Life Drawing Workshop with Harry Gray
A CDS workshop led by Harry Gray on Sunday 13th October at Grantchester Village Hall, from 10.00am-4.00pm. Enjoy a full day honing your life-drawing skills with Harry Gray, a renowned sculptor in East Anglia. – www.harrygray.co.uk The day will begin with a warm-up session in which you draw…
Talk – Approaching A Gallery
CDS Members and Friends had a great evening on 25 September joined by Zuza from Cambridge Contemporary Art. Zuza talked about ‘Approaching a Gallery’ and then answered loads of questions in a lively Q&A with a very engaged audience. So now we all know a…
SketchTogether – Bridge the Gap
This month’s SketchTogether took place at Bridge the Gap, a charity walk around the Cambridge colleges. Eight of us met up and spent several hours in glorious sunshine sketching the event in St John’s, Lucy Cavendish, Westminster & Emmanuel Colleges. Special thanks to Maureen Mace…
SketchTogether – Little St Mary’s Lane
Nine of us met up in Little St Mary’s Lane on a lovely sunny morning. It was idyllic, with so many views to pick from! Afterwards we had a coffee and a bite to eat in the Fitzwilliam Museum cafe. Some of our sketches are shown…
Creating A Marble-paper Collage – A Workshop with Sonia Villiers
A CDS workshop led by Sonia Villiers on Sunday 22nd September at Grantchester Village Hall, from 10.00am-4.00pm. Spend a wonderful creative day making sheets of marbled paper which will be used to compose an A3 collage of a scene of your choice. Sonia will spend the…
SketchTogether – Cambridge Shakespeare Festival
Men in tights and Russians with big beards dancing to Rasputin in a Fellows’ garden…it can only be the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. We were very lucky to be allowed in to sketch the actors rehearsing for their production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. It was so…
CDS Participants in Cambridge Open Studios – 2024
This year is the 50th anniversary of Cambridge Open Studios with 360 artists taking part in 229 venues across Cambridgeshire. Studios will be opening over 4 weekends from 6-28 July (10am-5pm, free entry) – see the COS website or guide for opening times for individual studios….
SketchTogether at Music in the Park on Romsey Rec
We had a super afternoon sketching the singing choirs at Music in the Park on Romsey Park. We hope to see you at the next SketchTogether event next month! Watch out for further updates about SketchTogether – a sketching group for CDS members & friends.
SketchTogether at Quayside
The sun was out last Sunday and so were we. We were spoilt for choice of subjects at Quayside, Cambridge: river, punting, buildings, people, and even paddle boarding. A group of us continued on with lunch followed by a visit to Kettle’s Yard. It was…
SketchTogether at the Heong Gallery
SketchTogether, a new sketching group for CDS members & friends, had its inaugural meetup in April. The Heong Gallery very kindly gave us our very own private view and a talk about their current exhibition: Issam Kourbaj: “You are not you and home is not…