1st November Mondays 2pm-3.30pm, Art and Design History course ‘Romantic Moderns’ in art, English landscape painting. 6 wk course. This art history course will trace the significant revival of landscape painting in the generation of artists pre ww2 and afterwards, that created some beautiful and startling imagery. Some of the artists were asked to create images for the ‘Shell Guides’ and a number of other publications at that time.

Venue: United Chapel East St Bridport. Fee £60. Tutor Pam Simpson MA.

Pam is an Associate Lecturer for University of the Arts in London.

Contact: chris.pamsimpson@btinternet.com to book.

3rd November, Thursday evenings 6.30pm, on Zoom, Art and Design History course, 'Late Medieval and Early Renaissance course’, 6wk course. This course looks across painting, architecture & the decorative arts. On line course fee is £55. Tutor Pam Simpson MA.

Pam is Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts in London.

Contact: chris.pamsimpson@btinternet.com or telephone 01300 321715 to book.

5th November Fridays 2pm on Zoom, Art and Design History course ‘Romantic Moderns’ in art, English landscape painting. 6 wk course. This art history course will trace the significant revival of landscape painting in the generation of artists pre ww2 and afterwards, that created some beautiful and startling imagery. Some of the artists were asked to create images for the ‘Shell Guides’ and a number of other publications at that time.

On line course fee £55. Tutor Pam Simpson MA.

Pam is an Associate Lecturer for University of the Arts in London.

Contact: chris.pamsimpson@btinternet.com to book.

 Art History lectures available on line.

Tutor Pam Simpson MA, Pam is a professional Art and Design Historian with over 30 yrs experience of teaching in London art schools.

1. Starts 23rd September, Thursday evenings 6.30pm, Art and Design history course taught on line via Zoom, about Medieval Art, architecture, decorative arts and painting. Tea break in middle. 6 x hour and a half lectures, fee £55.

2. Starts 24th September, Friday afternoons at 2pm, Art and Design History course taught on line via Zoom about Surrealism, with tea break in middle. We will be exploring Surrealism in all its visual forms, painting, sculpture, cinema and photography, with an international element to this course. 6 x hour and a half lectures, fee £55.

Contact: chris.pamsimpson@btinternet.com

Artist: Pierre Bonnard - ‘Le Cannet’, oil, Bemburg Foundation, Toulouse, 1930.

Monday 21st September or Friday 25^th September - Art History six week course about 'The Nabis' - online on ‘Zoom’, 2pm-3.40pm, with 20 minute break. 

The Nabis were a group of post-impressionist painters, for example Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Marguerite Serusier, Maurice Denis, Paul Serusier, and associated artists like Suzanne Valadon, active from c1888–c1900, whose bold painting and use of colour and strong use of line, created new approaches in art. These are striking and beautiful alluring paintings, which have some influence upon English art which will be touched upon.

On line course Fee £51. Tutor is Pam Simpson, Associate Lecturer, Bath Spa University. Contact email chris.pamsimpson@btinternet.com or tel 01300 321715.

It is possible to 'try out' the course by doing an individual lecture for £10.

Art History Courses in Dorset

 

Tutor: Pam Simpson BA(Hons), MA, PGCE,  is a professional Art and Design historian, who has taught in London art colleges for 32 years, 20 of those years at at Middlesex University (Hornsea College of Art) where she ran a department. She has also worked at the Royal College of Art and University of the Arts. She is currently teaching at Bath Spa University as an Associate Lecturer. She is an enthusiastic lecturer who loves her subject and conveying her knowledge to others. Pam has been teaching Art and Design History courses in Bridport in recent years, and since last September in Lyme Regis.