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Pitzhanger Manor was the country retreat of Sir John Soane, one of the most influential architects in British history.

Pitzhanger reopened in spring 2019 following a £12M three-year conservation project to return it to Soane’s original designs. Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery is a Grade I listed house and contemporary art gallery in Ealing, West London, designed by Sir John Soane in 1800 as his 'dream house'. Currently undergoing a major renovation project, Pitzhanger will reopen to the public in 2018 having undergone rigorous restoration and a renewal of our contemporary art gallery and grounds.

15/10/2026

‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ closes in one month, on 8 November.

Photographs provide the starting point for Woods’s paintings. An existing image is reduced to a line drawing, transferred onto aluminium panels and then transformed through colour and paint.

The paintings are based on something that exists in real life, but through drawing Woods takes out much of the information, leaving what she describes as “a trace of what’s there”.

Discover more about Clare’s process in the ‘Garden Without Seasons’ audio guide. Available free on Bloomberg Connects.

Visit the exhibition before 8 November: https://ow.ly/ygaJ50ZXBih

Cristea Roberts Gallery
Victoria Miro
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📸 Exhibition view of ‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. Artworks © Clare Woods. Courtesy the artist, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, and Victoria Miro. Photo: Andy Stagg.

13/10/2026

28–30 October: FREE family play is back at Pitzhanger!

PlayWorks returns to Pitzhanger's front garden this October half-term, bringing giant blocks, boxes, flowers, branches, colourful fabric and all kinds of curious materials for children to transform through play.

No instructions. No right answer. Just space to build, imagine and explore.

PlayWorks at Pitzhanger: Free Family Play
📅 28–30 October | 🕙 10am–3pm | 🆓 FREE

Drop in throughout the day, or register for free in advance. We're playing outdoors whatever the weather, so wrap up warm and dress for a little mess!

And for our youngest makers, there's even more to explore.

On Friday 30 October, artist Lewis McVey returns with Mini Makers: Messy Play, inviting children aged 1–5 to paint, build, squish and create through colourful, hands-on activities.

The best part for grown-ups? We'll take care of the mess afterwards.

Mini Makers: Messy Play
📅 30 October | 🕙 10am–2pm | 👧 Ages 1–5

🎟️ Standard tickets £15 for one child and adult, with £1 concessions. Family Members enjoy 12 free Mini Makers sessions each year.

Discover both activities and book at: https://ow.ly/cbJb50ZXg7k

Outdoor People
The Playwork Foundation
Assemble
Play England

08/10/2026

‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ closes on 8 November.

Woods began thinking more specifically about flowers and still life after looking at Édouard Manet’s small paintings of flowers, made as he lay bed-bound at the end of his life. Her floral still life paintings also evoke seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, where blossoming and withering flowers remind the viewer of the passage of time and the transience as well as the beauty of life.

On Thursday 5 November, join us for our final Thursday Late as part of the public programme for ‘Garden Without Seasons’, considering Still Life from past to present.

From 6–7pm, Pitzhanger Director Rebecca Lyons leads a guided tour of the exhibition, tracing Woods’s works against a history of the Still Life genre, from seventeenth-century Dutch painters through to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern painters.

From 6.30–7.30pm, join artist Annabel Johnson for a relaxed, led drawing session inspired by the flowers and objects in Clare Woods’s paintings. Materials are provided and all levels of experience are welcome.

Places are limited for both sessions. Please book in advance: https://ow.ly/TGCQ50ZVVJe

Cristea Roberts Gallery
Victoria Miro

1–5. Exhibition view of ‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. Artworks © Clare Woods. Courtesy the artist, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, and Victoria Miro. Photo: Andy Stagg.
6. Édouard Manet, Vase avec lilas blanc et rosés, 1883. Oil on canvas. Dallas Museum of Art, 1985.R.34.

06/10/2026

2027 at Pitzhanger. We’re pleased to reveal our 2027 exhibition programme — bringing together new perspectives on British painting, the darkly compelling world of Paula Rego’s nursery rhymes, and major works by Sean Scully.

Many Stories
6 May – 8 August 2027
Many Stories is the first major UK exhibition of figurative painting by women artists from the South Asian diaspora. It will bring together works by 17 artists, including both emerging and established practitioners.

Paula Rego: Nursery Rhymes
6 May – 8 August 2027
In 1989, Paula Rego (1935–2022) made one of her most coveted bodies of works, a group of 25 prints reimagining English nursery rhymes, seemingly innocent verses that continue to be retold to children after hundreds of years.

Sean Scully: Nature Never Sleeps
September 2027 – January 2028
For Autumn 2027, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery will present an exhibition of large-scale paintings, works on paper, writing and sculpture by the celebrated artist Sean Scully (b. 1945).

There is much more to discover in the year ahead. Explore the full 2027 programme at www.pitzhanger.org.uk — and become a Member for year-round access to exhibitions and special events while supporting Pitzhanger.

Midlands Arts Centre - MAC
Walker Art Gallery
Cristea Roberts Gallery
Thaddaeus Ropac

Jai Chuhan, ‘Madonna’, 2022 Oil on canvas. © The artist.
Paula Rego, ‘Hey Di**le Di**le’, 1989. Etching and aquatint on Velin Arches paper. © Estate of Paula Rego. Courtesy: Ostrich Arts Ltd and Cristea Roberts Gallery.
Sean Scully, ‘Tree of Life’, 2026. Oil on canvas. © Sean Scully. Courtesy: the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac. Photo: courtesy the artist.

24/09/2026

Clare Woods: In Conversation with Rebecca Lyons

Join us for our next Thursday Late on 1 October where Clare Woods RA sits down with Pitzhanger’s Director Rebecca Lyons, to discuss her exhibition: Garden Without Seasons.

