Three lectures and Lunch

Lecture 1. Pablo Picasso in Malaga

Lecture 2. Joaquin Sorolla in Valencia

Lecture 3. Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona

Each artist will take his place in his home town and we will explore how Picasso learnt his trade.

From his father in Andalusia, how Sorolla adored the light of Valencia and could hardly bare to

Leave the city and see how Gaudi shaped the city of Barcelona with his quirky architectural style which drew heavily on nature itself and the sea.

The late David Hockney,  was a true British ‘national treasure’. He was a fine draughtsman, but first came to fame in the early 1960s for his graffiti-like paintings depicting coded but discreet scenes of homosexual love, at a time when the subject was taboo and homosexuality was still illegal in Britain. Since then he has painted in many different styles, including photography and a wide variety of other media. His Royal Academy and Tate Britain shows in recent years included works using i-Phones, i-Pads and multi-camera videos. He also had amajor exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris in 2025. Tate Britain has a major exhibition of his work planned from October 2027 till February 2028.