Community gallery

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Artworks by the Art Club at Lesnes Abbey Woods

In 2025 Lesnes Abbey Woods received funding from National Lottery Heritage Fund for Lesnes 500, a two year programme of activity to mark the 500th anniversary of the closure of the Abbey. The Friends of Lesnes Abbey Art Club were commissioned to create artworks that reimagined, life in and around the Abbey during medieval times. Members of the Art Club created artworks inspired by key historical figures, scenes of medieval life, landscapes of the abbey and woods past and present. The artworks were first exhibited at a pop up exhibition as part of the Woodland Festival 2025.

The Friends of Lesnes Abbey and Woods Art Club was launched in May 2023 with the aim of promoting Lesnes Abbey Woods as a source of inspiration and creativity for artist of all abilities, working in the medium of their choice. To encourage people to appreciate and enjoy the flora and fauna, the landscape, archaeology and history of the area.

If you would like to join them, they meet every 3rd Thursday of the month 10am - 1pm at Lesnes Abbey Lodge, New Road for more information on how to join please click here.

Painting of Lesnes Abbey founder Richard de Luci

The Martydom of Thomas Becket by Peter Carter

Construction of the abbey in medieval times

Building the Abbey Peter Carter

Conduit Pond Peter Carter

Medieval Village Life Naoko Carter

The Danger of the Hunt Naoko Carter

Two monks picking wild garlic in the woods

Foraging for Wild Garlic Christina Newbolt Tuck

Green foliage pattern of intertwined leaves with blue flowers

Medieval Pattern Enid Ryan

Image of an old man carved into the side of a tree

The Green Man Peter Carter

red Admiral Butterfly resting on slate marking where Roesia de Dover's heart is buried in Lesnes Abbey Wood

Roesia de Dover Peter Carter

Beautiful coloured sunrise with heron in the forground viewed through an archway

Spring Morning 1525

View of abbey and London skyline overlaid with old images of the manor house that used to be part of the abbey

Past in the Present Naoko Carter

Many thanks to Ozlem Yikici who has kindly shared her paintings inspired by Lesnes Abbey Woods.

Paintings 1-3 (Lesnes Abbey Colour Study 1, 2 & 3) are colour studies of Lesnes Abbey, all oil paint on A5 oil painting paper, 2021.

Painting 4: Plein Air watercolour painting on A4 paper of Lesnes Abbey, 2021.

Painting 5: The Storyteller, oil paint on canvas, 20 x 16 inch, 2021. Plein Air painting with abstract expressionist elements.

Water colour painting of Lesnes Abbey Ruins

Huge thank you Jules Goddard who captured these lovely images of the lighting of the Lesnes Abbey Queen's Jubilee Beacon

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Huge thank you to the extremely talented Art & Design students from LSEC Bexley who created artworks inspired by Lesnes Abbey Woods to celebrate the opening of the Elizabeth Line.

bexley college student who created artworks inspired by Lesnes to celebrate the opening of the Elizabeth Line

student will william morris print inspired artworks

purple ink and pencil drawings of animals

black and white william morris inspired print

box containing objects inspired from Lesnes

framed paintings fof bluebells, nulberry tree

Our grateful thanks to Penny Arnold for capturing Light the Way Illuminated Festival so beautifully, which stretched from Lesnes Abbey Woods to Southmere Lake.