Bookings are now open for the 2026 Jean Bolton Memorial Study Course entitled Art and Colour.
Five days with five expert tutors.
Live in-venue in Winchester, Hampshire, UK, also on Zoom and recorded for your viewing convenience.
Reduced fee for all five days ticket bundle (see Fees section below).
Course Outline:
Colour has a profound impact on our perceptions, attention, experiences and emotions making it a powerful element in life and in the arts. This series of lectures seeks to explore the role and impact of colour in different periods of history and geographical locations as well as identifying the sources, composition and development of artistic materials. We will also explore the symbolism, meaning and spiritual significance of colour. Examples will demonstrate the power of colour to attract and focus attention, express and impact emotion, intensify experience, and communicate non-verbally. The series will also explore the varying status and importance of colour verses drawing and line and variations including: vibrant v. muted, oil pigments v. egg tempera, watercolour and fresco and the development of materials over the historical periods. In some sessions attention will also be given to the particular role of Venice as a supplier of pigments and source of important developments. Links between the concept of colour in visual, musical and auditory art forms will be made in some sessions. The 5 study days will cover the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods in Western European Art together with the Nineteenth century in Western and Eastern European Art.
Course Schedule:
Art and Colour in the Middle Ages
Tutored and presented by Dr Sally Dormer
Thursday 29th October 2026
Renaissance Colour: Innovation, Theory and Practice
Tutored and presented by Dr Paula Nuttall
Friday 6th November 2026
From Caravaggio to Caspar David Friedrich: Colour in Art in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Tutored and presented by Clare Ford Wille
Friday 13th November 2026
Innovations in Colour: European Painting and Sculpture, 1800-1900
Tutored and presented by Dr Kathy McLauchlan
Friday 20th November 2026
From the Red Corner to the Green Stripe: The Colours of Ukrainian and Russian Art
Tutored and presented by Dr Rosamund Bartlett
Thursday 26th November 2026
- For full details of each day, click here to take you to the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area website
Venue: The Gurkha Museum, Peninsula Barracks, Romsey Rd, Winchester SO23 8TH and online via Zoom (recordings of each day will be available to both in-venue and online attendees for 7 days after each event). The live events run from 10.30am - 3.30pm. Participants joining online via Zoom will be admitted from about 10.15am and can join and leave the event as required. They will also have the option to view or catch-up via the recording.
Fees:
Tickets are £35 per day in-venue in Winchester and include 3 superb lectures plus morning coffee/tea and a light lunch with wine/soft drinks.
£15 per day for online attendees.
This year we are again offering a reduced total fee of £165 and £70 for in-venue and online tickets respectively when you select all 5 days as a bundle. Please see the Ticket Tailor box office for further details. The bundle options appear as options 1 and 2.
Bookings can be made via Ticket Tailor, our preferred method of booking, or direct as described on our website. There is no additional charge to subscribers via Ticket Tailor which accepts both credit and debit cards.
Book via Ticket Tailor here: Ticket Tailor and NB for this year there is a Cart feature which means you can add any permutation of tickets and ONLY CHECK OUT ONCE. Progress!!!!
Please feel free to pass details of this Study Course to any of your friends, family or neighbours who might be interested in joining us, either in person in Winchester or online. They do not have to be a member of The Arts Society.
We hope to be able to meet some of you in person this autumn and look forward to welcoming our online subscribers. For any further information please contact us at the email address below.
We will be in touch again over the summer so no need to rush to book, unless you would like a place in-venue as these are quite limited.