Past Events

An opportunity to participate in a workshop with one of East Anglia's most prolific professional artists. John has exhibited in many locations across the region and also in London since 1980. He has numerous awards to his credit. He undertakes commissions across the country.

The price for one workshop is £40, or £35 per workshop if two or more are booked. The cost will include model fee, tea, coffee, biscuits. Please bring your own packed lunch.

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Learn the basics of traditional hand-bookbinding with CDS member Derek Wood, and explore the creative possibilities of designing and making your own books. In this one-day workshop, suitable for beginners, you will create an A5 hardback journal / sketchbook of your own. All basic materials and equipment are provided, but you may also like to bring any special papers or prints you have previously created to use in the project. Cost: £38.00 (incl. £5.00 materials charge)

An opportunity to participate in a workshop with one of East Anglia's most prolific professional artists. John has exhibited in many locations across the region and also in London since 1980. He has numerous awards to his credit. He undertakes commissions across the country.

The price for one workshop is £40, or £35 per workshop if two or more are booked. The cost will include model fee, tea, coffee, biscuits. Please bring your own packed lunch.

Materials to bring – Sketching materials plus the medium of one’s own choice e.g. watercolours, oils, pastels, acrylics etc.

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An opportunity to participate in a workshop with one of East Anglia's most prolific professional artists. John has exhibited in many locations across the region and also in London since 1980. He has numerous awards to his credit. He undertakes commissions across the country.

The price for one workshop is £40, or £35 per workshop if two or more are booked. The cost will include model fee, tea, coffee, biscuits. Please bring your own packed lunch.

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Art Boot Sale Sunday 7th May 2017 10 - 2pm ArtSpace Gallery Cambridge Artworks 5 Green’s Road Cambridge CB4 3EF   An eclectic mix of original artworks, books, vintage, art materials and more. Refreshments.   Pitches available, £10.00   Please contact mail@cambridgeartworks.co.uk for pitches or call 01223 309393

Opens at 1.00pm on Monday 25 April. All other days 10am-5pm

All the Prints are framed and the digital files are displayed on a large TV

Prints and cards are on sale.

By kind invitation of the organisers of the Cambridge Literary Festival, The Lots Road Group of Portrait Painters are reprising their London Exhibition The Art of Reading, in association with BookTrust.  The 15 portraits span all ages. All explore the joys of reading, and subjects include well-known authors, agents, family and friends. Each painting is accompanied by a narrative revealing the subjects' reading tastes and the influence of reading on their lives.

CDS member, Katherine Firth, has painted Professor Dame Gillian Beer, ex-President of Clare Hall, renowned literary critic and author and Honorary Patron of the Cambridge Literary Festival.

The Festival runs from Tuesday 18th April - Sunday 23rd April; with evening events only on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and the main Festival events running all day on  Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  The Hall will act as a central hub for book sales and signings and will be open from 10am-9pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Coffee will be available and visitors are welcome to drop in whether or not they are attending one of the events.  Visit the Festival website for details about event booking.

For further information visit: http://thelotsroadgroup.wordpress.com 

An opportunity to participate in a workshop with one of East Anglia's most prolific professional artists. John has exhibited in many locations across the region and also in London since 1980. He has numerous awards to his credit. He undertakes commissions across the country.

The price for one workshop is £40, or £35 per workshop if two or more are booked. The cost will include model fee, tea, coffee, biscuits. Please bring your own packed lunch.

Materials to bring – Sketching materials plus the medium of one’s own choice e.g. watercolours, oils, pastels, acrylics etc.

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Charles Evans has been painting all his life, and is a full-time artist and demonstrator for Winsor Newton. As well as workshops in his studio at home in Northumberland, he travels the country teaching and demonstrating at painting societies, Patchings Art Festival and the NEC. Charlie (as he is known to everyone) believes that everyone can paint and he is adept at demystifying the process by showing step by step how a painting is produced. His students paint along with him, absorbing tips and techniques along the way. Charlie also has a range of inexpensive books to reinforce his methods.

Three CDS members have been invited to  exhibit a collection of original hand pulled prints at the Cambridge Contemporary Arts gallery from the 11th March through to 2nd April 2017. The works on display will be a mix of existing and new works exhibited for the first time.

All three printmakers primarily focus on abstract images, with very different motivations and perspectives resulting in unique work, examples of which are shown here. Collectively, this will make for a very exciting and ecclectic exhibition.

Susan, Tracey and Paul look forward to meeting visitors and fellow artists at the exhibition launch Meet & Greet on Saturday 11th March.

CDS members Jo Tunmer and Andy English are taking part in a selected exhibition at The Babylon Gallery, Waterside, Ely.

The Private Preview is on Friday 24 February 2017 from 6pm until 8pm and everyone is welcome to come along. The exhibition then continues until 19 March 2017.

For further details pleae go to the gallery website.

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Six Cambridgeshire artists are holding their first Cambridge Exhibition at The Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity St. Cambridge CB21SU.

The Rocking Ukuleles will entertain at the launch reception on 14th February, 6.30 - 8.30 pm.

All welcome.

A chance for that special Christmas present. 

Opening evening on Friday 18th November from 6pm - 8pm. Wine and nibbles. Free entry.

Open every day from 12 noon - 4pm.

All 16 artists have painted and donated a small canvas of their own choosing for sale @ £25 each which will all go to charity. A good chance to pick up a known artists painting for a very reasonable price and helping charity at the same time.

Note: CDS will be hiring 30 screens to this event, indicating the exhibition will be of substantial size.

