The Medici – Bankrolling the Renaissance by Douglas Skeggs – Monday 25th November 2024
We were delighted to welcome back lecturer, author and artist Douglas Skeggs for this Special Interest Day on the rise[…]
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Curtains, Copies and Ways of Looking by Chantal Brotherton-Ratcliffe – Thursday 7th November 2024
How do we look at paintings? Nowadays most of us gaze upon Old Masters in Museums and Art Galleries. We[…]
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The Green Man in English Churches by Imogen Corrigan – Thursday 3rd October 2024
The term “Green Man” which describes the disembodied heads with foliage coming out of their mouths, noses, eyes and ears[…]
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London Bridged : 3,500 years of Crossing the Thames by Charlie Forman – Thursday 5 September 2024
London Bridged: 3,500 years of Crossing the Thames by Charlie Forman. Lecturer and London Walking Guide Charlie Forman gave us[…]
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Now you see us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 by Amy Lim – Thursday 6th June 2024
Curator, lecturer and author Dr Amy Lim gave us a most enlightening lecture on the uphill struggle that women faced[…]
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Visit to Waddesdon Manor Aylesbury, Bucks – Wednesday 12th June 2024
Forty one members of the Society enjoyed an outing to Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, the family seat of the English[…]
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Visit to Quebec House and Titsey Place – Wednesday 15th May 2024
Our outing to Quebec House and Titsey Place happened to fall on an unexpectedly sunny day. Twenty six members of[…]
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Grace Darling and the Fine Art of Saving Lives at Sea by James Taylor – Thursday 2nd May 2024
There will be few who have not seen Thomas Brooke’s famous picture of RNLI’s poster girl, Grace Darling. Former curator[…]
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Wealth Adornment Art: A Study of Jewellery in 17th-19th Century England by Amanda Herries – Thursday 4th April 2024
Former curator of the Museum of London specialising in the decorative arts, Amanda Herries started her lecture by showing us[…]
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Art Down Under: From the Convict Years to the Modern World by Val Woodgate – Wednesday 20th March 2024
Val Woodgate gave us a most interesting and comprehensive overview of the development of Art in Australia from the European[…]
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The World’s Greatest Paintings: 200 Hundred years of the National Gallery by Simon Whitehouse -Thursday 7th March 2024
Presenter, lecturer and guide Simon described how due to the growing interest in having national art collections (France opened the[…]
Read moreALL Members Coffee Morning on Wednesday 17th April from 10-11.30a.m in Grayshott Village Hall
We are inviting ALL members to come for a relaxing “get together” of coffee and cake at our Coffee morning[…]
Read moreNew Members Coffee Morning – Friday 15th March from 10-11.30a.m in Grayshott Village Hall
Have you joined in the last two years? Then do come to our New Members Coffee morning which will take[…]
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The Art Of Trickery: How Magicians are seen in Paintings, Prints and Cartoons by Ian Keable
Our February lecture, ‘The Art of Trickery,’ was given by Ian Keable a former accountant now a magician. Two of[…]
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Monopoly by Roger Mendham – Thursday 4th January 2024
Almost everyone has played Monopoly at sometime or other in their life as it is such a popular and well[…]
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Shepard’s Christmas by James Campbell – Thursday 7th December 2023
Ernest H Shepard was an artist, illustrator and cartoonist whose illustrations to A. A. Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh” and Kenneth[…]
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The Culture of Ukraine with Rosamund Bartlett – Thursday 2nd November 2023
Despite Storm Ciaran, Rosamund Bartlett braved the weather and disrupted travel conditions to travel from Oxford to Grayshott Village Hall[…]
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“Creating an Imaginary World – Theatre Design From Temple to Playhouse, Into the Picture Frame and Out Again” with Bertie Pearce – Thursday 5th October 2023
We were able to welcome back Bertie Pearce, but this time not on Zoom, and once again he kept the[…]
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Monochrome to Polychrome – How colour transformed the Art of Garden design
On Tuesday 17th October the Arts Society Grayshott was pleased to welcome Timothy Walker, retired director of the Oxford Botanical[…]
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