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SUMMARY:Helaine Blumenfeld: Tree of Life
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Gainsborough and Helaine Blumenfeld\, though separated by time\, meet in their poetic sensibility\, rhythmic fluidity of form\, in dream-like imagery and the universal language of beauty.\nWhen the art historian Michael Rosenthal described Gainsborough as “one of the most technically proficient and\, at the same time\, most experimental artists of his time“\, he could have also been describing Blumenfeld today. A master marble carver\, testing the limits of her material\, Blumenfeld creates impossibly thin\, undulating structures through a profound understanding of the boundaries of her materials. Like Gainsborough and his lightbox\, Blumenfeld’s luminous works celebrate the light within. In bronze\, she works with her foundry in Italy on innovations including experimental patinas using silver nitrate. \nHer sculptures often resemble organic\, figurative or botanical forms that hover in that tantalising zone between abstraction and figuration. For Gainsborough’s House\, there will be three sculptures in the historic garden and one overlooking from inside. \nHelaine Blumenfeld\, OBE\, is one of the most esteemed sculptors working in the UK today. Born in 1942 in New York\, she studied philosophy at Columbia University before moving to Paris to train in sculpture at the Ecole de la Grande Chaumière\, with Ossip Zadkine. Blumenfeld carves in marble and wood and casts in bronze. \n \nImage credit (above): Flight © Gainsborough’s House | Jackie Mellor Photography
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/helaine-blumenfeld-obe/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Gainsborough\, Turner & Constable: Inventing Landscape
DESCRIPTION:2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Suffolk-born artist John Constable (1776–1837).\nTo celebrate\, this exhibition explores the emergence of the tradition of landscape painting in Britain through three of its greatest exponents. \nKey works include Gainsborough’s idyllic scene\, Landscape with Cattle\, a Young Man Courting a Milkmaid (early 1770s)\, which has not been exhibited in the UK since 1952; Turner’s large-scale watercolour\, Abergavenny Bridge (1799) which has not been on public display since 1799 at the Royal Academy; and Constable’s dramatic oil sketch\, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (c. 1830s)\, a variant of his ‘great Salisbury’ painting thought to be a study for the mezzotint developed with David Lucas. The exhibition culminates in John Constable’s magnificent The Leaping Horse from the Royal Academy\, in Suffolk for the first time. \nGainsborough’s House will also present temporary exhibitions and new displays of David Dawson (b. 1960) and Kate Giles (b. 1962) inspired by the artwork of Constable and his contemporaries. \nAdmission tickets can be purchased at reception when you visit\, or online in advance.  \nExhibition image © Jackie Mellor Photography \n \nImage:\nJohn Constable (1776–1837)\nThe Leaping Horse\, 1825\nOil on canvas\, 142 x 187.3 cm (Royal Academy of Arts\, London)\n© Photo: Royal Academy of Arts\, London\nPhotographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/gainsborough-turner-and-constable/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Land\, Sky\, Light: New Landscapes by David Dawson
DESCRIPTION:Land\, Sky\, Light features fifteen of David Dawson’s (b. 1960) recent large-scale paintings of his native countryside in Montgomeryshire\, Wales\, painted en plein air.\nPainted outdoors during each season of the year\, the artist then continues to work on them in his London studio before completing them back in the Welsh countryside\, taking several years for each one. \nHaving left Wales for London where he was a student at the Chelsea School of Art and later becoming a model and assistant to Lucian Freud\, these paintings represent an artist returning to their childhood home to explore the nature and solitude of its surroundings. \nAdmission tickets can be purchased at reception when you visit\, or online in advance.  \nExhibition image © Jackie Mellor Photography \n \nImage credits:\nDavid Dawson (b. 1960)\nIn the sunken lane a silence\, 2025\nOil on canvas\n© the Artist
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/land-sky-light-new-landscapes-by-david-dawson/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Kate Giles: Remember Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Suffolk-born and Norfolk residing artist Kate Giles (b. 1962) creates expressive work rooted in her native landscape\, specifically drawing on the legacy of John Constable. \nThis exhibition primarily showcases new paintings and drawings\, several of which explicitly refer to Constable’s six-footer of the Suffolk landscape\, The Leaping Horse\, which will be on display as part of the main exhibition during this season.  \nConstable described The Leaping Horse as\, ‘lively – & soothing – calm and exhilarating\, fresh – & blowing’\, and it is this dual energy\, that Giles has responded to fervently. \nAdmission tickets can be purchased at reception when you visit\, or online in advance.  \nThis exhibition continues across multiple spaces within the Historic House. \n \nExhibition images © Jackie Mellor Photography \n \n  \nImage credits:\nKate Giles (b. 1962)\nLeap (Noonday)\, 2025\nOil on linen\nPhoto: © courtesy the Artist \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/kate-giles-remember-tomorrow/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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