PROGRAMME

10.30 am Doors Open: Coffee and Biscuits

11.00 am Session One: Of Meissen Men: Exploring Europe’s first true porcelain manufactory

12.00  Comfort Break

12.15 pm Session Two: From Stone age to Space age: A history of the world in clay

13.15 pm LUNCH

14.15 pm Session Three: Prize Pots in Paintings

15.15 pm Close

OUR SPEAKER

Lars will be well known to most of us from his appearances since 1986 on the BBC programme Antiques Roadshow. He devises and curates exhibitions and advises on acquisition, care and disposal of ceramics.

He lectures widely and states “I aim to combine compelling narratives with enthusiasm and humour”.

We are in for a treat.

COST: £40 to include tea, coffee, biscuits, a glass of wine or presse and a delicious cold lunch.

Booking forms can be found in the Document section of this week site.  From the home screen follow the links to Ours Society, then Documents.

Eric Ravilious and his wife Tirzah Garwood

John and Paul Nash - together and then exploring their different paths

Edward Bawden -artist and adventurer 

MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW.......

10.30   Doors Open: Coffee and Biscuits

11.00   Session One:  Newlyn and Lamorna

12.00   Comfort Break

12.15   Session Two: St Ives and the arrival of the Modernists

13.15   LUNCH

14.15   Session Three: The Triumph of St Ives 1945-1975

15.15   Close

Sarah studied the History of Art at Cambridge University and University College London. Her career in museum and gallery education brought her to work at the Fitzwilliam Museum for many years. She is the founder of Cambridge Art Tours which run courses in and around East Anglia.

COST: £35 for A.S. Newmarket members, £40 for non-members to include tea, coffee, biscuits, a glass of wine or pressé and a delicious cold lunch.

Download the application form from our Documents section under Our Society.

It has long been recognised that the worlds of the visual and aural arts link with extraordinary power when one medium inspires the other. This lecture, which spans over 600 years of the arts, analyses and discusses a range of related works, bringing together the music of Martinu with the frescoes of Piero della Francesca, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus with Respighi’s Trittico botticelliano, Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead with Rachmaninoff’s symphonic poem and Poet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie with the piano playing of Albert Ammons. 

Peter appears in the UK and abroad as a musician and scholar, giving recitals and delivering illustrated lectures on music and the arts. He studied singing and early keyboard instruments at the Royal College of Music and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

The application form for this special interest day can be downloaded from our Documents section.

Watercolour has long been central to British art, valued for its delicacy and luminosity. This day is designed to open up the subject, revealing the surprising variety of ways in which watercolour has been used during its long, rich history.   Susan Owens studied at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute and works now as a writer and freelance curator.  She has a wealth of knowledge ands experience to share with us, having been Curator of Paintings at the V&A Museum.

10.30   Doors open

Session one: What exactly is watercolour? Exploring early uses

Session two:  The golden age of British landscape watercolours

Session three: Exploring watercolour in Victorian and early 20th century art

The application form can be downloaded from the Our Society Heading, documents.

This study day will devote a lecture to each textile; wool, cotton and silk, exploring their impact on the history, economy, geography, politics and, of course, fashions of Central Asia and the wider world.

Chris Aslan was born in Turkey and spent his childhood there and in war-torn Beirut. He spent two years at sea before studying Media and journalism at Leicester University. He then moved to Khiva, a desert oasis in Uzbekistan, establishing a UNESCO workshop reviving fifteenth century carpet designs and embroideries. 

Chris spent several years in the Pamirs mountains of Tajikistan, training yak herders to comb their yaks for their cashmere-like down. Next came a couple more years in Kyrgyzstan living in the world’s largest natural walnut forest and establishing a wood-carving workshop.

When he’s not lecturing for The Arts Society, he writes. His latest book, Unravelling the Silk Road, is published by Icon Books. 

A day exploring three important areas of art and design in the 18th century through the works of three different individuals whose activities cover painting, ceramics and furniture design.

