The group was established nearly 12 months ago, after the great success of a Life Long Learning course on Art History. Initially consisting of 12 members, we now have 34 attending in the Tiffey Room on the fourth Monday of the month from 13.00 to 15.00. Members of the group have given presentations including:

• the early Renaissance artists, Ducchio and Giotto
• the sixteenth century sculptor Bernini
• the Mexican artist Frieda Carlo
• the eighteenth-century master, Thomas Gainsborough
• an in-depth study of Turner’s Fighting Temeraire
• the nineteenth century model and painter Elizabeth Siddal
• the Aesthetic movement and James Whistler
• war artist John Piper
  
  We have had a guest speaker talking on Winter in Art, and from February to April, a guest speaker will talk on Mirrors in Art. We have enjoyed curated visits to the Colman gallery in the Castle Museum and to the Sainsbury Centre.
  In her book “Art Cure,” Daisy Fancourt, professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College
  London, brings together numerous research projects confirming what we have always suspected – art is
  good for us. It helps us enjoy happier, healthier, and longer lives.
  
  If you’d like to join the group, and there are a limited number of spaces, please contact Alan Browne