Drawing Weekender At Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Event details
Date
18 July – 19 July 2026
Time
10:00AM – 4:00PM
Location
Price
Free and paying events available, see individual events for prices
Led by artists and tutors from the Royal Drawing School, the programme combines workshops, talks and collaborative activity with open-ended, exploratory moments across the Hauser & Wirth Somerset site.
Draw outdoors in the Oudolf Field, join focused sessions with models inside the Durslade Farmhouse, or gather in the Radić Pavilion for artist-led conversations and classes. Free, drop-in life drawing sessions run throughout the weekend, alongside site-responsive drawing prompts across the landscape.
This isn’t a course - it’s a festival of drawing, experimentation and discovery. Move between structured sessions and spontaneous moments, and let your creativity unfold.
Open to adults and children, the drop-in and ticketed activities are designed for a variety of ages and abilities.
Bookings are now open. Full programme below.
Drawing Weekender tickets
Free and paying tickets are available for individual workshops and lectures, or just drop-in on the free activities.
10.30 – 12.30 | Workshops
Dynamic Interiors with Nell Brookfield
Location: Durslade Farmhouse
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Join an immersive drawing workshop with a clothed life model in the exquisite interiors of Durslade Farmhouse. Built in the 18th century for the Berkeley family, it is now a guest house for Hauser & Wirth. It includes site specific installations and unique artworks within the space, including Guillermo Kuitca and Pipilotti Rist. Work with experienced Royal Drawing School tutor Nell Brookfield to develop your drawing practice using observation and imagination.
Capacity: 20
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
Drawing in the Landscape with Max Naylor
Location: Bruton Durslade Farm and local landscape, starting from the Drawing Weekender information point
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Draw en plein air in the beautiful rolling landscape around Bruton and the Oudolf Field. Investigate scale, gesture, expression, sequence and narrative, using a variety of responses while working with expert tutor Max Naylor from the Royal Drawing School.
Includes a short walk to the drawing location.
Please come prepared for changing weather conditions.
Capacity: 15
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
Drawing in the Landscape with Tessa Coleman
Location: Bruton Durslade Farm and local landscape, starting from the Drawing Weekender information point
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Draw en plein air in the beautiful rolling landscape around Bruton and the Oudolf Field. Investigate scale, gesture, expression, sequence and narrative, using a variety of responses while working with expert tutor Tessa Coleman from the Royal Drawing School.
Includes a short walk to the drawing location.
Please come prepared for changing weather conditions.
Capacity: 15
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
11.30–12.15 | Artist Encounters: Ishbel Myerscough RA
Location: Radić Pavilion
Price: £5 | Book tickets
Best known for her expressive, highly detailed and meticulous painted portraits, Ishbel Myerscough RA is a Royal Academician and winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious BP Portrait Award. Subject matter has primarily included herself and those closest to her, combining focused studies of youth and coming-of-age with adult experiences of parenthood, desire and bereavement.
This interactive artist talk combines demonstration with shared drawing activity, inviting audiences into Myerscough’s process of working directly from life.
Capacity: 45
Suitable for: 10+
Materials: All materials provided
14.00–16.00 | Workshops
Dynamic Interiors with Nell Brookfield
Location: Durslade Farmhouse
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Join an immersive drawing workshop with a clothed life model in the exquisite interiors of Durslade Farmhouse. Built in the 18th century for the Berkeley family, it is now a guest house for Hauser & Wirth. It includes site specific installations and unique artworks within the space, including Guillermo Kuitca and Pipilotti Rist. Work with experienced Royal Drawing School tutor Nell Brookfield to develop your drawing practice using observation and imagination.
Capacity: 20
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
Drawing in the Landscape with Max Naylor
Location: Bruton Durslade Farm and local landscape, starting from the Drawing Weekender information point
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Draw en plein air in the beautiful rolling landscape around Bruton and the Oudolf Field. Investigate scale, gesture, expression, sequence and narrative, using a variety of responses while working with expert tutor Max Naylor from the Royal Drawing School.
Includes a short walk to the drawing location.
Please come prepared for changing weather conditions.
Capacity: 15
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
Drawing in the Landscape with Tessa Coleman
Location: Bruton Durslade Farm and local landscape, starting from the Drawing Weekender information point
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Draw en plein air in the beautiful rolling landscape around Bruton and the Oudolf Field. Investigate scale, gesture, expression, sequence and narrative, using a variety of responses while working with expert tutor Tessa Coleman from the Royal Drawing School.
Includes a short walk to the drawing location.
Please come prepared for changing weather conditions.
Capacity: 15
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
14.30–15.15 | Artist Encounters: Dilip Sur
Location: Radić Pavilion
Price: £5 | Book tickets
Sur has said that 'to draw is to concentrate, to contemplate and to identify oneself with the subject that is in front of us'. A painter and sculptor whose expressive work explores psychological states and spatial vastness while maintaining poetic restraint, Dilip Sur studied in Calcutta, Delhi and London and has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally.
This interactive artist talk combines demonstration with audience drawing exercises, inviting audiences into Sur’s thoughtful and deeply observational approach to drawing.
Capacity: 45
Suitable for: 10+
Materials: All materials provided
Family Drawing Studio | Various times
Sessions begin at: 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 14:00 and 15:00
Location: Education Lab
Price: Free | Book tickets
Join a lively, no-experience-necessary drawing session for families in an inspiring studio environment. Expert tutors will be on hand to support your observation and mark making skills with quick, playful exercises.
