Author: SVAF at Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope

Lilia Kodunova Figurative and Portrait Artist ‘Voices” Solo Exhibition  2 – 19 April 2025 “Voices” is an exhibition that draws on the profound impact of war on individuals and communities through a collection of evocative paintings. Some artworks poignantly capture the pain and loss experienced during the conflict in Ukraine, serving as powerful reminders of...

Mezzanine Exhibition Space  Victoria Granville  SELF PORTRAITS 2- 19 April 2025 We are wind tunnels: all life, ideas encounters roar through us like wild animals and are written in our creative work. So it is impossible to be invisible. What we make as artists reveals us and that confrontation is problematic; we do everything to...

The FAPD residency where the gallery is turned into a studio space for the 48 artists from the Fine Art Practice Development Programme 2024-5 course. Working on their separate projects responding to this year’s fluid title Sometimes, Always, Never for their FAPD gallery exhibition in June. Last year we had positive feedback from all the...

PASSAGES Exploring and anchoring the past through assemblage – where heritage and history meet. Tova McKenzie-Bassant  26 February – 15 March 2025 ‘Passages’ is a solo exhibition by the artist Tova McKenzie-Bassant, presenting three bodies of assemblage, (Tokens for the Journey, Silent Witnesses and Uncle Joe’s Bowl), brought together to form this piece, and chronicles...

Weald of Kent Grammar School Year 9 and 12 present GODDESSES 12 – 22 February 2025 A group of Year 9 and Year 12 students were inspired by the textile artists Anne Kelly, Caitlin Hinshelwood and Marion Elliot to produce some large textile hangings on the theme of Goddesses, which is our new school House...

RAY ATKINS A PAINTER’S ODYSSEY ONE OF THE MAJOR ARTISTS OF HIS GENERATION 16 January – 8 February 2025 Private View Thursday 16 January 6 – 7:30 Join us for refreshments and a first view of A Painter’s Odyssey Ray Atkins solo show Ray Atkins (b.1937) is – puzzlingly – one of the least well-known...

    Weave with Lizzie – come and join Lizzie Hill in the Gallery to look, learn and contribute to a large woven artwork incorporating unusual materials! Print with Sarah – drop in for a family workshop to print Christmas cards with help and support from Sarah Cliff. Dress for Mess! Textures with Sheila –...

Mezzanine Exhibition Space Early days of Photography in Sevenoaks  Derek Medhurst 20 November – 7 December 2024 Arising from an abiding interest – over many decades – in all things photographic, I have collected photographs by early professional photographers in and around Sevenoaks. The collecting habit led to researching their working lives. Although there were...

GOING SOLO Sue Vass Paintings  20 November – 7 December 2024 This show is a selection of work completed over the last two years while I’ve been a student at The Essential School of Painting (ESOP) in Wood Green , London. I embarked on the Advanced Painting course in September 2022 and completed it in...