Lectures

I give talks on many aspects of Art History and Creativity.

I am an Accredited Lecturer for The Arts Society.

Contact me for more information.

The “take 6” series features 6 different artists or viewpoints from different times and places united by a common theme 

take 6 : LAND

take 6 : INTERIOR

take 6 : DRAWING

take 6 : MUSIC

take 6 : BEAUTY

Old Masters

OUT OF DARKNESS - Rembrandt and Caravaggio

REMBRANDT : Why Self Portraits?

TITIAN - God of Painting

TITIAN’S POESIE - His legendary series of mythologies for Philip II of Spain

VELASQUEZ - Prince of Painters

BOTTICELLI - Mystic Beauty

MICHELANGELO and The SISTINE CHAPEL

CARAVAGGIO - Darkness in Light

Moderns

THE IMPRESSIONIST REVOLUTIONS

DEGAS - Revolutionary Conservative

VINCENT - 1888 - 1890

Walter Richard SICKERT - Man and Masks

GIACOMETTI  - Obsessed By The Gaze

EDWARD HOPPER - Painting Lonely Street

BACON and FREUD - The Human Presence

FRANCIS BACON - A Gilded Gutter Life

FREUD - Paint As Flesh

PICASSO - Success and Scandal

PICASSO the DRAUGHTSMAN

THE GEOMETRY OF FEAR - British sculpture after the Second World War

JENNY SAVILLE - Internationally successful Contemporary British figurative artist

EGON SCHIELE - The ultimate Viennese Expressionist who died tragically young

EXPRESSIONISM - It’s Personal. An overview of the idea of Expressionism

JOHN SINGER SARGENT - Facility : Fame : Failure

JOHN SINGER SARGENT - The Society Portrait

Thematic

ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME? - Looking at Self Portraits

PAINTING & PHOTOGRAPHY - The fascinating history of the relationship between them. In two parts - 1830 - 1900 and 1900 - the present

black is black? - images and attitudes showing images of “blackness” and “whiteness” through history

THE SOCIETY PORTRAIT - the changing face of “society” portraiture, and changing society, over the last four centuries.

VIENNA 1900 : Sex Death Design - A survey of the dramatic social and artistic changes during this turbulent period covering c1890 - 1918 A crucial period in the development of Modernism and new ways of trying to understand the world.

The Scottish Series

The GLASGOW BOYS

THE SCOTTISH COLOURISTS

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH

JOAN EARDLEY and ANNE REDPATH - For Love of Paint 

Creativity Workshops

Catching The Image" - Where do ideas come from? how can we develop them?
"Taking A Chance On Chance" - How a wide range of artists have used Chance to help their Creativity.
"Old Masters - New Medium" - Adapting the the old techniques to new needs
"Every Picture Tells A Story" - Using favourite texts for inspiration.


Contact
Email: ronnieireland2@gmail.com
Telephone: 07836 763386