Current Courses

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...

Annunciation in Art – call and response – March/April 2023
Annunciation in Art - the call and response Two week course Monday 27th March & Monday 3rd April 2023 "There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body." Rumi In celebration of the Feast of the Annunciation on 25th March, this...

Seeing the World Anew: The Emergence of Landscape in Art – 3 week course – August 2022
Seeing the World Anew: The Emergence of Landscape in Art Gainsborough, Constable, Turner Three week Summer course Mondays 8th, 15th & 22nd August 2022 Psychiatrist and literary scholar, Dr Iain McGilchrist, writes that the arts in general, and the ways in...

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...

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...

The Creativity, Life & Works of Leonardo da Vinci: Seeing into the Heart of Things
The Creativity, Life & Works of Leonardo da Vinci: Seeing into the Heart of Things £45: Three week course ‘We live in an age of celebrity, of flashes in the pan. But when it comes to Leonardo’s works, which supersede time and place, we have to realise that there...

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...

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,...

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...

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...
Past Courses

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...

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...

Re-turning to the Imagination – Blake, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britain, Saturday 7th October 2023, 10am – 2pm
“To see the world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wildflower, To hold Infinity in the palm of your hand. And Eternity in an hour..." William Blake Tate Britain is home to British artists and artists who spent most of their careers / lives in Britain....

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...

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...

Orpheus and Eurydice – a living myth in words & images
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Seizing the Underlying Unity of Science, the Arts and the Sacred
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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...

Awakening the Psyche through Carl Jung’s Active Imagination – May 2023
In this month’s Art of Seeing session, one work of art will become our focus as we awaken the psyche, or soul, with the framework of the active imagination as our guide.