Timothy Walker, former Director of the Oxford University Botanic Garden, will give three lectures : Broadening the Palette – the[…]
Read more
Category: Events
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[…]
Read more
Christmas Lunch at Frensham Pond Hotel – Monday 12 December 2022
We will again be holding our Christmas lunch in the elegant 4 star Frensham Pond Hotel, overlooking the lovely Great[…]
Read more
Tour to Madrid and Toledo 6 – 10 May 2023
Our 2023 tour will take us to see the wonderful artistic and architectural heritage of Madrid, together with Toldedo, one[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
Virtual Tour – A walk around Art Nouveau Vienna – Tuesday 17th January 2023 at 11am
Local guide Claudia Muchitsch will show us highlights of Vienna’s famous Art Nouveau architecture and decoration by Gustav Klimt, Otto[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
Virtual Tour – The Final Journey of the Unknown Warrior – Tuesday 15 November at 11.00am
On the morning of the 11th November 1920 the funeral of Britain’s Unknown Warrior took place at Westminster Abbey. This[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
The Art and Craft of John Piper by Jo Walton – Thursday 2nd February 2023
An abstract painter in the 1930’s, John Piper was also a writer, critic and typographer and his love of[…]
Read more
When the MGM Lion Roared: The Hollywood Studios by Colin Shindler – Thursday 5th January 2023
There were eight studios in Hollywood during its Golden Age and this lecture provides a helpful history from their early, tentative[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
Special Interest Day – Tues 18 October 2022 – A Journey through 3,000 years of Chinese Art, History and Civilisation
A Journey through 3,000 years of Chinese Art, History and Civilisation Three Lectures by ANNE HAWORTH 10.00 Coffee 10.30 –[…]
Read more
Who is Santa Claus? Art from St Nicholas to Father Christmas by Christopher Bradley – Thursday 1st December 2022
Nicholas was the Greek Bishop of Myra, a 4th century port in Anatolia. Following his death, his legendary generosity established[…]
Read more