Ham Area Guide

Join us for a Peer Feedback/Crit Session, offering artists the opportunity to share their work with other artists for feedback. We will be in the Coach House for this session. You and your fellow artists are invited to lead the session together. The sessions are intended to be encouraging and constructive to help you with your creative practice. These peer sessions are open to artists based in the Borough of Richmond. Please answer the questionnaire when booking to let us know if you would like to bring an artwork or a digital image of your artwork for the group to discuss. Not every artist will be able to present their artwork in each session and we will confirm with you in advance if you have been selected. This session lasts 2 hours.

Families in the Forest is an interactive experience for families to explore the Orleans House grounds through a series of encounters with inhabitants past and present. Writer and theatre maker Adam Kammerling guides this woodland walk. Walking through the grounds we encounter ancient trees, flowers, bats, moles, squirrels, even an antelope. Each plant and creature offers an invitation to us to consider their experience in the space by changing our own. Young bats seeing for the first time invite us to close our eyes and feel the surroundings with our hands, our fingers, our palms, to tread the ground, to summon colours into our imaginations, and when we open our eyes, imagine we are emerging from a cave to encounter colour for the first time in our lives. Each inhabitant will guide our interactions with the space and help us to reconsider our own role in the natural world by better understanding theirs. This activity takes place outdoors, so please dress for all weather conditions!

Zoë Wren and Jasmine Watkiss launched Americana duo Roswell after an impromptu open mic night collaboration. Roswell's multi-instrumental harmony-infused sound has been likened to First Aid Kit, Fleetwood Mac and the Indigo Girls. Winning Purbeck Rising in their first year as a band, Roswell's first release earned the title of Fatea EP of the Year, and the duo went on to be named winners of the Celtic Connections Danny Kyle Competition. Fresh from tours in Germany and France, and an appearance at Costa Festival Ibiza, Roswell are currently working on their debut album, which features their signature candid songwriting on themes from mental health and sibling love to real-life activist adventures at sea. Roswell have supported artists including Catherine McGrath, John Smith and Dea Matrona, and played festivals from Cambridge Folk Festival and Wimborne Folk Festival to the Fête de la musique Genève. The tour for their second EP, "Come Home", included sold-out shows at the Green Note in London, The Stables in Milton Keynes and The Shelley Theatre in Bournemouth. Photo: Sophie Barloc

Three times winner of the British Best Harmonica Player of the Year Blues Awards, Errol Linton is a harmonica wizard from Brixton (of Jamaican descent), a singer, a songwriter, a painter and the hero of the London Underground, where he has played his unique and highly original blend of blues with hints of reggae for 30 years!

Daughter and father duo Louise & Chris Rogan perform arrangements of traditional songs as well as Louise's originals and have wowed audiences at folk clubs and festivals throughout the UK. FATEA Magazine described their 2023 album, Things That Matter, as one of the best debut releases in the tradition genre. Louise is a singer of the highest calibre. In 2023, she won the Audience Vote of the Great British Folk Festival and was also invited to join John McCusker, Michael McGoldrick and John Doyle as part of their UK tour at The Waterside, Sale and The Crescent, York. In January 2024, she headlined the UK West Coast Folk Festival, replacing an unavailable Cara Dillon, and was followed onstage by Richard Thompson. She was also selected to play on the Danny Kyle Open Stage at Celtic Connections. Ross & the Hailstones are a London-based trio playing a blend of original and traditional material, steeped in the folk tradition but with their own signature twist. They consist of fiddle, cello and guitar with lots of three-part vocal harmonies and foot-stomping tune sets. Their debut album, From The Loft, was released in 2024.

20th March - Spring Landscapes (paint-along) 29th May - Animals 26th June - Seascapes (paint-along) 31st July - Portraits 28th August - Plants (paint-along) 25th September - Still life 23rd October - Autumn landscapes (paint-along) Join us for a series of special and relaxed evenings painting and drinking prosecco in the magical setting of Turner’s House and its garden! Be creative and share the fun with other people or your friends while working on your own acrylic painting! Every session will dive into a different theme and subject. Portraiture, landscapes, still-life paintings, and more! You will be able to choose from a range of images to spark your creativity while being guided by a knowledgeable and patient artist who will follow you every step of the way. Do you prefer step-by-step guidance? Choose the paint-along sessions every other month. Non-alcoholic drinks and vegan options available.