SPECIAL INTEREST MORNINGS Venue: THE ARTS CENTRE STAMFORD PE9 2DL Nearest car park - Wharf Road PE9 2DU October 21st 2025 Jacqueline Cockburn Beside the Spanish Seaside Explore Pablo Picasso in Malaga, and Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona. This promises to be a wonderful study morning shining a light on two extraordinary and very different artistic geniuses from the sunny south coast of Spain - Pablo Picasso and Antoni Gaudí. Our lecturer is Dr Jacqueline Cockburn who is an art historian and linguist, with specialist expertise in the area of southern Spain. After a career in academic teaching at Birkbeck College, the University of London and Westminster School she is now a freelance lecturer,currently lecturing at the Royal Academy and course director and lecturer at the V&A and other private intuitions. Jacqueline is managing director of Art and Culture Andalusia. Lecture 1 concerns Pablo Picasso from Malaga tracing the development from the un-academic, chaotic world of his childhood to his move to the north, art school and the heady city of Barcelona and his dramatic appearance on the artistic stage of the early 20th century. View of Málaga from El Morlaco Daniel Capilla Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Lecture 2 shows how Gaudí shaped the city of Barcelona with his quirky architectural style, engaging with nature and the sea in the most innovative and extraordinary ways. Barcelona - Panorama View on Main square (Parc Güell) 1900-14 by Antoni Gaudí 02. Txllxt TxllxT Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Cost which includes coffee: Arts Society Members £26.50 Non-Members £30 Click here for a booking form.