Screenprinting is a most versatile and expressive printmaking technique and offers exciting opportunities for colour work. Michael does not use photographic methods, instead he specialises in working directly on screens, using his superb sketchbooks as reference. He encourages a painterly approach and demonstrates a wealth of mark-making techniques. Michael Carlo has run highly successful courses...
Sold Out We are proud to host two talks from the Sudbury Villages Festival The Silk Family by Liz Trenow Silk: From China to Sudbury by Richard Humphries Tickets: £10, coffee included For more information: call 01787 372958 or mail@gainsborough.org
Weave with a multitude of materials including natural objects, fabrics, paper and yarn. Create your own mini-masterpeices and help us to make a giant Gainsborough's House weaving. This family drop-in session costs £2 for children and £3 for adults. Admission to Gainsborough's House is included in the price. Recommended age from 4 - 12 years....
Create woodland prints in the tent and explore archaeology, weaving and more in this beautiful woodland setting Little Ropers Woodland Assington Road Bures St Mary, Suffolk C08 5JX Free event
Explore the possibilities of using found objects in print. Experiment with Monotype, Photopolymer and Hybrid printmaking.Take a unique monotype through to a Photopolymer plate, for opportunities to exploit both relief and intaglio as well as Hybrid prints. This busy workshop offers scope for experiment and development. Susan's prints are inspired by landscape and are infused...
Sold out: 13, 20 September Limited places: 27 September & 4 October In this series of talks Jenny Antill will explore four fascinating aspects of Russian culture using examples from Russian art, literature and theatre. Between Heaven and Earth traces the history and art of the Russian Church from its foundation in the 10th Century;...
Join us for the Suffolk launch of Simon Edge's new book The Hopkins Conundrum. A local author, Simon Edge says of the novel “much of which was written in Sudbury, and which has an East Anglian connection because one strand focuses on a shipwreck off the coast of Harwich.” “The Hopkins Conundrum is wonderfully enjoyable: a...
Join us for ‘300 Years of Silk,’ an exclusive Silk Study Day at Gainsborough’s House, hosted by textile specialists Mary Schoeser and Kate Wigley of the School of Textiles, Coggeshall. Featuring informative lectures, handling sessions and a gallery tour of the exhibition Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury (17 June – 8 October 2017) with curator...
Join us for a lecture with Loyd Grossman CBE FSA, broadcaster, author, gastronome and musician. This lecture has been organised by Suffolk Art Fund to support the Gainsborough's House development project.
Join exhibition curator Louisa Brouwer, Keeper of Art and Place at Gainsborough's House, for a behind-the-scenes breakfast tour of the groundbreaking exhibition Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury (17 June - 8 October 2017), exploring the production of woven silk textiles in England from historic Spitalfields to present-day Sudbury. Tours are available on two dates and...
Antony Gormley, Maggi Hambling, John Hoyland, David Inshaw, Sarah Lucas, Julian Opie and William Pye are amongst over 100 British artists whose works will go under the hammer at our Contemporary & Post War British Art Auction. See the sales catalogue and bid online here; the-saleroom.com/gainsborough. Spear-headed by Maggi Hambling and Andrew Lambirth, and supported...
This autumn, we’re offering art lovers a fantastic opportunity to browse and buy an original work of art whilst helping to bring a major new arts venue to the county. Our Autumn Art Fair (14-20 October) will feature over 100 original paintings and prints donated by artists from across the UK, to help us raise...
