Foreign Trips
Since June 1997 Colin Kirby-Green made 26 cultural visits abroad and to the United Kingdom.
These are generally designed to allow participants to enjoy great works of art as well as the architecture, culture and in some cases the archaeology of the particular Venus. 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 following the main itinerary.
Below is a list of the places visited during the last few years
There follows a list of places visited during the last few years.
|
Date |
Duration |
Destination |
Number of Participants |
Places Visited |
1 |
June |
7 days |
Avignon by Coach |
25 Plus Students from French Language Department |
Landscape painting on site plus visits to Palais du Papes, Petit Palais, Alres, The Camargue & Reims Cathedral on return journey. |
2 |
June 1998 |
5 days |
Paris, Montparnasse by coach |
35 |
Visits to Louvre, Mussée 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 Accademia Gallery, The Guggenheim 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 |
49 |
Louvre, Mussée d’Orsai, Sainte Chapelle, Monet’s house at Giverney, Auvers-sur-Oise, Chantilly, Mussée Condé, WW1 Armistice site and 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 |
24 |
Painting on site with excursions to Museum of Modern Art in Crete and the Maillol Museum in Banyuls. |
11 |
October 2002 |
8 days |
Barcelona |
33 |
All Gaudi sites, Tarragona, Zaragossa Cathedral, Toledo. Prado and Thyssen museums and Queen Sofia are centre in Madrid. |
12 |
February 2003 |
7 days |
Florence, Tuscany & Umbria |
49 |
Siena, Assisi, Arrezo, Florence (Uffizi Gallery, the Bargello, San Maro, Palazzo Pitti, Duomo and Ricardi, Santa Maria Novella) Fiesole, Pisa (Duomo, Cathedral Museum, Campo Santo, Sinopie Museum). |
13 |
November 2003 |
6 days |
Glasgow |
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 |
|
15 |
April 2005 |
7 days |
Istanbul/Turkey |
51 |
|
16 |
May |
5 days |
Liverpool |
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 |
8 days |
Vienna |
40 |
In Prague, The Sternberg Palace, the Czech National Gallery, Hradčany Castle, St Agnes Convent etc. |
18 |
February 2006 |
7 days |
The Alhambra Palace, Granada, Seville, Ronda & Cordoba |
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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. |
19 |
May |
8 days |
Florence & the Adriatic Coast |
|
Uffizi Gallery, the Bargello, San Marco, etc. Arezzo, Sansepolcro, Ravenna mosaics, the Plazzo Ducale in Urbino, central Bologna. |
20 |
June 2006 |
9 days |
Landscape Printing in Umbria |
|
Landscape painting on site plus visits to Cortona, Spoleto and Orvieto. |
21 |
October 2006 |
5 days |
Cornwall Art |
|
The Tate St Ives, Barara Hepworth Sculpture Museum, Eden Project, Heligan Gardens, St Michael’s Mount, Falmouth Martime Museum, Kingston Lacy House and Gardens. |
22 |
February 2007 |
5 days |
Paris by Eurostar |
|
The Louvre, Mussée D’Orsay, Sainte-Chapelle, Mussée Maillol, Mussée Guimet, Mussée Picasso, Mussée Rodin, plus other galleries. |
23 |
May |
7 days |
Hidden Italy |
|
Assisi, Perugia, Gubbio, Montefalco, Spello, Narni, Todi & Spoleto. |
24 |
September 2007 |
11 days |
Splendours of India |
|
New & Old Dehli, Jaipur, Fatephur Sikri, Agra, Orchha, Kajhuraho, Sarnath & Varanasi. |
25 |
June |
9 days |
Landscape Painting in Umbria |
|
Landscape Painting on site plus visits to Montefalco, Spello, Peruguia & Spoleto. |
26 |
June |
9 days |
Landscape Painting in Umbria |
|
Landscape Painting on site plus visits to Assi, Spello, Orvieto & Spoleto. |
27 |
June |
9 days |
Landscape Painting in Umbria |
|
Landscape Painting on site plus visits to Peruguia, Cortona, Spello Assisi & Spoleto. |
28 |
June |
9 days |
Castles |
|
Landscape Painting on site in Zamora plus visits to Salamanca, Toro & Miranda. |
29 |
June |
9 days |
Castles |
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Landscape Painting on site in Zamora plus visits to Toro, Morales del Vino, a boat trip to Aldeadavilla & Ciudad Rodrigo, and a visit to the church of San Pedro del la Nave. |
Art history commentary, sketching tuition, and in the cases of 8, 11, 12 and 15 archaeological commentary were offered on all of these trips.