Art Appreciation Weekend Selkirk Arms Hotel 2025          

‘Masters of Colour’ Selkirk Arms Hotel, Kirkcudbright.          

Friday 14th March -Sunday15th 2025

The Selkirk art appreciation weekends are designed to increase your enjoyment of art in a relaxed and informal setting. There is time during the illustrated talks for questions and discussion. Your tutor Jeremy Carlisle BA (Hons) MA is a practising artist and enthusiastic art historian.

Welcome! Colour. What is not to like? A weekend to learn about and to enjoy a school of
exceptional painters who are characterised by their informed use of colour.
How dull the world would be if all the colour in the world suddenly drained away and everything was transformed into uniform grey. That would be Sauchiehall Street on a wet November afternoon you say. It’s true though for much of the time we take the miracle of colour for granted.

We will introduce the weekend on Friday evening by looking at the work of the British painter Ivon Hitchens (1883-1979). A painter who, though his work is a little neglected now, exhibits a lyricism, energy and vitality that captures you. And for the purposes of the weekend he was a truly great colourist. Talks following Friday evening will trace the development and understanding of colour in painting from Titian to Monet by way of Juan Gris, Egon Schiele, Degas, Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse and a few surprises

Arrive Friday - check in from 2pm

Meet your host for the weekend Jeremy Carlisle at a drinks and canapés reception in the Burns room at 6pm before your first talk and dinner and a chance to meet your fellow residents attending the Art Appreciation weekend.

First talk 6.30 and your introduction to the “Masters of Colour”

Dinner will be served at 7.30pm

Saturday

Breakfast served from 07.15 to 09.15

First talk of the day 10am - 11am - a break for coffee and then 11.30 - 12.45 before a soup and sandwich lunch

The afternoon is free to explore Kirkcudbright and the many wonderful galleries

Pre dinner drinks and canapés at 6pm, 6.30 talk before dinner at 7.30pm

Sunday

Breakfast served from 08.00 - 09.30

First talk of the day will start at 10am with the same format as Saturday and finishing with a soup and sandwich lunch.

Price inclusive of dinner, bed, breakfast, pre dinner drinks, talks and soup and sandwich lunches £299 Per person based on 2 people sharing a twin or double room £450pp single room / occupancy

Linocut Printmaking classes with the world famous Laura Boswell

selected course dates from May to September 2025

PRINTMAKER COURSES WITH LAURA BOSWELL - JUST OPPOSITE THE HOTEL - WHAT COULD BE HANDIER

Click the webpage above to be taken to Laura’s site