Alexander Creswell and Watts Gallery will be hosting 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, the first painter to use the space since Watts’s death in 1904.

Each colloquium will take the form of an informal lecture with two speakers in conversation.

30th June 2011: Creswell Colloquium with Oliver Everett, Royal Librarian Emeritus
Watts’s Great Studio, Limnerslease, Down Lane, Compton, Surrey GU3 1DJ
Drinks at 7.30pm followed by a talk 8 - 9pm

8th September 2011: Creswell Colloquium with Mark Bills, Curator of Watts Gallery
Watts Gallery, Down Lane, Compton, Surrey GU3 1DJ
Drinks at 6.30pm followed by a talk at 7pm

Creswell will talk about G. F. Watts in relation to his own work with Mark Bills, curator of Watts Gallery, and formerly senior curator of paintings, prints, and drawings, the Museum of London. This colloquium will be held in Watts Gallery surrounded by Watts’s masterpieces where Creswell & Mark Bills will explore the concept of Watts as an artist of today.  

RESCHEDULED FOR: 16th November 2011: Creswell Colloquium with The Very Reverend Victor Stock, Dean of Guildford Cathedral
Watts Gallery, Down Lane, Compton, Surrey GU3 1DJ
Drinks at 6.30pm followed by a talk at 7pm

This colloquium will be held in the Watts Gallery where Creswell will discuss his work with The Very Reverend Victor Stock, exploring the concept of ‘Spirit of Place’ in Faith, Art and Architecture.

HOW TO BOOK:

Tickets are extremely limited, book online, stating that you are a friend of Creswell, at www.wattsgallery.org.uk or call Watts Gallery on 01483 813593, (visitor centre open Tuesday - Saturday 11-5pm). Tickets £10 (Watts Friends £8)

PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to view the newly re-opened Watts Gallery at 5.30pm on each of the dates above please contact us direct by emailing kate@alexandercreswell.com or calling 01483 277311

TRAVEL:
Car: From A3 take B3000 from A3 signed to Godalming/Farnham (brown signs to Loseley) and then Compton. After the roundabout at the end of the slip road take the first left on the B3000, this is Down Lane. Pass the Watts Chapel on your right hand side and take the next left signposted Great Studio, turn immediate right and follow the drive up to Limnerslease. There is parking near the pond. The Great Studio entrance is directly in front of you as you walk up the drive to Limnerslease house.
Rail: Guildford Station. Trains from Waterloo run direct to Guildford approximately 4 times an hour.

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Any queries please contact: kate@alexandercreswell.com