Leslie Stephan, an Adelaide based member, will speak to us on the psychology of the collector. He will explore what takes someone on the journey from a child with a small hobby to the adult who amasses a vast collection, with a focus on the collector’s inner psychosocial world.  

 Leslie is a former Clinical Director of Mental Health and a consultant psychiatrist and has a life-long passion for European painting and decorative arts. He is a member of the French Porcelain Society and the Furniture History Society, and is a volunteer guide at the David Roche Museum.

Our annual three-speaker evening will, as usual, feature presentations by three Circle members. Elizabeth Golding will speak on ‘Orrefors Glass – frozen liquid’, Robert Baker will take us on the journey of ‘Kraak Porcelain and the Maritime Trade’ and Genine Wallinga will talk on ‘The Triumph of Amphitrite – the Meissen table-fountain, 1745-2014’.

Our speaker will be Colin Smith, an expert on the Boyd artistic dynasty, about whom he has published three books, Merric Boyd and Murrumbeena, Lucy Boyd Beck Life and Art, and Sunlight and Storm: The Life and Art of Penleigh Boyd. Colin will present on Lucy Boyd Beck and her husband Hatton Beck, whom she married in 1939, after which they set up a ceramics studio in Murrumbeena.  Lucy spent much of her life as an artist, producing mainly painted ceramic tiles, but also working as a visual artist. Colin knew Lucy for over ten years and his talk will cover her life and art, including from a personal perspective, and will feature many images from across the decades