The contribution of English oaks used for boatbuilding, the Royal Navy and East Angian shipyards, to Western Art
Wood from fine-grained English Oak tree is particularly suitable for boatbuilding and the resulting vessels occupy a pivotal place in Western Art. The east coast of Britain also benefits from natural harbours on the North Sea while patronage from the Royal Navy, the East India Company and 21st century billionaires alike have led to the flourishing of boat building in the area, often in the traditional form.
This lecture dispplays paintings and many otherf orms of art which celebrate our island race's fascination with ourmaritimehistory
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
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Ms Magdalen Evans
Studied history of art at UEA and worked in London galleries for fifteen years; since then has been organising exhibitions and writing articles, concentrating on C19th/20th women artists. A contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and to BBC Woman's Hour, also works with charities that help ex-offenders through art and education. Her book on Marianne Stokes and her English landscape painter husband Adrian Stokes RA was published recently and she has lectured for the Art Fund, National Portrait Gallery, Pre-Raphaelite Society and Art Workers' Guild as well as to the Art Society of Budapest. I am a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars.
OTHER EVENTS
London Road
A lecture telling the story of the establishment and development of the National Gallery
This lecture looks at Vita's life and the extraordinary garden she created