Art Appreciation

Updated 20 July 2022

This group visits galleries and exhibitions – with about one outing per month in normal times. Here’s our program for 2022:

Past activities:

2021 – the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford,

2021 – Turner’s Modern World at the Tate Britain

2021 – A 4 day trip to Birmingham, England’s second city, to tour the galleries and museums.

March 2021 – an online video and discussion about street artist Banksy

March 2021 – an online video and discussion about street artist Banksy

August 2020 – a visit to the outdoor exhibition at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer.

February 2020 – Guided Tour of Two Temple Place and Exhibition (see photo)

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January 2020 – Gauguin (National Gallery) and Pre Raphaelite Sisters (National Portrait Gallery)

November 2019 – coach trip to Winchester – Orla Kiely at the Discovery Centre

November 2019 – Windsor Arts Fair

September 2019 – Leonardo da Vinci at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace

August 2019 – Stanley Kubrick at the Design Museum

July 2019 – Pitzanger Manor House followed by Kew Gardens

June 2019 – An Earthly Paradise: William Morris at River & Rowing Museum, Henley

May 2019 – Van Gogh and Britain at the Tate Britain

March 2019 – John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing at 2 Temple Place. (Free admission)

April 2019- Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, Oxford

January 2019 – The Soane Museum

November 2018- Windsor Contemporary Arts Show

November 2018 – Edward Burne-Jones at the Tate Britain

October 2018 – The Stanley Spencer gallery in Cookham

September 2018 BP Portrait Award.

July 2018 – Victoria & Albert –  Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

June 2018 – Tate Modern – Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy

May 2018  – Kew Gardens – Marianne North and Shirley Sherwood.

April 2018 – Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain at Two Temple Place

April 2018 – Spring Holiday in Liverpool

March 2018 – Charles 1: King and Collector at the Royal Academy

January 2018 – a trip to visit the Victoria & Albert Museum

November 2017 – Windsor Contemporary Art Fair

October 2017 – Reading Museum

June 2017 – Shell Heritage Collection at Mottisfont Abbey

May 2017 – Hockney at Tate Britain

April 2017 – Holiday in St Ives

April 2017 – The Wallace Collection

March 2017 – Kipling and Underwear – Victoria & Albert Museum

January 2017 – The Design Museum, Kensington

November 2016 – Windsor Contemporary Art Fair at Royal Windsor Racecourse.

October 2016 – Autumn Art Sculpture Exhibition at The Savill Garden

October 2016 – Georgia o’Keeffe at the Tate Modern

September2016 – visit to Taplow Court

August 2016 – a 4 day coach trip to France, visiting Paris galleries and Monet’s famous garden in Giverny

July 2016 – Art in Action at Waterperry Gardens, near Oxford

May 2016 – Leighton House Museum to view their exhibition entitled “Pre-Raphaelites on Paper – Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection.”

March 2016 – “The Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse” at the Royal Academy in Piccadilly.

February 2016 – Stanley Spencer Gallery , Cookham.