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Spring art classwork exhibition

 

Art Group Members are invited to drinks and canapés in the Reading Room on Tuesday 1st April from 6 to 7.30 pm to celebrate the opening of the spring art classwork exhibition. This year will feature work by students in the Water Colour, Mixed Media, Life Drawing and Intermediate classes. No need to book. Just come along for an enjoyable early evening.

 

Art Group AGM

 

On the following day Art Group members are invited to the Art Group AGM in the Reading Room on Wednesday 2nd April with a glass of wine from 6 to 7pm. No need to book. Just come along for an overview of the year just been.

Summer Garden Party

 

Art Group members and their guests will be invited to enjoy an early evening summer drinks party in the sunken garden around the fountain on Wednesday 28th May from 6 to 7.30pm. There will be a glass or perhaps two of wine with a small but charming selection of canapés.

 

You will need to book as there is limited space around the fountain area and we will need to know numbers for catering.

The charge will be £10 for Art Group Members and £15 for their guests.

The event will be moved indoors if it rains, where there is a limit of 120 people.

The first 120 people will be asked to pay when they book; the next 80 will be contacted in the week of the drinks and asked to pay provided the weather is looking fine.

The invitation will be sent out next week on 19th March.

March Art Lecture – 8pm on Tuesday 18th March

Mad on Colour – The Impressionists in Venice

 

LIVE ON ZOOM ONLY

 

Book at reception if you would like to watch the lecture which will be shown live only on zoom (no recordings are taken); the squash club may wish to use the courts on that evening and the noise would disturb the lecture if we used the art studio.

 

From Édouard Manet to James McNeill Whistler, from John Singer Sargent to Paul Signac, artists flocked to Venice as Turner and others had done before. Seeking that incredible quality of light, those dramatic crumbling palaces and the shimmering waters, they depicted the backstreets, the costumes, the canals and the piazzas. This lecture will capture those sublime scenes and consider how writers such as John Ruskin and Thomas Mann evoked the city as narrative and architectural wonder.

 

Lecturer Jacqueline Cockburn is an art historian, linguist and freelance lecturer. She is course director and lecturer at the V&A and lectures at The Royal Academy and The Arts Society. She is MD of Art and Culture Travel, running courses in Spain, Venice and Paris.

April short courses

 

Both of the Short Courses in April are fully booked. These short courses look great and sold out quickly.

 

Thanks to Helen Jones for organising these and of course our talented tutors for leading them.

 

Richard Ramsey, Art Group Chair