by walklondonadming | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog
A little known treasure just outside of London is Sandycombe Lodge, a small villa built by England’s greatest landscape painter JMW Turner (1775-1851). It is located near the River Thames at Twickenham a half hour’s train ride from London Waterloo. Its location was...
by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Walking tours
There are several world-class art galleries in central London waiting to be explored. Where to start? Whether your taste is for the ancients, The Renaissance, the Impressionists or Contemporary art, all tastes are catered for, and I can customise a tour to suit you....
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
A tour on foot and by public transport that examines the impact of Art Deco on architecture and design in 1930s London. We will visit several buildings that encapsulate the style embracing the clean classical lines of Modernisme. The buildings include the former...
