The collection in bloom
A guided tour
- 1.30 - 2.30 pm
- 3.30 - 4.30 pm
Tickets
| Members: | £20 |
This event is available to those with a Member, Member & Guest, Exhibition or House Membership.
Please meet in the Sainsbury Wing Foyer to collect your headsets and meet your host for the guided walking tour.
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What does that tulip symbolise? Why are there two petunias on that table? And what is the significance of a cup of water and a rose?
Join expert guide Emma Matthews on a tour through the National Gallery’s collection as she sheds light on the floral details that make a painting, and its creator, so intriguing. The significance of specific flowers in paintings often runs deeper than one might expect. ‘The collection in bloom’ tour uncovers the answers to these questions, revealing fresh insights along the way.
Your guide
Emma Matthews is an experienced guide with a love of art and its histories. She is a Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and has a background in law, government and the art world. After a successful legal career she set up an art tours business in 2007, while doing a degree in History of Art, moving on to guiding full time in 2016. Her passion for the National Gallery’s collection comes through in her tours which are delivered in a friendly and entertaining way, backed up by a solid understanding of her subject. She is excited by every tour and constantly developing new ways of looking at art and understanding its meaning.