Current Courses
Encountering Great Art through Carl Jung’s Active Imagination
Encountering Great Art through Carl Jung's Active Imagination A four week course Thursday 13th, 20th June & Thursday 4th & 11th July 2024 6.30pm - 8.30pm UK time via Zoom £80 In this four week course we will encounter just a few great works of Art and...
Monet – his life and works at Giverny – 2 week course
Monet - his life and work at Giverny Two week course This course was recorded. Following on from a visit to Monet’s house and gardens at Giverny in France, this two week course take a visual tour through art works and through photographs of his time at his beloved...
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...
Awakening Beauty
Awakening Beauty A two week course on Beauty in Art Monday 19th June & Monday 26th June 2023 10am - 12pm UK time via Zoom £40 "Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an...
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...
Past Courses
The Art of Seeing – Metaphor & Meaning
The Art of Seeing: Metaphor & Meaning Thursday 25th June 2026 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "Metaphor is the crucial aspect of language whereby it retains its connectedness to the world." Dr Iain McGilchrist This session will be recorded. This month’s The Art of...
The National Gallery London – Winter, Advent & Christmas through the Four Senses Hermeneutic
The National Gallery, London - Winter, Advent & Christmas through the Four Senses Hermeneutic Saturday 13th December 2025, 10.30am - 2pm Sold Out During this half day visit to The National Gallery, London, we will explore a small selection of paintings which...
The Art of Seeing – Light and Darkness through the Four Senses Hermeneutic
The Art of Seeing: Light and Darkness through the Four Senses Hermeneutic Thursday 27th November 2025 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "'Light' and 'dark' had powerful theological , intellectual and cultural connotations beyond art at the time . . ." Dr Christine Riding...
The Art of Seeing: Beyond the Surface
The Art of Seeing: Beyond the Surface Thursday 30th October 2025 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "Great art is the arrangement of the environment so as to provide for the soul vivid, but transient values, so that something new is discovered . . ." Alfred North Whitehead...
The Art of Seeing – The Perception of Memory and Time
The Art of Seeing - The Perception of Time and Memory Thursday 25th September 2025 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "All great painting is about attempting to stop time, to make memory physical . . . This is the painting of love." Simon Schama This session will be...
The Art of Seeing – ‘Truth, Beauty and Love’
The Art of Seeing - Truth, Beauty and Love Thursday 10th July 2025 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" John Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn This session will be recorded. This month's The...
The Art of Seeing – the perception of light and colour
The Art of Seeing - The Perception of Light and Colour Thursday 26th June 2025 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.” Henri Bergson This session will be recorded. In this month's The Art of...
Courtauld Gallery visit – the Rediscovery of Light and Colour: the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists
The Courtauld Gallery, London - The Rediscovery of Light and Colour: the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists Saturday 13th September 2025, 10.30am - 2pm The Courtauld Gallery in London is home to one of the greatest art collections in the UK, located in the...
The Art of Seeing: Easter and the Christian Mythos
The Art of Seeing - Easter and the Christian Mythos Thursday 24th April 2025 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 “The heart of this people has been thickened, and they hear heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes - lest they should see with their eyes, and...
The Art of Seeing: The Metamorphosis of Spring
The Art of Seeing - The Metamorphosis of Spring Thursday 27th March 2025 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "To 'reveal the mysteries' is to move the veils while preserving their dimness, so that the truth may penetrate but not glare. The transcendent secret is kept hidden,...
