Category: Art
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u3a Creativity on Show in Many Ways!
Our Monthly Meeting on 26 November 2025 was our annual chance to demonstrate creativity in the many ways to be found in Kenton & District u3a. We had a variety of pieces from our Creative Writing Group. We started with a poem about a Sunday Night Performance by a singer with her band. We then…
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Golden Age of Spanish Art- Velazquez
Our History of Art Group are studying the Golden Age of Spanish Art, and on Friday 21 November 2025, Jennifer turned her focus on to Velazquez (Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, 1599-1660). Velazquez was born in Seville, possibly of Portuguese parents who were of minor nobility. Velazquez sought to strengthen the standing of the…
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Golden Age of Spanish Art – El Greco
On Friday 07 November 2025, our series of lectures on the Golden Age of Spanish Art with Jennifer continued with a study of the work and life of El Greco. El Greco needs to have his real name better known. Born in Candia (modern day Crete) in 1541 as Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος). At that…
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Understanding Spain and English Ties
Our course on the Golden Age of Spanish Art continued on Friday 17 October 2025 with Jennifer taking us through the complications of the Spanish and Portuguese Navigators and Explorers, and how the ties between the European houses came about and how that effected the propagation of Art throughout Europe in the second half of…
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Exploring Spain’s Golden Age of Art
On Friday 03 October 2025, we started a new series of lectures exploring the Golden Age of Art in Spain with Jennifer, who has developed a strong following amongst our members. Understanding what was happening in Spain over the years from the 8th Century to the 19th Century is necessary in order to understand the…
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We Bring Our Favourite Female Artist
On Friday 04 April 2025, Members were invited to bring a presentation of their own Favourite Female Artists to the final History of Art Session in the current course. This time, Jennifer took a back seat assisting with the changing of slides rather than leading the session. We started with Louise whose favourite artist was…
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Artistic Ladies of France Revealed
Our Art History Course investigating the lives and works of lady artists up to the 1800s with Jennifer completed its survey on Friday 21 March 2025. This session was devoted to three french artists, Marie-Victoire Lemoine, Adelaide Labille-Guiard and Elisabeth Vigee le Brun. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749 – 1803), also known as Adélaïde Labille-Guiard des Vertus,…
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Ladies of the English Enlightenment
Our series of talks on Female Artists continued on 07 March 2025 with Jennifer talking about four ladies of the English Enlightenment period. The four artists she had chosen were Mary Delaney, Angelika Kauffman, Mary Moser and Anne Seymour Damer. Mary Delaney had had a difficult start to adulthood, marrying a man 60 years old…
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English Female Artists Impress All
Our course on Female Artists continued on Friday 21 February 2025 with our tutor Jennifer introducing Joan Carlisle (1606-1679), Mary Beale (1633-1699), Susannah Penelope Rosse (1652-1700) and Anna Maria Garthwaite (1690-1763). Joan Carlisle, we were told is the earliest female English artist in Tate Britain. Her work was much influenced by Van Dyck with similar…
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Watercolour Artists Bring Colours
On a bleak winter’s day, our Watercolour Group of Artists were hard at work bringing a little colour into our world on 11 February 2025. At this time of year, a little colour is very rewarding! Subjects varied from summer scenes on postcards, to nesting animals, and seaside scenes from last summer. There are no…