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Rabley Drawing Centre & Gallery

Rabley Drawing Centre is a centre of excellence for contemporary drawing, printmaking and works on paper. Exhibitions, artist's talks, courses and artist’s residencies fully exploring the practice of drawing today. Its inspirational rural location in converted Victorian barns on the Ainslie family farm near Marlborough, Wiltshire lures gallery visitors, artists and students to its unique creative hub. Rabley Drawing School has its studio workshops in specially converted barns. The 700 acres of farmland support a comprehensive range of short courses and artist residencies. Artists taking part in projects and courses are inspired by the wide open spaces and sustained by hearty farmhouse lunches. The course teachers are experienced artist-tutors from leading art schools. Rabley Barn was originally designed in 1871 for the Marquis of Aylesbury by William Wilkinson who was architect of the famous Randolf Hotel in Oxford, Rabley Barn was a model farm building that had fallen into disrepair before the conversion.

Rabley Gallery A beautiful barn has been converted into a permanent exhibition space. We show a programme of curated exhibitions and a changing selection of drawings, prints and works on paper by a wide range of international artists. All works are for sale. "Drawing is at the core of artists’ ideas and has become a recognized discipline equal to sculpture and painting in Contemporary Fine Art. As a unique centre of excellence we are lucky enough to exhibit the work of many cutting edge contemporary artist’s who have become involved with the centre". Meryl Ainslie, Director