We warmly welcome new members and visitors at our talks

Contact us

by email:
info(at)BrentwoodNadfas.org.uk
(replace (at) with the @ symbol)

or call:
David Robertson,
Membership Secretary
01277 353457

Talks 2012       

18 January 

Country Houses of South West Essex and the Empire Builders that Built Them 

Speaker: Peter Lawrence

15 February (members only)

AGM and supper with talk on Essex Painters

Speaker:  Graham Slimming

21 March

Textiles of the Silk Route 

Speaker:  Roderick Taylor

18 April

Architecture at the London Olympics 2012 and a parkland for the future

Speaker:  Anthea Streeter

16 May

Destruction of the Monasteries: the greatest act of artistic vandalism in English history   

Speaker:  Mark Corby

20 June

Life and Art of Marianne North, Victorian Botanical Artist 

Speaker:  Twigs Way

18 July

History of the Chair

Speaker:  Janusz Karczewski-Slowikoski

15 August 

Reyntiens - Britain's leading stained glass artist 

Speaker:  Libby Horner

19 September 

Augustus John and Gwen John

Speaker:  Linda Smith

17 October

Two London Porcelain Factories: Chelsea and Bow 

Speaker:  Anton Gabszewicz

21 November

Venice in 18th century London - a musical and artistic partnership

Speaker:  Peter Medhurst

16 January 2013

An artist on the Nile - David Roberts

Speaker:  George Hart

Visits 2012 

Full details of the following visits are available from Judith Finn, telephone: 01277 373187.            

29/30 April
Two day visit (one night) to the south west to visit Tyntesfield House, near Bristol, and Destow Gardens, near Caerwent, Monmouthshire. 

end June/early July
Day visit to Kew Gardens, linked to our June talk about Kew artist Marianne North.

30 September to 6 October
Seven day (6 night) tour by coach to the Black Forest and Rhine valley in Germany, with four nights at our German base.