Our Annual General Meeting including reports from the committee, election of officers and the 2024 programme of activities will be followed by a talk by Jenny Newman.

For artists, the enduring attraction of the subject of The Window lies in its purely visual appeal: echoing the rectangular or square shape of the canvas, the window view turns into a “picture within a picture.” Even a barren landscape, when framed in a window, can be transformed into an enthralling scene. Windows break up the wall space, that flat plane, they can provide depth and contrast in a picture. They give us a glimpse from one world into another, they act as a ‘threshold’ between exterior and interior and very often a painting with a window can suggest or convey a mood or emotion that goes beyond the purely visual appeal. Jenny will be looking at work from the Renaissance to the C20th.

Free to members