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, SandwichAlice 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, SandwichBritish 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, SandwichWhen 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, SandwichCost: £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...
Ashley Gray – The Post War Textile Visionaries of Modern Art – A Yorkshire textile renaissance-
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichAn epic tale of two extraordinary figures from the same valley in Yorkshire who were destined to change the world of fashion and design for all time. A story that takes us from the...
Summer Art Exhibition 2025
St. Mary's Arts Centre Strand Street, SandwichA 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, SandwichFew 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, SandwichJim 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...
Timothy Walker – Paradise Lost and Found – 400 years of garden design
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichThe history of garden design through the lens of the Oxford Botanic garden.
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, SandwichHow 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, SandwichHaute 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...
The British Crown Jewels: Every stone tells a story with Laurie Wickwire
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichThe British Crown Jewels are an unchanging jewelled anchor, whilst all around us changes.Delve into the history & beauty of the Crowns, Sceptre, Orb and other royal jewels used duringthe coronation ceremony. Diamond industry...