Past Events
Apr 2023 to Jun 2023
15 June 2023 by Fabian Watkinson
The house that no one wanted - Erno Goldfinger & 2 Willow Road
Fabian has a passion for architecture and is the author of The Golden Age of Camden Housing. He has been a National Trust volunteer guide at 2 Willow Road in Hampstead for the past five years and he will tell us about the controversy surrounding its building in the 1930s and the equal controversy surrounding its acquisition by the National Trust in the early 90s.
18 May 2023 by Rosmond Kinsey Milner
Vermeer: Painted Traces of the Sphinx of Delft
Johannes Vermeer, man of mystery, is often called the Sphinx of Delft. No letters, no diaries, no drawings, no sketchbooks exist and there are very few official documents in which his name appears. We know Vermeer through his painted traces. The current major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, which is the largest collection of his paintings ever assembled, and the new technological research prompted by this unprecedented event, thus promise to reveal more both about his working practice and his life.
Rosmond Kinsey Milner, retired Senior Lecturer in The Cass Faculty of Art at London Metropolitan University, is a practising artist and for the past nine years has been a volunteer at Kenwood House where she gives house tours and regular talks on Vermeer and other artists. She plans to talk about what the Rijksmuseum exhibition tells us of Vermeer and also about the one that got away - The Guitar Player at Kenwood House - and why this painting is unique in his oeuvre.
19 April 2023 by Averil Nottage
Artists, Refugees and Spies
How art and espionage flourished in Belsize in the 1930s