Session One: Joseph Wright of Derby – painter of the industrial revolution 

Session Two: Josiah Wedgewood, Master Potter

Session Three: Thomas Chippendale, furniture designer 

COST: £35 to include tea, coffee, biscuits, a glass of wine and a delicious lunch. 

Scott Anderson was a professional archaeologist for ten years before his interests turned to the world of art. Recently retired from his post as Senior Lecturer in Art & Design at Solent University, Scott now concentrates on lecturing, research, film making and publication. His particular interests include architecture, interior design, ceramics and Victorian art & design. An Honorary Fellow of the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers since 2005, for several years Scott was a consultant valuer for the BBC TV programme Flog IT!

The applicaiton form can be downloaded from the Documents section under Our Society.

In this study day we will compare Old Master paintings with the modern treatment of the same subjects, and examine the extent to which modern art is inspired by the example of earlier eras.  In many ways, modern art has a surprising amount in common with the Old Masters, but there are also, of course, many differences and reinterpretations of subject and style. 

Lecture 1.  Still-life and Landscape 

Lecture 2.  Genre and Portraits 

Lecture 3. History Painting or High Art

Val Woodgate lectures at Tate Britain, Tate Modern and many other London galleries. She is a former member of the teaching team at Dulwich Picture gallery.  For many years she ran courses at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester.

COST: £35 to include tea, coffee, biscuits, a glass of wine and a delicious two-course lunch. To download the form, please go to the Documents section of the Our Society on this website.

This special interest day is devoted to English (and Welsh) artists and their response to landscape in the twentieth century. Beginning with an over-view of the tradition of English landscape painting during the 18th and 19th centuries, the day continues with works by painters, sculptors and photographers, exploring both the rural and urban landscape across the 20th century. 

Jo Walton is a lecturer and art historian specialising in Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture in British Art of the 19th and 20th centuries.  She works with the AS, The Art Fund and The Friends of the Dulwich Picture Gallery as well as with art groups and societies across the UK and Europe.

Session 1: History of the landscape tradition from around 1695 to the first world war.

Session 2: Lots of 19th century works leading into how artists used landscape in their art works in WW2.

Session 3: WW1 through the 20th century artists eg Hepworth and Moore up to Andy Goldsworthy.

The allure of the city of light.

A day exploring why Paris has acted as both a  magnet and cauldron for aspiring artists

The first lecture explores the early life of William Morris (1834–1896) before he founded his famous decorating firm in 1861. We examine the influences and experiences that helped form the single most influential designer of the 19th century.

The second lecture focuses on the most productive period of his life and looks at not just the business man but the man behind the famous floral designs.

Finally in the third part, we consider Morris’s lasting legacy into the 21st century.

To book onto this Special Interest Day, please download the form from Our Society, Documents.

This study day explores the development of paintings from 1900 to the present day with the highly entertaining and very knowledgeable Linda Smith, back with us by popular demand.

The day starts with explaining key developments at the beginning of the century in painting and sculpture and how these relate to major social change and historical events. It is chiefly concerned with art in Europe and Britain. 

The next session starts with Surrealism, and the tensions created between it and different kinds of abstraction. It then moves on to look at art produced by the totalitarian regimes of the thirties and how that affected ideas about art after the war. The focus then shifts from Europe to the United States to look at Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Minimalism. British art, which was particularly strong in figurative painting in the post-war period, is also covered.

The third session explains the likes of Land Art, Body Art, Performance Art, and how they relate to the counter-cultures of the 60s and 70s; and demonstrates how those artists were reviving techniques used by the early avant-gardes before the First World War. It also looks at the impact of feminism, the rise of film and video techniques, neo-expressionist painting of the 1980s, the Turner Prize and Young British Artists of the 1990s.

Linda Smith holds two first-class degrees in Art History. A broad knowledge of art historical subjects, but specialises in British Art and twentieth century art. Experienced lecturer and guide, especially at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. She has lectured to a wide variety of audiences in different venues, including school and university students, and independent arts societies in the UK and overseas.

