Beyond the Palette Reviews 

I attended the Beyond the Palette experience at the National Gallery and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was engaging, insightful and genuinely fun from start to finish.

Lynne has a wonderful way of bringing paintings to life. Her descriptions were vivid, thoughtful and accessible without ever feeling academic or heavy. She struck the perfect balance between art history and storytelling, which kept everyone fully engaged throughout the tour.

A truly enriching and enjoyable cultural evening. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to experience the National Gallery in a more intimate and memorable way.

Absolutely fantastic private tour at the National Gallery. Lynne brought so much heart, knowledge, and humour, the time flew by. Lynne is a great story teller and added real depth to the paintings without it ever feeling like a lecture, and even tailored the tour to a theme of my choosing. My brother messaged afterwards saying it was the best museum/gallery tour he’s ever experienced, and I felt the same. Highly recommend, I’d book again in a heartbeat.

Well!! It did what it said on the tin! An engaging and insightful romp through 40,000 years of humanity expressing itself through art and hairstyling! And then just as we’re all drawing to a close with laughter and new found knowledge, Lynne pulls us back to the very essence of the human condition and art with a poignant pairing of a Banksy with the world’s first discovered cave markings. 40,000 years of spinning on this planet and all we’re trying to do is just to leave a little mark to say ‘I was here’.
Beautifully done! Encore!

We hired Lynne for a private tour of the National Gallery with our visiting family, some of whom didn't have as much experience with art and galleries as we do. Lynne's breadth of knowledge, great sense of humor, and ability to sense what would land with our group made for an engaging experience for us all. She chose a well balanced set of works to focus on, including some even the experienced among us could learn from.

Whether you're an art aficionado or someone who wants to make art museum tours more interesting, we can't recommend Lynne enough! We also recommend her live performances, one of which we were able to see prior to this tour.

Relaxed and fun talk by Lynne who covered a lot of interesting ground effortlessly. Highly recommended.

I cant recommend Lynne@beyondthepalette more highly. Her tour at the National Gallery was highly engaging and genuinely fascinating. Lynne brought the paintings to life. She is a natural story teller, and has huge charisma and an absolutely wicked sense of humour. II left her tour more informed but also very entertained. Thank you Lynne!

Lynne’s art tour of the National Gallery was informative, riveting & extremely enjoyable. I would thoroughly recommend the pleasure to all. Thank you!

Lynne is so knowledgeable and at the same time as bringing the stories of the paintings to life , she adds salacious tips about the artist or the characters involved . This makes for a lively tour full of laughter ! If you love art and getting the behind the scenes information then beyond the palette delivers on every level .

Another fun filled romp through the National Gallery.
Lynne is a story teller par excellence.
Fact filled and fascinating.
She mixes sharing mythology or biblical stories with information about the patrons, artistic conventions of the period and life stories of the artists.
All delivered with a large dose of humour!
Lynne makes Art History and appreciation accessible to all.
We did a tour to celebrate a friends birthday and it was the perfect way to start our party !
Highly recommended.

My husband & I booked a private tour with Lynne at The National Gallery after being recommended Beyond The Palette by my father. Lynne did not disappoint! Her knowledge and passion is contagious and we learnt so much from her. Very grateful for the special memories we experienced whilst on holiday. Highly recommend!

Excellent private tour of National Gallery, very interesting details and not too long. Would love to have another tour with a different set of paintings.

I booked Lynne for a family tour of Italian Renaissance art at the National Gallery. Lynne managed to captivate us all including our two twenty something sons who have shown no interest in art before. In one and a half hours she brought six paintings and their artists to life. We would highly recommend her! Thank you Lynne for a wonderful tour!

Lynne is a great and very entertaining speaker. She is passionate and manages to revive our inner self artist potential. The way she runs her seminars is really addictive, we just want to know more about the artwork! We would definitely recommend you to attend one of her talks or tours.

Absolutely Fabulous
We had an informative, fun filled romp through the National Gallery with Lynne.
We learned so much about the paintings that we would normally wander past. They were brought to life by her knowledge and great personality. Facts and fun at the same time. We will be sure to book another tour next time we visit London. It’s a must!

Lynne has the most entertaining delivery about art, mythology, and history; all melded together to make even the most Philistine of people appreciate her tours. She has a wide ranging art history knowledge which she brings to you either via (very reasonable) Zoom tours or, when we can visit galleries, she is also a delight in person!

What a fabulous Valentine's evening. Sounds cliche but Lynne brought everything to life it such a really brilliant way. I loved how Lynne made the evening interactive with a few multiple choice quiz questions thrown in for us which made it so much fun. Really great entertainment and I learnt so much about art - who knew?!! Definitely recommend Lynne and I most definitely will be doing another one of her events.

We loved our National Gallery tour with Lynne. The theme was divas, male and female, her choice of paintings startling. Lynne has a winning combination of scholarly knowledge and mischievous sense of humour.
Ana and Joseph Palley, London

Lynne's zoom art history talks and online series are hugely entertaining; her tremendous knowledge and enthusiasm are a joy.

I loved the Valentine evening with Beyond the Palette. Lynne is so good at making the twists and turns of Greek Mythology easy and enjoyable to follow. I definitely feel more cultured after one of her sessions.

Lynne provided a really fun entertaining evening and I learnt a few things I did not know about art too! The evening, although virtual, really felt like a special occasion.