As well as a gallery, we aim to achieve a learning centre, a place where children, aspiring artists and experts alike will be able to be inspired by the Sopers’ techniques and talents – Achieved.
This will be by periodical workshops and projects. Access to the collection for research purposes is available by arrangement.

We hope the Centre will eventually include:

We hope to achieve outdoor facilities to reflect the Soper Family’s love of the natural world. – Yes.
Pannett park has woodland areas, wildflower embankments, hedgerow planting, nest box provision. The Jurassic Garden has planting of ferns, so beloved by George Soper.

We hope for a natural water feature and bird and wildlife habitat so that outdoor workshops and painting stations will provide artists with the opportunity to observe and create as the Soper family did. – Yes, partly, ‘In a haven of peace and tranquility’ featuring areas for birds and wildlife habitat, outdoor activities are sometimes included in gallery projects as in the current park trail, part of the national 2023 Wild Escape project.

Perhaps it will be able to replicate some of the features of the Sopers’ own Wildings garden. – Yes – Many of the characteristics are in Pannett Park.