This is the third of the Spring Study Days being organised by The Arts Society Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area.

You can attend 'in person' or via Zoom

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This is the second of the Spring Study Days being organised by The Arts Society Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area.

You can attend 'in person' or via Zoom

Click here for more information.

This is the first of the Spring Study Days being organised by The Arts Society Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area.

You can attend 'in person' or via Zoom

Click here for more information.

The Annual Jean Bolton Study Days organised by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area Team have as it's theme this year - Art in Miniature.  The fifth of the weekly events is on Friday, 28th November at The Gurkha Museum, Winchester. Online attendance is available via zoom.  Click here for full details.

The Annual Jean Bolton Study Days organised by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area Team have as it's theme this year - Art in Miniature.  The fourth of the weekly events is on Friday, 21st November at The Gurkha Museum, Winchester. Online attendance is available via zoom.  Click here for full details.

The Annual Jean Bolton Study Days organised by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area Team have as it's theme this year - Art in Miniature.  The third of the weekly events is on Friday, 14th November at The Gurkha Museum, Winchester. Online attendance is available via zoom.  Click here for full details.

The Annual Jean Bolton Study Days organised by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area Team have as it's theme this year - Art in Miniature.  The second of the weekly events is on Friday, 7th November at The Gurkha Museum, Winchester. Online attendance is available via zoom.  Click here for full details.

The Annual Jean Bolton Study Days organised by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area Team have as it's theme this year - Art in Miniature.  The first of the weekly events is on Thursday 30th October at The Gurkha Museum, Winchester. Online attendance is available via zoom.  Click here for full details.

This Study Day is being organised by The Art Society Winchester

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This Study Day is being organised by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area and will be held in Winchester

For full details of the Area Spring Study Days click here

This Study Day is being organised by The Arts Society WINCHESTER,

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This Study Day is being organised by Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Area.and will be held in Winchester

For full details of the Area Spring Study Days click here

This Study Day is being organised by The Art Society SALISBURY

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This Study Day is being organised by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area and will be held in Winchester

For full details of the Area Spring Study Days click Here

The Annual Jean Bolton Memorial Study Days are organised by Area.

Click here for full information and an Application Form

The Annual Jean Bolton Memorial Study Days are organised by Area.

Click here for full information and an Application Form

The Annual Jean Bolton Memorial Study Days are organised by Area.

Click here for full information and an Application Form

The Annual Jean Bolton Memorial Study Days are organised by Area.

Click here for full information and an Application Form

The Annual Jean Bolton Memorial Study Days are organised by Area.

Click here for full information and an Application Form

Area events are open to everyone, whether or not they are members of The Arts Society. The Area Co-ordinator for Education organises Days of Special Interest which provide the opportunity to look at subjects in more depth than is often possible at a society lecture, encouraging discussion and a chance to explore new ways of looking at art.

The Arts Society Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area usually offers two study courses each year.  The first, in the Spring, is held in Winchester and the second in November are now also held in Winchester. The Spring Study Days are held over 3 days (usually in February, March and April), with each day comprising of 3 lectures.  The November Study Days, known as the Jean Bolton Memorial Study Course, are held over 5 days (usually consecutive Fridays in November), again with each day comprising 3 lectures. (Please click here to see a tribute to Jean Bolton)

A zoom option will be made available for both sets of Study Days. 

Please watch this page for information or send an email to info@theartssocietyhantsiowarea.org.uk to ask to be placed on our mailing list.

The Spring Study Course 2024

Nature in Art

Bookings are now open

Nature has always played an important place in art and having been included in man's paintings whether as the main focus of a picture or to convey depth or perspective.   Depictions of nature can also be symbolic of the deeper meaning of a work of art.  Nature provides a central theme in the work of many artists.     

Detailed synopses of each day are further down the page.

Clare Ford-Wille  - Friday 9th February 2024

The History of Trees in Art from Giotto to Klimt

Steven Desmond - Thursday 21st March 2024

An Image of Liberty:  the Origins of the English Landscape Garden

Hilary Guise - Thursday 18th April 2024

Flowers in the Art of the Great Masters

Venue: 

St. Peter's Pastoral Centre, St. Peter's Church, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8RY                

And online via Zoom

Recordings will be available for 7 days after each event for online subscribers.

Attendees will be treated to 3 superb sessions each day delivered by our lecturers on the theme Nature in Art.  

Study Day Fees

The cost is £35 per day in person to include morning coffee and a light lunch.

A Zoom option is available at £13 per day

How to book

Bookings can be made via Ticket Taylor, our preferred method of booking.  The link is in large font below.  There is no additional charge to subscribers via Ticket Tailor which conveniently accepts credit and debit cards.

Click this link for bookings via Ticket Tailor

If you experience trouble booking via Ticket Taylor please click below for our old-fashioned booking form which contains details of how to book and pay by online bank transfer or cheque. It also contains the organiser’s contact details for queries.

