Gallery visits to nearby centres, such as Rafael Vinoly’s remarkable ‘newsite’ contemporary art complex in Colchester - Britain's oldest recorded town, John Constable’s birthplace in the East Bergholt, Thomas Gainsborough’s House and Museum in Sudbury.

Excursions to East Anglian coastal sites such as Aldeburgh and Orford; and rural locations such as Dedham Vale and the Stour Valley.