Group Leader: Jo Perkin

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month at Earlsdon Methodist Church Hall. They run from 10.30 – 12.00 with a 15 minute break.

Old and new members are very welcome.

It would be great to hear from any members who would like to offer a presentation of their own. Please contact Jo Perkin (speaker secretary) on jmperkin@tiscali.co.uk

Following on from Steve Wood's wonderful talk on English tiles, the following are Steve's suggestions for places to go to see some wonderful examples:

• St. Giles Church,  Cheadle (see encaustic tiles image below)
• Jackfield Tile Museum,  Ironbridge
• Leighton House,  Holland Park Road, London
• Wightwick Manor, (National Trust), Wolverhampton

On March 10th Michael Lafferty gave a talk on Cezanne's Doubt. Here is his recommended reading list:

Merleau-Ponty’s ‘The Intertwining - The Chiasm’ is reprinted in The Continental Aesthetics Reader, ed. Clive Cazeaux, Routledge, 2000.

‘Cézanne’s Doubt’ is in The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting, ed. Galen A. Johnson, Northwestern University Press,1993.

Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception Routledge, 1962. The quotation I used is on p529.

The Visible and the Invisible, ed. Claude Lefort, Northwestern University Press,1968. Merleau-Ponty was working on this before his death and remains unfinished: his working notes are included in this version. ‘The Intertwining - The Chiasm’ is here as well.

Semir Zeki, Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain, Oxford, 1999.

William Blake, Blake’s Poetry and Prose, Nonesuch, 1948. The quotation is on p652.

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2020, the quotation I used was from ‘Bats’, p590.

Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, Chatto & Windus, 2016