Foreign Trips
Since June 1997 Colin Kirby-Green has run 24 cultural visits to places abroad and in the UK. These are usually designed to enable participants to enjoy great works of art as well as the architecture, culture and in some cases the archaeology of the particular venues. In a few cases the trips are designed specifically to allow students to paint and draw on site. On all these visits people are welcome to pursue their own interests rather than follow the main itinerary.
Colin leading a trip to India, September 2007
There follows a list of the places visited during the last few years.
Date
Duration
Destination
Number of participants
Places visited
1
June 1997
7 days
Avignon by coach
25 Plus Students from French language department
Landscape painting on site plus visits to Palais du Papes, Petit Palais, Arles, The Camargue & Reims Cathedral on return journey.
2
June 1998
5 days
Paris, Montparnasse
by coach
35
Visits to Louvre, Musée d’Orsai, Tuilleries, Picasso Museum, Rodin Museum.
3
Easter
1999
10 days
Spoleto area, Umbria
and Tuscany
12
Landscape painting on site plus visits to Spoleto, Orvieto, Perugia, Spello, Montefalco, Gubbio, Cortona (Tuscany)
4
Easter 2000
9 days
Spoleto area, Umbria
and Tuscany
16
Landscape painting on site plus visits to Spoleto, Orvieto, Perugia, Spello, Montefalco, Gubbio, Cortona (Tuscany), Arezzo and San Giovanni Valdarno (Tuscany)
5
June
2000
7 days
New York
Manhattan
49
Visits to Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art, The Witney Museum, Frick Collection, Manhattan Tour, and visit to Ellis Island.
6
Easter
2001
10 days
Northern Italy
22
Lake Garda, Venice, (St Marks, the Accadamia Gallery, The Gugenheim Museum,) Verona, (St Zeno,s Church, Palazzo Vecchio, the Arena, Scalierie Tombs etc), Bergamo (the Accademia Carrara Gallery) Vicenza (Teatro Olimpico) , Mantua, (Palazzo Ducale, Palazzo Te) Padua (Scrovegni Chapel, the Basilica di San Antonio, the Pinacotecca), Milan (the Brera Gallery and the Cathedral).
7
May 2001
5 days
Paris
by coach
49
Louvre, Musée d’Orsai, Sainte Chapelle, Monet’s house at Giverney, Auvers-sur-Oise , Chantilly, Musée Condé, WW1 Armistice site at Compèigne,.
8
October 2001
8 days
Rome & Naples area
50
Vatican, Sistine Chapel, Capua Vetere, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Paestum, Cumae, Naples Archaeological Museum.
9
April 2002
5 days
Amsterdam
by coach
26
Rijkes Museum. Van Gogh Museum for the Van Gogh / Gauguin exhibition, Rembrandt House, Mauritshaus in The Hague.
10
June 2002
7 days
Painting in Collioure
(Southern France)
24
Painting on site with excursions to Museum of Modern Art in Ceret and the Maillol Museum in Banyuls.
11
October 2002
8 days
Barcelona & Madrid
33
All Gaudi sites, Tarragona, Zaragossa Cathedral, Toledo. Prado and Thyssen museums and Queen Sofia art centre in Madrid.
12
February 2003
7 days
Florence, Tuscany & Umbria
49
Siena, Assisi, Arrezo, Florence (Uffizi Gallery, the Bargello, San Marco, Palazzo Pitti, Duomo and Duomo Museum, Palazzo Medici Ricardi, Santa Maria Novella) Fiesole, Pisa (Duomo, Cathedral Museum, Campo Santo, Sinopie Museum).
13
November 2003
6 days
Glasgow & Edinburgh
By train
34
All the Charles Rennie Mackintosh sites, Burrell Collection, Rosslyn Chapel, National Galleries of Scotland etc in Edinburgh.
14
April 2004
7 days
Northern Italy
38
Lake Garda, Venice, (St Marks, the Accademia Gallery, The Guggenheim Museum,) Verona, (St Zeno,s Church, Palazzo Vecchio, the Arena, Scalierie Tombs etc), Mantua, (Palazzo Ducale, Palazzo Te), Sabbionetta, Padua (Scrovegni Chapel, the Basilica di San Antonio, the Pinacotecca), Milan (the Brera Gallery and the Cathedral).
15
April 2005
7 days
Istanbul/Turkey
51
In Istanbul, Hagia Sophia, St Saviour in Chora, Blue Mosque, Sulyman Mosque, Topkapi Palace, Archaeological Museum,and the Cistern.
Anatolian coast - Troy, Ephesus, Priene, Didyma,
16
May 2005
5 days
Liverpool &
Manchester
30
Tate Liverpool, the Walker Gallery, the Lady Lever Gallery, in Manchester the Lowry Gallery, Whitworth Gallery, Speke Hall, Moseley Old Hall, and Baddesley Clinton.
17
October
2005
2005
8 days
Vienna & Prague
40
In Prague, The Sternberg Palace, the Czech National Gallery, Hradcany Castle, St Agnes Convent etc.
In Vienna, The Schoenbrunn Palace, the Kunsthistoriches Museum, The Leopold Museum, Austrian Gallery in the Upper Belvedere etc,
February
2006
2006
7 days
The Alhambra Palace, Granada, Seville, Ronda & Cordoba
In Seville, The House of Pilate, The Alcazar Palace & Cathedral etc
In Cordoba, The Mesquita Mosque
In Granada, The Alhambra Palace, Royal Chapel etc
In Ronda, The Bullring, The Arab Baths, and many other sites.
In Cordoba, The Mesquita Mosque
In Granada, The Alhambra Palace, Royal Chapel etc
In Ronda, The Bullring, The Arab Baths, and many other sites.
May
2006
2006
8 days
Uffizi Gallery, the Bargello, San Marco, etc. Arezzo, Sansepolcro, Ravenna mosaics, the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, central Bologna.
October
2006
2006
5 days
Cornwall Art & Gardens
The Tate St Ives, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Museum, Eden project, Heligan Gardens, St Michael’s Mount, Falmouth Maritime Museum,
Kingston Lacy house and gardens
Kingston Lacy house and gardens
18
20
June
2006
2006
9 days
Landscape painting on site plus visits to Cortona, Spoleto and Orvieto.
21
Paris by
Eurostar
Eurostar
The Louvre, Musée D’Orsay,
Sainte-Chapelle, Musée Maillol,
Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso,
Musée Rodin,plus other galleries
Sainte-
Musée Rodin,plus other galleries
Assisi, Perugia, Gubbio, Montefalco, Spello, Narni, Todi, Spoleto
