Bertram Aitchison Art History Breaks - January 2023

Bertram Aitchison is a graduate in Art History from Birbeck College in the University of London. He has since worked as Senior Lecturer and Academic Advisor to the American Institute for Foreign Study in London, specialising in Western European Art History.

Following his move to Moffat, he has held the position of Secretary to the Dumfries and Galloway Fine Art Society, and resident speaker for the South West of Scotland Art History Society for the last ten years. He is currently one of the visiting speakers on Art History at Higham Hall in Cumbria.

The art of the Eternal City

This programme is about Rome and the artists who plied their talents there; and others who never visited but used its reputation as an inspirational source for history painting and grand landscapes. They all left a mark which distinguished them in, or because of, the one time art capital of the Fine Arts in the west.

A journey into Scottish art

The programme is a selected survey of the long lasting associations of the art from Scotland with Scottish artists. Some responded in the early days to the momentum of the Enlightenment but inevitiably new ideas and styles were instigated by succeeding generations; all of which has left a significant trail of creative endeavour.

Art in the making

This is a course in which Fine Art is explored in some detail to explain the origin, meaning and development of some works. The concentration is on selected artists, each of a different character and time span, but covering a wide range of artistic endeavour.