Mr Gavin Plumley

A writer and broadcaster, appearing on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and contributing to The Independent on Sunday and The Guardian. Lectures widely about the culture of Central Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries, including to the National Gallery, the British Museum, the V&A, the Southbank Centre, the Tate and the Neue Galerie, New York, as well as for history of art societies and The Art Fund.

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John Singer Sargent’s Mysterious Portrait of Madame X

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Ian Keable is an expert on 18th century hoaxes. For example,

Would you pay money to see a man climb inside a bottle? People in 1749 did when a newspaper advertisement claimed that a conjurer would do just that. A riot broke out at the theatre when the spectators discovered they had been duped; but the Bottle Conjurer Hoax inspired satirical prints through to the 19th century, long after the incident  itself was forgotten. The study day talks covers amusing graphic artists, such as James Gillray and George Cruikshank.

Ian  will also brings his own experiences as a magic historian and professional magician, to talk about Charles Dickens as a conjurer

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Tintoretto: Susanna and the Elders 1555-6

From ancient times to nowadays,we shall look at how woman have been represented, asking what the functions of the pictures were in their own times, and how we might interpret them today. Changing attitudes to women, beauty and morality will be addressed. This theme runs alongside one which looks at the long history of how woman have struggled for political representation and what this has meant for their roles, both as subjects and makers of art.

NOTE VENUE: 10.30 Kirkling Village Hall,Kirtling CB8 9PB

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Helen Dillon's Garden - Dublin

GA SID day covering several famous Irish gardens.

This study day will trace the evolution of both landscape and domestic gardening in Ireland from the late 17th Century up to today.

NOTE VENUE: 10.30 Kirkling Village Hall,Kirtling CB8 9PB

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Area Study Day - A Tudor Triptych
Dr. Jonathan Foyle
24/10/2016 Monday

The Origins of the Tudor Rose, The Marriage Bed of Henry VII and Hampton Court after 500 Years.

Dr. Foyle is an architectural historian, broadcaster and advocate for heritage sites. The Speaker is the presenter of BBC2's 'Climbing Great Buildings'.

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Venue - Culford School starting at 10.00 am.

Photo Luke Nicolaides

The Census at Bethlehem. Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1566

Examining the art of Bosch and Bruegel within their historical and cultural contexts. Sophie Oosterwijk is a regular lecturer at Cambridge University.

NOTE VENUE: 10.30 Kirtling Village Hall, Kirtling, CB8 9PB Go to "About Us" and then "Documents" to download the booking form and for further details

The Orientalists - Artists and travellers in the Near East. Betty Joel - Glamour and Innovation in 1930's Interior Design The Art Market - The Who, What, Where and How?

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Venue: The Roman Catholic Church Hall, NEWMARKET Dr. Anderson will also be leading our May tour to to Normandy

Eric Knowles needs no introduction as a BBC's Antiques Roadshow expert. His three lectures will cover aspects of decorative and fine art at the beginning of the 20th century. Blackwell is an Arts & Crafts house in Cumbria, Hill House near Glasgow is considered Mackintosh's finest domestic creation. Gustav Klimt was a symbolist painter and founding member of the Vienna Secession movement at the time of Art Nouveau.

Culford School

“The influence of ‘modernism’ in North and South America has found expression through the bold and confident works of several designers making statements in garden, landscape and architectural design. As illustration, this study day will embrace the designs of Roberto Burle Marx, Luis Barragán, Thomas Church and others, both weaving through artistic connections and examining the influence of important local context. This is a day filled with lavish, vibrant and colourful images in an endeavour to capture something of the energetic spirit of such design." Marilyn Elm

'During the lecture we explore landscapes and still-life, paying particular attention to the vibrant sensual colour, expressive brushwork and stunning sense of rhythm and design. The captivating freshness and optimism of these works is guaranteed to delight and inspire' Coffee at 10.30am, the first of two talks starts at 11.00 followed by lunch and afternoon lecture finishing at 3.30pm. Cost £25 including lunch and wine. Members and guests welcome. Please contact Christina Robson to reserve a place.

Please contact Angela Payne for tickets to this event