Enriching Lives Through The Arts
Timothy Walker, former Director of the Oxford University Botanic Garden, will give three lectures : Broadening the Palette – the[…]
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This special day of three lectures by Justine Hopkins will demonstrate the interest of artists and writers in forests, glades[…]
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We will again be holding our Christmas lunch in the elegant 4 star Frensham Pond Hotel, overlooking the lovely Great[…]
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Our 2023 tour will take us to see the wonderful artistic and architectural heritage of Madrid, together with Toldedo, one[…]
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Lying at the Eastern foot of fabled Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is acclaimed as the most beautiful garden[…]
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Local guide Claudia Muchitsch will show us highlights of Vienna’s famous Art Nouveau architecture and decoration by Gustav Klimt, Otto[…]
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The Borghese Gallery houses what is arguably one of the greatest collections of art in the world. In the early[…]
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On the morning of the 11th November 1920 the funeral of Britain’s Unknown Warrior took place at Westminster Abbey. This[…]
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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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This lecture tells Ukraine’s story through the shared culture which binds its proud people together. We will explore the sacred[…]
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In the last few years the top end of the art market has flourished and collectors have been prepared to[…]
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This lecture focuses on the design impact of the Great Exhibition and the need for a ‘legacy institution’ in the[…]
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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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An abstract painter in the 1930’s, John Piper was also a writer, critic and typographer and his love of[…]
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There were eight studios in Hollywood during its Golden Age and this lecture provides a helpful history from their early, tentative[…]
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E H Shepard loved Christmas, and this lecture describes, including his own words, much of the magic and joy of[…]
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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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Ramesses II (c 1279 -1213 BC) is known to many as ‘Ramesses the Great’. He built extraordinary temples throughout Egypt[…]
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We will discover the very first memsahibs to set foot into India in 1617, and how a fair amount of[…]
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Our Annual Bridge Drive will take place on Wednesday 11th May 2022, play starting promptly at 2.00 p.m. and ending[…]
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