Face Jobs: The Modern British Portrait – High Life (1)

with Dick Humphreys High Life: Mask and Performance from De László to Annigoni Take a close look at the extraordinary and often eccentric world of British portraiture during the twentieth century, a period of enormous change in all areas of life, with Dick Humphreys. Embracing painting, sculpture, and photography, the talks include major works by...

Warm Welcome Coffee Club – 24 April

The Warm Welcome Coffee Club (WWCC) takes place in the Hills Room to enable Gainsborough’s House Volunteers access to a warm and social space. Drop in and say hello from, 10:30am–12:30pm. This is a space that allows volunteers to meet with one another, especially those from different roles across the site. It is a safe...

Saturday Art Club – 27 April 2024

A monthly art club for children aged 7–11 run by practising artists. Be inspired by our galleries and explore a wide variety of art techniques. Come along to make friends, and let's get creative with these fun and friendly workshops. This club is for children only, parents should return to collect their children at the...

Taster Day: Introduction to Monotype

This event is now fully booked. with Sally Weatherill Monotype printmaking is a very immediate and intuitive process in which unique prints are produced by adding and/or subtracting ink from a plate which is then printed onto paper. In this course, two methods of the flexible and experimental medium of monotype printmaking will be introduced....

Face Jobs: The Modern British Portrait – Low Life (2)

with Dick Humphreys Low Life: Outsiders and No-Hopers from Sickert to Freud Take a close look at the extraordinary and often eccentric world of British portraiture during the twentieth century, a period of enormous change in all areas of life, with Dick Humphreys. Embracing painting, sculpture, and photography, the talks include major works by artists...

Printmaking Foundation Course

This event is now fully booked. with Karina Savage & Sally Weatherill This introductory course which takes place 1 day a week over six weeks, is a great way to explore a variety of printmaking techniques. You will learn the basic skills and processes of linocut, drypoint etching, monoprint, collagraphs and screen printing and on...

Life Drawing with Sue Marsdon – 4 May 2024

Join Sue Marsdon with the life drawing group on the first Saturday of every month. Enjoy a full day of life drawing at Gainsborough's House with lots of different poses throughout the day. While Sue will suggest some poses and techniques, this session is untutored, and therefore best suited to those with some drawing experience....

Face Jobs: The Modern British Portrait – Modern Life (3)

with Dick Humphreys Modern Life: Re-Inventing the Portrait from Whistler to Bacon Take a close look at the extraordinary and often eccentric world of British portraiture during the twentieth century, a period of enormous change in all areas of life, with Dick Humphreys. Embracing painting, sculpture, and photography, the talks include major works by artists...

Taster Day: Introduction to Cyanotype

This event is now fully booked. with Karina Savage Cyanotype is one of the earliest photographic processes and was developed by Sir John Herschel in 1841. The process was adopted by engineers and architects as a way of producing copies of drawings – hence the term ‘blueprint’ – but was also used by artists throughout...

Warm Welcome Coffee Club – 15 May

The Warm Welcome Coffee Club (WWCC) takes place in the Hills Room to enable Gainsborough’s House Volunteers access to a warm and social space. Drop in and say hello from, 10:30am–12:30pm. This is a space that allows volunteers to meet with one another, especially those from different roles across the site. It is a safe...

Master of Elegance: Breakfast Tour with Katherine Field

From 9–10am, Friday 17 May 2024 It's time for another Breakfast Tour... this time with a twist! Join Katherine Field, Curator of the Philip de László: Master of Elegance exhibition at Gainsborough's House for an exclusive tour of the exhibition in the Timothy & Mary Close Gallery and Sudbury Gallery. Discover behind-the-scenes and hear directly...

Paint like de László (portrait)

with Ione Smedemark Part of the 'Draw like de László' Art Class series, session 2 Enjoy a morning at Gainsborough's House in the wonderful Landscape Studio painting the portrait from life utilising Philip de László’s (1869–1937) colour palette. We will be building upon what was taught in the first “Draw like de László” workshop (on...

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