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A Paradise Garden: The Meaning of Medieval Plants in Art & The Nature of the Beast: Animals in Medieval Art - Fri 8th May 2026 - Yehudi Menuhin Hall In the Sunday Times magazine at the beginning of this year, Waldemar Januszczak wrote a two page lesson on how to look at a painting to get more meaning from it.  He wrote “Getting the most out of paintings involves a determination to go deeper.   When we look at a painting we look at somebody’s message. Not all those messages ar

We were party central for our final talk of 2025, celebrating 20 years of The Arts Society Horsley Lovelace and kicking off the Christmas festivities in the company of Mr Christmas, Charles Dickens.    Bertie Pearce Bertie Pearce was our speaker, and he is an expert on the life and times of this most famous of writers. We came to understand what drove some of the works and imaginings of Dickens, based on his early life experiences. Life in Victorian England could be harsh and

At West Horsley Place The Arts Society has volunteers working in the library and, several are members of TASHL. To date we have cleaned,...