Painshill Park, Chinese Bridge and Great Cedar, Cobham. Photograph by Andy Scott, reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Member Lectures

Art and the creation of the landscape garden at Painshill

Begins: Saturday 30 November 2019
Until: Sunday 1 December 2019
(3pm (after the AGM at 2pm))
The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AT
Lecturer: Michael Symes

The Maria Shirley Lecture 2019

Lecturer

Michael Symes is a garden historian specialising in 18th-century gardens in Britain and on the continent. He is a Vice-President of the Gardens Trust and President of the Birkbeck Garden History Group. Michael founded the Masters in Garden History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a lecturer, author of numerous articles for the Garden History journal and several books including Prints and the Landscape Garden (pub.2024) & Observations on Modern Gardening, by Thomas Whately (pub.2016).

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