A free public lecture at the University of Bath, on Wednesday 5 May, will uncover the hidden meanings of flowers by taking a virtual tour of an art gallery.
Loved by artists as well as gardeners, flowers are everywhere in art.
Russell Bowes will take your on a tour of a virtual art gallery to find out if sunflowers and roses have deeper significance than we realise.
Russell was awarded the University of London Diploma in Garden History in 2000, and has studied extensively at the Museum of Garden History in London.
He said: “Put on your deerstalker and prepare to exercise your grey cells as we tour the art gallery looking for clues artists have left between the petals of the sunflower and rose, two of summer’s most beautiful flowers.”
Russell regularly lectures for the National Trust as well as at the Eden project and the National Portrait Gallery.
He is a keen practical gardener with an interest in historic plants. His favourite gardeners include ‘Capability’ Brown and Gertrude Jekyll.
The lecture will start at 5:15pm and will be held in Lecture Theatre 8 West 2.1
Other lectures in the current series include:
• An illustrated guide to Armegeddon: Britain’s Cold War – Robert Clarke, 19 May
• The history and development of Buddhism – Dr Robert Heath, 2 June
• Poetry in motion pictures – Kevan Manwaring, 16 June
All lectures are free and open to the public; parking is available in the west car park at the Claverton Campus.
For more information please visit the lecture website or contact Helen Redfern on 01225 386587.