STUDY DAYS 2025-26

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. Refreshments will be provided.

An extra fee is charged to cover the cost of the Study Day.

Eric Ravilious and the Lure of the Everyday

with Jo Walton

Wednesday 4th February 2026

Half Day - 10 am - 1.15 pm

Ravilious has been described as the greatest English watercolourist of the 20th century and his images of the landscape and of everyday objects attract passionate devotees. A prolific painter, printmaker and designer, he became an Official War Artist in 1939, and was killed in 1942 but his legacy is a body of work reflecting deep delight in the world in which he lived. This talk looks at his work and that of some of his contemporaries working on the Home Front in the Second World War.

The Tractor, 1933, Eric Ravilious (d.1942), Public Domain, Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0