A contemporary Exhibition Space showcasing new and experimental work from established and emerging artists. SVAF also actively promotes and engages with artists’ collaboration projects and formulate interactive community, school and University projects in the Gallery.
Rosalind Barker MA and Susan Evans MFA with the members of the Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum, run The KCC Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Art Gallery as an artist led space.The forum is based at the Gallery.
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Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Art Gallery
PERSPECTIVES Tova McKenzie-Bassant
1 – 18 April 2026
PERSPECTIVES is a body of work consisting of 35 pieces to date.
For this exhibition, a selection of work has been chosen to focus on one of the main themes of the project – the existential journey of becoming. Tova has used collage as a strategy for imaging that which she believes lies at the core of human experience – the journey towards ourselves – and in this sense, Perspectives is still a work in the making.
Tova started the project in 2018, while struggling to find a meaningful artistic voice during a period of personal loss, just before the first lock-down. This work is the result of experimentation with colláge, and later photography, a process she describes as “raiding the larders of history, art and fashion, with an appreciation for the abundance, availability and plethora of readymade images circulating in the manufactured cultural world we have created,” and she especially enjoys recycling them in this way.
The Private View 1 April 6 – 8pm and will include a short film and a Q&A with Tova.
All works in the exhibition are for sale.
Collage Workshops with Tova
7 and 8 April 10:30-12:30 Sorry fully booked
Tova is offering two colláge workshops in the gallery alongside the exhibition. This will be an opportunity to experience Tova’s creative process, where the emphasis is not on the finished product, but rather, on the journey from somewhere to somewhere else, without the necessity of producing something ‘finished’. It is about making fresh connections, birthing new initiatives, spiking inquisitive exploration… For Tova, this way of working is a useful conduit through which to access ideas from untapped inner sources.
You can also see more of Tova’s portfolio online at tovamckb.com
The SVAF Community Art Project 2026 Horsing Around Sevenoaks
Why Horses and ponies?
It will weave together that 2026 is the Year of the Horse. The Kent County Council logo is a white horse. The relaunch of Explore your Kaleidoscope a joyous fold out interactive leaflet aimed at guiding visitors of all ages around the 4 different levels of the building in an art treasure hunt. Including find the mischievous Kaleidoscope pony who is covered in your children’s drawings and the ‘hidden’ artworks commissioned by KCC at the 2007 opening of the new Kaleidoscope Library, Gallery and Museum. 2027 will be the 20th anniversary. 
Artist led Drop in Free Family Art Workshops
The Horsing Around Sevenoaks herd needs to grow. This April join in our Pony and Horse themed free artist led workshops
Saturday 4 April Collage with Christine Highland
Thursday 9 April Painting with Susanne Beard
Saturday 11 April Pony surprise with Sue Evans
Saturday 18 April Collage and drawing with Sarah Cliff and Sue Evans
Saturday 25 April Pony Surprise with Sue Evans
All Family workshops are 10:30 – 12:30
Drop in or stay Children must be accompanied
ALL materials provided
Dress for mess
Sevenoaks Library Knit and Natter group are already Horsing Around Sevenoaks
If you run a group of any age 2 – 92 and would like to join in the fun. Email us: sevenoakskaleidoscope@gmail.com
Mezzanine Exhibition Space
Mimi Saboya Paintings 1 -18 April
Mimi Saboya was born and lived primarily in the South of France where her sensibility for the arts showed from an early age. She initially studied Art and Art History in Uzes and subsequently inMontpellier, where she qualified in 1992.
Mimi has travelled extensively, collecting inspiration all around the world by visiting galleries and museums and by absorbing the atmosphere around her. Travelling is the foundation of her work.
During her travels, Mimi captures certain moments and paints them using different mediums. Her style is primarily abstract, being partly inspired by Gerhard Richter and Zao Wou Ki. Her techniques are diverse; she likes to spend time searching for the most appropriate ones before putting them into practice. Material, light, depth, relief colour and texture are the key elements in her work. Painting is her way of communicating and escaping into a magical and imaginary world. Mimi enjoys taking the viewer on an inner journey and creating a feeling of well-being and peace. The past few years she has exhibited her work in England and France.
Free ADULT Linocut Workshops with Carol Aston
Friday 20 March and Friday 10 April Sorry we Fully Booked
NOT JUST 7 OAKS the KALEIDOSCOPE FOREST of the IMAGINATION
The SVAF Community Art Project 2025
Thank you for all your arty Trees in every sort of media for our Forest of the Imagination on the Mezzanine outside the Gallery.
Thank you to The Otford Embroidery Group, The Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Knit and Natter Group, EPIC St Barts Youth Club, Sevenoaks Adult Social Services, Otford Library children’s craft morning and Forget-me-Not-Cafe for many stunning fun trees.
Every Saturday in June and July the drop-in workshops at Kaleidoscope were enthusiastically attended by many families. The inventiveness and pleasure expressed in making by all the family members has made this a joyful project. We owe a big thank you to lead artists Sarah Cliff, Susanne Beard, Sue Evans, Amanda Hopkins and Irene Vaughan who volunteered to run them.
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