Tucked away in a Grade I-listed building on Water Street lies the Liver Sketching Club – England’s oldest art club.
The volunteer-run club is celebrating its 150th anniversary this week. In this time it has survived two world wars, two pandemics and a fire. Not much, however, has changed since it began.
The room in the Oriel Chambers Building is filled with easels just as it was when it was founded on May 11, 1872. The values of the club have not changed either. The classes offer no formal teaching but a space to experiment with art and to offer each other help and advice.
