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Forthcoming Events

due to the coronavirus situation OUR Lectures AT the Radlett Centre and our Sunday Visits have been cancelled.

We are giving lectures online via Zoom.  please see details below.  Joining inStructions will be sent to members.

Our planned holiday in shropshire has been postponed to SeptemBer 2021.  details and a booking form will be published here when available.

we are also looking at doing some 'virtual' trips.  Again Details will be given here when available.

If you would like to see some of the works by our artists you can look at our pictures pages - click here or use the Pictures tab on the left hand side of this page.

We have also got a special pages for our Artist Challenges and for 'lockdown' pictures, items that were produced during the lockdown period or with particular relevance to it.  

INITIAL Lecture PROGRAMME FOR 2021


Thursday 14th January 2021  – 7.45pm for 8pm – via Zoom Meeting
RENAISSANCE WATERCOLOURS from DURER to VAN DYCK
 

Lecturer:  CLAIRE-FORD WILLIE BA  Independent lecturer and scholar

The lecture will present and discuss this exquisite medium as a unified art in the exciting summer exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It will bring together for the first time, over two hundred rarely seen watercolours exploring its pivotal role in understanding, interpreting and documenting portraits, landscapes and delicate visions of nature.

Thursday 4th February 2021 - 7:30 pm - via Zoom

​An art demonstration by Peter Keegan

Thursday 11th February 2021  – 7.45pm for 8pm – via Zoom Meeting
UNDERGROUND CATHEDRALS –THE WORLD-CLASS ART, ARCHITECTURE and DESIGN of LONDON UNDERGROUND


Lecturer:  IAN SWANKIE, Accredited Lecturer for the Arts Society


The world’s first underground railway has a wonderful heritage of architecture, ingenious design, powerful advertising posters and unique calligraphy.     In this talk we plot the early development of the Underground, examine the legacy of Frank Pick and Charles Holden,  look at some of the iconic posters and celebrate the award winning architecture of the modern Tube in the Jubilee  Line Extension.   We’ll also take a peek at some of the forthcoming Crossrail stations, designed by some of the world’s top architects.

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NEWSLETTERS

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54th Summer exhibition

Please note that due to the coronavirus situation we have had to cancel our summer exhibition.

Our 54th Annual Summer Exhibition in 2020 was planned to be held at again at 
Battlers Green Barn.  

Our sincere thanks go to Paul Howarth​ for offering the barn the venue for us. 

We hope that we will be able to run an exhibition in 2021.

Holiday

Due to the Covid-19 situation our holiday to Shropshire has been postponed to September 2021.  We hope to be able to keep to the itinerary planned for 2020 as shown below.

Holiday to Shropshire. We expect our holiday in 2021 will be to Shropshire staying at the Mercure Shrewsbury Albrighton Hall Hotel and visiting the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Shrewsbury town centre including the Abbey, Powis Castle, Attingham Park and Wightwick Manor. 

The proposed dates are Sunday 19th to Wednesday 22nd September 2021.

More details will be published here once it is confirmed and when they are available.



Thursday Painting Workshop
We run a regular Thursday painting workshop for members.  Like other activities these are cancelled at the moment due to coronavirus. 

We are trying to run some summer painting sessions in people's gardens but due to Covid-19 regulations the attend at these is strictly limited.  Our artist members who attend the normal Thursday session are aware of the situation and have invites when appropriate.



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