Craig’s Corner

A very belated Happy New Year! Whilst hoping that you have been keeping up with those New Year’s resolutions so far, I’ve decided to recommend a few ideas to banish the New Year blues and to give you some ideas for your next Club trip.

Kew Orchid Festival Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature at the Victoria & Albert Museum

Opens 12 February 2022 This wonderful exhibition celebrates the life and work of the beloved children’s author Beatrix Potter. Featuring original watercolours, as well as drawings and manuscripts from her most charming tales.

5 February to 6 March 2022 After being postponed last year, the Orchid Festival is back with a spectacular display of colour. Every year the festival has a different theme. This year the Festival celebrates the richness of Costa Rica with the glasshouse pond filled with brilliant oranges and yellows to imitate a rising sun. Their national flower, the Guarianthe skinneri, will be on magnificent show in its vibrant pink glory.

Van Gogh Self-Portraits Exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery

3 February to 8 May 2022 The first ever exhibition devoted to Vincent van Gogh’s works spanning his entire career, the exhibition hinges around his most famous work – Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. There are more than 15 additional self-portraits from collections around the world to view and you can follow it up with a trip to the world-class impressionist collection at the Gallery, featuring Monet and Degas.

Titanic: The Exhibition

Opens 4 February 2022 This is far more than a display of historic items: it is a unique narrative experience where visitors receive a boarding pass corresponding with a passenger on the ship. This allows visitors to relate to the individual story of their passenger as they explore the first, second and third class galleries and the artefacts from each including handwritten letters, wayward keepsakes and other personal belongings.

Beethoven at The British Library

Until Sun 24 Apr 2022 See the mind of this creative genius at work through items belonging to the composer himself and manuscripts scrawled in his own distinctive hand. Discover how he blazed a trail as you pore over the frustrated scribbles and eureka moments in his sketchbook.

Craig Barclay-Godfrey Member Experience Manager

If I can book any of the above or any other aspect of your visit to the Club over the next couple of months please contact me via memexpmanager@

thefarmersclub.com