These sessions are held in our Education Centre (the Hills Room), usually on the first Saturday of each month. There is no formal tutoring so participants are able to use the class for their own work. All welcome from beginners to experts. The fee is £18 per session or £180 for all eleven sessions. Each...
These sessions are held in our Education Centre (the Hills Room), usually on the first Saturday of each month. There is no formal tutoring so participants are able to use the class for their own work. All welcome from beginners to experts. The fee is £18 per session or £180 for all eleven sessions. Each...
To celebrate Suffolk Heritage Open Day, Gainsborough's House will be free to all visitors from 8 September to 11 September. There will be demonstrations on various print techniques and processes in our Print Workshop as well as printing taster sessions where you can create your own masterpiece. On Sunday 11 September, there will be free guided tours of the...
Griff Rhys Jones is airing some thoughts - stories, anecdotes, reminiscences and half-remembered events from a long career with his much missed comedy partner Mel Smith. It’s a ramble through a relationship. Join him on this work in progress complete with previously unseen footage. This evening’s show includes a special auction in support of the...
This exhibition brings together over 40 drawings from public and private collections, many being on public display for the first time. French Drawings from the Time of Gainsborough covers the period between the Régence (1715 and 1723) and the Revolution (1789–99), when French drawing was the undisputed reference point for the quality and the teaching...
This exhibition marks the culmination of a conservation research project, generously funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and carried out in partnership with the University of Cambridge’s Hamilton Kerr Institute. Focusing on a single painting from the Gainsborough’s House collection, it sheds new light on the artist’s early painting technique...
Child £2, Adult £3 (includes admission to the galleries)
Season's Greetings with Sue Molineux Use our Workshop's facilities to print your own unique images for presents, gift wrapping and cards. Use some of our collection of wooden type to print messages or to mix text with images. The fee for Taster Days includes basic materials. Additional materials are on sale at very reasonable prices.
Japanese Woodblock Printing with Jude Lockie This very popular course is ideal for those wishing to experiment with a printmaking method that does not rely on presses or chemicals and which can be easily practised in a home studio. Working on soft wood blocks, students can achieve the subtle colour effects which are a feature...
Join us for an afternoon lecture by Ben Street, followed by a screening of the highly acclaimed film, Pollock. This special event has been organised by NADFAS East Anglia Area to help raise funds for Gainsborough’s House. Born in 1912 in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock was influenced by Picasso among others, and his style of painting...
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
