Visual Arts
The Art of Seeing – Vision and Ekphrasis – Thursday 28th September 2023 – 7-8pm UK time via Zoom with Mary Attwood
The Art of Seeing - Vision and Ekphrasis with Mary Attwood Thursday 28th September 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 7-8pm UK ti “Free-heartedness, and graciousness, and undisturbed trust, and requited love, and the sight of the peace of others, and the...
The Art of Seeing – the Enchantment of Nature – Thursday 24th August 2023 – 7-8pm UK time with Mary Attwood
The Art of Seeing - the Enchantment of Nature with Mary Attwood Thursday 24th August 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 7-8pm UK ti “I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: I warm’d both hands before the...
Monet – his life and work at Giverny – 2 week course with Mary Attwood – 22nd & 29th September 2023
Monet - his life and work at Giverny a two week course with Mary Attwood Fridays: 22nd & 29th September 2023(10am-12pm UK Time) £40 For those who cannot attend live, there will be a recording available after each session has taken place. ABOUT THE COURSE: ...
Re-turning to the Imagination – Blake, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britain, Saturday 7th October 2023, 10am – 2pm with Mary Attwood
Re-turning to the Imagination - Blake, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britain, London with Mary Attwood Saturday 7th October 202310am-2pm £40 This is an in-person visit to Tate Britain in London ABOUT THE VISIT: “To see the world in a grain of sand And...
The Art of Seeing – the contemplation of Beauty – with Mary Attwood, Thursday 20th July 2023, 7-8pm UK time
The Art of Seeing - the contemplation of Beauty with Mary Attwood Thursday 20th July 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 7-8pm UK ti "At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked educated people to describe the aim of poetry, art or music, they...
Awakening Beauty – a 2 wk course on Beauty in Art, Mondays 19th and 26th June 2023, 10am-12pm UK time with Mary Attwood
Awakening Beauty A two week course on Beauty in Art With Mary Attwood Monday 19th June & Monday 26th June 10am – 12pm UK time via Zoom £40 “Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring,...
Craft as an Expression of Perennial Philosophy, Rooted in the Alchemical Tradition with David Cranswick PhD – Tuesday 20th June 2023 – 6:30-8:00pm UK time – via Zoom – £10
Craft as an Expression of Perennial Philosophy, Rooted in the Alchemical Tradition with David Cranswick, PhD Tuesday 20th June 2023 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm (UK Time) via Zoom - £10This talk will cover the role of traditional craft training and how traditionally craft...
The Art of Seeing – awakening the psyche through Jung’s Active Imagination – Thursday 25th May 2023 7-8pm UK time with Mary Attwood
The Art of Seeing - awakening the psyche through Jung's Active Imagination with Mary Attwood Thursday 25th May 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 7-8pm UK ti “Every good idea and all creative work are the offspring of the imagination…The debt we owe...
Seeing the World Anew: The Emergence of Landscape in Art With Mary Attwood Three week Summer course Mondays 8th, 15th and 22nd August 2022, 10am- 1pm UK time
Gainsborough, Constable, Turner Three week Summer course With Mary Attwood Mondays 8th, 15th & 22nd August 2022 10am – 1pm, via Zoom On looking at them, we find tears in our eyesand know not what brings them.John...
The Art of Seeing – Heraclitus and the Harmony of Tensions – With Mary Attwood – 7-8pm UK time- Thursday 24th Nov 2022 – £10 via Zoom
The Art of Seeing Heraclitus and the Harmony of Tensions Thursday 24th November 2022 7-8pm UK time via Zoom with Mary Attwood £10 "The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like the lyre and bow” Heraclitus As a pre-Socratic philosopher, Heraclitus is often...
Gallery visit – Seeing the World Anew: the emergence of landscape in Art – with Mary Attwood – Saturday 3rd December 2022
Seeing the World Anew: the emergence of landscape in Art at the National Gallery, London With Mary Attwood Saturday 3rd December 2022, 10:00am - 2:00pm “The eye must not rest on the appearances of nature itself, or on the surface qualities of the work of art, but see...
The Art of Seeing – the sacredness of the Christian Mythos- with Mary Attwood – Thursday 15th December 2022 – 7-8 pm UK time via Zoom
The Art of Seeing The Sacredness of the Christian Mythos through the four senses hermeneutic/ of interpretation Thursday 15th December 2022 7-8pm UK time via Zoom with Mary Attwood £10"The theophanic view sees the cosmos as 'disclosure' of the divine, as...
