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21 June 2022From Peasants to Czars: A Portrait of 19th Century Russia
17 May 2022The Georgian House Around the World
19 April 2022Marathon! The battle that "Decided the Future of Human Civilisation."
15 March 2022The GPO Film Unit: The Birth of Documentaries
01 March 2022SIM Great Norfolk Houses
15 February 2022Music in Art
18 January 2022"So they do Cook After All!" Ravilious, Bawden and the Great Bardfield Artists
16 November 2021Leonardo da Vinci: Pathfinder of Science
19 October 2021The Subtle Science and Exact Art of Colour in English Garden Design. Why Gardens can rank as Fine Art
21 September 2021A Highland Thing? 18th to 20th Century Scottish Art
20 July 2021Alchemy & Adventure: A History of Exotic Colours and Poisonous Pigments
15 June 2021The Talent in Tite Street
18 May 2021Artemesia Gentileschi: Daughter of Rome, Painter of Europe
20 April 2021Mad, Bad and Fascinating to know - The Colourful Ancestors of the Dukes of Bedford
16 March 2021The Sutton Hoo Burial and Treasure
16 February 2021Beethoven at 250: Classical Music's Greatest Revolutionary
19 January 2021The Borgias - The Most Infamous Family in History
14 December 2020Rupert Bear - Christmas special
17 November 2020Spirit of the North: Sun and Snow - Nordic Landscape Painting
20 October 2020Charles Dickens - the Man and his life through his Characters
15 September 2020Packing up the Nation. The Story of our National Treasures in World War II
16 June 2020A Highland Thing? 18th - 20th Century Scottish Art
19 May 2020"So they do cook after all!" Ravilious, Bawden and the Great Bardfield artists
21 April 2020Marathon! The battle that "decided the future of human civilisation"
17 March 2020The Georgian House around the world
18 February 2020Royal Jewels and the American Heiress
21 January 2020The Wind in the Willows REVISITED through its illustrators
19 November 2019Edward Lear
15 October 2019Paul Nash
17 September 2019Land of Great Kings, Shahs and Ayatollahs
18 June 2019Zaha Hadid
21 May 2019Thomas Moran (1837 - 1926): The Turner of the American West
16 April 201917th Century Cabinets and Dolls' Houses in the Netherlands
19 March 2019Food and Art through the Ages
19 February 2019Behind the Walls: Creativity, Visions and Horrors in Renaissance Italian Convents
15 January 2019Shaken by an Earthquake – Igor Stravinsky, the Ballet Russes and the astonishing 1913 Premiere of The Rite of Spring
03 December 201850th ANNIVERSARY LECTURE & LUNCH The Arts Society (formerly NADFAS) 50th Anniversary Lecture and Lunch at Lavenham Village Hall for Members of the Arts Society South Suffolk.
20 November 2018The Wry Observer
16 October 2018Natural History Collections - What are they used for?
18 September 2018From Garbo to Garland: the magical art of Hollywood. Lights, camera, action
19 June 2018Wedgwood, Catherine the Great and the Frog Service
15 May 2018Art & Revolution: Russian Culture in the 20th Century
17 April 2018Why did Laura Knight become so famous?
20 March 2018The Influence of Basingstoke on World Culture
20 February 2018Cannibalism in Art
16 January 2018Artists' Studio Houses in the late 19th Century
21 November 2017The Young Picasso - what really happened in the Bateau Lavoir?
17 October 2017Amazing Architecture: from the sublime to the rediculed
19 September 2017The Taj Mahal: its architecture, origins, construction, interiors and surroundings.
20 June 2017Jan Steen; a 17th Century Golden Age Dutch Painter and Storyteller
16 May 2017Designing Historical Costumes for Film and TV
18 April 2017The Impact of Glass on Everyday Lives
21 March 2017To the Far Side of the World: Capt. James Cook and the Age of Enlightenment
21 February 2017Benin Bronzes
17 January 2017Treasures of the Turf - the fine & decorative art of Horse Racing
15 November 2016From Palladio to Capability Brown
18 October 2016The Age of Chivalry & Eglinton Tournament
20 September 2016Gustav Klimt & Vienna
21 June 2016The Development of the Drinking Glass
17 May 2016The Magical Art of Camouflage
19 April 2016The Day Parliament Burned Down
15 March 2016'A Child of Six could do it!' Cartoonists' views of Modern Art
16 February 2016Temples, Tombs & Treasures
19 January 2016Suffolk Churches and St Edmund
17 November 2015Grandfather Frost & Old New Year.
20 October 2015Prague: The City of the Winter Queen
15 September 2015The Art of London
16 June 2015Mrs Beeton presents the art of the table.
19 May 2015Wassily Kandinsky
21 April 2015Laura Ashley's influence in the 1970s
17 March 2015Why Medieval Buildings fall down.
17 February 2015The Thames: Theatre of Pageantry and Pleasure
20 January 2015Contemporary silver of the 20th and 21st centuries.
18 November 2014Gems for Life, from frozen forests to reindeer.
21 October 2014Jewel of the Crown, The Sainte Chappelle in Paris
16 September 2014Summer in February, The Newlyn School
17 June 2014Masters of the Renaissance: Leonardo and Michelango
20 May 2014Mr 5% and the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum,Lisbon
15 April 2014Francis 1 of France: Renaissance Prince and Patron 1494 - 1547
18 March 2014Bath: a World Heritage City
18 February 2014Craft and the Machine
21 January 2014Sticky Tape, Moths and Men
19 November 2013Christmas at Covent Garden
15 October 2013Impressionists in their Gardens
17 September 2013The Punch and Judy Show

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From Peasants to Czars: A Portrait of 19th Century Russia Brian Healey Tuesday 21 June 2022

From the snowy, enigmatic landscapes of Levitan and majestic forests of Shishkin to the moving portraits and epic panoramas of Repin, only hardened cynics will fail to be unmoved by the power of Russian realism artists. 

A senior modern languages teacher in an independent grammar school for many years, I have also enjoyed a successful parallel career since the 1980s as a professional artist and interior designer. Since 2006 I have been regularly appointed to a number of prestigious ocean and river cruise lines, either as resident artist, guest lecturer on art history or as destination speaker for more than forty countries. Most recently this work has successfully extended to art guiding through important towns and museums in France, Belgium, Holland and Spain.