Visit to Quebec House and Titsey Place – Wednesday 15th May 2024
Our outing to Quebec House and Titsey Place happened to fall on an unexpectedly sunny day. Twenty six members of[…]
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Grace Darling and the Fine Art of Saving Lives at Sea by James Taylor – Thursday 2nd May 2024
There will be few who have not seen Thomas Brooke’s famous picture of RNLI’s poster girl, Grace Darling. Former curator[…]
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Wealth Adornment Art: A Study of Jewellery in 17th-19th Century England by Amanda Herries – Thursday 4th April 2024
Former curator of the Museum of London specialising in the decorative arts, Amanda Herries started her lecture by showing us[…]
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Art Down Under: From the Convict Years to the Modern World by Val Woodgate – Wednesday 20th March 2024
Val Woodgate gave us a most interesting and comprehensive overview of the development of Art in Australia from the European[…]
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The World’s Greatest Paintings: 200 Hundred years of the National Gallery by Simon Whitehouse -Thursday 7th March 2024
Presenter, lecturer and guide Simon described how due to the growing interest in having national art collections (France opened the[…]
Read moreALL Members Coffee Morning on Wednesday 17th April from 10-11.30a.m in Grayshott Village Hall
We are inviting ALL members to come for a relaxing “get together” of coffee and cake at our Coffee morning[…]
Read moreNew Members Coffee Morning – Friday 15th March from 10-11.30a.m in Grayshott Village Hall
Have you joined in the last two years? Then do come to our New Members Coffee morning which will take[…]
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The Art Of Trickery: How Magicians are seen in Paintings, Prints and Cartoons by Ian Keable
Our February lecture, ‘The Art of Trickery,’ was given by Ian Keable a former accountant now a magician. Two of[…]
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Monopoly by Roger Mendham – Thursday 4th January 2024
Almost everyone has played Monopoly at sometime or other in their life as it is such a popular and well[…]
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Shepard’s Christmas by James Campbell – Thursday 7th December 2023
Ernest H Shepard was an artist, illustrator and cartoonist whose illustrations to A. A. Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh” and Kenneth[…]
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The Culture of Ukraine with Rosamund Bartlett – Thursday 2nd November 2023
Despite Storm Ciaran, Rosamund Bartlett braved the weather and disrupted travel conditions to travel from Oxford to Grayshott Village Hall[…]
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“Creating an Imaginary World – Theatre Design From Temple to Playhouse, Into the Picture Frame and Out Again” with Bertie Pearce – Thursday 5th October 2023
We were able to welcome back Bertie Pearce, but this time not on Zoom, and once again he kept the[…]
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Monochrome to Polychrome – How colour transformed the Art of Garden design
On Tuesday 17th October the Arts Society Grayshott was pleased to welcome Timothy Walker, retired director of the Oxford Botanical[…]
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The History Of Opera
Jamie Hayes started his most interesting lecture on the History of Opera by quoting W.H. Auden ‘No good opera plot can[…]
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Visit to Hever Castle – Tuesday 13 June 2023
Hever Castle, as we see it today, is a glorious pastiche, one very rich American’s idea of an English baronial[…]
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Selfies, Self – Expression, Celebrity and Victorian Carte De Visite by Mark Hill – Thursday 1st June 2023
Author, lecturer and “Antiques Roadshow” expert Mark Hill gave an enthusiastic and riveting talk on his abiding interest and hobby[…]
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Where Leonardo Meets Picasso The World’s Most Expensive Art by Ian Swankie – Thursday 6th April 2023
Ian Swankie is an art scholar and guide for the Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Guildhall Art Galleries and is also[…]
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Conard Wood to Fangorn Forest – Trees in Art and Literature by Justine Hopkins – Special Interest day Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Art historian and freelance lecturer Dr Justine Hopkins gave 3 outstanding lectures on the place of trees in art and[…]
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Member’s Coffee Morning – Friday 29th March 2023 from 10.30 a.m
All members’s are invited to an informal meeting at the Village Hall over refreshments and cake to meet other members.[…]
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