Surrey Hills’ Fircroft Art Exhibition celebrates 30 years of creativity

This year marks the 30th anniversary of The Fircroft Art Exhibition on Albury Heath.

You are invited to a ‘gem of an exhibition’, a large and varied display of new work by more than 50 gifted artists from near and far, chosen and assembled by artist and former art school head Frank Taylor and his wife Christine. 

The works are displayed in their early Victorian home Fircroft, off New Road, Albury Heath GU5 9DD, and its wooded gardens in the beautiful Surrey Hills. 

Many of the artists are well-known in their part of the country, some are nationally and internationally recognised, whilst others are still at the outset of their careers.

This year’s artists

There are new works by eminent St Ives potter John Bedding as well as equally established ceramicists Jane Silk from Sussex, Lise B Moorcroft from Stoke on Trent, Pru Green and her son Simon Sharp both of whom work in East Anglia. 

Sophie Smith and Derek Matthews show new collections of their quirky ceramic pots and sculptures, each telling their own story.

On the walls are paintings by two artists new to Fircroft – Tinx Newton and Eloise Harvey, who embellishes her paintings with embroidery, as well as Frank Taylor’s paintings and prints.

Dorset painter Paul Jones, whose exhibits were so admired last year, returns with a small selection of new mixed media works.

Plus, a large selection of handmade jewellery by several silversmiths and jewellers is on show, along with colourful glass vessels and lamps.

Fircroft’s garden was planned and planted in Victorian times, and contains many coniferous and deciduous trees, including a Giant Redwood, an Atlantic Pine, a Douglas Fir, Yews, Oaks, and several more species.

The lawns and re-wilded areas provide excellent spaces to display the amazing reclaimed steel animal sculptures of George Hider from Somerset, wonderful bird sculptures by Paul Harvey, large metal plant forms by Nicci Fairbank and small ones by Stanger Moore, as well as distinctive steel abstracts by Richard Farrington.

How to book

Entry to the exhibition is free and a warm welcome awaits you daily from 11am to 5pm.

Further information including directions and a map are on the website fircroft.info.

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