THE ARTS SOCIETY NADDER VALLEY
Our monthly programme is available to members only. Guests of members are welcome for a fee of £10.00 per lecture or £5.00 for students (14-22 years of age)
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Lectures are held at The Nadder Centre, Weaveland Road, Tisbury, SP3 6HJ and start at 6.30 pm unless otherwise stated.
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STUDY DAYS 2026-27
Study Days incur an extra charge and include refreshments. Members are welcome to invite guests for an additional charge. Where demand exceeds places, however, Members will continue to have priority.
Our study days offer a more in depth examination of a particular topic.
Full days begin at 10:00am for a 10:30am start and finish at 3.15pm. Half day sessions run for approximately two and a half hours morning or afternoon. Half Days include light refreshments, Full Days include a light lunch.
Sign up for Study Days via the link on the Monthly Newsletter.
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Monet: Roots, Branches and Reflections.
with Caroline Holmes
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Wednesday 18th November 2026
10 am - 3.15 pm
Consisting of three lectures, we start by setting the scene for Monet the man and the birth of Impressionism.
Monet is inextricably linked to flowers and gardening from his first gardens at Argenteuil to his masterpiece, Giverny, where he perfected and distilled the interplay of light and colour. At the start of his career he collected Japanese prints, towards the end of his life he hosted great Japanese collectors.
Although his paintings sold well in the USA, he never left Europe. We will voyage around France through his works as well as London and Venice.
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Image - Garden Path at Giverny (1902) by Claude Monet, Artvee.com
Poet in Paint:
The Art and Life of Paul Nash
(1889-1946)
with David Boyd Haycock
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Wednesday 10th February 2027
Half Day Study Period -10 am - 1.15 pm
Paul Nash was one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century, and one who united the pastoral and mystical tradition embodied by English artists such as William Blake and Samuel Palmer, with the modern European movements of Futurism, Surrealism and Abstraction. Based on the lecturer’s books Paul Nash (2002) and A Crisis of Brilliance (2009), this study day explores Nash’s life, from his discovery of the English landscape as a young boy, through his artistic education at the Slade, to his experiences as an official war artist in both World Wars.
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Image - Battle of Britain by Paul Nash (1941), Imperial War Museums
