Available Talks/Walks

We are giving the following talks/walks at The Institute Hampstead Garden Suburb. Details in their Prospectus.

To book Phone 020-8829-4141 and or 020-8340-7178 ask for Maryanne or David

The format is; 1.Morning: presentation and discussion. 2.Afternoon guided walk or gallery visit. although the two events need not be on the same day..

Rembrandt and the Dutch Republic.

David Lay examines the unique art spawned during this period, especialy the work of the greatest of painters: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.

British Modernists

A look at the period between the two world wars in Britain This era produced a remarkable flowering of modernist painting, scultpure and architecture, particularly in Hampstead.

This Green and Pleasant Land The English landscape painting tradition and patriotism

John Constable and Hampstead

We look at the work Constable produced in Hampstead, where he spent much of his adult life. We also examine the effect that his Hampstead cloud studies had on his Suffolk landscapes. This talk has been given at The Arts Depot, North Finchley and several times for English Heritage at Kenwood House, Hampstead where it proved very popular.

 

 

Blake's Jerusalem

Dr Maryanne Grant-Traylen, an authority on William Blake looks at the real meaning of Blake's Jerusalem.

Inter War Hampstead

There was a great upsurge of creative activity in the area in the 1920,s and 30’s further fuelled by the arrival in the 1930’s of refugee artists fleeing European fascism. We look at the modernist architecture dotted around the area and also touch on the lives of the artists and writers of the period: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Herbert Read, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, D.H. Lawrence and others.

 

Fitzrovia, "a region of the mind".

The haunt of artists, actors and writers from the 18th century to the1950’s, we examine this English Bohemia and the characters who peopled it over the last 200 years. From Mrs. Siddons to Hylda Baker, Fanny Burney to Dylan Thomas, John Linnell to Nina Hamnett.

Coleridge at Highgate

In 1816 Coleridge came to tea with a Dr Gillman in Highgate and stayed for 18 years. The area is rich with reminders of his life here under the auspices of Gillman and his family. From the summit of Highgate overlooking Nightingale Valley, landscape of Kubla Khan itself, Coleridge was given a new lease of life. And it was from here, his final resting place, that he witnessed the funeral procession of Lord Byron.

The Romantics of Hampstead

The heights of Hampstead have always attracted writers and artists but none more so than those of the Romantic movement. We follow in the footsteps of Keats, William Blake and others. From The Flask to The Old Bull & Bush.