For those of you who enjoyed our Special Interest Day back in June at the Hydro Hotel, we’ve arranged a return to this lovely venue for our Winter Study Day on Thursday 27th November.

The November talk will be given by Caroline Levisse who, along with the likes of Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin and van Gogh, will guide us through the world of Post-Impressionist Art.  Caroline trained in Paris and completed her PhD in art history at University Paris VIII, making her just the right person to help us tackle such a huge subject.

So what is Post Impressionism -  we’ll see that we need to understand its relationship to the Impressionist movement, and we’ll look to Paris in 1886 to consider the cultural context (the fin-de-siècle mood) and see how a new generation of artists, such as Emile Bernard and Toulouse-Lautrec continued with Impressionism, but also rebelled against it.

We’ll see that artists painted real-life subject matter, but there was to become a greater emphasis on geometric or distorted forms and the use of thickly applied vivid colours that were sometimes unnatural and seemingly random. 

The day will be split into three one-hour sessions, all taking place in the Hydro's lovely Garden Room, with a break for a finger-buffet lunch which will be served in the Crystal Room.  The day will finish by 3:30pm.

The cost of the event (including lunch) is £49.00 per person.  Non-members welcome.