Art Appreciation
The Art Appreciation group is a friendly, informed but not nerdy, group and all Thame u3a members are welcome to join us on the first Friday of the month. Group members are encouraged to give an illustrated talk on a subject related to the visual arts, and once a year we invite a guest speaker and make a gallery visit.
We meet in the small hall at the Guide Headquarters in Southern Road from 9.45 am for a chat over tea [or coffee] and biscuits, before a 10 o’clock start and normally finish just after 11 am.
If you would like to join the group, or have a query about our events, please don't hesitate to email Nick Deschamps at artappreciationu3a@gmail.com
| 2024 Meetings: |
| --DATE---- | SPEAKER------- | SUBJECT |
| 5 January | The Team | Quiz |
| 2 February | Sue Oswell | Flowers in Art |
| 1 March | Kathy Lemaire | Edgar Degas |
| 5 April | Guide HQ Closed | Day Trip to Oxford: Christ Church Picture Gallery and Cathedral Tours. Details to follow. |
| 3 May | John Wilkinson | Comic Cuts |
| 7 June | John Gardner | Architecture |
| 5 July | Nick Deschamps | Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema |
| 2 August | Jean Alvey | Frederic, Lord Leighton |
| 6 September | Bernadette Tildesley | Frank Brangwyn |
| 4 October | Hazel Boundy | Sculpture |
| 1 November | Jackie Ainsworth | Dame Laura Knight |
| 6 December | Dawn Cumming | TBA |
| 2023 Meetings: | ||
| 6th January | Quiz | |
| 3rd February | no meeting - visit to the Ashmolean Museum | |
| 3rd March | Wabi-Sabi, a Japanese Art | Hazel Boundy |
| 7th April | no meeting - Bank Holiday - outing? | |
| 5th May | "Picture if You Can” The Art of Photography | John Wilkinson |
| 2nd June | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | She Oswell |
| 7th July | James Abbott McNeill Whistler “Art for Art’s Sake" - Meeting in the Barns Centre | Nick Deschamps |
| 4th August | Glasgow Girls - Meeting in the Barns Centre | Nina Deschamps |
| 1st September | The Pre-Raphaelites | Jackie Ainsworth |
| 6th October | More World War II Artists | Bernadette Tildesley |
| 3rd November | Hundertwasser | Leigh Guyatt |
| 1st December | Painting in the Forest : in the footsteps of the Barbican School | Dawn Cumming |