PAST EVENTS

Visits and lectures hosted by Arts4kent

2026

• Kippington Lecture: ‘Les Trois Grandes Dames" of Impressionism: ​Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot’ given by Sarah Burles

2025

• Turner and Constable lecture and exhibition at Tate Britain

• Penshurst Housekeeper’s Tour

• Kippington lecture: Antony Penrose talking about his mother, the photographer, Lee Miller and the making of the recent film Lee, staring Kate Winslet

• Tour around Suffolk

• FIrle Place

• Leighton House

• Kippington lecture: ‘George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, The handsomest man in 17th century Europe’ given by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

2024

• Penshurst Housekeeper’s Tour

• Kippington lecture: ‘A view from a TV rostrum’ a lecture given by James Braxton

• Trip to Malta

• Marc Chagall stained glass at All Saints, Tudeley

• Walking tour of Tunbridge Wells

• The Royal Courts of Justice

• Expressionists lecture and exhibition at Tate Modern

• Restoration House and Gardens

• John SInger Sargent lecture and exhibition at Tate Britain

• The Bank of England museum

2023

• KIppington lecture: ‘A history of jewellery: Elizabeth I to Elizabeth Taylor given by John Benjamin

• Trip to Andalucia

• Barbara Hepworth at The Towner Gallery, Eastbourne

• Passport to Pimlico walking tour with Ian Swankie

• Visit to Farley’s Farmhouse

• Visit to Lullingstone Roman Villa

• Kippington lecture: ‘Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa’ given by Carline Mackenzie

• Zoom lecture: ‘The actress and the artist’ given by Alexandra Sheldon

2022

• Kippington lecture:  ‘Travellers’ tales - Italian art through the eyes of VIctorian visitors’ given by Jo Walton

• The Huguenot silk weavers of Old Spitalfields walking tour

• Visit to Provender House followed by The Alexander Collection

• Shoreditch Street art walking tour

• Charleston Farmhouse and Berwick Church

• Private visit to Cranbrook Museum

• Trip to Lincoln

• Folkestone: ‘The last sight of home’ walking tour with Tanya FIrth

• ‘National Treasures - Saving the Nation’s art in World War II’ lecture by Caroline Shenton

• ‘Art in the shadow of St Paul’s’ walking tour with Ian Swankie

• The Cultural Heritage of the Huguenots’ lecture by Sue Jackson

2021

• Kippington lecture: The artist as reporter - British artists and the 1st WW given by Jo Walton

• Walk around Woodbury Park Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells

• Zoom lecture: ‘Inn Signia’ given by John Ericson

• ‘Pots and Frocks - the world of Grayson Perry’ lecture by Ian Swankie

• Victoria’s Secrets a walking tour with Lou Cohen

• Zoom lecture: ‘Signs & Symbols - the hidden messages in painting’ given by Valerie Woodgate

2020

• Zoom lecture: ‘The Christmas Story through masterpieces’ given by Liz Strang