Mylands Proud to Partner with York Art Gallery

Mylands is proud to announce a new partnership with York Art Gallery as its Official Paint Partner. Managed by York Museums Trust, the gallery's collection of paintings spans more than 600 years, from 14th-century Italian panels and 17th-century Dutch masterpieces to Victorian narrative paintings and 20th-century works by LS Lowry and David Hockney. Mylands has supplied the paint for its latest exhibition, in a partnership that reflects our heritage and our passion for culture.

Twenty-five newly attributed landscape drawings by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) are on public display for the first time at York Art Gallery, as part of a major exhibition staged with the Royal Collection Trust, the National Gallery of Ireland and Nottingham Castle. These beautiful drawings, lent by Her Majesty The Queen from the Royal Collection, transform our understanding of Gainsborough's approach to landscape drawing, a passion that endured throughout his life.

They are shown alongside related paintings and works on paper borrowed from collections across the UK and Ireland, including The National Gallery's recently conserved masterpiece 'Cornard Wood' (1748). Presented across three galleries with more than 40 works on show, the exhibition is beautifully set off by Mylands paints, with the rooms featuring the stunning Crace™ No.16 and Blackout™ No.41.

Together, the works shed new light on Gainsborough's early landscape practice and the techniques that made him one of Britain's most significant and influential artists. The exhibition also marks the UK premiere of the triptych 'Clay, Peat, Cage' (2015), three performances to camera by Yorkshire-based artists Jade Montserrat and Webb-Ellis.

At the heart of the hang are the twenty-five landscape drawings recently discovered to be by Gainsborough, all made early in his career, around 1746–50, while he was painting the Suffolk landscape.

The show explores several themes, including his early drawing practice both outdoors and in the studio, and the process of turning drawings into finished paintings.