Alexander Creswell and Watts Gallery have hosted three Colloquia in Watts’s Great Studio & Watts Gallery to mark the re-opening of the Watts Gallery and to celebrate Creswell’s tenure in the Great Studio in 2011, the first painter to use the space since Watts’s death in 1904.

Colloquia take the form of an informal illustrated discussion with two speakers in conversation.

Past Colloquia include:

30th June 2011: Creswell Colloquium with Oliver Everett, Royal Librarian Emeritus
Discussing the times Creswell & Everett shared at Windsor Castle, following the calamitous fire and subsequent restoration.

Watts’s Great Studio, Limnerslease, Down Lane, Compton, Surrey GU3 1DJ

8th September 2011: Creswell Colloquium with Mark Bills, Curator of Watts Gallery
Discussing Watts's influence on artists today and the concepts of magnitude in art.  This colloquium was held in Watts Gallery surrounded by Watts’s masterpieces

Watts Gallery, Down Lane, Compton, Surrey GU3 1DJ

16th November 2011: Creswell Colloquium with The Very Reverend Victor Stock, Dean of Guildford Cathedral
Discussing the Spirit of Place in the Architecture of Faith

Watts Gallery, Down Lane, Compton, Surrey GU3 1DJ