by walklondonadming | Aug 7, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses, Walking tours
Why not combine any two museums/galleries in this 4-hour highlights tour? All major museums and galleries are open to the public free of charge, but the choice of what to see can be overwhelming. Let Michael take the strain out of selecting what to see,...
by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses
Roger Fry introduced London to the work of the Post Impressionists such as Cezanne and Van Gogh at an exhibition in 1910 when, according to the writer Virginia Woolf ‘human nature changed’ She was referring to the changes in society with the advent of new technologies...
by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses
As England began to embrace the Impressionism of artists such as Manet, Degas and Whistler, a group of painters around the circle of Walter Sickert, worked closely in the early years of the twentieth century to produce a painterly style of English Modernism that...
by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses
The tour is based around two different groups of artists living in that area in the late nineteenth century. Beginning with a visit to Leighton House to see the home and studio of the former President of the Royal Academy, we will then walk this area of conservative...
by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses
The Gothic Revival tour visits several 19th century buildings encapsulating the style that embraced medieval craftsmanship, including the Houses of Parliament, All Saints Church, Margaret St, and the High Courts of Justice. We will also visit the V&A Museum to see...