Sunday 5th June 2016, 6pm, Lifford Hall, Broadway WR12 7BU This hilarious and inspirational talk will chart Geoff's rise from 10 year old with a 13 colour Biro to the scatterbrained 59 year old professional artist and comedy writer. HIs presentation will include works done for the likes of Penguin, Embassy World Snooker, the BBC, Trivial [...]
More Workshops still avaiNlable. Also LECTURES, CONCERTS, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST and BLUNDERBUS THEATRE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN Click Here for Tickets
Richard Ormond CBE who is Art Historical Advisor to the Festival was formerly Director of the National Maritime Museum and Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery. He is the grandson of Violet Sargent Ormond, the sister of John Singer Sargent. She was the subject of many of Sargent's paintings and Richard Ormond has written several books about Sargent and other painters. [...]
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is now on display at one of Tate Britain’s latest exhibitions – Painting with Light - Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the modern age from 11th to 25th September 2016: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/painting-light DON'T MISS Tate Paintings' Conservator Rebecca Hellen's lecture on the materials and techniques of John Singer Sargent, Tuesday 14th June at 4 pm in the [...]
Rebecca Hellen has been researching the materials and techniques in oil of John Singer Sargent. ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ will be of particular interest in this talk. Tickets: Rebecca Hellen Carnation Lily Lily Rose is now on display at one of Tate Britain’s latest exhibitions – Painting with Light. 11 May – 25 September 2016 http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/painting-light [...]
'Parliamentary Middlers: Why We Haven't a Prayer' Journalist and theatre critic Quentin Letts will give us an irreverent, gossipy, bracing blast against the dullards and drongos who infest our Houses of Parliament by a man who watches them daily from the press gallery: sketchwriter and theatre critic Quentin Letts, whose new parliamentary novel is a [...]
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