Category Archives: Visits
Visit – Derby Blackfriars
The Friary is a pub and hotel located on the former remains a former Dominican priory situated in Friargate in Derby. I only discovered the history through visiting the pub prior to visiting Pickford’s House and as it turns out … Continue reading
Visit to Town or Country House – Pickford’s House
For the visit in this section of the course you could choose to visit a town or country house with a view to looking for evidence in how art was used as a way of life. We are lucky here … Continue reading
Visit – Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
During May and also July I took the opportunity to visit the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford albeit on constricted timescales (including the day of my eldest son’s wedding!). However the visits did give me a taster of the museum and … Continue reading
Research the Roman occupation – North Leigh Roman Villa
Frustratingly I live in a Roman city but one with virtually no Roman ruins – the only ones in Derby are of two wells which are not exactly photographically exciting but I have family living near a villa just outside … Continue reading
Exercise: Drawing Classical Figure Sculptures
The course notes set an exercise to draw or make tracings of classical figure sculptures and to choose a variety of figures. One drawing is then developed further to increase powers of observation. I choose to draw 3 sculptures or … Continue reading
Visit to a Gothic church – St Mary’s Catholic Church, Derby
For the visit for this assignment the destination was to a Gothic or Victorian Gothic Church or Cathedral and for this task I was incredibly lucky because a leading figure of the Victorian Gothic revival style was Augustus Pugin who … Continue reading
History of Art - Jane M Murdock 