Great Ouse Arts

14/01/2023

Join us for our first The Arts Society Art Talk of the year!

📍Pavenham Village Hall MK43 7PH

🗓Tue 17th Jan
🚪19:00 Doors Open & Refreshments Served
⏰19:30 Art Talk Starts

👤 Sarah Burles Cambridge Art Tours
🎵 Kettles Yard: A Masterpiece of Curatorship

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⭐️ NEW Members Welcome!
🎟 Guests Also Welcome! No need to book, just come along and pay £8 on the door
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Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge has been described as “one of the country’s most intimate and spellbinding museums, the collection of one man and his unerring eye; restorative, homely yet life-changing”.

This man was H.S. ‘Jim’ Ede, curator, writer, collector and friend to artists. In 1957, he opened his Cambridge home to university students as “a living place where works of art could be enjoyed… unhampered by the greater austerity of the museum or public art gallery.”

His collection included works by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska which were carefully placed alongside pieces of furniture, ceramics and natural objects. His curated home remains, by and large as he left it, characterised by its unique atmosphere, fascinating juxtapositions and personal connections.

This talk will discuss the life of Jim Ede, his collecting, his vision for Kettles Yard and its enduring legacy.

Sarah Burles studied History of Art at Cambridge University before doing a master’s degree at University College London. She went on to have a career in museum and gallery education, establishing new services in three different museums before working at the Fitzwilliam Museum for many years.

Sarah is the founder of Cambridge Art Tours, which runs tours and courses in and around East Anglia. She is also a Tour Director for a travel company and has led tours to Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and America. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Sarah moved her work online, offering art history courses to audiences all over the world.

11/01/2023

Really looking forward to this talk - one of my favourite places. It is going to be good!👏

Join us for our first The Arts Society Art Talk of the year!

📍Pavenham Village Hall MK43 7PH

🗓Tue 17th Jan
🚪19:00 Doors Open & Refreshments Served
⏰19:30 Art Talk Starts

👤 Sarah Burles Cambridge Art Tours
🎵 Kettles Yard: A Masterpiece of Curatorship

➡️ theartssociety.org/events/kettles-yard-masterpiece-curatorship-0?fbclid=PAAaZKHudcBkrAfNrdGjAv3oucQfYB4L0C08OMkGlRoxFoVDPRvGVstKqiJkw

⭐️ NEW Members Welcome!
🎟 Guests Also Welcome! No need to book, just come along and pay £8 on the door
📧 [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you there!

Image:
1928 (cornish port),
Ben Nicholson
Painting [BN 5]
Kettle’s Yard
Oil on card
215 x 350 mm
Copyright: Angela Verren Taunt

Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge has been described as “one of the country’s most intimate and spellbinding museums, the collection of one man and his unerring eye; restorative, homely yet life-changing”.

This man was H.S. ‘Jim’ Ede, curator, writer, collector and friend to artists. In 1957, he opened his Cambridge home to university students as “a living place where works of art could be enjoyed… unhampered by the greater austerity of the museum or public art gallery.”

His collection included works by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska which were carefully placed alongside pieces of furniture, ceramics and natural objects. His curated home remains, by and large as he left it, characterised by its unique atmosphere, fascinating juxtapositions and personal connections.

This talk will discuss the life of Jim Ede, his collecting, his vision for Kettles Yard and its enduring legacy.

Sarah Burles studied History of Art at Cambridge University before doing a master’s degree at University College London. She went on to have a career in museum and gallery education, establishing new services in three different museums before working at the Fitzwilliam Museum for many years.

Sarah is the founder of Cambridge Art Tours, which runs tours and courses in and around East Anglia. She is also a Tour Director for a travel company and has led tours to Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and America. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Sarah moved her work online, offering art history courses to audiences all over the world.

11/01/2023

Join us for our first The Arts Society Art Talk of the year!

