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
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...
