Past Discovery Days
DISCOVERY DAY
The Importance of Living Up to One's Teapot!
Lecturer: Lars Tharp
Wednesday 12th March 2025 at 10.00am
Budleigh Salterton Public Hall, Station Road,
Budleigh Salterton EX9 6RJ
Two talks by Lars Tharp on ceramic pottery followed by lunch and an opportunity for valuations.
Members £35.00, non members £45.00
Details from Jan Sokell, jan@lilactree.co.uk or 01395 519028
Liz Cummings, elizabeth.cummings1@btopenworld.com or 01395 442347
Or Tourist Information Centre, Budleigh Salterton, info@visitbudleigh.com or 01395 445275
DISCOVERY DAY
Why Paris?
Thursday 14th November 2024 10:00 to 15:00
Budleigh Salterton Football Club, Greenway Lane, Budleigh Salterton EX9 6SG
A unique day exploring how and why the city of Paris has acted as both a magnet and a cauldron of talent for aspiring artists and designers. Join Mary Alexander to discover more about the key events and personalities shaping the 'City of Light' during the first half of the twentieth century. We will venture beyond the 'mainstream' to identify the creative individuals who shaped the Parisian concept of 'modernity' (including the many female innovators described as 'wife/ sister/ muse/ assistant of ....!)
The international exhibitions of 1900, 1925 and 1937 will be used as focal points in each of the sessions to identify shifting patterns of emphasis and inter-connections between various arts and design media, including interiors, graphics, fashion, photography. Whether strolling along the new boulevards, calling into a favourite cafe, nightclub or gallery, the descriptions of Zola, Stein, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald will accompany the imagery and recreate the sense of 'being there'. In particular, the significant role of Parisian couture and fashion within French culture will be examined as a response to the rise of German industrial and military ambitions.
Session One: The Belle Époque: the City as Spectacle
Session Two: 1920s - Partying into a new Future
Session Three: The 1937 Paris Exposition, Occupation and Defiance
Lecturer: Mary Alexander
Mary will be bringing a selection of historic artefacts from her personal vintage postcard collection, advertisements, magazine covers, fashion plates, and official exhibition catalogues (1925 and 1937) for you to enjoy.
DISCOVERY DAY
Thursday 29th February 2024
Budleigh Salterton Football Club
Coffee
Lecture 1
Part 1: Principles of Impressionism
Part 2: Impressionism in Britain
Lecture 2
Impressionism in America
Lunch
Lecture 3
World Wide Impressionism
Lecturer: Julian Halsby
Julian Halsby studied History of Art at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He joined the staff of Croydon College of Art lecturing in the History of Art and Design and rose to become Senior Lecturer and Head of the Conservation Department.
Julian was elected to the RBA in 1994, to the International Association of Art Critics in 1996, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1997 and to the Critics Circle in 2006.
DISCOVERY DAY
Elizabeth to Elizabeth: Four Centuries of British Art
Thursday 30th March 2023
When Elizabeth I came to the throne, England was an artistic backwater when compared to the rest of Europe. In the turbulent centuries which followed, with Civil War, Industrial Revolution, the rise of Empire and two World Wars, British art developed and changed until, by the end of the reign of Elizabeth II, it is now prominent in the international avant-garde.
Lecturer: Valerie Woodgate
Thursday 2nd April 2020 from 10:00am
The Lion of the Sea -
The Art of Venice
With Douglas Skeggs
For three hundred years, Venice was the most powerful city-state in the Mediterranean, and much of its wealth was put towards ornamenting itself with works of art. Then when the Republic collapsed and the city fell into decay, it became a treasure house for artistic imagination and painters from all over Europe came to Venice to paint its quiet backwaters, shadowed doorways, sunlit reflections and the city was reborn as a romantic vision. The Discovery Day looks into the artists who have lived and worked in Venice, their styles, techniques and how each has added their own unique contribution to the artistic legend of the city.
Cost to be confirmed.
Venue: East Budleigh Village Hall, East Budleigh, Devon EX9 7DU
Thursday 10th October 2019 from 10:00am
New York, New York
The subject is NEW YORK, NEW YORK, a social and architectural discovery, exploring “The Big Apple” from its earliest settlers, onwards via the immigrants passing through Ellis Island - and its architecture from brownstones to skyscrapers , museums etc.
Our lecturer is Andrew Davies MA (Hons) (Oxon). He read law at Oxford but his vast knowledge is varied and extensive. He is Extra Mural Tutor at London, Essex and The Open Universities, author of nine books, a frequent contributor to radio and television and has lectured all over the world. He is a very popular visitor to BUDFAS.
The Discovery Day starts at 10:00am with coffee. There will be three lecture sessions starting at 10:30am with a break at 11:30am and lunch at 12:45pm. The day will finish at 3:00pm.
Cost: £27.50 per person.
Venue: East Budleigh Village Hall,
High Street, East Budleigh EX9 7DU.
Download a registration form here or contact Jan Sokell on 01395 519028 or email jan@lilactree.co.uk