Description
Showborough House holds the Affordable Garden Art Competition and Exhibition in the Spring. A wide variety of good but affordable sculpture, mostly by local or emerging sculptors, can be seen in the natural setting of the one and a half acre garden, which has been renovated over the last five years. There are works in different sizes, styles and media, including wood, metal, stone, glass, ceramic and resin. Showborough is an informal venue, where visitors are encouraged to enjoy the exhibits and the garden at their own pace, and perhaps to sit and relax with a cup of tea or coffee.
Exhibits are for sale and because Showborough House is a non-profit venture any purchases provide maximum support to the artists.
The 2010 Affordable Garden Art Exhibition will be open from Maundy Thursday 1st April until Sunday 6th June. It will include sculptures by British sculptors - students, emerging and established - some of whom are previous exhibitors here. There will be just over 100 pieces on display, as this is about how many can be given individual spaces in the garden and shown to best advantage, while giving enough interest for visitors who have travelled some distance.
There will be an indoor exhibition for added interest and refreshments will be available. Visitors will be able to donate an entrance fee to charity if they wish.
Normal opening days will be Thursday to Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays. Groups who wish to come on other days, or to have special catering arrangements or talks on regular days, may arrange to do so and may contact us as soon as they like.
Sculptors exhibiting this year are mostly from Gloucestershire and surrounding counties and they work in most media, including stone, glass, metal, wood, ceramic, resin, mosaic and plastic. They are likely to be Emma Ablitt, Martin Adamson, Sian Andrews, Nigel Ash, Lynn Baker, Caroline Barnett, Mark Beattie, Ant Beetlestone, Debbie Bent, Alison Berman, Erica Bibbings, John Bibbings, Anne Boning, Henrietta Bud, Fiona Campbell, Ray Castell, Sandra Christie, Charlotte Clark, James Connolly, Gordon Cooke, Richard Cresswell, Sue Crossfield, Ed Elliott, Pat Elmore, Jane Foreman, Mike Gabriel, Peter Garrard, Neil Gow, Judy Greaves, Lucie Hakobyan, Andy Hayman, Hilary Higgott, Iron Vein, Derek Kinzett, Claudia Koch, Charlotte Masters, Claire McDermott, Fiona Meadley, Gaynor Murray, Patricia Northcroft, Joanna Payne, John Payne, Kim Pethybridge, Hilary Poole, Gillian Reeve, Alex Relph, Sharon Rich, Andrew Roache, Gillian Roberts, Alan Ross, Peter Sainty, Kate Sell, Marie Shepherd, Helen Slater, Caro Sweet, Diane Tims, Dave Turner, Karen Vogt, Judith Waddington, Emma Walker, Pat Walls, Glyn Walton and Cathy Wood.
The indoor exhibition will include work by Herefordshire artists Helen Crawford and Bronte Woodruff, as well as a collection of sketches by some of the featured sculptors.
To contact the Sculpture Garden at Showborough House:
call Andrew or Glynis on 01684 296605,
or write to Andrew Roache, Showborough House, Twyning, Gloucestershire GL20 6DN.
Or visit our website by CLICKING HERE
2009 Exhibition
The 2009 Exhibition ran from Thursday 9th April (Easter weekend) until Sunday 7th June. As before the theme of Affordable Garden Art attracted emerging sculptors near the beginning of their careers as well as some more established artists. There were around 100 exhibits by about 40 sculptors.
Exhibiting sculptors included Emma Ablitt, Martin Adamson, Sian Andrews, Nigel Ash, Marlene Badger, Lynn Baker, Faith Bebbington, Ant Beetlestone, Alison Berman, Erica Bibbings, Anne Boning, Henrietta Bud, Ray Castell, Charlotte Clark, James Connolly, Gordon Cooke, Sue Crossfield, Pat Elmore, Gwyneth Evans of Creative Living Willow, Jane Foreman, Viki Govan and Richard Warner of Iron Vein, Neil Gow, Nick Helme, Pete Higgs, Charlotte Hupfield, Gillian Lamb, Fiona Kam Meadley, Rachel Nuttall, John Perrin, Kim Pethybridge, Ben Prothero, Alex Relph, Sharon Rich, Andrea Richardson, Andrew Roache, Alan Ross, Kate Sell, Marie Shepherd, Helen Slater, Caro Sweet, Diane Tims, Karen Vogt, Judith Waddington, Emma Walker.
There was an indoor exhibition of paintings by a group of west Herefordshire, artists, including Bronte Woodruff, Anthea Stilwell, Maggie Denaro and Julienne Braham.
There were more visitors than in 2008, including, happily, a number of repeat visitors. Some gardening clubs booked visits and a group from Twyning School spent an activity day with us. Visitors kindly donated over £300 to the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Fund (Perennial).
The mallard which nested on the island in the pond hatched six ducklings and managed to escort them off the property without their being molested by the cat.
2009 Competition
The competition was judged by Irene Tyack who exhibits her distinctive paintings at her own Yellow Hat Tribe Gallery near Burford in Oxfordshire.
The winners of the two sections of the competition were Pat Elmore with Drying her Feet and Nigel Ash for his untitled stone carving. Runners-up were Caro Sweet, Faith Bebbington, Diane Tims and Karen Vogt. The student prize went to Sian Andrews from Falmouth College for Nimue.
The People's Prize is not judged but is awarded to the sculpture voted their favourite by the largest number of visitors to the exhibition. In 2009 the winner was Stickleback by Alan Ross from Ross-on-Wye.
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