Antoni Gaudí - A Celebration of Nature
15 April 2026 at 10:00:00
Winston Churchill Hall, Ruislip
Parc Guell Salamander by Antoni Gaudí
Private, shy and retiring, Gaudí was also humorous and witty in his extravagant style. Inspired by honeycombs and spiders' webs, armadillo skins and mushrooms, trees and whales' bellies, he worked with extraordinary ceramicists, iron workers, tilers and decorative artists. In today's lecture we will look at his public and private buildings in detail and his relationship with a wealthy and demanding patron.
Our Speaker Jacqueline Cockburn will also uncover for us some of the other architects working in Barcelona over the turn of the twentieth century, such as Domenech y Muntaner and Puig y Cadafalch. Attention will be paid to several significant and ravishing buildings and some lesser known buildings in Barcelona.
Jacqueline Cockburn is Managing Director of Art and Culture Travel, running residential courses in Andalucía, Southern Spain, in the art and culture of the region, as well as curated tours to Madrid, Tangiers, Barcelona, Paris and Venice.
Jacqueline is a course director and lecturer at the V&A and also lectures at The Royal Academy. She has toured New Zealand and Australia for The Arts Society. Her specialist field is Spanish Art, but she also lectures on European Art 1790-1950.
Jacqueline Cockburn