Booking form in Word format

Booking form in PDF format

Hilary Guise - Thursday 18th April 2024

Venue - St. Peter's Pastoral Centre, St. Peter's Church, Jewry Street, Winchester SO23 8RY and online via Zoom

Time - 10.30am - 3.30pm

Flowers in the Art of the Great Masters

Flowers comfort with their inexhaustible variety and beauty. From ancient times, empresses and kings decorated their palaces with Secret Gardens painted on their walls. The Egyptians painted gardens ‘in the afterlife’ with lily ponds and fish. In the Middle-Ages the concept of the Secret Garden was transformed into a person, a much-revered woman. She, who is The Virgin, is the Mystic rose. The sacred geometry of the Gothic rose windows describes her character. The troubadours sang of courtly love in the Walled Garden around an over-flowing fountain.  In the golden age of the 17th century Italian fruit baskets take on an allegorical rôle in the hands of Caravaggio, while the Dutch masters immortalise many species of flowers, all buzzing with insects.  The Victorians adopted the language of flowers and Manet uses flowers to tell about the women of Paris. Van Gogh pours out his heart in his dying Sunflowers and is later treated with the poisonous foxglove. Monet’s purest joy was his garden at Giverny where he could drift away on the surface of his water lily pond.  The Secret Garden - from ancient Rome to the Medieval Walled garden The Language of flowers - from the 17th century ‘Vanitas’ to the Victorians. Flowers for Healing, Consolation and Cure – from Manet’s courtesans, & Monet’s water-lily garden to Irma Stern’s Cape flower sellers.

Three talks and a must for anyone who is interested in learning more about the exciting art of today, including women artists leading the way.

Speaker: Cindy Polemis BBC Broadcaster, art historian, independent lecturer and art guide.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH CONTEMPORARY ART?

In 1988 art students from Goldsmith’s College, led by Damien Hirst, put on an infamous exhibition called Freeze, arguably kicking off one of the most fertile and radical periods in the story of art and putting London firmly at the centre of the contemporary art world. What was their legacy and was this a golden age for British contemporary art?

LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE GIRLS

With the art scene finally giving some real recognition to both long-established and emerging female artists, Cindy looks at what’s been happening in Britain: who are the leading contemporary female artists who should be household names?  Some names will be familiar, others getting increasing recognition. Artists include Tracy Emin and her painful yet hopeful personal journey; Chantal Joffe’s haunting psychological portraits; Joy Labinjo - making black lives visible; and the extraordinary frozen moments of Cornelia Parker’s installations (photo). These are just a few of the artist we will discuss.

DO NOT ADJUST YOUR EYESIGHT

This talk explores the discombobulating world of Optical Art or Op-Art art - how artists including Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely use shapes, patterns and eye-popping colours to create artworks which literally fool our eyes.

Venue: The tiered purpose-built MAST Mayflower Studios , 144 Above Bar St, Southampton SO14 7DU

Doors open 10.00: first talk is at 10.30

Tickets  £35 plus a small booking fee to include mid-morning refreshments available through Ticketsource via www.theartssocietysouthampton.org.uk  This takes you to the Home Page of the Southampton scociety.  Refresh the page and click on the Ticket Source icon in the top left corner.

Alterrnatively, if you have a query, send an email to Ticketsourcesouthampton@gmail.com

Area events are open to everyone, whether or not they are members of The Arts Society. The Area Co-ordinator for Education organises Days of Special Interest which provide the opportunity to look at subjects in more depth than is often possible at a society lecture, encouraging discussion and a chance to explore new ways of looking at art.

The Arts Society Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area usually offers two study courses each year.  The first, in the Spring, is held in Winchester and the second in November has traditionally been held in Southampton. The Winchester Study Days are held over 3 days (usually in February, March and April), with each day comprising of 3 lectures.  The Southampton Study Days, known as the Jean Bolton Memorial Study Course, are held over 5 days (usually consecutive Fridays in November), again with each day comprising 3 lectures. (Please click here to see a tribute to Jean Bolton)

A zoom option will usually be made available. 

Please watch this page for information or send an email to info@theartssocietyhantsiowarea.org.uk to ask to be placed on our mailing list.

The Spring Study Course 2024

Nature in Art

Bookings are now open

Nature has always played an important place in art and having been included in man's paintings whether as the main focus of a picture or to convey depth or perspective.   Depictions of nature can also be symbolic of the deeper meaning of a work of art.  Nature provides a central theme in the work of many artists.     

Detailed synopses of each day are further down the page.

Clare Ford-Wille  - Friday 9th February 2024

The History of Trees in Art from Giotto to Klimt

Steven Desmond - Thursday 21st March 2024

An Image of Liberty:  the Origins of the English Landscape Garden

Hilary Guise - Thursday 18th April 2024

Flowers in the Art of the Great Masters

Venue: 

St. Peter's Pastoral Centre, St. Peter's Church, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8RY                

And online via Zoom

Recordings will be available for 7 days after each event for online subscribers.

