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08 September 2026KENTCHURCH HOUSE AND GARDENS Meeting at 2.15Visit
17 June 2026HISTORIC PEAK DISTRICT TWO NIGHT STAY VISITING HARDWICK HALL, HADDON HALL AND BUXTONVisit
09 June 2026The Tiger in Asian ArtLecture
12 May 2026Bess of Hardwick HallLecture
12 May 2026Oil and Old Masters: Calouste Gulbenkian, Collector & Oil TitanLecture
14 April 2026Lunatiks, Slavers and the GenteelLecture
24 March 2026EASTNOR CASTLE Nr. MalvernVisit
10 March 2026Climbing Great BuildingsLecture
10 February 2026Painting Normandy - From Turner to MonetLecture
13 January 2026The Art of the CartoonistLecture
09 December 2025A Right Royal ChristmasLecture
11 November 2025Sorolla - Setting the Mediterranean AlightLecture
14 October 2025Austen's ArcadiaLecture
09 September 2025BUSCOT HOUSEVisit
10 June 2025Troy: Myth, History and Archaeology Lecture
13 May 2025 Colour and the Artist’s Palette: Feeling BlueLecture
07 May 2025MADRESFIELD COURTVisit
08 April 2025Theatre Going in Georgian EnglandLecture
11 March 2025Clara: Superstar Rhino:Lecture
11 February 2025The Scottish Colourists Lecture
14 January 2025William of Wykeham: Builder of Windsor Castle, Oxford, and Winchester: Lecture
10 December 2024 What the DickensLecture
12 November 2024The Imperial Chinese WardrobeLecture
08 October 2024John Singer Sargent the Private Radical Lecture
14 June 2024MAGDALEN COLLEGE AND OXFORD BOTANICAL GARDENVisit
11 June 2024Stanley Spencer – A Life In ArtLecture
14 May 2024Paradise Lost and Found - 400 Years of Garden Design in OxfordshireLecture
09 April 2024Queens, Consorts and Courtiers: Female Art Patronage in Late Stuart EnglandLecture
12 March 2024A MASTER OF SUSPENSE, ALFRED HITCHCOCKLecture
13 February 2024The Nation's Mantlepiece: A History of the National Gallery in Ten PaintingsLecture
09 January 2024From the Golden Age to Nordic Modern: The Story of Danish Art and DesignLecture
12 December 2023THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI FROM PERSIA TO TS ELIOTLecture
14 November 2023DOMES AND MINARETS; MOSQUES OF THE ISLAMIC WORLDLecture
10 October 2023DONATELLO AND THE BIRTH OF THE RENAISSANCELecture
21 September 2023A PRIVATE VISIT TO RODMARTON MANOR - ARTS AND CRAFTS HOME OF THE BIDDULPH FAMILYVisit
13 June 2023Bruegel And The Seasons Of The World (AGM at 2pm)Lecture
09 May 2023The Art of BanksyLecture
26 April 2023 A Private Visit to Lechlade and Kelmscott ManorVisit
11 April 2023Music In ArtLecture
14 March 2023Caravaggio: Painter Extraordinaire and Flawed GeniusLecture
14 February 2023 Love Is Enough: At Home with Jane and William MorrisLecture
10 January 2023Sacred Art Of TibetLecture
13 December 2022Shepard's ChristmasLecture
08 November 2022At The Edge Of Bloomsbury: The Art and Life of Dora CarringtonLecture
11 October 2022An Art to Cure: Pharmacy in CaricaturesLecture
02 September 2022Visit to Pembridge - A Delightful Day Visit
23 June 2022Thruxton Gardens - A Joy to Behold!Visit
14 June 2022A Marvel of Nature: The Life and Work of Renaissance Woman Painter Sofonisiba AnguissolaLecture
10 May 2022The Sahara As Palimpsest from Rock Art Through the Desert Fathers To Klee, Matisse, Schultz and LucasLecture
12 April 2022A Ploughman, An Incestuous Knight, An Eloped Heiress and a Murderous Queen: Decoding a Medieval masterpiece, The Luttrell Psalter.Lecture
08 March 2022Edouard Manet and the Origins of ImpressionismLecture
08 February 2022Sinew, Sex and Synapse: The Life and Art of Egon SchieleLecture
11 January 2022Italian Gardens from the Renaissance to RomanticismLecture
07 December 2021A Stitch In Time: One Thousand Years of British EmbrioderyLecture
09 November 2021The Mildenhall TreasureLecture
12 October 2021The Splendour of Colours: Painted Vessels of the MayaLecture
