Past Discovery Days
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
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.