Where: Various locations.
When: The 3rd Thursday of the month.
Time: As arranged.
Leader: Carol.
We have in common an interest in art and enjoy experiencing it in many forms. We visit galleries and occasionally studios across the North East, some using public transport and others cars. Hopefully our visits are fun, often including coffee and/or lunch.
Visit to Woodhorn Museum Ashington On May 16th, 17 of our members travelled north to Ashington and visited Woodhorn Museum, which celebrates the area’s mining heritage. It was a fine day and we enjoyed ambling around the site and shop and chatting over coffee. We joined one [...]
On Friday evening, which was dark and damp, 23 of us spent an evening in flickering candlelight, in the historical Donnison School, an appropriate setting for the enactment of the story of Mary Ann Cotton, mass- murderer of the East Durham area. The actors played their parts enthusiastically, [...]
Beningbrough Hall is a National Trust property near York. It is a delightful house with wonderful gardens. Seventeen of our members visited the art exhibition, “Inspired by Italy,” which displays the work of Kate Somerville, a Yorkshire based black and white photographer and Giovanni Batista, an 18th Century [...]
A Visit to Tennant's Auction House On Thursday last 34 members travelled by coach to Leyburn to spend the day at Tennant’s- the largest auction house outside London. From the moment we arrived to be greeted by friendly faces, coffee and still-warm, newly- baked shortbread, until we [...]
Art Group - From Edinburgh to London and Beyond Seventeen members of the Art Group had a very enjoyable trip to Ushaw House to see ‘From Edinburgh to London and Beyond’ - an extensive exhibition, beautifully displayed, of railway posters through the 20th Century. It was delightful [...]
Art Appreciation Update - to see the exhibition of Railway Poster Art Just to remind you, our next visit will be June 16th to see the exhibition of Railway Poster Art at Ushaw College. It is recommended that you use the Postcode DH7 7DW to take you [...]
Art Appreciation Update May 2022 Our May outing saw 12 of us visit The Great North Museum-Hancock to see their exhibition celebrating the 2020 Fine Arts BA Degree work from Newcastle University. It certainly was different, and saw many of us scratching our heads and looking mystified-even [...]
Spanish Gallery visit, April 2022 On 21st April, 24 members visited the newly -opened Spanish Gallery, at Bishop Auckland. The gallery itself, a stunning conversion of a bank building, housed a mind-boggling collection of paintings from the Golden Age of Spanish Art. We were all vastly impressed [...]
Visit to South Shields Museum and Art Gallery On March 17th our group visited South Shields Museum and Art Gallery to view the John Peace exhibition ‘Tyne and Tide’. John Peace lived and worked in Tyneside and painted landscapes depicting the region’s coasts and rivers, as well [...]
Art Appreciation updates for January and February Print Goes Pop On January 20th 2022 of our Art Appreciation group visited the ‘Print Goes Pop’ exhibition at the Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University. It was a fascinating collection of prints and the experience was [...]
