Tuesday Evening Lectures

After her initial study in Finland at the Lahti Design Institute Rauni graduated BA Hons from Birmingham and set up as a silversmith at her studio in North Wales. She works in a converted chapel in the mountains of Snowdonia where she creates her...

Peter Brown is a British Impressionist painter, a Manchester graduate now living and working  in Bath, who has developed a plein air style never relying on photographic images. He was elected to the New English Art Club in 1998. In addition he is a formidable portrait painter and in 2008 won the Prince of Wales Award for Portrait Drawing. His work is regularly seen in Art Galleries in Cardiff where he has spent much time capturing the life of the city and its surroundings.

Stella Lyons is a Cardiff based art historian. Educated in Cardiff, she gained a BA [1st Class Hons.] in the History of Art at Bristol University during which she spent a year in Florence studying the art of the Renaissance. This lecture will look at the Glasgow Four, who included the painter and glass artist Margaret MacDonald. This group was influential in the movements of the time – the Arts and Crafts Movement, Japonisme and the Celtic Revival.