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​Thursday 12th June 2025 at 2.00 pm
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The Spirit of Place: Artists and the British Landscape
Lecturer Susan Owens

Ailsa Craig by William Bell Scott
Artists have depicted our landscape for over a thousand years. Some have transformed it in their imaginations, while others have depicted it under changeable British skies. We tell the story of our landscape art from its origins in manuscripts and maps, the Arcadian views of Gainsborough and others, Constable's close observation of nature, watercolourists of the Golden age, Millais, the Pre-Raphaelites, and into the C20th with Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious, steeped in the landscape tradition but with an entirely modern angle too.

The Weald of Kent by Samuel Palmer
​​Everyone warmly welcome - members free, visitors £7.
Refreshments available at the end of the lecture.
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