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Art Trail 2024

Welcome to the Green Door Art Trail 

  • You can access our brochure online here. This will tell you about each of our 26 participating artists and where to find them. Hard copy brochures can be picked up at the venues during the trail or from a selection of venues in advance

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  • Alternatively select a venue below for further information including directions, a map, opening times and accessibility information.

  1. Space2Create

  2. The Factory

  3. Spring Gardens

  4. Oxenholme Road

  5. DC Stained Glass Studio

  6. Athenaeum

  7. Compton House

  8. Abbey Cottage

  9. Thea Riley Ceramics

  10. The Studio, Courtyard Gallery

  11. William Heelis Office

  12. Speckled Wood

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1. Space2Create

Unit 31, The Factory Castle Mills, Aynam Road Kendal LA9 7DE

Friday 5pm – 8pm

Saturday 10am – 5pm

Sunday 10am – 4pm

Artists:
Una Aynsley
Sarah W. Brown
Ray Green
Sam Harrison
Jan Morley
Sue Rowland

Directions: Through Kendal head along New Road over the bridge onto Aynam Road. Ignore the first turn and keep in the left-hand lane. Take the next left and immediately left again into The Factory. As you pass in front of the Tap Bar, access to Space2Create, Unit 31 is first right. For parking keep straight on into the main parking area.

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Accessibility: Space2Create has disabled access through the green door, has disabled toilet facilities and doorways are wide enough for a wheelchair to pass through. There is plenty of seating for visitors. Parking available close to the unit. Refreshments available

Space2create

2. The Factory

The Factory, Castle Mills, Aynam Road Kendal LA9 7DE

Friday 2pm – 8pm

Saturday 10am – 5pm

Sunday 10am – 4pm

Artists:
Rebecca Callis - Unit 18d
Jo Vincent - Unit 18

Directions: Through Kendal head along New Road over the bridge onto Aynam Road. Ignore the first turn and keep in the left-hand lane. Take the next left and immediately left again into The Factory. For parking keep straight on into the main parking area.

 

Accessibility: There is free parking, toilets and wheelchair access on site

The Factory
Spring Gardens

3. Spring Gardens

11 Spring Gardens Low Fellside

Kendal LA9 4PA

Saturday 10am – 5pm

Sunday 11am – 5pm

Artists:
Robert Finch
Caroline Stow

Directions: Best parking is either the M&S or Booths car parks, both of which are five minutes’ walk from the studio. From M&S walk round the back and up through the park. From Booths walk from the back and up onto Low Fellside, turn right from the car park past the bollard and on towards the half- timbered Grandy Nook. Spring Gardens is a set of cottages set up from the road just after a cobbled lane, looking down into the Nobles Rest park. Number 11 is the last one.

 

Accessibility: Eight stone steps up from the road to the gardens in the front of Spring Gardens. No wheelchair access. Natural stone path which can be slippery in very wet weather

Oxenholme Road

4. Oxenholme Road

8 Oxenholme Road Kendal LA9 7NJ

Friday 6pm – 8pm

Saturday 10am – 4 pm

Sunday 10am – 4 pm

Artists:
John Davenport
Frances Winder

Directions: Parking available opposite in Murley Moss Business Park or in Asda carpark.

 

Accessibility: Two steps into studios — no wheelchair access

5. DC Stained Glass Studio

DC Stained Glass Studio 11 Allhallows Lane Kendal LA9 4JH

Friday 9.30am – 4.30pm

Saturday 9.30am – 4.30pm

Sunday 9.30am – 4.30pm

Artist: 
Debbie Copley