Benenden Village Hall. Tuesday 17th May 10.30 am – 3 pm coffee served from 10 am
Price £25 including coffee and a light lunch. Glass of wine by donation.
Lecturer: Pamela Campbell-Johnston
 

Come and explore the Art Deco Movement. How did it start and where – what was happening at the same time? Art Deco artefacts include furniture, architecture, jewellery, objects d’art ….. The day will be split into two sessions with a break in each session for questions. The morning will focus on and have a UK slant but will touch on Europe, Miami USA and Napier New Zealand. Then we will learn about the painter Tamara de Lempicka. After lunch we will look at the art of 1935 set against a backdrop of George Vs Silver Jubilee and we will end with the life and work of textile designer Marion Dorn.
 

Pamela Campbell-Johnston is an arts consultant and lecturer. She has an MA(Hons) from St Andrews University. She lectures to undergraduates, adult groups and Friends of the Royal Academy of Arts.

If you would like to join us on this captivating day, please download and complete the booking form and return it to:
Sheenagh Nicholson
01580 714035    
email: forgefarmhouse@btinternet.com

Tuesday, 2 November 2021: 10.30 am – 3.00 pm, coffee served from 10.00am

Price: £25 including coffee and a light lunch. Glass of wine by donation.

It is good to be able to welcome you to a get together in Benenden Village Hall to explore Berlin which is one of the most vibrant cities. Since 1989 it has been a building site but now the city has been transformed with exciting new buildings and the restoration of older ones, such as the Reichstag and other outstanding 18th and 19th century architecture lining the beautiful Unter den Linden. Berlin possesses extraordinary collections of Old Master paintings, Classical and Egyptian sculpture and superb collections of 19th and 20th century German art. Not far from central Berlin is the sumptuous palace of Charlottenburg and in nearby Potsdam, Frederick the Great’s summer palace of Sanssouci. Come and explore Berlin’s treasures in three lectures.

• Lecture 1 The architecture of Berlin and its Surroundings
• Lecture 2 Berlin’s collections Part 1 from Nefertiti to Rembrandt
• Lecture 3 Berlin’s collections Part 2 Watteau to Kathe Kollwitz

Clare Ford-Wille has an Honours Degree in History of Art from Birkbeck College. She is an associate lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London and lectures regularly for the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Wallace Collection, Morley College, the London Art History Society as well as for The Arts Society. Clare, in normal times, takes tours to Europe, the USA and Armenia throughout the summer months.

If you would like to join us on this interesting day, please download and complete the booking form and return it to:
Sheenagh Nicholson
01580 714035    
email: forgefarmhouse@btinternet.com

This Special Interest day had to be CANCELLED due to the Coronavirus pandemic

The day will focus on English and European furniture of the period 1660 to 1760 and will be divided into three sessions. Firstly from joiner to cabinet making, secondly East meets West from Baroque to Rococo and finally Georgian furniture.

This Special Interest day had to be CANCELLED due to the Coronavirus pandemic

THE ARTS SOCIETY HIGH WEALD DAY OF SPECIAL INTEREST
At Benenden Village Hall
MID EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH ROCOCO SILVER
10.30 – 3pm Coffee served from 10am; 
Price £25 including coffee and light lunch; glass of wine by donation

This Day of Special Interest will be an entertaining and informative talk on Rococo Silver. We will have the opportunity to handle and examine the actual pieces under discussion. We will go on a journey to uncover the original owners and some of the life stories associated with them, and see candlesticks owned by a founding governor of Thomas Coram Foundling Hospital in 1739. These candlesticks are being used by the speaker to raise money for charity.

The Huguenot influence on this most decorative period is discussed, together with an interpretation of the engraved heraldry of the items. New silversmithing techniques and methods of manufacture are explained, as well as the social context of the coffee culture of the time and the gambling that led to pieces changing hands.

Ralph Hoyle was a schoolboy member of the Wine Label Circle, a society devoted to the study of silver decanter labels and went on to be its President. He is a long-standing member of the Silver Society. He has given talks to the Art Fund, Sheffield Assay Office, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Historic Houses and small charity raising events.

The Nude  by Lydia Bauman

Medieval Life in Art and Illumination by Kenneth Parker

Royal Progresses of the Tudor and Stuart Monarchs 1485 -1714 by Roger Mitchell

How to look after your Antique Furniture by Christopher Chanter

Art for the Modern Age; Painting in nineteenth-century France by Dr Lois Oliver.

Mozart:  the  Operatic Genius by Peter Medhurst

The Glories of English Watercolours by Ann Clements