11 June 2019AGM at 2pm, followed by: Van Gogh: Serenity Will Come. Lecture
14 May 2019The Laocoon Statue.Lecture
09 April 2019Herefordshire Churches & their Treasures: Past, Present and into the future.Lecture
12 March 2019Iconic Objects in Art: The Shell.Lecture
12 February 2019A little Revolution: Eric Gill, Jacob Epstein & the revival of the Romanesque tradition of direct carving in stone.Lecture
08 January 2019Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet & the painting of the Water Lilies.Lecture
11 December 2018The Return Of The Kings: English period style 1660 to 1760Lecture
13 November 2018All the lonely people: The work of the American realist Edward Hopper.Lecture
09 October 2018Dale Chihuly: The World's Foremost Glass Artist.Lecture
11 September 2018Fabulous Frocks & The People Who Wore themLecture
12 June 2018Annual General Meeting at 2pm followed by: Enigmatic Art: Famous Paintings that Keep Us GuessingLecture
23 May 2018Winterbourne House & Botanical Garden University of BirminghamVisit
08 May 2018Contrapuntal Forms: Barbara Hepworth & Terry Frost.Lecture
10 April 2018The Art of Seduction in Art.Lecture
13 March 2018What Makes a Photograph Unforgettable?Lecture
13 February 2018Burlington House &The History of The Royal Academy of Arts.Lecture
09 January 2018For the Love of Animals & Nature: The Art of Franz Marc.Lecture
12 December 2017Fabulous Frocks & the Famous People who wore them.Lecture
14 November 2017From Garbo to Garland: The Magical Art of Hollywood.Lecture
10 October 2017Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris.Lecture
16 June 2017A SPECIAL LECTURE "The Bacton Altar Cloth at St Faith's Church Bacton"Lecture
13 June 20172017 AGM @ 2 pm followed by Hockney's MirrorsLecture
11 May 2017Chastleton House & Croome ParkVisit
09 May 2017Catherine the Great & her TreasuresLecture
20 April 2017Ashmolean Museum. Oxford.Visit
11 April 2017Postmodernism: Art, Architecture & DesignLecture
14 March 2017JMW Turner & The Day Parliament Burned DownLecture
14 February 2017From Magic Lanterns to Metro Goldwyn MeyerLecture
10 January 2017Discovering James Ensor: The Artist Behind the MasksLecture
13 December 2016David Garrick: Man of Theatre, Man of Taste.Lecture
08 November 2016Painting with Light: Stained Glass in the Age of George IIILecture
25 October 2016National Gallery of Wales The Davies Sisters BequestVisit
11 October 2016Caravaggio & the Counter ReformationLecture
14 June 2016Neo-Classical Furniture: Adam, Hepplewhite and SheratonLecture
07 June 2016A Visit to Powis Castle & Garden and The Clive MuseumVisit
10 May 2016Eric Ravilious, Designer: Wood Engravings, Ceramics and LithographyLecture
12 April 2016The History of Landscape PaintingLecture
08 March 2016The Magna Carta - The Hereford ConnectionLecture
15 February 2016The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, BirminghamVisit
09 February 2016Birmingham Town Hall: The Pride of Birmingham and an Ornament to England Lecture
12 January 2016Narcissus and ArtLecture
08 December 2015The Christmas Story: Paintings of the NativityLecture
10 November 2015A Golden Age in a Land of Plenty: 17th Century Dutch Culture, Art, Architecture and HorticultureLecture
13 October 2015Rubens at Home: His Portraits of Family and FriendsLecture
13 June 2015The World in a Grain of Sand: The Life & Work of William BlakeLecture
16 May 2015Masterpieces of 18th Century British GlassLecture
12 May 2015Stokesay Castle and Stokesay Court Visit
11 April 2015Women As Painters From 16th to 20th CenturyLecture
14 March 2015The Scattered Treasures of Hampton Court, HerefordLecture
14 February 2015Bernard Leach & The National Museum of Wales Tea CeremonyLecture
01 January 2015Ashmolean Museum Visit