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Reader Courses... open to all members, Affi liates, family and friendsEssexIN FLANDERS FIELDS THE POPPIES BLOW... Date: 28 September 2016 Time: 10am–2.30pm Venue: Little Baddow Memorial Hall, Little Baddow, CM3 4TA Tutor: Caroline Holmes Price: £30 (coffee on arrival, buffet lunch with juice, tea & coffee)Contact: Mandy Kerr, email: mail.fairway28@gmail.com The day will start with golden afternoons, gardens and families – including the work of Gertrude Jekyll, Monet and Frederick McCubbin. Then it moves on the War Graves Commission, headstones, crosses, Cenotaph and work of Julian Ware. Finally it will look at the history of Flanders poppy. Concludes with Monet’s Water Lilies. Greater London Please contact the Study Course Organiser (SCO) to book the relevant course. IF YOU WANT YOUR TICKET BY POST: send a cheque, made out to ‘NADFAS Greater London Area’, to the SCO of each course together with a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Separate cheques should be sent for each course. IF YOU WANT AN E-TICKET, email the relevant SCO to check availability, then send a cheque (or cheques), made payable to ‘NADFAS Greater London Area’, to arrive within fi ve days. No refunds will be given except in exceptional circumstances, unless there is a waiting list. Tickets may be sold on. For more study days see the website gla.nadfas.net.MARY CASSATT 1844Ð1926: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST ON TWO CONTINENTS Date: 13 July 2016Time: 10.30am–3.30pmVenue: Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J OBFTutor: Clare Ford-WillePrice: £34 (no coffee or lunch)SCO: Judith Leon, 163 Lichfi eld Court, Sheen Road, Richmond, TW9 1AZ, email: studycourses.gla@gmail.comFriend and colleague of the French Impressionists… but Mary Cassatt is so much more. Explore her early life and struggles to train as an artist in Philadelphia and her future career in Paris. Cassatt exhibited with the Impressionists and formed close and enduring friendships with Pissarro and Degas, becoming admired for her sensitive and endearing paintings and prints, particularly of women and children. INSPIRED BY STONEHENGEDate: 7 September 2016 Time: 10.30pm–3.30pmVenue: Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT Tutor: Julian RichardsPrice: £34 (inc. coffee)SCO: Tricia Savours, 89 Moss Lane, Pinner, Middx, HA5 3AT, email: psavours@gmail.comArchaeologist Julian Richards will answer all your questions about his favourite ancient site, Stonehenge, exploring the investigation and interpretation of the site and surroundings. He will then move on to the big questions: ‘How was it built?’, ‘Who built it?’ and most intriguingly, ‘Why was it built?’. This iconic structure has inspired painters, potters and poets – with Blake, Turner, Constable and Moore among those who have been drawn to this magnifi cent ruin. ST PANCRAS AND FRIENDS: A JOURNEY THROUGH LONDONÕS STATIONSDate: 14 September 2016Time: 10.30amVenue: AM: Art Workers’ Guild (as before); PM: A walk with Andrew Davies around St Pancras and Kings Cross Lecturer: Andrew DaviesPrice: £34 (inc. coffee & biscuits)SCO: Rosemary Baldwin, 24 Speer Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey, KT7 0PW, email: rosemary@baldwins24.co.ukToday we glory in the history of these fi ne public structures from austerely classical King’s Cross to the soaring Gothic splendour of St Pancras. There are 15 London terminals, plus over 250 tube stations, each with a unique story. In the afternoon, there will be a guided celebratory walk to both King’s Cross and St Pancras, including the once redundant, but now transformed ‘railway lands’.HIERONYMUS BOSCHDate: 27 September 2016Time: 10.30am–3.30pmVenue: The Art Workers’ Guild (as before)Lecturer: Clare Ford-WillePrice: £34 (coffee & biscuits, no lunch)SCO: Judith Leon (as before: studycourses.gla@gmail.comThe year 2016 marks the 500th anniversary of Bosch’s death. His home town Hertogenbosch and, later in the summer, Madrid, will host an important exhibition that aims to reassess his life and work. Much new research has been carried out and examination of his paintings with new technological methods has taken place over the last fi ve years. The study day will be an opportunity to examine the work and character of this fascinating Above: Medieval imagery, such as this window in Canterbury Cathedral, is explored by a study day in the North East Area20 NADFAS REVIEW / SUMMER 2016 www.nadfas.org.ukEDUCATION: COURSES