This thriving group enjoys a wide variety of visits to exhibitions, art galleries and museums throughout the year, often including a guided tour or short talk by a museum or gallery expert. We vary the programme between trips to London for major exhibitions and more local destinations such as Firstsite (Colchester), the Fry Gallery (Saffron Walden), the Henry Moore Foundation and the Visual Arts Centre at the University of East Anglia.
We hold our annual programme meeting in February to plan visits for the year, which individual or pairs of group members volunteer to organise,

Booked and Planned Visits 2026

SVU3A Art LoversProgramme 2026

Exhibition                                                                              Gallery                                                           Date                                                    Leader

Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style                                      King’s Gallery                                           June24                                     Heather/Dianne

Women Artists of Hampstead                                Burgh House                                              July 29                                                 Val
Hampstead  Artists, Residents& History           
Among the Trees and Terraces: Donald Towner   

Jock McFaden with JemFiner:Underground (& Surface)     Guildhall                                      August                               Graham/Ann 
Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait                                     National Portrait Gallery 

Constable; Walking the Landscape                     Christchurch Mansion                                  August                                               Linda

Gainsborough, Turner & Constable                   Gainsborough’s House                                    September                                         Linda      

Renoir and Love                                                     National Gallery                                              October                                     Sue Webster      

A Call to Art: William Morris &the Pre-Raphaelites Fitzwilliam Museum                         November             Graham/Ann                       
A Mughal Songbook:Art, Music & Empire                                 
An Enamel Revolution: China & the World 

Constable to Contemporary                                    Christchurch Mansion                            February 2027                                Linda

N.B. (i)Please notethat because we have a full programme this year the third in the series of exhibitionson Constable at Christchurch Mansion has been rolled overto February 2027. In the event of cancellation of either the October or November visit it may be possible to substituteConstable to Contemporary.

(ii)If enough people are interestedin seeing TheBayeux Tapestryit could also form part of the 2027 programme as the exhibition continues until July 2027 andwill need booking well in advance due toprobablehigh demand.

The group is full at the moment.

For information Please contact Lucy Marshall Tel: 01206 323197

Mid November and members of the Art Lovers Group set off to London to visit the Courtauld and Guildhall Galleries.

The exhibition of Wayne Thiebaud’s works caught the eye at the Courtauld and set us up for lunch at an “American Diner”

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