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February 2025

JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY – A Painter of Light & The Enlightenment

Welcome to Bushey AS
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 19:45
The Niland Centre
Rosary Priory, 93 Elstree Road Bushey Heath WD23 4EE
Online Event

All about the landscape and portrait painter Joseph Wright Derby.

A lecture on one of the UK's interesting landscape and portrait painters who utilised Renaissance techniques such as tenebrism and captured the scientific movement around the midlands at the time of the Age of Enlightenment.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Raymond Warburton

Ray has had a life-long love of art. However, in his twenties, Ray studied social sciences at the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies. These studies led to a career in health and social care, with art being an evening and weekend passion. But all that changed in 2011, when Ray became a guide at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Then from 2014 to 2017, he studied art history at the Open University, and then at the University of Buckingham, from where he gained an MA in the History of Art. And to cap it all, Ray became an Arts Society lecturer in 2017. Ray also knows what it’s like to be on the receiving end of lectures as he is a member of his local Arts Society in Blackheath.