A Village in Heaven: Stanley Spencer's Cookham

Name: A Village in Heaven: Stanley Spencer's Cookham
Start: 2026-01-20T14:15:00+00:00
Location: Cley Village Hall, Cley-next-the-Sea

Schedule

Tue, 20 Jan, 2026 at 02:15 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Cley Village Hall, Cley-next-the-Sea | Holt, EN

Few artists are as rooted in a place as Stanley Spencer and his beloved home village of Cookham. This Thames-side village was not only his birthplace, his home for most of his life, and even his nickname, but it dominated his imagination and was the inspiration and location for many of his greatest paintings. This lecture will look at Cookham’s place in Spencer’s art, and how it was central to his unique vision of English domestic and spiritual life.
Our Lecturer: Amy Lim
Dr Amy Lim is an art historian, curator and lecturer specialising in British art from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. She is curator of the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham and the Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, as well as a Tutor at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and an Accredited Lecturer for the Arts Society. Amy is curator of 'That Marvellous Atmosphere: Stanley Spencer and Cookham Regatta', and previous exhibitions 'Mind and Mortality: Stanley Spencer’s Final Portraits' (2021–2022) and 'Most Loved Works in the Stanley Spencer Gallery' (2022–2023).
Image: Stanley Spencer, ‘Cookham, 1914’ (© Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery)