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...
Samuel Palmer (1805– 81), painter and printmaker, is one of Britain’s greatest artists of the Romantic period. He is perhaps best known for his visionary paintings created during the time he lived in Shoreham, Kent, and his close friendship with the artist, printmaker and poet William Blake (1757–1827). This exhibition of Palmer’s complete etchings shows the playfulness, beauty and...
This exhibition in the Upper Bow Room features an extensive collection of drawings by Hubert-François Gravelot from the Gainsborough’s House permanent collection. The majority of these works were produced as designs for prints, book illustrations, decorative arts and other forms of material culture. Gravelot was a prolific draughtsman, who came to London from Paris in...
The renowned British artist Thomas Gainsborough, born in Sudbury in 1727, was deeply tied to the area of rural Suffolk in which he grew up. A new exhibition at Gainsborough’s House, entitled Gainsborough’s Sudbury, takes an in-depth look at the characters, buildings and natural features that shaped the formative years of Gainsborough’s childhood. Designed alongside...
Child £2, Adult £3 (includes admission to the galleries)
£40, including basic materials
With Carl Borges £190 (members £170)
Date to be confirmed
Coffee & Croissants
The display of nine landscape paintings from the Dutch Golden Age at Gainsborough’s House is part of an international collaboration with Rijksmuseum Twenthe, a museum and gallery located in the textile city of Enschede in the Netherlands. This year, the Dutch museum shows Gainsborough in His Own Words, Holland’s first exhibition on Thomas Gainsborough, featuring a...
