Planning to visit us this week? Here’s some tips to help you enjoy your visit during the heatwave

If you’d like to avoid the peak temperatures, we’ll be open from 10am – 5pm, Wed 24 – Sun 28 Jun
The shuttle bus will be running throughout the week, going between the Welcome Centre and the galleries/café
The galleries are climate-controlled, take your time exploring the art collections and exhibitions in the cool
The woodland area by the lake provides plenty of shade
You can top up your water with our free water station in the café
Cold drinks and ice creams can be purchased at both the Welcome Centre and café

Picasso on Paper

15 October 2016 – 11 December 2016

About the
exhibition

This exhibition brought fresh attention to Pablo Picasso’s brilliantly inventive career as a printmaker. More than 70 works from Dusseldorf’s Museum Kunstpalast reveal Picasso’s remarkable ability to explore different media and creative techniques, offering a glimpse into the artist’s intimate and passionate domestic relationships. Picasso regarded printmaking as every inch an important art form as painting. So much so that he created over 2000 prints during his lifetime. He received no formal training in the craft, but acquired great skill on his own volition and under the tutelage of others.

This show – with works dating from the 1920s to the 1960s – traced Picasso experiments with technique and subject matter in various media, including etching, lithography, aquatint and linocut. Taking the visitor on a journey through four decades of his work, thematically grouped to give a greater understanding of his relationships with several subjects – including family, bullfighting and mythology. Picasso on Paper is complemented by eight ceramics that he created in association with the Madoura pottery near Antibes in Provence.