Enriching Lives Through The Arts
Giving his talk subtitled “TfLL – Transforming London’s Looks” author, broadcaster and documentary film maker Mark Ovenden described how London[…]
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On Wednesday 12th March the society enjoyed three outstanding lectures from Antonia Gatward Cevizli. The breaching of the city walls[…]
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By the mid 19th Century, Britain was the largest economic power in the world and at the forefront of industrial[…]
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Dr Lydia Goodson, art historian and lecturer specializing in material culture in Renaissance Italy gave us a delightful talk about[…]
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For our first lecture of 2025, which is also the 40th Anniversary year of the founding of the Arts Society[…]
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Author, lecturer and London Blue Badge guide Vicky Bailey gave a lively lecture describing how Christmas used to be just[…]
Read moreWe were delighted to welcome back lecturer, author and artist Douglas Skeggs for this Special Interest Day on the rise[…]
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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 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. Lecturer and London Walking Guide Charlie Forman gave us[…]
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Curator, lecturer and author Dr Amy Lim gave us a most enlightening lecture on the uphill struggle that women faced[…]
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Forty one members of the Society enjoyed an outing to Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, the family seat of the English[…]
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Our outing to Quebec House and Titsey Place happened to fall on an unexpectedly sunny day. Twenty six members of[…]
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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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Former curator of the Museum of London specialising in the decorative arts, Amanda Herries started her lecture by showing us[…]
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Val Woodgate gave us a most interesting and comprehensive overview of the development of Art in Australia from the European[…]
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Presenter, lecturer and guide Simon described how due to the growing interest in having national art collections (France opened the[…]
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Our February lecture, ‘The Art of Trickery,’ was given by Ian Keable a former accountant now a magician. Two of[…]
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Almost everyone has played Monopoly at sometime or other in their life as it is such a popular and well[…]
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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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