About us

Lancaster & District Art Society is open to all aged 18 years and over. Our membership ranges from absolute beginners to professional artists, as well as non painters with a keen interest in art.

The programme of activities is designed to encourage, inspire and develop its member's interests and skills as well as promoting the visual arts amongst the wider community. Meetings are held weekly at Torrisholme Methodist Church on Friday evenings from 7pm-9pm.

Our meetings are free to members of the Lancaster & District Art Society. Non members are welcome to attend for a £2.00 fee, payable on the door.

If you would like to enquire about meetings or membership, please visit our contact us page.

The winter art exhibition was held at the Lancaster City Museum from the 22nd to 20th December 2008. The exhibition was of a very high standard and from a sales point of view, 30 paintings sold in a variety of media. In this economic climate this was a good result. The exhibition held at the City Museum is in the centre of town and makes an ideal venue. It was well appreciated and supported by the local public and visitors alike.

The workshop on Friday the 20th February was led by Don Holden. He encouraged the group to look at an image and to make a picture exciting and individual to oneself and not just a copy of a photograph.

Don guided the group as we glued strips of paper, newspaper for instance, on to the blank paper and then we were instructed to block in the main shapes of a building in waterproof ink. Over this base image we used ink, water based paints and opaque white to draw with ink and paint to build up an exciting picture.

The photograph on the left shows Don Holden describing how he produced one of his own pictures. The right hand picture shows the workshop in action.