📍Pavenham Village Hall MK43 7PH

🗓Tue 17th Jan
🚪19:00 Doors Open & Refreshments Served
⏰19:30 Art Talk Starts

👤 Sarah Burles Cambridge Art Tours
🎵 Kettles Yard: A Masterpiece of Curatorship

➡️ theartssociety.org/events/kettles-yard-masterpiece-curatorship-0?fbclid=PAAaZKHudcBkrAfNrdGjAv3oucQfYB4L0C08OMkGlRoxFoVDPRvGVstKqiJkw

⭐️ NEW Members Welcome!
🎟 Guests Also Welcome! No need to book, just come along and pay £8 on the door
📧 [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you there!

Image:
1928 (cornish port),
Ben Nicholson
Painting [BN 5]
Kettle’s Yard
Oil on card
215 x 350 mm
Copyright: Angela Verren Taunt

Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge has been described as “one of the country’s most intimate and spellbinding museums, the collection of one man and his unerring eye; restorative, homely yet life-changing”.

This man was H.S. ‘Jim’ Ede, curator, writer, collector and friend to artists. In 1957, he opened his Cambridge home to university students as “a living place where works of art could be enjoyed… unhampered by the greater austerity of the museum or public art gallery.”

His collection included works by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska which were carefully placed alongside pieces of furniture, ceramics and natural objects. His curated home remains, by and large as he left it, characterised by its unique atmosphere, fascinating juxtapositions and personal connections.

This talk will discuss the life of Jim Ede, his collecting, his vision for Kettles Yard and its enduring legacy.

Sarah Burles studied History of Art at Cambridge University before doing a master’s degree at University College London. She went on to have a career in museum and gallery education, establishing new services in three different museums before working at the Fitzwilliam Museum for many years.

Sarah is the founder of Cambridge Art Tours, which runs tours and courses in and around East Anglia. She is also a Tour Director for a travel company and has led tours to Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and America. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Sarah moved her work online, offering art history courses to audiences all over the world.

08/11/2022

Join us at our new venue for our November The Arts Society talk, it’s our last one of the year!

📍Pavenham Village Hall and MK43 7PH

🗓Tue 15th Nov
🚪19:00 Doors Open & Refreshments Served
⏰19:30 Art Talk Starts

👤 Sophie Matthews from GreenMatthews
🎵 Music in Art

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Image: Boy Playing a Recorder
Hendrick ter Brugghen
1621
Oil on Canvas
Staatliche Museen, Kasse

So many of our historical references for musical instruments can be found in works of art. Not only can these windows into the past show us what the instruments looked like but also the social context in which they would have been played.

Music and different instruments also play a strong role within symbolism in art. In this talk Sophie explores the instruments in selected works and then gives live demonstrations on replicas of the instruments depicted.

Sophie is a musician well-known for her prowess on the English border bagpipes and has become one of the foremost players of the instrument in the UK.

She also plays a variety of early woodwind instruments such as shawm, rauschpfeife, crumhorm and recorder.

She’s also one of a handful of British players of the baroque musette, an 18th century French bagpipe similar to the Northumbrian smallpipes.

When not touring with GreenMatthews Sophie also makes instruments (she made her own baroque oboe) and works with respected luthier Tony Millyard on his flutes. Sophie is self-taught on all of her instruments.

16/10/2022

Join us at our new venue!

📍Pavenham Village Hall and MK43 7PH

For our next The Arts Society talk

🗓Tue 18th Oct
🚪19:00 Doors Open & Refreshments Served
⏰19:30 Art Talk Starts

👤Leslie Primo Artfirstprimo
🖼 Foreigners in London 1520-1677; The Artists who changed the course of British Art

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🎟 Guests Also Welcome! No need to book, just come along and pay £8 on the door
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We look forward to seeing you there!

Image: Charles I (1600-49)
Sir Anthony Van Dyck
Date created: 1635 - Before June 1636
Oil on canvas
84.4 x 99.4 cm
RCIN 404420
Rights: Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / (c) HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012
Provenance: Acquired by George IV in 1822

Why were foreigner painters preferred by the aristocracy in London to native-born English painters, why did foreigners come in the first place, what was their motivation, and what was the impact of foreigners in London on English art and art practise?

This talk will look at the various formats and uses of art, tracing foreign artists from the Tudor period through to the Renaissance and Baroque, looking at their origins and how they came to work in England.