Attendees will be treated to 3 superb sessions each day delivered by our lecturers on the theme Nature in Art.  

Study Day Fees

The cost is £35 per day in person to include morning coffee and a light lunch.

A Zoom option is available at £13 per day

How to book

Bookings can be made via Ticket Taylor, our preferred method of booking.  The link is in large font below.  There is no additional charge to subscribers via Ticket Tailor which conveniently accepts credit and debit cards.

Click this link for bookings via Ticket Tailor

If you experience trouble booking via Ticket Taylor please click below for our old-fashioned booking form which contains details of how to book and pay by online bank transfer or cheque. It also contains the organiser’s contact details for queries.

Booking form in Word format

Booking form in PDF format

Steven Desmond - Thursday 21st March 2024

Venue - St. Peter's Pastoral Centre, St. Peter's Church, Jewry Street, Winchester SO23 8RY and online via Zoom

Time - 10.30am - 3.30pm

An Image of Liberty:  the Origins of the English Landscape Garden

When Joseph Addison observed that a spacious Horizon is an Image of Liberty, he was expressing the beginnings of a collective desire to break free from the corset of the French baroque garden with its emphasis on state and parade. Landowners became increasingly interested in the idea of the garden as a political emblem, and one in which they could function not only as gentlemen farmers but also as men of taste familiar with the scenes and texts of classical antiquity. Thus, the Georgian garden, at first sight a pleasant stroll through undulating greenery, is revealed as a hotbed of ideas: the paintings of Claude Lorrain, the journeys of mythical heroes and the theories of Hogarth and Burke are drawn together to present the British landowner as the modern Roman, conferring freedom under the law on his happy tenantry. All these ideas are explored through illustrations of period gardens and artefacts compared with their sources. 

Area events are open to everyone, whether or not they are members of The Arts Society. The Area Co-ordinator for Education organises Days of Special Interest which provide the opportunity to look at subjects in more depth than is often possible at a society lecture, encouraging discussion and a chance to explore new ways of looking at art.

The Arts Society Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area usually offers two study courses each year.  The first, in the Spring, is held in Winchester and the second in November has traditionally been held in Southampton. The Winchester Study Days are held over 3 days (usually in February, March and April), with each day comprising of 3 lectures.  The Southampton Study Days, known as the Jean Bolton Memorial Study Course, are held over 5 days (usually consecutive Fridays in November), again with each day comprising 3 lectures. (Please click here to see a tribute to Jean Bolton)

A zoom option will usually be made available. 

Please watch this page for information or send an email to info@theartssocietyhantsiowarea.org.uk to ask to be placed on our mailing list.

The Spring Study Course 2024

Nature in Art

Bookings are now open

Nature has always played an important place in art and having been included in man's paintings whether as the main focus of a picture or to convey depth or perspective.   Depictions of nature can also be symbolic of the deeper meaning of a work of art.  Nature provides a central theme in the work of many artists.     

Detailed synopses of each day are further down the page.

Clare Ford-Wille  - Friday 9th February 2024

The History of Trees in Art from Giotto to Klimt

Steven Desmond - Thursday 21st March 2024

An Image of Liberty:  the Origins of the English Landscape Garden

Hilary Guise - Thursday 18th April 2024

Flowers in the Art of the Great Masters

Venue: 

St. Peter's Pastoral Centre, St. Peter's Church, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8RY                

And online via Zoom

Recordings will be available for 7 days after each event for online subscribers.

Attendees will be treated to 3 superb sessions each day delivered by our lecturers on the theme Nature in Art.  

Study Day Fees

The cost is £35 per day in person to include morning coffee and a light lunch.

A Zoom option is available at £13 per day

How to book

Bookings can be made via Ticket Taylor, our preferred method of booking.  The link is in large font below.  There is no additional charge to subscribers via Ticket Tailor which conveniently accepts credit and debit cards.

Click this link for bookings via Ticket Tailor

If you experience trouble booking via Ticket Taylor please click below for our old-fashioned booking form which contains details of how to book and pay by online bank transfer or cheque. It also contains the organiser’s contact details for queries.

Booking form in Word format

Booking form in PDF format

Clare Ford-Wille – Friday 9th February 2024

Venue - St. Peter's Pastoral Centre, St. Peter's Church, Jewry Street, Winchester SO23 8RY and online via Zoom

Time - 10.30am - 3.30pm

The History of Trees in Art from Giotto to Klimt

Lecture 1:  From Dead Trees to Living Trees in Medieval and Renaissance Art

Lecture 2:  The Tree Triumphant in 16th and 17th Century Painting 

Lecture 3:  The Diversity of the Tree in 18th and 19th Century Art

Throughout November, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Area will be holding 5 study days in Southampton on the theme of "Making The Invisible Visible"

All are welcome, including non-members.

For full details see the Area website

DO NOT USE THE BOOKING BUTTON TO THE LEFT BUT FOLLOW THE LINKS ON THE AREA WEB PAGE