Fund Raising Bridge Drive – 8th March 2023 at 2pm
Our Annual Bridge Drive will take place on Wednesday 8th March play starting promptly at 2.00 p.m. and ending at[…]
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Category: Events
Visit to Hever Castle, Edenbridge, Kent – Tuesday 13 June 2023
The childhood home of Anne Boleyn, Hever Castle dates back to the 13C. Panelled rooms house fine furniture, tapestries and[…]
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Visit to the V & A Museum and Donatello Exhibition – Thursday 27th April 2023
We will have timed tickets during the morning to the Exhibition, ‘Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance’, being transferred directly from the[…]
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Special Interest Day – Tues 17 October 2023 – Monochrome to polychrome. How colours have transformed the art of garden design
Timothy Walker, former Director of the Oxford University Botanic Garden, will give three lectures : Broadening the Palette – the[…]
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Special Interest Day – Wed 22 March 2023 – Cornard Wood to Fanghorn Forest. British trees in art and literature
This special day of three lectures by Justine Hopkins will demonstrate the interest of artists and writers in forests, glades[…]
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Tour to Madrid and Toledo 12 – 16 May 2023 (Note date has been changed in view of the Coronation)
Our 2023 tour will take us to see the wonderful artistic and architectural heritage of Madrid, together with Toldedo, one[…]
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Virtual Tour – Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden, Cape Town – Monday 6 March at 9.30 am
Lying at the Eastern foot of fabled Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is acclaimed as the most beautiful garden[…]
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Virtual Tour – Treasures of the Borghese Gallery, Rome – Wednesday 8 February 2023 at 11.00 am
The Borghese Gallery houses what is arguably one of the greatest collections of art in the world. In the early[…]
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Ways to Look at Painting by Alice White – Thursday 2nd March 2023
Alice provides a painter’s perspective on famous artworks from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Rembrandt and Turner are revealed[…]
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Matryoshka: The Magic and Mystery of the Russian Style by Rosamund Bartlett- Thursday 2nd November 2023
When Winston Churchill defined Russia as ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’ , perhaps he was thinking[…]
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The World’s Most Expensive Art – Where Leonardo Meets Picasso by Ian Swankie – Thursday 6th April 2023
In the last few years the top end of the art market has flourished and collectors have been prepared to[…]
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Britain as Workshop of the World. The Founding of the Victoria and Albert Museum by Anna Warrillow – Thursday 7th September 2023
This lecture focuses on the design impact of the Great Exhibition and the need for a ‘legacy institution’ in the[…]
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Selfies, Self – Expression, Celebrity and Victorian Carte De Visite by Mark Hill – Thursday 1st June 2023
From the late 1850s to the mid-1870s a new craze gripped the world. Photography had just begun to be popularised[…]
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Shepard’s Christmas by James Campbell – Thursday 7th December 2023
E H Shepard loved Christmas, and this lecture describes, including his own words, much of the magic and joy of[…]
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Creating an Imaginary World – Theatre Design From Temple to Playhouse, Into the Picture Frame and Out Again by Bertie Pearce – Thursday 5th October 2023
Theatrical Scene design is one of the world’s most beautiful and lively art forms. In his talk, Bertie looks at[…]
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The Colossal Art and Architecture of Egypt’s Boldest Pharaoh by Lucia Gahlin – Thursday 4th May 2023
Ramesses II (c 1279 -1213 BC) is known to many as ‘Ramesses the Great’. He built extraordinary temples throughout Egypt[…]
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