The Scone ADFAS presents this lecture by Joanne Rymer
Tuesday 12 May 2026 6.30pm
Upper Hunter Shire Council Liverpool St, Scone
Members free, Guest $30
Refreshments will be served after lecture.
Note: cash, cheque or bank transfer prior to the lecture only (no credit card).
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Joanne RHYMER
Since completing an MA at University College London (UCL) in the History of Art: Modernism and the Politics of Representation (1997), Jo was employed in various roles at the National Gallery, including Adult Learning Officer and the Head of Adult Learning Programmes. In a freelance capacity, she has worked for prestigious learning departments in London galleries and institutions including the Tate, the Hayward Gallery, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as leading group excursions in the UK and abroad. She is currently a Panel Tutor for the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge and teaches for the Wallace Collection and the V&A as well as a range of private institutions. Her areas of specialism include 19th-century and early 20th-century French art, and interests include the visual skills involved in sustained viewing of paintings.
BARBIZON PAINTERS: PIONEERS OF THE FOREST AND MODERN PAINTING
In the early 19th century, the Forest of Fontainebleau, situated 35 miles from Paris, became a key inspiration for modern landscape painting. Artists and tourists flocked there to escape the city. For painters, the Forest’s diverse terrain – woodlands, rocks, oaks, marshes, and glades – offered endless opportunities to explore light, colour, and composition. Painting en plein air (out of doors) transformed artistic practice, fostering new realism and atmospheric effects. Looking at work by painters including Théodore Rousseau and Jean-François Millet – members of the so-called Barbizon School – we will discover how they innovated and laid the groundwork for French Impressionism.