The Little Grand Tour

03/06/2021

💚 Farm at Watendlath, by Dora Carrington, 1921 💚
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Always loved this Dora painting of Cumbria. Painted on honeymoon, Dora was a member of the Bloomsbury Group of artists, she studied at Slade School of Art and was known as Carrington (she thought Dora was rather too ‘sentimental’). Carrington also rarely signed her work or exhibited, meaning she was not that well known during her lifetime. I wonder how she’d feel knowing this painting is now on display at @tate Britain🌟
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This painting is part of our ‘Four Seasons’ tour which you can book via our website www.thelittlegrandtour.co.uk/summer-2021
for this summer ~ £40 per child ~ 4 children with a private tutor for 2 hours in a gallery 🙌 whilst you wander in peace? 😅😍

💚 Farm at Watendlath, by Dora Carrington, 1921 💚
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Always loved this Dora painting of Cumbria. Painted on honeymoon, Dora was a member of the Bloomsbury Group of artists, she studied at Slade School of Art and was known as Carrington (she thought Dora was rather too ‘sentimental’). Carrington also rarely signed her work or exhibited, meaning she was not that well known during her lifetime. I wonder how she’d feel knowing this painting is now on display at @tate Britain🌟
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This painting is part of our ‘Four Seasons’ tour which you can book via our website www.thelittlegrandtour.co.uk/summer-2021
for this summer ~ £40 per child ~ 4 children with a private tutor for 2 hours in a gallery 🙌 whilst you wander in peace? 😅😍

18/05/2021

Planning half-term? Isabel from The Little Grand Tour has some slots available and we highly recommend booking in to see some art in the flesh! Nothing quite like seeing children being fully absorb in the art in front of them.

Sunday 23rd May | 10am | Westminster Tour
Wednesday 2nd June | 2pm | Angel & Architecture Tour
Thursday 3rd June | 10am | Battersea Park

If you would like private tours, these are also perfect for a birthday party or get together! Up to 8 children from 2 households - contact Isabel directly.

14/05/2021

Half term: Culture for the Kids!

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Sunday 23rd May | 10am | Westminster Tour Wednesday 2nd June | 2pm | Angel & Architecture Tour Thursday 3rd June | 10am | Battersea Park If you would like a private tour over half term we still have some slots available (up to 8 children from 2 households). Our Hyde Park tour is also listed online s...

28/04/2021

📣Ready for Rodin? We have some spaces left for our brand new Westminster tour on 23rd May! Our 9th May tour is now fully booked.
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First up will be this magnificent bronze with an intriguing back story by one of the most famous sculptors of the 20th century, Auguste Rodin - The Burghers of Calais, 1915. Followed by a 9 foot sculpture of a hero of our time, Nelson Mandela, by Ian Walters and finally ending with the remarkable Millicent Fawcett sculpture, by Gillian Wearing, which honours the suffragette movement.
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We will enjoy all this and more with the stunning backdrop of Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, built by Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin. Our tour will look at freedom from oppression and the history behind these incredible people and the stories which give them life.

📣Ready for Rodin? We have some spaces left for our brand new Westminster tour on 23rd May! Our 9th May tour is now fully booked.
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First up will be this magnificent bronze with an intriguing back story by one of the most famous sculptors of the 20th century, Auguste Rodin - The Burghers of Calais, 1915. Followed by a 9 foot sculpture of a hero of our time, Nelson Mandela, by Ian Walters and finally ending with the remarkable Millicent Fawcett sculpture, by Gillian Wearing, which honours the suffragette movement.
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We will enjoy all this and more with the stunning backdrop of Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, built by Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin. Our tour will look at freedom from oppression and the history behind these incredible people and the stories which give them life.

26/04/2021

May Tours | History & Politics at Westminster!

New tours for May! 🌿🌿🌿

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Brand New Westminster Tour! Interested in art, history and politics? Then our Westminster tour is the perfect tour for you. First up will be a magnificent bronze with an intriguing back story by one of the most famous sculptors of the 20th century, Auguste Rodin - The Burghers of Calais, 1915. Follo...

