This wonderful Cornish workshop and museum is dedicated to the legacy of studio pottery trailblazer Bernard Leach
ARTS, NEWS AND FEATURES
1 Jan 2019
Happy New Year! Which 2019 arts and culture events do you hotly anticipate? We’ve asked June Sarpong, musician and Arts Society Lecturer Sandy Burnett, silversmith Ndidi Ekubia and the Crafts Council’s Collect director, Isobel Dennis, for their choices
29 Dec 2018
Maev Kennedy visits the artist Maggi Hambling – Patron of The Arts Society Waveney Valley – at her studio to discuss how she deals with the critics, her interest in death and her show at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
27 Dec 2018
Van Gogh specialist Martin Bailey uncovers the stories behind some of the artist’s finest works, all painted during his time at an asylum in Provence
22 Dec 2018
Poet and writer Emily Brontë is known across the world for her book Wuthering Heights – but did you know she was also a deft pianist, a crack shot and a gifted artist? This is her painting of her dog, Keeper. Sarah Laycock, curator of the Brontë Society and the Brontë Parsonage Museum, reveals the story behind the canvas
20 Dec 2018
The Christmas season is filled with Victorian tales of ghosts past. Arts Society Lecturer Dr Susan Owens, who has made a study of ghouls in art and literature, leads us to look over our shoulders, to seek spectres in artworks
18 Dec 2018
As Christmas approaches, the arts and culture world prepares for 2019. Which events are hotly anticipated? We ask Lucy Worsley, Arts Society Lecturer Leslie Primo and our Chair, Julie Goldsmith, for their choices