We visited the Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal. The staff were excellent and extremly helpful. I had planned that we would spend some time sketching in the gallery but in the end the group decided they did'nt want to. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him sketch! The gallery had provided us with pencils, boards and paper if we wanted it.
The various rooms contained a standing collection and a celebration of fifty years of the gallery. This was really interesting reading why individuals had chosen the various pictures. I was really pleased as the visit stimulated great discussion among the group about the pictures, how they were painted, the materials used, the meaning and the composition.
It has fired them up and they now have a long list of things they would like to try and do in the group.
I can highly recommend the gallery for a visit if you are in Kendal.
www.abbothall.org.uk
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