Wessex Connected: Day 4 For Arts Society Members of The Art and Culture of North America Canadian Art with Stella Lyons

Tuesday 23 February 2027

Canadian Art: Emily Carr. Tom Tomson and the Group of Seven with Stella Lyons

For more information go to the Events page on www.theartssocietywessexarea.org.uk (click on this link)

Emily Carr’s work is a window into the soul of the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest. This Study Day will examine her mysterious landscapes, her paintings of towering totem poles, ‘Indian’ churches and indigenous villages.

Thomson and the Group of Seven painted Canada in all its bleak beauty. They combined Arts and Crafts decoration, Fauvist colour, Expressionist energy and Pointillist brushwork to paint what they knew – Canadian nature. They sought our wild and remote landscapes untouched by man. In just over a decade the group defined the iconic view of Canada. They established a national art that is finally becoming truly international.

Stella Grace Lyons is a freelance Art History lecturer. She gained her First Class BA in the History of Art from Bristol and her MA in History of Art from the University of Warwick.

These events are organised by Christopher Clarke, Wessex Area Coordinator of Education who can be contacted by emailing wessexconnectedevents@gmail.com

More detailed information can be found on www.theartssocietywessexarea.org.uk

TICKETS MAY BE CANCELLED AND REFUNDED UP TO TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE EVENT, LESS AN ADMINISTRATION FEE.