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Buy a Brick: Help build the future for Gainsborough’s House
Buy A Brick For New Galleries and a Crinkle-Crankle Wall With your support, we hope to use attractive handmade clay bricks from a local maker for the new galleries and a distinctive crinkle-crankle wall in the garden. The brick façade…
Nicole Farhi: Heads and Hands
In 2015 Nicole Farhi, sculptor and former fashion designer created a bronze bust of Thomas Gainsborough for Gainsborough’s House. Four years later we are delighted to announce a solo exhibition of sculptural portraits of heads and hands by the…
Monoprints Taster Day
Make to most of colour and texture to produce a wide range of prints in which you can use natural and found materials. Work on perspex or Truegrain to achieve painterly effects. The fee for Taster Days includes basic materials.…
Heads Up – Creating with Clay
Get inspired by Nicole Farhi’s sculptures and create your own clay heads and hands. Family drop-in sessions – no need to book Cost £2 per child and £3 per adult Includes admission to all the galleries at Gainsborough's House Recommended…
Book Launch – Liz Trenow ‘The Dressmaker of Draper’s Lane’
New York Times best selling author Liz Trenow talks about how researching her own family’s 300 year silk weaving history led her to the fascinating world of high fashion, silk design and seamstressing in 18th century London. Copies of the…
