A popular course, ideal for experiment with a printmaking method that does not require presses or chemicals and which can easily be practised in a home studio. Working on soft wood blocks, students can achieve the typical subtle colour effects of this process. Jude Lockie is a specialist in the art of Japanese Woodblock printing....
This exhibition explores the creation of a national centre for Gainsborough in Sudbury. A long-held ambition, this project is now a real possibility, with significant investment from the Heritage Lottery Fund and other generous supporters. Featuring the latest plans, it illustrates the new spaces being created through pictures and objects, and gives visitors the opportunity...
Members of Gainsborough's House, Print Workshop are holding an exhibition of their work at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. Join us for an informal reception on Saturday 11 November 12-2pm.
Photopolymer allows the translation of sensitive drawing marks to plate and is equally successful with photographic imagery. No chemicals or acids are involved - just water! Enjoy and explore its mark making and tonal potential. Colin Gale has over ten years experience working with photopolymer. He recently collaborated with artist Martha Parsey on Gainsborough Girls,...
Our apologies, this course has been cancelled. Using sketchbooks and drawings, Zoë records her travels and impressions in a widely exhibited series of etchings. Zoë often works on steel, using line and tone for atmosphere and effect. Zoë Rubens is a sculptor and printmaker who incorporates her plates into 3D work. Her enviable list of...
Join us for our annual late night shopping event and enjoy a glass of mulled cider and mince pie. We have a new range of merchandise inspired by Gainsborough's painting of the Pitminster Boy, as well as our lovely rose and quince from the walled garden. In keeping with the Christmas spirit we will offer...
Join us in the parlour for our nostalgic look at Christmases past, where Thomas celebrated his own family Christmas. Discover the story of St Nicholas and why they left out shoes instead of stockings. Get creative in our shoemakers workshop and become an elf as you fashion your own festive shoe to put by the...
Each year Gainsborough’s House is proud to decorate a tree as part of the St Peter’s Christmas Tree Festival. Each year we create unique decorations inspired by the paintings in the museum and made by our museum club for adults with learning disabilities. This year we will be focusing on our wonderful portrait collection and...
On 17 December 2017, we are opening our doors for free to National Lottery players. Gainsborough's House will be throwing open its doors for free to National Lottery players on Sunday 17 December 2017. We are joining National Lottery funded visitor attractions across the UK in saying ‘thanks’ to people who have raised money for...
2 and 9 February 2018 10.30am - 12.30pm This course celebrates the art, ideas, and lives of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and other artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Young, rebellious and idealistic, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood turned their backs on the dull conventions and mawkish sentimentality of Victorian art and...
In 2017 a significant collection of over 100 works by Cedric Morris was gifted to Gainsborough’s House. Works in the collection include landscape and portrait paintings as well as drawings, prints and even Cedric Morris’s palette. Uniquely the works remained part of Cedric Morris’s private collection until his deathin 1982. Maggi Hambling, who was a...
Michael Carlo’s strong landscape based woodcuts feature expressive cutting into hard board or ply. His approach is painterly and experimental. Michael’s enthusiasm for mark making combined with his technical expertise have helped students achieve some very inspiring individual results. Michael Carlo has led many most successful courses at the workshop. Educated at the Royal College...
