August 2013
Wire Sculptures: Family Workshop presented by Let's Make Art
Saturday 3rd August 10am-12pm
With Alice Hendy
Exhibition Tour and Talk: Picturing Arcadia
Saturday 29 June
With RWA President, Janette Kerr, and Academician, Andrew Hardwick
Imperial Patronage: The Art Collection of Catherine the Great, Theodora Clarke
Saturday 3 August 11am
This lecture coincides with the exhibition of Houghton Revisited in Norfolk this summer. The magnificent art collection of Great Britain's first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, was sold to Catherine the Great, and has become one of the highlights of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. This major exhibition in the UK reassembles the collection in its spectacular original setting at Houghton Hall for the first time. The paintings in the Houghton Revisited exhibition will be hung in their original positions in the State Rooms, bringing them back to the splendour of more than two centuries ago.
Scribble and Sketch, Anouk Mercier
Saturdays:13 April*, 11 May, 8 June, 13 July, 10 August, 10.30am-1pm
Scribble and Sketch offers a morning of fun and informal drawing workshops and exercises for families, led by Bristol Drawing Club founder and artist Anouk Mercier. Suitable for all ages and abilities.