EXTERNAL Courses
Heart Sense Groups with Louise Livingstone – Donation
HEART SENSE GROUPS WITH LOUISE LIVINGSTONE Fortnightly meditation/personal development groups: Beginning Monday 1st February 2021 Mondays, 7.30pm - 9pm, via Zoom with Louise Livingstone These fortnightly meditation/personal development groups, held via Zoom, aim to...
The Art of Seeing – with Mary Attwood – £10
Next session Thursday 12th November 2020 7-8pm (UK time) by Zoom
This new online session, The Art of Seeing, will run every month on a drop-in basis. You do not have to commit to any number of sessions.
We know how to read a book and get lost in the other world of the imagination, and we allow ourselves to be moved emotionally and viscerally by music, but have we lost our visionary capacity when it comes to looking at works of art?
Reclaiming Beauty – Sculpture: from Myron to Michelangelo – Mary Attwood
via Surrey Adult Learning, Friday 20th November, 10am - 1pm - ZOOM class.
To echo the words, 'reclaiming beauty' from Sir Roger Scruton, this course will focus on European Sculpture from Myron to Michelangelo, Rodin to Giacometti with an emphasis on the changing face and meaning of beauty.
Leonardo Da Vinci – His Life and Work – Mary Attwood
Two week course via Surrey Adult Learning, Wednesday 4th November and Wednesday 11th November, 7- 9pm - ZOOM classes.
Often heralded as the archetypal Renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci was truly one of the great polymaths of his time and arguably unrivalled since. Scientist, mathematician, inventor, painter, sculptor and writer, Leonardo had an insatiable yearning to discover what might lie behind the world of natural phenomena.
The Hidden Secrets of Masterpieces – Mary Attwood
Five Week Course via Buckinghamshire, Tuesday 3rd November - 1st December, 7.00- 8.30 pm, ONLINE classes. This five week course will be a visual feast of great works of art but when it comes to looking at art, there is so much more than meets the eye. These sessions will introduce you to a few known ‘masterpieces’ and reveal some little known facts about them.
Carravaggio – Master of Light and Dark – Mary Attwood
Surrey Adult Learning, Friday 9th October, 10am- 1pm - ZOOM class
This session will focus in detail on some of Caravaggio’s most famous works of art as well as those lesser known. These works are full of drama, movement and emotion, often concealing deeper meaning, and ask the viewer to be an engaged participant in the images he presents before us.