13/04/2021

Such a great Modern British sculpture tour today! Battersea Park in the ☀️🌳🇬🇧

08/04/2021

🗽Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a sculpture exhibition in @batterseaparklondon like in 1951....? 🙌 until then we are kicking off with our #batterseapark sculpture tour next week in the spirit of this wonderful exhibition...focusing on #barabrahepworth and #henrymoore 💖

🗽Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a sculpture exhibition in @batterseaparklondon like in 1951....? 🙌 until then we are kicking off with our #batterseapark sculpture tour next week in the spirit of this wonderful exhibition...focusing on #barabrahepworth and #henrymoore 💖

08/04/2021

Battersea Park Sculpture exhibition 1951 #batterseapark stuff of dreams 😍

Battersea Park Sculpture exhibition 1951 #batterseapark stuff of dreams 😍

28/03/2021

It’s taken us a little longer to do this next #artspell ~ lockdown is making us all lose sense of time! But yay it’s half term and no homeschooling next week 👍🏻 Martha & I look at Barbara Hepworth and her wonderful abstract sculptures! Enjoy 💓

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16/03/2021

Easter Holiday Tours | Final Bookings!

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A little reminder to parents to book a space as they are getting booked up fast. There are a few spaces left for our 30th March Hyde Park tour, 13th April Battersea Park tour and also a couple of spaces left on our Angel tour on the 1st April! Our 12th April Hyde Park tour is now fully booked. See b...

14/03/2021

🌷Happy Mother’s Day🌷from the one and only Raphael ~ Madonna on the Meadow, 1505-1506, Oil on poplar

🌷Happy Mother’s Day🌷from the one and only Raphael ~ Madonna on the Meadow, 1505-1506, Oil on poplar

12/03/2021

A few spaces are now available for our Angel Architecture tour ~ Secret London~ April 1st...aimed at 8/9+ up to teens! Booking via www.thelittlegrandtour.co.uk

11/03/2021

Alfresco Art Tours: New Spring Tours - Outdoors!

Only a few places left for 30 March....! Other days all fully booked now! We will be running more of these outdoor tours after Easter for anyone who has missed out this time ☺️

We are so excited to bring you some new tours which we hope will fill that gallery shaped hole until we can get back to what we love best. But this may well become a fixture as who doesn't love a bit of fresh air, spring flowers and culture! We won't let rain put us off either (bring your brolly!) P...

05/03/2021

Alfresco Art Tours: New Spring Tours - Outdoors!

Roll up roll up 🙌

We are so excited to bring you some new tours which we hope will fill that gallery shaped hole until we can get back to what we love best. But this may well become a fixture as who doesn't love a bit of fresh air, spring flowers and culture! We won't let rain put us off either (bring your brolly!) P...

05/03/2021

Alfresco Art Tours: New Spring Tours - Outdoors!

⭐️NEW SPRING TOURS!⭐️

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We are so excited to bring you some new tours which we hope will fill that gallery shaped hole until we can get back to what we love best. But this may well become a fixture as who doesn't love a bit of fresh air, spring flowers and culture! We won't let rain put us off either (bring your brolly!) P...

02/01/2021

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE LITTLE GRAND TOUR!

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We very much hope all our friends and supporters are well - what a year its been! Just a little email to say hello, we are still here! Sophie, Helena and Isabel had a meeting on New Years Eve to look toward a better year ahead - we are planning 3 new outdoor sculpture and architecture tours for 2021...

24/12/2020

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21/12/2020

A Venezia il presepe è in Laguna

Beautiful 💛 Floating Nativity Scene in Venice

A Venezia il presepe è in Laguna

01/11/2020

Feeling sad this al fresco scene is now not even possible after the latest lockdown starting this Thursday...the effect on businesses and everyone’s mental health will be huge..praying we will get back to some sort of normal by Christmas....🙏🏻
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Cafe Terrace at Night by Van Gogh, an artist who had many mental health struggles and found a therapy through his art. Perhaps we should all be painting and creating as much as possible over the next few weeks!?
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Stay safe and well friends 😘

31/10/2020

👻 Happy Halloween from us and Hans Holbein! Spot the Skull 💀 in this painting...to see it & learn more head to the @nationalgallery video in our BIO
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Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors, 1533 is the Renaissance’s answer to Optical Art 🤪
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The skull is painted in ‘anamorphic perspective’ ~ an invention of the Early Renaissance. It’s meant to be a visual puzzle as the viewer must look at the painting from high on the right side, or low on the left side, to see the form of a 3D human skull!

27/10/2020

〰️〰️Fall, 1963, Bridget Riley 〰️〰️
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Art wizard Helena, is in Cornwall this week and we’ve been thinking about Bridget’s childhood spent in Cornwall! Bridget Riley was born in 1931 in London & when World War II broke out her family moved to Cornwall. She would explore the coastline and caves where she would sit and watch the reflections in rock pools. She also liked looking at the sea and how the light made it change colour 💙
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Is this a moving waterfall? Or a fall in all senses of the word? Bridget was the leading light in the 1960’s for Op Art creating shapes, colours and patterns in special ways which made images that look as if they are moving or blurring. Op Art means Optical Art! 👁🤪🧐 Does it make your eyes go funny?

