5pm, Tues to Sat 10am – 5pm.

Further details may be found online at http://www.cambcc.org.uk/public/Exhibition - do come to visit - a friendly welcome is guaranteed along with more than 400 images (prints and digital). Free Entry

There will be cards and prints for sale.

Eithne Fisher will be showing paintings and drawings at THE LOCKER cafe in King Street from 27th April to 31st May 2018. 

Preview Evening Friday 27th April 7 - 9 pm. • www.thelockercafe.co.uk • www.eithnefisher.co.uk

The Cambridge Drawing Society Spring Exhibition will be held again this year in The Pitt Building, Cambridge. The public exhibition will run from Saturday 14th April through to Saturday 21st April 2018. Over 400 original works will be exhibited, which will include Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture.

Members can apply to exhibit on-line or using a postal application. More details can be found here.

John Glover will be holding ten weekly painting and drawing classes in Grantchester village hall on Tuesday mornings from 10.30 - 12.30, starting on 10th April through to 12th June. There will be no break for half term.

This will be a general drawing and painting class where students work on their own subject in whatever medium they wish.

If there is sufficient demand, John will be happy to arrange one class per term dedicated to either portrait or life. The cost of the model would be shared among those students wishing to participate.

The cost of the 10 week class will be £120

Please click here to obtain a copy of the application form.

The price for this workshop is £40 per person, or £35 per person per workshop if two or more workshops are booked. The cost will include model fee.

John will supply tea, coffee biscuits, but you will have to provide your own packed lunch.

Please click here for an application form.

CDS member Sue Eaton and her Husband Tony are holding an Open Studios and Garden event from Good Friday to Easter Monday to raise money for East Anglia's Childrens Hospices. Sue will be opening her art studio and Tony will open his music studio and guitar workshop. You will also be able to see Sue and Tony's courtyard garden and a wildlife meadow in the making.

Sue says "The one we held over the August Bank Holiday raised over £400 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices and with an extra day we hope to raise more."

Free entry. Home made teas and cakes will be available.

For images of the event please click here.

CDS Member Tracey Ashman is currently exhibiting some of her recent prints in the CCA gallery in Cambridge.

Tracey's Bio 

"My latest series of prints continue my exploration of trauma, and the process in which stitch and nature played an important role in my healing process."

"The receiving of bouquets after traumatic surgery in 2016 inspired a series of prints intending to convey the power of nature and art to heal. The dried petals and leaves convey physical fragility, whilst stitch imparts the renewal process, a metaphor for growth of new tissue that binds, mends and heals."

"The final culmination is the cathartic creation of the print and complete restoration of health."

WORKSHOP IS FULLY BOOKED.....

Overview: This is for artists who enjoy working from photographs in a clean, patient manner.

What makes a good portrait? Likeness? Expression? Mood? Detail? Beauty as they say is in the eye of the beholder, but in this workshop we will look at number of techniques and considerations involved in creating a dynamic large-scale portrait in charcoal.

While working in black and white can simplify the process, a number of subtle techniques are required in taking a drawing from personal photograph to a finished and ready-to-frame piece of art. There is much more to this than one person and their stick of charcoal.

I will bring a number of my own works, photographs and preparatory pieces as reference. Please bring 2 or 3 portrait photographs to be looked at critically, considering images that can offer a variety of ingredients, including (but not necessarily all) light and shade, areas of detail, mood, facial expression and most importantly, how the finished piece will look on the wall. I will provide a number of my own black and white photos for those without.

What to bring: Large white paper, ideally no smaller than A2 and a drawing board to match. Charcoal/charcoal pencils, pencils, erasers/pencil eraser, ruler (ideally large) fixative.

Workshop cost: £30 for Members and Friends, £40 for Non-members. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided but please bring a packed lunch.

Application Form

CDS Members Christine Lockwood and Neil Warmsley come together to present a demonstration and talk respectively for the last CDS evening event of the year.

Watercolour Demonstration by Christine Lockwood

Chris will be demonstrating her exciting watercolour painting techniques. In keeping with the seasons, she has chosen to paint a ‘wintery’ themed landscape, looking firstly at light and shadows on snow, followed by loose, experimental, flower painting techniques.

Chris trained as a Textile Designer at Chester College of Art ( foundation course) and Nottingham Trent College of Art and Design in the Department of Fashion and Textiles (Degree). A career in the retail trade followed, running a fabric design business in the centre of Nottingham selling unique hand printed clothes and furnishings.

Chris’s love of colour and pattern is evident in her loose vibrant watercolours. She exhibits her paintings and is a member
of several art societies. She also takes part in Cambridge Open Studios during the first two weekends in July.
Her watercolour workshops are very popular which she runs near her home in Fen Drayton. You can visit Chris’s website at www.chrislockwoodwatercolours.co.uk 

An Illustrated Talk by Neil Warmsley

Neil's topic will be Painting the Urban Forest. Neil has been painting and drawing Cambridge's quieter green quarters for over 25 years. Neil also works as a gardener and he will talk on how these two disciplines compliment each other. 

This year St  Barnabas Press is hosting a Winter Show with fourteen artists from 2 - 17 December. Large and small artworks and small gifts will be on view and for sale.

CDS Members Ann Massing, Catherine Mellis and John Preston are exhibiting at this year's show.

A book of 60 linocuts of images inspired by the Radio 4 Shipping Forecast will be launched.

Full details of the book are on my website first page.