The Art of Seeing – the Journey to the Epiphany with Mary Attwood – Thursday 19th Jan 2023 via Zoom 7-8pm UK time £10
The Art of Seeing The Journey to the Epiphany through the four senses hermeneutic/ of interpretation Thursday 19th January 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom with Mary Attwood £10 "The star which they saw in the east, went before them“ Matthew 2:9 The Christian mythos...
The Cosmos in Stone – Sacred Geometry of a Master Mason with Tom Bree – Saturday 18th February 2023, 4.00 -6.00pm UK time via Zoom
The Cosmos in Stone Sacred Geometry of a Master Mason with Tom Bree Saturday 18th February 2023 - 4:00pm-6:00pm (UK time) via Zoom £15 Cosmological mythos is not something that is talked about very much in modern day Christianity. This is despite the fact...
The Art of Seeing – Unfolding Ways of Wisdom with Mary Attwood – Thursday 23rd February 2023, 7.00 – 8.00 pm UK time via Zoom
The Art of Seeing unfolding ways of wisdom with Mary Attwood Thursday 23rd February 2023 7:00pm-8:00pm (UK time) via Zoom £10 “The philosopher, even in his passions, acts only after reflection; he walks in the night but he is preceded by a torch.” Philosopher,...
British Museum visit – Wonders of the World – a journey through ancient Egypt and ancient Greece – with Mary Attwood – Saturday 4th March 2023 – 10am-2pm SOLD OUT – more dates to come
British Museum visit Wonders of the World - a journey through ancient Egypt and ancient Greece with Mary Attwood Saturday 4th March 2023 - 10:00am-2:00pm £40 SOLD OUT - MORE DATES TO COME 'Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts; the...
The Art of Seeing – The Ancient Egyptian Goddess – with Mary Attwood – Thursday 30th March 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10
The Art of Seeing the Ancient Egyptian Goddess with Mary Attwood Thursday 30th March 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 with Mary Attwood 7-8pm UK ti "The Egyptians lived with an awareness of what might be called the imaginal- a non-physical yet...
Annunciation in Art – the call and response – 2 week course Mondays 27th March & 3rd April 2023, 10am- 12.30pm UK time via Zoom – with Mary Attwood
Annunciation in Art - the call and response with Mary Attwood Two week course Mondays 27th March & 3rd April 2023 10am- 12.30 pm UK time via Zoom £45 with Mary Attwood 7-8pm UK ti “There is some kiss we want with our whole lives The touch of spirit on...
The Art of Seeing- the Passion of Christ – Thursday 27th April 2023, 7-8pm UK time with Mary Attwood £10
The Art of Seeing monthly sessions held on a Thursday evening 7-8pm UK time via Zoom with Mary Attwood The Art of Seeing - overview We know how to read a book and get lost in the world of the imagination, and we allow ourselves to be moved emotionally and...
Botticelli Primavera with Angela Voss and Mary Attwood – £15 – DOWNLOAD
In this session celebrating the Spring Equinox, Angela and Mary introduce you to one of the most famous and iconic of Renaissance paintings by Botticelli, one of only four of his paintings inspired by pagan themes.
The Art of Seeing background lecture Part 1 with Mary Attwood – £10
In Part One of this series of lectures on The Art of Seeing, Mary provides a more theoretical overview to the experiential and practical monthly ZOOM sessions on The Art of Seeing.
Leonardo da Vinci – The Last Supper, with Angela Voss £10
72 minute downloadable lecture. In this lecture, I focus on the possibility of a hidden meaning within the fresco The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, painted between 1495 and 1498. I want to ask whether he intended to hide a cosmic dimension behind or within this portrayal of a pivotal episode in Christian history, and if so, why.
Testimonial and Art by Lisa Hawkins
Testimonial and Art by Lisa Hawkins MA Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred student 2014-2017 I have always been interested in the spiritual, the intangible element of life. I remember as a child asking questions of materiality, did it really exist – or was it just in my...
Art and Consciousness – Mary Attwood
For millennia, images and form in art and architecture have carried meaning, inspired people to accomplish enormous feats and been the medium through which hidden realities could be realised.
Today it may seem an odd concept to move beyond just looking at art to perceiving it as a means with which we can wake up, transform consciousness and be informed with a sense of purpose.
Works of art often only scratch the surface of our thoughts as we fit past them in galleries and museums.
