What’s On

Jun 25 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Legacy of Love is a unique book bringing together 57 charity founders, actors, poets, artists and photographers celebrating their love of animals in personal words and stunning pictures. This summer, some of the Legacy of ... Read more
Jul 10 @ 5:30 pm Nature in Art Garden
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward Sun 10 Jul, 5.30pm (‘doors open’ 4.30pm for picnics) Tethered Wits Theatre Company present Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward – a delightful summer evening comedy in the museum’s garden. Socialite novelist Charles Condomine, is ... Read more
Jul 30 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Nature in Art
Natural World of Man – The Art of Conservation is an exhibition inspired by some of the conservation and environmental achievements of Peter Scott, renowned not only as an artist, but as one of the ... Read more
Sep 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Nature in Art
Paul Walkden, Nature in Art’s chairman, will share with us the life of this great man, referred to by Sir David Attenborough as ‘The Patron Saint of Conservation’. Scott established WWT, was instrumental in establishing the ... Read more
Sep 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Nature in Art
Richard, as well as being an artist, working as a painter and in textiles, he is also an art historian and is a long-standing lecturer for the Arts Society ( formally NADFAS ). Flowers are ... Read more
Oct 29 – Oct 30 all-day
Don’t miss our ever popular Gift and Craft Fair!
Nov 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm Nature in Art
The Water Universe Exhibition at Nature in Art is the first showing of Julie Askew’s water research project, in collaboration with British Antarctic Survey, the Cabot Institute and Bath Spa University. Join Julie Askew as ... Read more
Nov 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Nature in Art
Christmas Celebration with the Gloucester and District Christian Choir. Come and join us to bring in the Christmas Season with a festive selection of Carols and Songs brought to us by this local community choir. ... Read more
Feb 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
   19:00 Doors 19:30pm Finger Buffet Talk starts around 20:10 Wildlife artist Shelly Perkins shares her passion for travel and the natural world through her own photographs, sketches and studio works. Share Shelly’s global adventures ... Read more
Mar 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
19:00 Doors 19:30pm Finger Buffet Talk starts around 20:10 Debbie is Chair of the Gloucestershire Society of Botanical Illustration. From early cave paintings, ancient Egyptians, Medieval Monks, right up to the present day, plants have been depicted in ... Read more
Apr 22 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  Where: Nature in Art (Garden and Education Centre) When: Saturday 22nd April 2023 (10am – 5pm) Cost: £5 per person (includes admission to the museum). Under 8’s free Come and join us at Nature ... Read more
Apr 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
FULLY BOOKED Please email us to go on the waiting list. If there is enough interest, we may repeat the talk on another date. 19:00 Doors 19:30pm Finger Buffet Talk starts around 20:10 Artist Elizabeth Gray, who ... Read more
May 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
   This talk is a REPEAT of the talk on the 27th April. This date has been added due to demand. 7pm start followed by a look around the exhibition and a cup of tea/coffee. ... Read more
May 31 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
    19:00 Doors 19:30 Finger Buffet Talk starts around 20:10 This evening coincides with The Wildlife Art Society International’s (TWASI) exhibition. They have chosen Game Rangers International (GRI) as their charity this year. Sport ... Read more
Jun 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
19:00 Doors 19:30pm Finger Buffet Talk starts around 20:10 Through his exquisite, gentle and humorous cartoons from the 1950s, Norman Thelwell was ahead of the curve in his campaigning against pollution, factory farming and the ... Read more
Aug 6 all-day
Two plays performed on the front lawn of Nature in Art by Tethered Wits, the premier open -air theatre company in the Cotswolds. www.tetheredwits.com   2:30pm Doctor Dolittle Doctor Dolittle likes animals. In fact, he ... Read more
Aug 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
7pm Doors 7:30pm Finger Buffet Talk starts just after 8pm Coinciding with the first week of the British Wildlife Photography Awards (which can be viewed before the talk), this is a great opportunity to hear from a ... Read more
Sep 8 @ 11:00 am
As part of Heritage Open Days 2023, there will be two talks held at Nature in Art on Friday 8th September. Wallsworth Hall has a curiously obscure history. A fine Georgian mansion situated just north ... Read more
Sep 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Unfortunately this talk has been postponed until next year. A new date will be announced later in the year.  Richard is a well known and engaging lecturer, author, tutor and regular artist in residence at ... Read more
Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
   7pm – doors open to view the galleries 7:30pm – Finger Buffet Talk starts just after 8pm Haunted by the Last Tide is the collaboration between the Society of Wildlife Artists and the Vadehavet ... Read more
Nov 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
  FULLY BOOKED In 2018, the painter Nicholas Jones made an extraordinary voyage along the coasts of Greenland and Baffin Island as ‘Artist in Residence’ with the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute. In ... Read more
Feb 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
  Cath is one of the U.K’s foremost entomological artists and illustrators. A great enthusiast, she believes that the best way to celebrate the importance and relevance of insects in a happy, healthy ecology, is ... Read more
Mar 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
    Paul is a freelance wildlife photographer striving to make images count in the conservation of wildlife and habitats in rivers, lakes, forests and oceans. He works with marine, freshwater and wildlife conservation agencies ... Read more
Apr 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Julia has a love of estuaries and salt marshes, particularly those not far from her Somerset studio.  Working with Andy Don, an international eel expert, she has discovered the incredible – implausible sometimes! – life ... Read more
May 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Join staff from Gallery Pangolin and photographer Steve Russell to view ANIMALIA, a stunning display of sculpture by Anita Mandl, and photographs by Steve Russell. FREE, but donation appreciated. BOOK HERE If you have any ... Read more
Jun 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
We are delighted to be welcoming back Rough Diamonds under their musical director Hilary Davies. Rough Diamonds is a choir of 23 enthusiastic friends, who have spent the past fifteen years wowing audiences both here ... Read more
Jul 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
An illustrated talk by Simon Trapnell. This is a great chance to find out more about the stories behind some of the exhibits in the Treasure Hunter exhibition, the beginnings of Nature in Art itself and ... Read more
Aug 4 @ 1:45 pm – 7:30 pm
There will be two plays on the front lawn of Wallsworth Hall on Sunday 4th August, performed by Tethered Wits, the premiere open-air theatre company in the Cotswolds.   2:30pm The Railway Children – based ... Read more
Aug 17 @ 6:15 pm – 9:00 pm
This play will be performed on the front lawn of Wallsworth Hall, by Tethered Wits, the premiere open-air theatre company in the Cotswolds. The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde The Tethered Wits ... Read more
Sep 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
An great opportunity to meet some of the participating artists in the Ancient Trees Exhibition from 6pm – 8pm and to hear a short talk from the founder of the Arborealists, Tim Craven (c7pm). A ... Read more