CDS Spring Exhibition – Public Vote Winner
The votes have now been counted in the public vote for the favourite artwork in the CDS Spring Exhibition. We’re delighted to announce that the winning artwork is John Lee Hooker by the very talented Rob Jones. We hope you’ll agree that it was a beautiful…
Keate Family Arts Trust- Spring Show
CDS Friend Emily Jolley has curated this year’s Spring Show at the Keate Family Arts Trust, bringing together artwork by 13 local artists (including CDS member Laura Chaplin) alongside pieces from the Trust collection including John Piper, Patrick Heron and Gertrude Hermes. Over 50 featured artworks,…
Collagraph Workshop with Sherry Rea
CDS member Sherry Rea is running a Collagraph Workshop at her studio in Elsworth. Multilayered collagraph with monoprint glazes and backgrounds. Using drypoint card to achieve sharp contrasting tones. In combination with utilizing monoprint backgrounds to add areas of interest and colour and experimenting with the…
Common Threads & Interwoven Lives
CDS Member Derek Wood is exhibiting with three friends at the Mosaic Jewish Community Synagogue, Stanmore until 5th May. Common Threads & Interwoven Lives will feature Printmaking, Textiles, Painting & Bookbinding. The featured artwork ‘Interwoven’ is a woven & stitched collage featuring all 3 of our…
Art Course with Nina Burgess
CDS member Nina Burgess will be leading an art course, Paint Like Turner, at the Duxford Community Centre starting on the 17th of April. The greatest painter that England has ever produced”. J.M.W. Turner was a great artist. His work changed the art world forever…
CDS Spring Exhibition 2026
The Cambridge Drawing Society warmly invites you to its Spring Exhibition 2026 at the historic Pitt Building on Trumpington Street, Cambridge. Open to the public from Saturday, 18 April to Saturday, 25 April 2026, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm daily, the exhibition showcases over 400…
Art Space – Art Fair
CDS member Naomi Tomkys OBE is taking part in Art Space in London this year (stand no 15). The fair brings together a carefully curated mix of internationally recognised artists and exciting emerging talent, alongside a selection of exceptional international artists making their UK debut….
Geedon Gallery Silver Anniversary Exhibition
CDS member Colin Hayes is among the artists taking part in the Geedon Gallery’s Silver Anniversary exhibition. The exhibition is by invitation only and includes some very prestigious artists including Fred Cuming RA and Maggi Hambling CBE. Colin will have four landscapes in the show….
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Annual Exhibition – 2026
CDS members Carol Whitehouse and Beata Lukowska are among the artists selected for the annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. The exhibition runs from 25 March to 11 April (closed Sunday 5 April & Monday 6 April) at the Mall…
Grand Arcade SketchTogether
Fourteen members and friends joined our March SketchTogether at Grand Arcade. The bustling shopping centre gave us plenty to draw and paint – shoppers, shopfronts, cafes and all the movement of a busy Saturday. It was great fun sketching, chatting and catching up as we…