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  • Alice White – Ways to Look at Painting – an artist’s perspective

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    Alice provides a painter’s perspective on famous artworks from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Rembrandt and Turner are revealed as artistic risk-takers, whose new combinations of glazes, surfaces, pigments and processes re-defined the...

  • Marie-Anne Mancio – The Only Blond in the World – Pauline BotyMarie

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    British Pop artist Pauline Boty is finally the subject of monographs, a biography and a forthcoming documentary film (Summer 2024). Known in her lifetime as a painter contemporary of Peter Blake, Hockney, Derek Boshier,...

  • James Vaux – Viking Gods and Valkyries – the art of Norse Mythology

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    When we walk into any gallery, why do we see so many depictions of the Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, but not Viking ones? This lecture explores how Norse myths and legends have...

  • JMW Turner in Kent

    The Delf Room Guildhall, Sandwich

    Cost: £7 for non members (Free to members of The Arts Society Sandwich and Sandwich Local History Society). Title: Turner and Constable - two intertwined lives. The Arts Society Sandwich in partnership with Sandwich...

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    Summer Art Exhibition 2025

    St. Mary's Arts Centre Strand Street, Sandwich

    A Celebration of Art, Creativity & Community This August, immerse yourself in a captivating showcase of artistic talent at The Summer Art Exhibition 2025. Hosted at the historic St Mary’s Art Centre in Sandwich, this three-day...

  • Amy Lin – A Village in Heaven – Stanley Spencer’s Cookham

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    Few artists are as rooted in a place as Stanley Spencer and his beloved home village of Cookham. This Thames-side village was not only his birthplace, his home for most of his life, and...

  • Denise Heywood – Legend and Lustre – Jim Thompson and Thai silk

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    Jim Thompson arrived in Bangkok as a US army officer in 1945, fell in love with it and stayed. Captivated by the beauty of Thai silk, an ancient craft in decline, he resuscitated it...

  • Sandy Burnett – Christmas in Bach’s Leipzig

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    How Bach brings the Christmas story alive in his Christmas Oratorio, written for Lutheran congregations in 1730's Leipzig

  • Balenciaga, Dior and Fath: Haute Couture’s Holy Trinity with Scott Schiavone

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    Haute Couture is an art form, inseparable from fashion, that achieved some of its finest momentsduring the years following World War II. During this period, Paris reaffirmed its position as theCapital of Fashion and...