Capacity: 25
Suitable for: Recommended for ages 7+. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times
Model: Clothed model
Materials: All materials provided
Free activities | All day, site-wide
From 10:30–16:00, free activities are ongoing across the site.
Visitors can join artist Lilith Piper and help create a cumulative and collaborative work, or pick up self-directed activities designed by artists to draw and observe each day.
Suitable for: All ages
Materials: All materials provided
10.30 – 12.30 | Workshops
Dynamic Interiors with David Gardner
Location: Durslade Farmhouse
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Join this immersive drawing workshop with a clothed life model in the exquisite interiors of Durslade Farmhouse. Built in the 18th century for the Berkeley family, it is now a guest house for Hauser & Wirth. It includes site specific installations and unique artworks within the space, including Guillermo Kuitca and Pipilotti Rist. Work with experienced Royal Drawing School tutor David Gardner to develop your drawing practice using observation and imagination.
Capacity: 20
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
Drawing in the Landscape with Sara Lee Roberts
Location: Bruton – Durslade Farm and local landscape starting from the Drawing Weekender information point
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Draw en plein air in the beautiful rolling landscape around Bruton and the Oudolf Field. Investigate scale, gesture, expression, sequence and narrative, using a variety of responses while working with expert tutor Sara Lee Roberts from the Royal Drawing School.
Includes a short walk to the drawing location.
Please come prepared for changing weather conditions.
Capacity: 15
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
Drawing in the Landscape with Paul Fenner
Location: Bruton – Durslade Farm and local landscape starting from the Drawing Weekender information point
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Draw en plein air in the beautiful rolling landscape around Bruton and the Oudolf Field. Investigate scale, gesture, expression, sequence and narrative, using a variety of responses while working with expert tutor Paul Fenner from the Royal Drawing School.
Includes a short walk to the drawing location.
Please come prepared for changing weather conditions.
Capacity: 15
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
11.30–12.15 | Artist Encounters: Alexis Soul-Gray
Location: Radić Pavilion
Price: £5 | Book tickets
Soul-Gray uses painting, collage and drawing to explore and reconcile familiar human qualities of tenderness, kindness and pain. Working from imagery ranging from Renaissance art to found photo albums and 20th century advertisements, her process carefully constructs layers of marks, colour and texture.
This interactive artist talk includes participatory drawing activity, inviting audiences into Soul-Gray’s distinctive visual language and creative process.
Capacity: 45
Suitable for: 10+
Materials: All materials provided
13.00–14.00 | Artist Talk: George Rouy in conversation with Hannah Barry
Location: Radić Pavilion
Price: Free | Book tickets
George Rouy is recognised as a leading figure in a new generation of international artists. His bold and subversive painterly language captures the grave beauty and perpetual transformation of our contemporary moment. George will discuss the importance of drawing in new and recent work.
Capacity: 45
Suitable for: 16+
14.00–16.00 | Workshops
Dynamic Interiors with David Gardner
Location: Durslade Farmhouse
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Join this immersive drawing workshop with a clothed life model in the exquisite interiors of Durslade Farmhouse. Built in the 18th century for the Berkeley family, it is now a guest house for Hauser & Wirth. It includes site specific installations and unique artworks within the space, including Guillermo Kuitca and Pipilotti Rist. Work with experienced Royal Drawing School tutor David Gardner to develop your drawing practice using observation and imagination.
Capacity: 20
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
Drawing in the Landscape with Sara Lee Roberts
Location: Bruton – Durslade Farm and local landscape starting from the Drawing Weekender information point
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Draw en plein air in the beautiful rolling landscape around Bruton and the Oudolf Field. Investigate scale, gesture, expression, sequence and narrative, using a variety of responses while working with expert tutor Sara Lee Roberts from the Royal Drawing School.
Includes a short walk to the drawing location.
Please come prepared for changing weather conditions.
Capacity: 15
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
Drawing in the Landscape with Paul Fenner
Location: Bruton – Durslade Farm and local landscape starting from the Drawing Weekender information point
Price: £15 | Book tickets
Draw en plein air in the beautiful rolling landscape around Bruton and the Oudolf Field. Investigate scale, gesture, expression, sequence and narrative, using a variety of responses while working with expert tutor Paul Fenner from the Royal Drawing School.
Includes a short walk to the drawing location.
Please come prepared for changing weather conditions.
Capacity: 15
Suitable for: Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels including beginners
Materials: All materials provided
14.30–15.30 | Artist Encounters: Matthew Rice
Location: Radić Pavilion
Price: £5 | Book tickets
After being gifted a ream of fine watercolour paper as a teenager, Matthew Rice fell in love with the expressive and magical possibilities of watercolour. He has since recorded and illustrated the world around him, from his Oxfordshire home, Ham Court, to extensive travels from Italy to India. This interactive artist talk combines a live demonstration with a watercolour activity, offering audiences insight into Rice’s observational approach to drawing, architecture food and flowers.
Capacity: 45
Suitable for: 10+
Materials: All materials provided
Family Drawing Studio | Various times
Sessions begin at: 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 14:00 and 15:00
Location: Education Lab
Price: Free | Book tickets
Join a lively, no-experience-necessary drawing session for families in an inspiring studio environment. Expert tutors will be on hand to support your observation and mark making skills with quick, playful exercises.
Capacity: 25
Suitable for: Recommended for Ages 7+. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Model: Clothed model
Free activities | All day, site-wide
Visitors can join artist Lilith Piper and help create a cumulative and collaborative work, or pick up self-directed activities designed by artists to draw and observe each day.
Suitable for: All ages
Materials: All materials provided