Days of Special Interest are held at Moor Park Mansion, WD3 1QL, and include coffee and a light lunch within the ticket price. Each Day consists either of lecture 1, coffee, lecture 2, light lunch and lecture 3 (ending at 15:15), or, lecture 1, coffee, lecture 2 and light lunch (ending at 14:15). It is impractical to provide an online Zoom version.
Non-members
If you wish to attend as a visitor please use the booking form on this website after 20 September 2021. The cost varies from lecture to lecture but is usually around £40.00.
Time
Arrive in person from 10:00. Refreshments are available. The lectures begin at 10:30.
21 Oct
Scottish Art - A breath of fresh air
Glasgow Boys, Glasgow Girls and Scottish Colourists
Speaker:
Julia Marwood
It wasn't just Charles Rennie Mackintosh who reinvigorated Scottish art around the turn of the 20th century - the Glasgow Boys and Girls, then the Scottish Colourists a little later all helped to place Scotland at the forefront of modern art in Europe. This study day will introduce some of the key players and their innovative and vibrant work.
24 Nov
WEDNESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2021
Exploring the Body
Antony Gormley and the New Face of Tradition
Speaker:
Frank Woodgate
This study day looks briefly at the history of sculpture, from classical Greek marble carvings and cast bronze works, and its development until the present day, showing how innovative and imaginative Gormley and other modern sculptors can be.
27 Jan
Sorolla
Spain's Master of Light
Speaker:
Anne Anderson
For many this will have been their first experience of 'Spain's John Singer Sargent'. In his day Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) was acclaimed for his dexterous representation of people and landscapes under the bright sunlight of his native land.
3 Mar
Sir Edwin Lutyens, How Sweet the Name of Genius
A Day with Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944)
Speaker:
Clyde Binfield
Lutyens' earliest buildings flowed from local tradition and intermingled with their environment. His later buildings played the high game, appropriating the Western classic tradition of the Renaissance and the Baroque. Whether vernacular or classical, his buildings were idiosyncratic, always individual, often inventive, usually very English, sometimes irresponsible and frequently very witty.
