09
April 2025

MAPS AND BRITISH PAINTING; THE GEOGRAPHY OF ART

Welcome to The Arts Society Uckfield, Lewes & Newick
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 14:30
Weald Hall
Uckfield Civic Centre Uckfield TN22 1AE
Online Event

The many and varied use of maps

This lecture will explore the many and varied ways in which maps have been and still are used in British painting. Art can, therefore, sometimes look like a branch of geography where painters are attracted to the outdoors and natural features as they describe the world around us. 

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Stephen Taylor

Artist and art historian: studied John Constable as a post graduate at Essex and Yale, taught art at Felsted School and went on to became Head of Painting at The Open College of the Arts and course director for the Inchbald School of Design. In 2000, Stephen turned to landscape painting with early shows at King's College Cambridge, Meisel’s New York and Vertigo in London. Now has pictures in private collections world-wide and his book Oak: One tree, three years, fifty paintings was featured in The Guardian, The New Statesman and on Oprah Winfrey’s website.