Entry Fee £10.00 includes a 10"x16" canvas and hanging fee. All artwork will be exhibited anonymously and available for sale for £45.00. Maximum 3 entries per person.  Submission Date - by October 21 to one of the conacts below

See website for more information

Note - Exhibition Open: Nov 11 Private View 6.00-8.00pm and

Nov 12 Public Admission 10.00am-5.00pm 

Canvases and entry forms can be obtained from: 

• Cambourne:  Laura Papanikolaou | lpap@chsgroup.org.uk  | Tel: 07540 122624
• Histon: Gerry Cano | Gerry.Cano@chsgroup.org.uk | Tel: 0300 111 3555
• Littleport: Caline Easey | caline.easey@chsgroup.org.uk  | Tel: 07702 517746
• Somersham | Lucy Bird | lucy.bird@somersham-pc.gov.uk  |Tel: 07443 619017
• Cambridge Hub | manager@cambridgehub.org   |Tel: 01223 350365

Following on from our recently successful and informative evening with Bruce Pearson, we are pleased to announce that our November evening event will be a talk and demonstration given by David Porteous-Butler. David creates stunning work using a palette knife with Oils and Acrylic, and will share his skills and technique as he develops a cityscape during the evening. There will be a charge of £5 per person paybale on the evening.

Background

David Porteous-Butler’s work reveals an honest and direct affinity with his subject that is driven by his love of the natural world. He studied in London under the late Sir Kyffin Williams RA and Anthony Green RA before being offered a place at the Royal College of Art. He has remained close to Sir Kyffin’s fundamental belief that drawing and draughtsmanship are a vital part of the artist’s craft.
 
Born in North London in 1945 his childhood was spent in and around Highgate and then settling in Suffolk in 1978, he knew from a very early age that his purpose in life was to be an artist. Despite being offered a place at the Royal College of Art he was unable to take up his place for personal reasons.  Thus he spent some time working in the fashion business as a very successful designer. This period heightened his awareness of shape and form before he returned to his true vocation as a painter and sculptor.

English countryside (especially Suffolk) is a true love, although he has also worked extensively in Southern Europe including time in France and Italy. Working with a limited palette, he is always faithful to the truth in what he sees. His portraits reveal the same integrity, and his sculptures, whether in bronze, stone or marble, are faithful to his belief in a natural and simple beauty in all things. They assume the life and presence of the subject matter, both in their execution and in how they relate to their surroundings.

David’s work is in collections in the UK, France, Italy and the USA. He regularly exhibits in and around the county.

CDS Member Bill Everett is holding an exhibition of 20 of his own oil paintings mainly featuring still life.

Open every day from 1st to 17th November 10.00am - 4.00pm.

Bruce Pearson has illustrated many books on various aspects of wild life and gives many lectures on the topic of An Artist in the Natural World. For this evening event Bruce will give a short slide show, followed by a demonstration based upon his wide experience working in the Antarctic. He produces superb photos and works rapidly and stunningly on rolls of wall-lining paper to give brilliant studies of wild life and of scenery with a very personable delivery.

Profile

Bruce Pearson has worked over the last 40 years as an artist completing private commissions from individuals, museums and institutions. Following an invitation from the Artists for Nature Foundation (ANF) Bruce has participated in international art events and exhibitions in the USA, Europe and South America. In the Uk he has contributed to a number of group exhibitions and has undertaken a number of solo commercial gallery shows.

Initially Bruce worked as a freelance illustrator on a range of natural history books, magazines and journals. He wrote and illustrated "An Artist on Migration". A chapter within this book focused on the seasonal floods in the West African region of Sahel, and subsequently part of the migration story was foilmed and shown on BBC2 titled "Beyond Timbuctu", presented by Bruce.

In addition to painting and printmaking, in earlier years Bruce has filmed in Antarctica as a Director/Cameraman on a project which evolved from a collaborative idea into a documentary programme called "The Private Life of the Fur Seal", which was shown on BBC1. The led on to a second programme "The 150 Millon Tonne Shrimp, which was a far more complex Antarctic story, subsequently shown on BBC2. As a result of these successes, Bruce was commissioned by Channel 4 to write and present the six part "Birdscape" series covering a range of british landscapes, and the lives of some of the birds and people associated with them.

Much more information on Bruce and his work can be found on his website: http://www.brucepearson.net/index.html 

Fly from Stansted  to Pescara on Saturday evening. Five days sketching in Fraindola, one hour from Pescara.

Karen's sketchbook holidays are for the independent sketcher who would like company too. They are ideal for beginners who would like motivation as well as those with experience but looking for fresh inspiration. This is not a taught course; there will be no step by step demonstrations, each morning we will wander to find our own viewpoints and then meet for lunch and dinner to share our sketches and ideas.

Price between  280 -335euros. Accomodation is a beautiful B&B or in a family house.

Please see full details www.acy-holidays.com

There is no yoga on this holiday!

The Cambridge Original Printmakers exhibition was conceived in early 2013 when it was recognised that there was no real opportunity for printmakers in the Cambridge and surrounding locality to show their original hand-pulled prints.  The highly successful inaugural exhibition took place in September 2014.  Following on from this the 2016 Biennale exhibition will be the second event of it's kind in Cambridge. 39 selected printmakers, along with The Anglia Ruskin University, The Print Studio and St. Barnabas Press will be exhibiting work. There will also be talks and demonstrations throughout the week.

The Cambridge Drawing Society has ten members exhibiting their work; Tracey Ashman, Alex Blustin, Anthony Hopkinson, Iona Howard, Susan Jones, Andy McKenzie, John Preston, Anna Pye, Jo Tunmer and Clare Maria Wood.

Free catalogues for the exhibition are available from many outlets around the city including Tindalls, Cambridge Framing Centre, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Fitzbillies and Heffers. Look out for the distinctive red and black print of Ed Wilson on the front cover.

This exhibition promises to build on the success of the inaugural exhibition and will be a fantastic opprtunity to see printmaking of the highest quality from a broad range of local artists.