It will examine the contributions of artists such as Holbein, Gerrit van Honthorst, Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, Lucas and Susanna Horenbout, Isaac Oliver, Paulus van Somer, van Dyck, Peter Lely, and Rubens.

This talk will also look at how these artists influenced the British School of painting and assess their legacy.

Leslie Primo holds a BA in Art History and an MA in Renaissance Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London. Was Visiting Lecturer in Art History at the University of Reading in 2005 and 2007, gave lectures and guided tours, plus special talks, at both the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery for 18 years. Currently he lectures at the City Literary Institute, Imperial College, London, and has presented a series of talks at the National Maritime Museum and the Courtauld Institute.

11/10/2022

Join us at our new venue!

📍Pavenham Village Hall and MK43 7PH

For our next The Arts Society talk

🗓Tue 18th Oct
🚪19:00 Doors Open & Refreshments Served
⏰19:30 Art Talk Starts

👤Leslie Primo Artfirstprimo
🖼 Foreigners in London 1520-1677; The Artists who changed the course of British Art

➡️ theartssociety.org/events/foreigners-london-1520-1677-artists-who-changed-course-british-art-5

⭐️ NEW Members Welcome!
🎟 Guests Also Welcome! No need to book, just come along and pay £8 on the door
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We look forward to seeing you there!

Image: Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
1606
w990 x h1525 cm
Oil on Canvas
Samuel H. Kress Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Why were foreigner painters preferred by the aristocracy in London to native-born English painters, why did foreigners come in the first place, what was their motivation, and what was the impact of foreigners in London on English art and art practise?

This talk will look at the various formats and uses of art, tracing foreign artists from the Tudor period through to the Renaissance and Baroque, looking at their origins and how they came to work in England.

It will examine the contributions of artists such as Holbein, Gerrit van Honthorst, Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, Lucas and Susanna Horenbout, Isaac Oliver, Paulus van Somer, van Dyck, Peter Lely, and Rubens.

This talk will also look at how these artists influenced the British School of painting and assess their legacy.

Leslie Primo holds a BA in Art History and an MA in Renaissance Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London. Was Visiting Lecturer in Art History at the University of Reading in 2005 and 2007, gave lectures and guided tours, plus special talks, at both the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery for 18 years. Currently he lectures at the City Literary Institute, Imperial College, London, and has presented a series of talks at the National Maritime Museum and the Courtauld Institute.

19/09/2022

Join us at our new venue!

📍Pavenham Village Hall MK43 7PH

For our first The Arts Society talk of our 22/23 programme

🗓Tue 20th Sept
🚪19:00 Doors Open & Refreshments Served
⏰19:30 Art Talk Starts

👤 Jacqueline Cockburn
🖼 Van Gogh and Gaugin: Two of Our Favourite Artists?

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⭐️ NEW Members Welcome!
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Image: Bedroom in Arles
Vincent Van Gogh
Third version
end September 1889
Oil on canvas
57.5 x 74 cm
Musée d'Orsay
Paris

This talk will show the development of the career of both artists until their final cohabitation in 1888 in Arles

It will chart their time together and consider events which follow.

It will compare several works and explore letters and diaries to shed meaning on their shared experience and turbulent natures.

Jacqueline is a course director and lecturer at the V&A and also lectures at The Royal Academy, The Art Fund, The London Art History Society and has toured New Zealand and Australia for The Arts Society.

Her specialist field is Spanish Art, but she also lectures on European Art 1790-1950.

Her most recent publication is A Taste of Art, London (Unicorn Press 2019).

12/09/2022

🏠We Have Moved!
Join us at our new venue!

📍Pavenham Village Hall MK43 7PH

Our Next The Arts Society talk is the start of our 22/23 programme

🗓Tue 20th Sept
🚪19:00 Doors Open
⏰19:30 Talk Starts

👤 Jacqueline Cockburn
🖼 Van Gogh and Gaugin: Two of Our Favourite Artists?

➡️ theartssociety.org/events/van-gogh-and-gaugin-two-our-favourite-artists

⭐️ NEW Members Welcome!
🎟 Guests Also Welcome: £8 on the door
📧 [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you there!