23/10/2020

💫💚 @helenagstevens checking up on our favourite Titian at @nationalgallery ~ we can’t wait to do our revamped Myths and Legends tour again...though Bacchus & Ariadne will most definitely be staying on the menu 💚💫

19/10/2020

🍂 Chosen by Helena 🍂The picture I am currently loving - Autumn Composition, Flowers on a Table, 1932 by Ivon Hitchins @tate
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We can always bring Autumn inside even if we are having to spend more time at home! Collecting leaves and conkers & painting a still life or even painting on them 🎨
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This painting is by Hitchens when he was living in London and you can see there is a big Cubist influence in this work. What autumnal things do you think you can decipher...? 💛❤️💜💚

17/10/2020

💫The wonderful art wizard Sophie creating some magic at our @christiesinc tour 💫 we can’t wait to getting back to the auction houses to see some more masterpieces which aren’t normally on public display!

16/10/2020

💚It’s been a while 👋🏻...just as we were about to start some more tours for small private groups Tier 2 has been brought in 😑....but just to say we are still here planning, plotting, waiting..to bring our tours back 🖼🏛💚 and in the meantime sharing some throwback #littlegrandtours plus some #arthistory posts! Love from the team X
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SO miss our big Calendar tours...this photo is from one of our favourites #PierreBonnard at @tate a couple of years ago!

25/08/2020

❤️First time back at @tate and it felt great! Very civilized and well curated walk round of the 20th century collection but 😭 no groups allowed yet so we’re on hold still for the Calendar tours for the time being, BUT if anyone would like a private tour with max. 2 children please do get in touch! ❤️
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Here we’re looking at the wonderful stripy #patrickheron in the St Ives room!

22/08/2020

🍂Is there anything more nostalgic of childhood than a conker🍂
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If there’s one book to buy for all generations ~ it’s ‘The Lost Words’ by @jackiemorrisartist @robgmacfarlane ~ and how lucky to come across the exhibition of the book up at #thesill on #hadrianswall this week to see the wonderful acrostic poems and sketches which we have become so familiar with! As Jackie says:

“I want The Lost Words to delight the mind and the eye and send children to sleep dreaming of wild things.” 🤍
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#thelostwords #conker #hadrianswall #autumn

@ The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre

13/07/2020

Artpaper.

Artpaper #11 is out soon - with The Malta Independent on Sunday / 19 July 💥

05/07/2020

#savetheartsuk to all those who work in the arts, post a photo of you at work with this hashtag to raise awareness 🙏🏻

01/07/2020

Curated Highlights | Families Day

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With Isabel Lamb, Founder & Director, The Little Grand Tour Masterpiece Online showcases our exhibitors’ knowledge and passion, conveying a sense of discover...

01/07/2020

🎥The video of our Family highlights for @masterpiecefair is live ~ 5 paintings for children to learn about including a stunning painting by Panini of my favourite building in Rome, the Pantheon 🏛

24/06/2020

A sneak peek of some of the art works we’ll be looking at for our children’s tour this Sunday ~ please do sign up, they are half an hour, with a few slots to choose from & free for all ~ with the brilliant @masterpiecefair in lieu of the fairs normal tours which we would be leading! ❣️❣️❣️❣️
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Here we have a (L-R) Pierre Bonnard, Picasso & an Augustus John 💫💫💫 @williamwestongallery @robilantvoenagallery @philip_mould_gallery @ Masterpiece

18/06/2020

💻🖥📱Coming Soon! Free Virtual tours for @masterpiecefair next Sunday 28th June ~ free and for children aged 6-12 & 12-16 ~ info coming soon on how to join via Zoom! X

11/06/2020

Association for Art History

Artist Hew Locke has been addressing the historic symbolism of statues, monuments and street names for nearly two decades in his work. In response to ongoing debates around ‘erasure’ or preservation he said, “This doesn’t solve the problems of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic people in this country. It’s a symbolic gesture...As we head towards another recession that will likely disproportionately impact black and brown people, it is time to think about the systemic changes society also has to make” In this article for artnet Locke emphasizes the need to teach and talk about slavery and its legacy in schools. Hew Locke worked directly with the Colston statue in 2006. He talked about this and other projects when he was keynote speaker at our 2018 Ways of Seeing schools conference for A level art and art history students.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/monuments-uk-belgium-1883412

02/06/2020

Timeline Photos