One next step
If you would rather walk the rooms in person than scroll them, the Saturday walk-through is the simplest way in. It moves at an unhurried pace, room by room, and there is room to stop where a plate or a linocut holds your attention. Tell us roughly when you would like to come and we will suggest a slot that fits the current show.
Prefer to start from home? The online gallery mirrors the physical hang, and the current exhibition is the same sequence you would walk in the rooms.
Families who come through the rooms often ask the same practical questions: who made a plate, when it was printed, and whether the caption on the wall matches the entry in the catalogue. The gallery answers those questions the same way every season, so nothing depends on who happens to be at the desk that Saturday.
Every entry carries the maker's name, the medium, the year and a short note on where the work was made. The wall caption and the catalogue line are written from the same record, so a parent reading a label aloud and a grandparent checking the catalogue see the same facts.
Titles, dates and medium descriptions are read against the physical sheet before a work goes up. Where a print was pulled by hand and the ink sits unevenly, the catalogue says so rather than smoothing it into a generic edition note.
The archive is arranged room by room in the same order as the physical hang. A family that walked through on a Saturday can open the same room at home, use the zoom view, and look again at paper grain or a brush mark that was hard to see from a few steps back.
Selected editions are offered as print-on-demand, and the catalogue states which works are available that way and which are held only in the physical hang. There is no separate list to cross-check and no ambiguity about what a family is looking at.
Walk-through places, studio visits and catalogue requests are handled by email, so the arrangement sits in writing for everyone in the household to read. Notes on group size, access needs or specific works are kept with the request rather than passed along by word of mouth.
When a show comes down, the room order, the captions and the catalogue entries are kept together as a record of that hang. It means a work seen two seasons ago can still be traced by maker, medium, year and place, long after the walls have changed.
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