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Tim Stimson
B.A. (Hons), P.G.C.E., M.A.

Tim’s involvement in art began with the practical; for a number of years he was a professional painter/ ceramicist in Scotland and Wales, before returning to university to study literature and the history of art, then training to teach adults.

For the last 30 years Tim has been a freelance cultural/art historian, specialising in 17th and 19th century art and society. Tim has recently completed a second lecture tour of Australia.

Tim has lectured for Cambridge University, the WEA, The Arts Society (previously known as NADFAS) and The Art Fund, and presents residential study courses in Britain and Europe.
New Courses From Autumn 2024

             An introductory Day-School

                with Barton-upon-Humber 

                              Life Long Learning        

                                              at

                                 Joseph Wright Hall,

                                     Queen Street,

                                          Barton.

         Saturday 23rd November 2024

                      2.00 - 4.30pm

              "Every Picture Tells A Story"                                - Victorian Art & Life  

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             "Every Picture Tells A Story" - Victorian Art & Life 

    After the day-school we will be presenting a series of 6, weekly lectures, beginning Wednesday 15th January 2025, 1.30 - 3.30pm 

For more information and booking details please email: lifelonglearningatbarton@gmail.com 

 

         HIGHAM HALL

              Cumbria

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    "PreRaphaelitism: Dreams of an Earthly Paradise"

              Friday 29th to Sunday 31st August 2025

 

 

       "Norwegian Art: The Emergence of the Modern"

    Sunday 31st August to Tuesday 2nd September 2025

 

For more details and to book a place on these courses please                               click on the underlined link above.

             PARCEVALL HALL

               Yorkshire Dales

                      "How Pleasant to Know Edward Lear" 

                 Tuesday 22nd to Thursday 24th April 2025

                             "Victorian Art: Town & Country"

                     Monday 11th to Wednesday 13th August 2025

 

 

    For more details and to book a place on these courses please                                           click on the underlined link above.

                                     W.E.A. COURSES for the AUTUMN TERM 2024

"Victorian Art - Town and Country"

A 10 week course beginning Friday 4th October 2024

2.30 to 4.30pm.

To book a place please visit the W.E.A. Website HERE

Course Code Q00017916

Venue

Grimsby Central Hall & Arts Community Centre,
Duncombe Street
Grimsby
DN32 7EG

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 ADFAS 2016  - TOUR OF AUSTRALIA

My first tour of Australia in 2010 took me from Perth to the Blue Mountains outside Sydney via many exotic and outlandish places. As an inexperienced traveller I fully expected my lecture in Wagga Wagga to be housed in a corrugated iron roofed hut!

Of course,that was not the case and the Art Societies of Australia are very civilised and hospitable, and they certainly appreciate British lecturers making the long journey to speak to them.

In May 2016 my travels took me back to Sydney and thence to Cairns with a much clearer idea of what to expect of the landscape and the people.

Being a straight talking Yorkshireman myself, I feel a definite affinity with the straight talking Aussies!

Early May in Sydney was like a hot Midsummer's Day in England, though the first place I visited, Mudgee, a good many miles inland, surprised me by having frost overnight and the clearest skies I have ever seen; the Milky Way like a grey band across the sky. My hosts in Mudgee were wonderful and so welcoming.

I then travelled on to some of the towns and cities of the East Coast, Brisbane and finally to Cairns, where my itinerary included a free day, which I took advantage of by Scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef - just as wonderful as you might expect!

The most popular subject, as it was on my previous tour, was GUSTAV KLIMT, who is a great favourite amongst the Australian Art Societies.

It was after my first lecture in Mudgee that a member of the audience informed me that he had been part of the committee trying to keep the one and only Klimt painting in Australia from being sold abroad.

The history of the portrait of Hermine Gallia is fascinating. Tim Bonyhady's book ‘GOOD LIVING STREET- THE FORTUNES OF MY VIENNESE FAMILY’ tells the story of how the Gallia sisters fled Nazi persecution in 1938, arriving in Australia with not only the portrait but the whole of their Vienna Workshop interior furnishings with them.

The sisters' furniture and personal effects are now housed in the Art Gallery in Melbourne, but the portrait by Klimt eventually left Australia despite the best efforts of the Australian people to purchase it and is now in the National Gallery, London.

Many thanks to my hosts in Australia and to ADFAS for their excellent organisation and hospitality during my tour. It was a delight and a pleasure!

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