David Hockney - The Old Master of the Modern World

From the early sixties, Hockney’s paintings have shown a charm and humour that sets them apart. A naturally gifted draftsman, his love of ingenious visual devices has led him to experiment with a whole range of techniques, from stage design to coloured paper making. This lecture follows Hockney’s career as an artist whose imagination has never faltered from the early abstract expressionist images, through his famous Californian scenes of swimming pools to the photo-montages of the mid-eighties.

How to book this event:

Visitors £12 on the door. Cafe and doors open from 10.00am.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Douglas Skeggs

Douglas read Fine Art at Magdalene College Cambridge and has been a lecturer on paintings since 1980. In that time he has given over 8000 lectures to universities, colleges and art societies. He was the director of The New Academy of Art Studies for three years and is presently a regular lecturer at The Study Center, Christie's course 'The History of Art Studies' and other London courses. Among his more improbable venues for lectures are the bar on the QE2, MI5 headquarters, the Captain's Room at Lloyds, and an aircraft hanger in a German NATO base. Overseas he has lectured in Belgium, France, Germany and Spain, and has taken numerous tours around Europe.

He has written and presented various TV documentaries, notably the Omnibus programme on Whistler and the exhibition video on William Morris. Three one-man exhibitions of his paintings have been held in England and Switzerland. He has published five novels, which have been translated into 8 foreign languages, and his book on Monet, River of Light, has sold 30,000 copies in England, America and France.

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