Current Courses

Stories and Myths in Art

Stories and Myths in Art

Stories and Myths in Art    Five Week Course, Mondays 21st Feb, 28th Feb, 7th March, 14th March, 21st March 2022   Over the course of five weeks we will explore the world of art and the stories they convey that have inspired people for thousands of years to the...

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Lives of the Great Artists – 6 week course

Lives of the Great Artists – 6 week course

Lives of the Great Artists  6 week course Over the course of six weeks we will explore the lives and works of some of the Western tradition’s greatest artists spanning the late Medieval period to the current day. At a time when our cultural depth is seriously deprived...

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The Classical Tradition in Art

The Classical Tradition in Art

The Classical Tradition in Art  Why has the classical tradition been such a constant source for architects, artists and sculptors? How did this ‘style’ or way of showing its visual forms evolve and develop? For ancient cultures, the classical proportions, harmony and...

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Stories and Myths in Art

Stories and Myths in Art

Stories and Myths in Art Five Week Course. Over five weeks of this course we will explore the world of art and the stories they convey that have inspired people for thousands of years to the present day. This is a world rich in the imagination, in word and in...

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Why We Need Art

Why We Need Art

Why We Need Art  Exploring ways of seeing Art: Neuroscientific, Psychological, Philosophical and the Mystical  £15  This session will include both theory and participation as we take a journey through the ways in which art can be perceived; from the neuroscientific,...

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Seeing Masterpieces with Fresh Eyes

Seeing Masterpieces with Fresh Eyes

Seeing Masterpieces with Fresh Eyes  This day workshop is my first time teaching in person since lockdown so I am very much looking forward to it. This session will invite you to look at some well-known works of art with a different perception, or ask if that is even...

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The Post- Impressionists

The Post- Impressionists

The Post-Impressionists  5 Week Course    Be inspired and intrigued each week as we look in-depth at the world of the Post-Impressionists as well as some of the works they created. At a time when we are becoming less engaged with each other, and in a world where the...

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Past Courses

The Art of Seeing – Vision and Ekphrasis

The Art of Seeing – Vision and Ekphrasis

The Art of Seeing   Vision and Ekphrasis Thursday 28th September 2023  7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "Free-heartedness, and graciousness, and undisturbed trust, and requited love, and the sight of the peace of others, and the ministry to their pain; - these and the blue...

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Monet – his life and works at Giverny – 2 week course

Monet – his life and works at Giverny – 2 week course

Monet - his life and works at Giverny   Two Week Course, Fridays 15th & 22nd September 2023 10am- 12 midday UK time via Zoom This course will be recorded   Following on from a visit to Monet's house and gardens at Giverny in France, this two week course take...

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The Art of Seeing – the Enchantment of Nature

The Art of Seeing – the Enchantment of Nature

The Art of Seeing   the Enchantment of Nature Thursday 24th August 2023  7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: I warm’d both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks and I am ready to...

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Stories and Myths in Art

Stories and Myths in Art

Stories and Myths in Art    Five Week Course, Mondays 21st Feb, 28th Feb, 7th March, 14th March, 21st March 2022   Over the course of five weeks we will explore the world of art and the stories they convey that have inspired people for thousands of years to the...

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The Art of Seeing – the contemplation of Beauty

The Art of Seeing – the contemplation of Beauty

The Art of Seeing   The contemplation of Beauty   Thursday 20th July 2023   7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 “At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked educated people to describe the aim of poetry, art or music, they would have replied ‘beauty’.” Sir Roger...

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