• Image of Elizabeth Siddal.

    Meet the muses

    For hundreds of years, artists have turned to the same models again and again. These ‘muses’ have traditionally existed in the shadows, while the artist has claimed all the credit. However, it is the muses themselves who take centre stage in our new exhibition, ‘Dina Razin: Reclaiming the Muse’. Featuring twenty of Dina Razin’s illustrations…

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  • Image of Winterbourne in the Autumn.

    Embrace the season with autumn colour

    There’s plenty of fabulous autumn colour around at this time of year, but it doesn’t just have to be deciduous trees that star. They’re brilliant if you have the room, but not everybody does. Why not think outside the box and get some autumn colour into your garden using some of these often overlooked, common…

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  • Turning up the heat

    For the last few years, we’ve been growing chilli plants in the lower half of our lean-to glasshouse in the Walled Garden. This is an important part of an effort to get more ‘edibles’ in Winterbourne’s only original greenhouse, dating back to the Edwardian period. The Walled Garden during that time would have been used…

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