Together, they will explore Woods’s approach to painting and its translation into print and collage, examining themes of nature, absence, and the passage of time.

As we move from summer into autumn, mark the changing seasons by heading deeper into the Garden Without Seasons.

Tickets: £14 standard, £7 for under 25s
Location: Pitzhanger
Timings: 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Tickets include access to the Manor and Gallery, and booking in advance is encouraged. Link to book in bio.

📷1. Portrait of Clare Woods, 2023. Courtesy the artist; Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photo by Anne-Katrin Purkiss.
2. - 3. Exhibition view of ‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. Artworks © Clare Woods. Courtesy the artist, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, and Victoria Miro. Photo: Andy Stagg.

15/09/2026

Many of the works in ‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ were created in direct response to Pitzhanger Manor.

Clare considers how recurring subjects — including planters, glasshouses and stained glass — connect with the building, its gardens and its history.

Pitzhanger was designed by Sir John Soane as a country retreat — a place for entertaining and architectural experimentation. Clare reflects on how his intentions remain present in the building, its relationship with the garden and the traces of its history.

As she says in the exhibition audio guide, “the hand of someone can still be very present.”

Discover ‘Garden Without Seasons’ across the galleries and historic manor: https://ow.ly/3U9u50ZNeAo

On 1 October, hear Clare Woods discuss the exhibition with Pitzhanger Director Rebecca Lyons. Book now: https://ow.ly/OuzK50ZNeAp

Cristea Roberts Gallery
Victoria Miro
Exhibition view of ‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. Artworks © Clare Woods. Courtesy the artist, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, and Victoria Miro. Photo: Andy Stagg.

10/09/2026

Before he became one of Britain’s most influential architects, John Soane was a bricklayer’s son.

Born on this day on 10 September 1753, Soane left school young and worked as a hod carrier before entering the office of architect George Dance at the age of 15.

From those beginnings came a career defined by restless invention. Soane stripped back classical conventions and experimented boldly with colour, light and space — ideas that divided opinion in his lifetime, but would later lead him to be seen as a forerunner of modern architecture.

Pitzhanger holds that story within its walls. Soane had first encountered the house as Dance’s young apprentice. When he returned decades later as its owner and architect, he kept part of that earlier building and transformed Pitzhanger into a laboratory for his own ideas.

His ambitions extended beyond his buildings. As Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy, he taught generations of students, while his house and collection in Lincoln’s Inn Fields were ultimately preserved for the benefit of the public and future students.

On his 273rd birthday, we celebrate an architect whose willingness to rethink the past continues to shape the present.

Step inside Pitzhanger and encounter Soane’s ideas for yourself.

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1. William Owen RA, Portrait of Sir John Soane, 1804. Courtesy: Sir John Soane's Museum Collection. Museum number: P228.
2. Sir John Soane, Collages of working drawings for Pitzhanger Manor, 1801. Courtesy: Sir John Soane's Museum Collection. Museum number (clockwise from top left): SM 31/2/65, SM 31/4/28, SM 32/1/9, SM 31/2/55, SM 31/4/36.
3. Photo: twobytwo
4. Photo: Andy Stagg

02/09/2026

‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ brings paintings, collages and screenprints into distinct areas across the contemporary galleries and historic manor. The character and scale of each space shaped the exhibition, allowing its different elements to remain separate while continuing to speak to one another.

As Clare Woods puts it, “It feels as though we’ve been able to make three exhibitions.”

Explore ‘Garden Without Seasons’ in more depth on our Curator Tour on 3 September.

And on 1 October, Clare Woods joins Pitzhanger Director Rebecca Lyons in conversation about the exhibition and her practice.

Tickets: https://ow.ly/7BMa50ZIlvv

Cristea Roberts Gallery
Victoria Miro
Exhibition view of ‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. Artworks © Clare Woods. Courtesy the artist, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, and Victoria Miro. Photo: Andy Stagg and H. Page.

26/08/2026

This summer, the fluid and vibrant paintings of Clare Woods are displayed throughout Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.

Visitors can engage with a creative and fruitful moment in a celebrated contemporary artist’s career, where outwardly familiar moments coexist with images that carry a deep emotional weight.

Explore ‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ this Bank Holiday weekend. Pitzhanger is open on Monday 31 August. Plan your visit: https://ow.ly/zNvi50ZFy34

Cristea Roberts Gallery
Victoria Miro
Exhibition view of ‘Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons’ at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. Artworks © Clare Woods. Courtesy the artist, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, and Victoria Miro. Photo: Andy Stagg.

22/08/2026

After two fully booked Wild Plant Walks at our August Garden Party, Usma Shah returns to Pitzhanger for 'Trees and Teas of All Seasons' on Thursday 3 September.

Join her for a gentle evening walk through Pitzhanger and Walpole Park, learning to identify deciduous and evergreen trees through the seasons and discovering some of their traditional uses for food, medicine and everyday life. The walk ends with a selection of herbal teas inspired by trees and nature.

It’s a fitting companion to 'Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons', where flora, still life and the natural world sit at the centre of the exhibition.

Alongside Usma’s walk, September’s Thursday Late offers another way to explore the natural world: a 6.30pm curator tour of 'Garden Without Seasons'.

📅 Thursday 3 September, 6–7.30pm
🎟️ Trees and Teas of All Seasons: £5
🧒 Under-16s join free with a paying adult

🎨 Also during Thursday Late, Ealing residents can explore the historic manor and 'Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons' with pay-what-you-can admission from 5–8pm. The 6.30pm curator tour is included with admission.

Book 'Trees and Teas of All Seasons': https://ow.ly/ZZPE50ZCsVu

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