The Fircroft Summer Exhibition 2012

Saturday 9th - Sunday 24th June 2012
daily 11am - 5pm Thursdays 11am - 8pm

Set in a large and interesting early Victorian country house and its mature wooded gardens in the midst of beautiful Albury Heath, the Fircroft Summer Exhibition 2012 brings together the work of more than fifty established and emerging artists from all parts of this country (and further afield). Fircroft is home to the artist Frank Taylor and his wife Christine who twice a year assemble and show a varied collection of paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, glass, textiles and jewellery. They choose works by artists they admire, and whose work is rarely shown in this part of the country. Some are artists of international reputation, all are highly respected within their own field.

This summer's show includes the work of several favourite previous exhibitors including eminent ceramic sculptors John Maltby and Anthony Theakston, potters Pru Green, Kevin Warren, Christine Bull, Andrew Niblett, Wendy Fowler and Lise B Moorcroft (daughter of Walter and grand daughter of William), Somerset sculptor George Hider, Brighton based Olivia Ferrier, Bristol based Jo Jones, Zimbabwean stone sculptors Dominic Benhura and Nesbert Mukomberanwa, Yorkshire sculptors Steve Blaylock and Darrell Evanes. Also on show will be work in glass by Sue Cox and Karen Cole and jewellery by Roger Elliott, Misha Seelhoff, Theresa McIntyre, Billie M Vigne, Claudia Holledge, Jane Angel and the Cloud 9 group.

Exciting new exhibitors include . . .

Daniel Glover was born in Guernsey, studied art in Bournemouth and Aberystwyth and is now settled in Dorset. He is fascinated with our unique British coastline and its surrounding landscape. He seeks to capture the essence of a place or landscape through colour and composition and in doing so produces stunning and very individual paintings.

Keith Morton studied at at Hornsey College of Art and now lives in North London. He combines painting with teaching, specialising in still life and portraiture. As a portrait painter, his most famous sitters to date have been the jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey OBE and the actress Siobhan Redmond. Keith will be showing a selection of his exceptional still life paintings.

Elizabeth Hoctor-Duncan gained a degree in social science but then returned to college to study photography, she now draws her favourite subjects - plants, fir-cones and flowers - with the precision of a close-up photograph.

John Moore, the award winning contemporary jewellery artist based in Brighton, will be showing his unique pieces of wearable sculpture made from brightly coloured aluminium, silver and steel.

Penny Fowler works with porcelain and bone china to create work which is characterised by beautiful dynamic forms with clean, precise lines. She uses a strong palette and aims to reflect 21st century London living. She studied ceramics at the Central School of Art and Goldsmiths College. She is a professional member of the Craft Potters Association and her work has been included in many ceramics magazines and books.

Jane Silk studied at Berkshire College of Art and Bath Academy. She works in ceramic producing abstract and bird sculptures as well as functional pots. Jane's bird forms attempt to capture the spirit of the individual, often humorous, almost human, by the exaggeration and emphasis of their features.

Entry to the exhibition is free and a warm welcome awaits you.

This the seventeenth summer exhibition and one of the very best. Please do visit.

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