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Forthcoming Events

We are currently giving our lectures online via Zoom.  please see details below.  Joining inStructions will be sent to members shortly before the lecture.

Our holiday in shropshire has been postponed to SeptemBer 2021.  details and a booking form are available in further down this home page or in the visits 2021 page.

we are considering running a day trip to burghley house on sunday 22nd august.  please see details below or  IN THE VISITS 2021 PAGE.

If you would like to do some virtual trips we recommend https://www.virtualtrips.io/ they do virtual trips live with real guides to more that 100 locations around the world, including several in the uk.

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.  
For a complete list of our currently planned activities for 2021 please see here.

Next Lectures

May 27th - Zoom/Live - 7.45pm for 8pm – via Zoom Meeting

Venice in the age of Giovanni Bellini

In the second half of the 1400s, Venice was a city at the height of her powers. Trading links with the East filled the city with merchants, travellers, opulent luxury goods and money to lavish on buildings and artworks. The Bellini family were an important part of the city’s artistic fabric. Father Jacopo has left us exquisite volumes of drawings; a truly rare survival from the mid-fifteenth century. His elder son, Gentile, created panoramas of the city of Venice, alive with incident and colour and masquerading as religious paintings, while his younger son, Giovanni, is famed for luminous images of the Madonna and Child, set against light-filled Veneto landscapes.
This talk explores the city and the family, through their work and that of their contemporaries, and shows how the richness and delicacy of Giovanni Bellini’s paintings influenced the artists of the Venetian Golden Age.

Here is a flyer.

​Jo Walton - Lecturer and Art Historian
June 24th - 7.45pm for 8pm – via Zoom Meeting

Red in Russian Art: from Icons to the Avant-Garde 

Since the Bolshevik revolution ‘red’ was associated with Soviet Russia and communism. However, the Russian romance with ‘red’ long pre-dates the October revolution. The word 'red' in Russian, krasnyj, is related to the word krasivyj, beautiful. The Bolsheviks borrowed the significance and multi-layered symbolism of red and used it, like the French revolutionaries, as a symbol of sacrifice – the colour of blood shed for revolutionary causes. However, in Russian Orthodox icons red was a symbol of resurrection and salvation while in traditional culture it was associated with joy – a festival or a special occasion. The multi-layered symbolism of red was further explored by the avant-garde artists, taking the central place for Malevich and Kandinsky, who described red as “giving the impression of pure youthful joy”. 

Dr Natalia Murry Associate Lecturer and Senior Curator. Published books on Russian art and curated RA exhibition Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932

Next Visits

Day trip to Burghley House – Sunday 22nd August
​I hope to be able to organise a day trip to Burghley House on Sunday 22nd August.  Burghley is one of the largest and grandest surviving houses of the sixteenth century and a magnificent example of the great Elizabethan ‘prodigy’ houses. Conceived by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, between 1555 and 1587, Burghley is a testament to the ambition and vision of the most powerful courtier of the first Elizabethan age.  The house has a large number of Old Master paintings and tapestries and well as excellent furniture and curios.  There is also a special exhibition to mark the 500th year since Cecil’s birth (which should have been held last year but was delayed due to the Pandemic). Further details about the house and its contents are available on their website - https://www.burghley.co.uk/
I don’t know the exact cost yet but it will probably be about £40 p.p. and the journey time by coach is about 1hr 45 min.  The feasibility of this trip and its price depends on the number of people that would go on it so please can you let me know if you would be interested, preferably by email to radlettartsociety@gmail.com and no later than the 1st July.   I will then confirm if the trip is going ahead and its price.  The payment will be needed by 1st August.

Other activities

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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. 

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 previously planned.

Holiday to Shropshire. We hope to be able to run our holiday to Shropshire from Sunday 19th to Wednesday 22nd September 2021. We will be 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. 

Here is a link to the flyer and booking form.  Bookings are open until 19th July.
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.