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Enrich your experience on future visits to Richmond Park as artist Tim Craven explores how British artists have seen trees.

Richmond Park has an amazing number of trees and is a top UK site for ancient trees. Trees fascinate us, through their beauty and longevity, through myths and legends, and through the food and shelter they give to thousands of other species, including ourselves.

Through Tim’s talk on Trees in British Art History,  we will explore how and why the Tree has been a major subject for artists, including as a motif in abstract art, and the Tree’s current role for painters as a symbol of our fragile, natural environment.

John Berger, in his ground-breaking series ‘Ways of seeing’ said:  “The way we see things is affected by what we know or believe.” Listening to Tim’s talk we hope will enrich your experience on future visits to Richmond Park and maybe you will see and love aspects of its trees that you have never noticed before.

In person or live streamed. Book at treesinart.eventbrite.co.uk