Primordial Chaos, No. 16, Hilma Af Klint, 1906-7, Wikipedia

Abstract art developed in the 20th century with artists including Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich. However, before that period from 1906 a lone Swedish woman painter was creating large abstract paintings. Her name was Hilma A F Klint and she was a trained painter and a mystic. Her abstract work was largely unknown in her lifetime as she decreed it could not be shown in public until twenty years after her death. She invented a unique geometric visual language which perplexed the art world when discovered in 1986 and divided the experts

Lecturer Caroline Levisse, having studied for a Doctorate from Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis Paris specialising in ‘Art and Religion in Scandinavia since 1990’, is an experienced teacher and lecturer focusing particularly on modern and contemporary Western and Scandinavian art, and women artists. She has been an accredited lecturer with The Arts Society since 2018.