Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery

For more than seven decades, Marthe Armitage has designed and printed her patterns by hand, building each image colour by colour through a process that is both meticulous and deeply personal.

'Marthe Armitage: Pattern Maker' brings together not only finished wallpapers and textiles, but also sketches, blocks and working materials that reveal how these distinctive designs come to life.

A rare opportunity to step inside the artist’s process and see the craft behind the pattern.

On view at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery until 19 July. Book now: https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/whatson/marthe-armitage/

As Marthe Armitage: Pattern Maker enters its final weeks, you can bring a piece of the exhibition home with you.

Our shop is stocked with a special collection inspired by Marthe’s hand-printed designs, from notebooks and posters to cushions and bucket bags made using genuine textile offcuts. You’ll also find selected wallpapers, including special exhibition offers while stocks last.

Each design begins with Marthe’s distinctive lino-cut process, where every colour is printed by hand. The result is work that feels both timeless and unmistakably personal.

Explore the collection during your visit before the exhibition closes on 19 July: https://ow.ly/604Z50ZcNFx

A rose, a bridge, a house.

Over the past two months, Phoebe Collings-James's sculptures and clay paintings have transformed Pitzhanger's galleries and historic interiors, inviting visitors to move through the house in new ways.

From monumental forms to intimate surfaces marked by the artist's hand, the exhibition creates unexpected encounters between contemporary practice and Soane's architecture.

This is the final week to experience 'Phoebe Collings-James: a rose, a bridge, a house' before it closes on 14 June.

Join us for one last visit: https://ow.ly/zctz50Z81L2

📅 Exhibition closes Sunday 14 June
📍 Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery

Ealing Borough residents can enjoy Pay What You Can admission every Sunday 10am–12pm, including a free option when booked online in advance.

What does a place look like when you draw it from memory?

This Sunday, families are invited to explore Pitzhanger through mapping, drawing and observation at our free drop-in Mapping Pitzhanger workshop in the Rickyard.

Part of London Festival of Architecture, the workshop encourages children and adults alike to look closely at the spaces around them, from the historic manor to Walpole Park, and create their own imaginative maps of the site.

While you're here, step inside the Wonder Room to discover Architecture Takeover, a display celebrating the creativity of local young people who have taken part in our After School Architecture Club this year.

📍 Mapping Pitzhanger
Sunday 7 June
Free drop-in workshop
The Rickyard, Walpole Park

🏛 Architecture Takeover
Throughout June
Wonder Room, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Included with general admission

Whether you're building, drawing or simply looking differently, join us this weekend for London Festival of Architecture.

London Festival of Architecture

Before Walpole Park became the green heart of Ealing, it was part of Sir John Soane's vision for Pitzhanger.

When Soane transformed the estate in the early 1800s, he worked with landscape designer John Haverfield (1744–1820) to reshape the grounds with sweeping drives, picturesque planting and a serpentine lake. Beyond the house stood a productive walled kitchen garden supplying fresh fruit and vegetables for both Pitzhanger and Soane's London home.

More than 200 years later, gardening remains part of life at Pitzhanger thanks to the dedication of our volunteer gardeners, who help care for the historic landscape that surrounds the manor.

This weekend, our annual Plant Sale offers a chance to take a little inspiration home. Browse plants grown and donated by our volunteers, pick up gardening advice, and support the care of Pitzhanger's gardens.

🌷🪴 Pitzhanger Plant Sale
Sunday 7 June 2026
10am–2pm

Step into the gardens and discover a living part of Pitzhanger's story.

Spend an evening with 'Phoebe Collings-James: a rose, a bridge, a house'.

Join us next Thursday for a curator-led tour exploring the exhibition across Pitzhanger’s galleries and historic interiors — from the sculptural forms of the 'Infidels' series to Phoebe Collings-James’s layered clay paintings.

The tour is included with general admission and takes place during Thursday Late opening hours.

Ealing Borough residents can also enjoy Pay What You Can admission from 5pm, including a free option when booked online in advance.

Thursday Late + Curator Tour
📅 Thursday 4 June
🕕 Tour starts 6.30pm
📍 Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery

Exhibition closes 14 June.
Book now: https://ow.ly/It9N50Z53qH

Bank holiday walks, colourful exhibitions, clay-covered hands and cardboard cities.

Pitzhanger is open this Bank Holiday Monday, 25 May, 10am–5pm, with plenty to explore across the manor, gallery and gardens during May half-term.

Join a Family Clay Workshop with ceramicist Annabel Johnson on 28 May, inspired by our current exhibitions 'Marthe Armitage: Pattern Maker' and 'Phoebe Collings-James: a rose, a bridge, a house'.

On 29 May, the Rickyard becomes an ever-changing world of cardboard building, colour and creative play for Mini Makers: Messy Play with artist Mikaela Roe-Bowers.

You can also explore Sir John Soane’s historic manor, discover our two exhibitions, or join one of our regular guided tours every Thursday and Sunday.

Open Bank Holiday Monday
25 May, 10am–5pm

Discover more: https://ow.ly/zQj050Z2HrS

This summer, Clare Woods’ fluid and vibrant paintings will unfold throughout Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.

Garden Without Seasons brings together 29 new and recent works — paintings, collages and prints created over the last four years — where flowers, still lifes and architectural details move between abstraction and figuration.

At the centre of the exhibition are the flora and natural forms that Woods returned to during the pandemic, at a time when familiar objects took on a heightened resonance. Through swirls of wet oil paint and luminous colour, her works invite a slower and more detailed way of looking.

The exhibition continues Woods’ exploration of the natural world, time, absence and the fleeting nature of life, while responding to the historic interiors and gardens of Pitzhanger Manor.

Learn more at pitzhanger.org.uk/clare-woods

Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons
29 July–8 November 2026

📸
1. Woolworth’s Roses, 2023
2. Under The Dome, 2024
3. Trackwalker, 2025
4. Good Humour, 2024
© Clare Woods. Courtesy the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London.

This summer, Clare Woods’ fluid and vibrant paintings will unfold throughout Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.

Garden Without Seasons brings together 29 new and recent works — paintings, collages and prints created over the last four years — where flowers, still lifes and architectural details move between abstraction and figuration.

At the centre of the exhibition are the flora and natural forms that Woods returned to during the pandemic, at a time when familiar objects took on a heightened resonance. Through swirls of wet oil paint and luminous colour, her works invite a slower and more detailed way of looking.

The exhibition continues Woods’ exploration of the natural world, time, absence and the fleeting nature of life, while responding to the historic interiors and gardens of Pitzhanger Manor.

Learn more at pitzhanger.org.uk/clare-woods

Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons
29 July–8 November 2026

📸
1. Woolworth’s Roses, 2023
2. Under The Dome, 2024
3. Trackwalker, 2025
4. Good Humour, 2024
© Clare Woods. Courtesy the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London.