Exhibition Visits and Art Tours

We run a series of Art History and Art related visits and Tours which are often connected to the themes in our workshops, lectures and study days. These include European destinations and visits to exhibitions throughout the UK. Visits to major exhibitions in London feature largely in our day tours.

Tours to European cities with important art collections including Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Florence, Venice, Rome, Madrid and Barcelona.

Pickup point for Gallery visits: The coach will depart from Upton House NT car park, where there is ample free parking to leave your car until you return.

Please see Booking page for details about payment, or press Buy Now to pay by credit or debit card.

Lucian Freud

National Portrait Gallery.

Thursday 24 May 2012

Details to follow

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

and

Keith Vaughan:

A Centenary Celebration

Thursday 7th June 2012

Pallant House Gallery boasts one of the best collections of Modern British art in the UK. donated over the past thirty years, the collections tell the story of a number of individuals, all passionate collectors of art who generously donated their lifetimes’ labours to the Gallery for the benefit of the public.

Since Dean Walter Hussey's gift of works by Henry Moore, John Piper, Ceri Richards, Graham Sutherland and others that led to its inception in 1982, the Gallery has attracted the interest of other benefactors, most notably Charles Kearley and now Sir Colin St John Wilson. The core of this ‘collection of collections' is Modern British art but other artworks figure such at the Bow Porcelain of the Geoffrey Freeman Collection. Each group of works has been formed by different impulses and lends its own character to the collection, making the experience of Pallant House Gallery engaging, insightful and unique.

Some details

We will arrive at Pallant House Gallery for tea and biscuits at 11.30 am, followed by an hours guided tour of both the old House and the new extension. Your are then free to explore this fabulous collection, with the addition of the temporary exhibition of the work of Keith Vaughan.

The exhibition marks the centenary of the birth of the British painter Keith Vaughan, born in Selsey, West Sussex. Largely self-taught, Vaughan formed friendships with the painters Graham Sutherland and John Minton during the war, becoming a leading ‘Neo-Romantic' artist in the 1940s and 1950s. Concentrating on the male nude in the landscape, Vaughan developed an increasingly abstract painterly style in later years. The exhibition features both his drawings and studies and major paintings from across his career.

Further information:

The coach will leave Upton House car park at 8.00 getting into Chichester at approximately 11.30am. for tea and biscuits( included in the price), and a one hour guided tour. The Gallery has an excellent restaurant for lunch (not included in the price) you may contact the restaurant through the web site below to book a table. You can always explore Chichester and its Cathedral in the afternoon if you have time! The coach will leave Chichester around 5.00. returning to Banbury, Upton House Car Park.at approximately 7.30.

Please get in touch with any questions or queries

www.pallant.org.uk/

Pallant House Gallery 7th June 2012 Chichester

one person £38.00 GBP two person £76.00 GBP

Perry Green

The Henry Moore Foundation

Spring date coming soon

Bath

Tour and Gallery Visit

Summer 2012

Cambridge

Kettles Yard and The Fitzwilliam Museum

Postponed until 2013 due to building works at Kettles Yard.

Between 1958 and 1973 Kettle's Yard was the home of Jim and Helen Ede. In the 1920s and 30s Jim had been a curator at the Tate Gallery in London. Thanks to his friendships with artists and other like-minded people, over the years he gathered a remarkable collection, including paintings by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, David Jones and Joan Miro, as well as sculptures by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.

At Kettle's Yard Jim carefully positioned these artworks alongside furniture, glass, ceramics and natural objects, with the aim of creating a harmonic whole. His vision was of a place that should not be

"an art gallery or museum, nor ... simply a collection of works of art reflecting my taste or the taste of a given period. It is, rather, a continuing way of life from these last fifty years, in which stray objects, stones, glass, pictures, sculpture, in light and in space, have been used to make manifest the underlying stability."

Kettle's Yard was originally conceived with students in mind. Jim kept 'open house' every afternoon of term, personally guiding visitors around his home. In 1966 he gave the house and its contents to the University of Cambridge. In 1970, three years before the Edes retired to Edinburgh, the house was extended, and an exhibition gallery added.

Further information:

The coach will leave Upton House car park at 8.00am getting into Cambridge at approximately 10.00am. The visit will begin with a talk given by one of the curators of Kettles Yard giving us an overview of the collection, and how it came about. We have two hours of the house to ourselves offering a fantastic opportunity to get to know one of the exciting and trurally special places in England.

If you know Kettles yard then this will offer the opportunity to refresh your interest , if you have never visited Kettles Yard this is a must. In April sees the majority of Kettles Yard closing for the year for refurbishment and the building of an educational facility.

Following our visit to Kettle Yard in the morning, for the rest of the day you are free to explore Cambridge, have a leisurely lunch (not included), and make way to the Fitzwilliam Museum if you so wish, a stroll away through the beautiful city of Cambridge and its many colleges ( a map will be provided).

Fitzwilliam Museum

The Fitzwilliam Museum houses world-class collections of works of art and antiquities spanning centuries and civilisations.

Highlights include masterpieces of painting from the fourteenth century to the present day, drawings and prints, sculpture, furniture, armour, pottery and glass, oriental art, illuminated manuscripts, coins and medals and antiquities from Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome and Cyprus.

Please get in touch with any questions or queries

www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/

www.kettlesyard.co.uk/

St Ives Cornwall

Spring 2013

An exclusive 5 night trip to St Ives Tate Gallery and the Barbara Hepworth Museum and much more.

Your guides will be Karen and Brian Clarke, Karen was brought up in St Ives and has a unique perspective on the Penwith Peninsular. Brian Has taken numerous groups of student to st Ives to study the cultural importance of St Ives, its art and its artists.

This fantastic introduction to St Ives will include meeting artists and poets whose knowledge and enthusiasm will delight and sometimes beguile you.

The visit will take in the surrounding landscape including a visit to Penzance and Newlyn taking into account both historical and contemporary art.

Included in the Tour will be time for you to join in practical art workshop if you so wish.

Staying at one of St Ives best hotels and traveling on a luxury coach, this trip will be without doubt a life changing experience. If your interested in art/life this is the trip for you.

Dates and Itinerary will follow shortly.

Paris

2013

Venice & Florence

2014

Berlin

2013

Previous visits

David Hockney
Logs
Garrowby Hill

David Hockney RA:

A Bigger Picture

Thursday 16 February 2012

In January 2012 the Royal Academy of Arts will showcase the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA. Featuring vivid paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire landscape, these large-scale works have been created especially for the galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts.

'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture' will span a 50 year period to demonstrate Hockney’s long exploration and fascination with the depiction of landscape.

The exhibition will include a display of his iPad drawings and a series of new films produced using 18 cameras, which will be displayed on multiple screens and which will provide a spellbinding visual journey through the eyes of David Hockney.

Leonardo Da Vinci

15 December 2011