| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: |
Ian Mattingly
Tel: 01926 730494
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| Leader: |
John D Morgan
Tel: 07394 988580
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| Group email: | History of Art group |
| When: | Monthly on Monday afternoons 14:15 3rd Monday of the month |
| Venue: | St Mark's Church, Leamington Spa |
| Cost: | £2.50 for room hire |
We meet once a month on the third Monday of the month at 2pm for a 2.15 start. In order to allow for slightly longer room hire time we need to charge £2.50 to those attending.
We like to offer a range of talks on the history of art, supported by visual presentations on a large screen. This includes the work of specific artists, various art movements (such as the Renaissance or Impressionism) features on paintings, sculpture, murals, and various other media.
We are a self-supporting group, as required by the tenets of our u3a, and so talks are given by members of the group, other members of our u3a, friends of members and so on. Talks are no longer than one hour long (and can be shorter) followed by a group discussion and questions to the presenter. Please come and talk to us about your favourite artist or period of art. We give total support with the visual side of your presentation, including downloading images and putting them into a PowerPoint presentation.
Please contact either of us for more information.
Forthcoming events
17 November 2025
14:15
Group meeting
Leamington Spa attracted professional artists, who found a market for their work and the opportunity to take on paying pupils from wealthy visitors. Later the establishment of the wartime Camouflage unit in the […]
15 December 2025
14:15
Group meeting
19 January 2026
Group meeting
January 19 We will compare the careers of three artists featured in RSBA Young Contemporaries Exhibition of 1962 - Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, and David Hockney.
16 February 2026
Group meeting
We tend to treat the artistic greats as separate phenomena, but, in Florence, the world of artists was interconnected. The Florentine poet Ugolino Verino wrote: "Whatever painters have that is good […]
16 March 2026
Group meeting
Leonora Carrington (1917 - 2011) with Wiz Shayler, Rugby u3a
Examining the life and work of the British born, Mexican naturalised Surrealist.
20 April 2026
Group meeting
Short talks (plus info for May Visit)
Otto Dix (with Sue Rigby) Kandinsky (with Tatyana Hopkins) Bridget Riley (with Sam Sexton)
18 May 2026
Group meeting
VISIT to the new Pre Raphaelite Room at BMAG (Public Transport)
"Our Pre-Raphaelite collection is unrivalled, including over 2000 awe-inspiring pieces, from oil paintings and tapestries to stained glass and ceramics" BMAG
15 June 2026
Group meeting
We’ll look at how European artists tried and perhaps finally succeeded to capture the special quality of the Australian environment and how indigenous Australians had solved that problem millennia before.