Tag: Art

Led by local artist Gill Starkie Your opportunity to learn the process of watercolour and enjoy being creative whilst having fun! You can build your skills to enjoy creating your […]

Session 6: Francisco Goya We will spend an entire session on this profound and ground breaking court painter whose life and art is absolutely fascinating. Includes Tea, coffee and home […]

Session 6: The Rococo in Italy and England. We will examine the innovative Venetian portraitist Rosalba Carriera – one of the most successful women artists of all time. In addition […]

Spanish Baroque Painting Part 2: Velazquez and Murillo Includes Tea, coffee and home made biscuit during the interval.

The Rococo in France:  Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, Adelaide Labille-Guiard and Anna Dorothea Therbusch feature in this dazzling and complicated aristocratic period where women were both free and bonded! Includes […]

Led by local artist Gill Starkie Your opportunity to learn the process of watercolour and enjoy being creative whilst having fun! You can build your skills to enjoy creating your […]

Spanish Baroque Painting Part 1: Focusing on El Greco and de Zuburan Includes Tea, coffee and home made biscuit during the interval.

The Dutch Baroque. We examine a wealth of Dutch artists in the liberal and mercantile climate of a new Netherlands where women had exciting business opportunities. Artists include Claara Peeters, […]

Spanish Baroque Architecture Talk by Tania Harrington We look at the exuberant Counter Reformation architecture of the 17th century, sometimes known as the ‘Spanish Golden Age’. This is a fundraising […]

The English Baroque talk by Tania Harrington We take a long look at the Suffolk born portraitist Mary Beale – the first English woman artist to go professional. Her husband […]