Join us for a special event to celebrate Sonia Wronkowska’s extradinary musical discovery. The evening will begin at Gainsborough's House with three pre-concert talks and then at The Quaker Meeting House for the first performance outside London of the recently discovered music by eighteenth century composers Abel and Lidel. Sonia Wronkowska made the discovery of...
Drop in 10am – 1pm, £2 per child, £3 per adult – includes admission to the galleries Become an elf in our festive workshop and make and decorate your own St Nicolas shoes. Listen to our traditional tales and discover how Thomas Gainsborough would have
Drop in 10am – 1pm, £2 per child, £3 per adult – includes admission to the galleries Make and decorate your own Christmas tree decorations inspired by one of Thomas Gainsborough’s wonderful landscape scenes. Make mini Christmas cottages, dress up historic characters in warm woollies for the winter and create winter woodland animals.
This talk will focus on a ‘conversation piece’ which was painted by Gainsborough when he was still making a name for himself as a gifted landscape artist and portrait painter. It was acquired jointly by Gainsborough’s House and Tate in 1993 as a masterpiece of the early phase of his career. A recent research project...
Explore and develop screen printing with the use of photo stencils. Work on a variety of scales and surfaces to combine colour, text, image and shape with mark making, layered areas, hand cut and drawn stencils to create an exciting form of visual language. Compatible with digital processes, these techniques are rapid, safe and fun...
Drop in 10am – 1pm, £2 per child, £3 per adult – includes admission to the galleries. Find out how Gainsborough used lots of layers to create his landscapes and make your own layered landscape collage using fabrics, paper, chalks, pens
Drypoint with Sue Molineux Work directly on paper, perspex or aluminium plate and try out mark making, tone and texture. Experiment with collage and enjoy using different specialist papers. The fee for Taster Days includes basic materials. Additional materials are on sale at very reasonable prices.
Woodcuts with Michael Carlo Michael Carlo's strong landscape based woodcuts feature expressive cutting into hard board or ply. Michael's understanding of mark making, tone and composition together with his technical expertise help students achieve rich and exciting results. PWS members £180
In February Gainsborough’s House will be opening a display of art works, painting materials and family memorabilia by Suffolk-born artist John Constable (1776-1837). These have descended directly through Constable’s heirs and, together with additional archival material from the same collection, will remain at Gainsborough’s House on long loan. Born in East Bergholt, not far from...
To coincide with our new permanent exhibition Constable at Gainsborough’s House we are delighted to display a solo exhibition by landscape painter Julian Perry. Throughout his career, Julian has observed and recorded the changing face of the British landscape. He is inspired by and responds to environmental issues that impact the natural world. This exhibition displays Julian’s most recent...
Drop in 10am – 1pm, £2 per child, £3 per adult – includes admission to the galleries Be inspired by artist, Julian Perry’s love of trees and help create a giant tree picture. Who can match the leaf to the tree in the fastest time? Design you own tree print and much more.
Lino can be used to produce prints that are delicately layered and richly coloured. Learn how to use cutting tools and caustic soda to mark the printing plate in unique ways and to apply ink in thin layers for a more painterly effect. £200 (members £180)
