Spring Grove Art Garden

Description

Spring Grove Market Garden is a working market garden overlooking the Vale of Taunton Deane. We are hosting artwork by various local artists including Louise Waugh, Sam Jeffs, Phil Stroud, Rachel Gundry, Liz Shewan and Jane Mowatt.

Event Type

Exhibition

Disciplines

Ceramics/Glass, Mixed Media, Painting/Drawing/Illustration, Sculpture/Carving

Opening Times

Fri 7th	Sat 8th	Sun 9th	Mon 10th	Tue 11th	Wed 12th	Thu 13th	Fri 14th	Sat 15th	Sun 16th
closed	10am - 4pm	closed	10am - 4pm	10am - 4pm	10am - 4pm	10am - 4pm	10am - 4pm	10am - 4pm	closed

Further Info

Spring Grove Market Garden is set on a south facing, four acre site near Milverton, growing organic vegetables and flowers for a local box scheme and farmers market.

Originally, when the market garden was created in 2001, the land was simply a field of rye grass and clover. It has now had an acre of permanent beds, three polytunnels and a straw bale barn constructed on it and up until last year all the vegetables were grown by hand.

Since then a further two and a half acres of neighbouring land has been rented to grow crops on a larger field scale basis with the aid of a tractor.

As well as being a working market garden Spring Grove is an aesthetically beautiful place. Great care has been taken to plant and nurture native trees, hedgerows and flowers to create a place to spend time and enjoy the surroundings. By introducing artwork, ranging from sculpture to sketches, the visual experience is enhanced.

During the festival week, you are invited to view the exhibits and take the opportunity to see Spring Grove Market Garden in the late summer, a changing period in the seasons.

The exhibits will include sculpture by Liz Shewan, wood carving by Jane Mowat, metal sculpture by Samo Jeffs and wicker sculpture by Phil Stroud. These will be positioned outside around the garden. Depending on the weather there will also be specially built structures, a yurt for example, where we will display paintings by Rachel Gundry and Louise Waugh and photography by Chris Hamilton amongst other local artists.

Liz Shewan

Born in Brazil in 1969, Liz is greatly inspired by nature, colour and form. Her work is full of enthusiasm, laughter, love and strength. She expresses emotion, movement and character through every part of the form. Liz did a Foundation Course and studied photography at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in the late 1980s. She has been selling her work internationally since 1998. She has been running performance workshops for young people throughout Somerset and Devon as well as running painting, sculpture and pottery evening classes locally.

Commissions accepted.

Contact Liz on 07803 208335 or look at her work on www.lizshewanpaintings.com

Jane Mowat

Wood has a continued life beyond that of the tree that created it. It contains the life and energy of organic forms that inspire the imagination, which is formed by our experiences and thoughts, and it is from this endless source that Jane dips into.

Her preferred woods are oak and elm. Elm has grain that seems to flow like water and is restless like the wind. Oak has a knotted and grainy surface that suggests so much of animate life.

She has a studio at Hurstone, Waterrow, and produces prints as well as carvings.

Private and public commissions are welcome.

Jane can be contacted on 01823 252285, or email janemowat@eclipse.co.uk,

Sam Jeffs

Currently completing a National Diploma in Fine Art, Sam’s pieces are metal sculptures constructed from scrap, car parts, and found objects, fused into artistic representations of his aesthetic perceptions.

Using an age old craft and sculpting with a fresh angle, sculpture is his main ambition and he works spontaneously, taking the idea from the process.

His main inspiration is a group of artists called the Mutoid Waste Company, and also Antony Gormley and Hundertwasser. The aim of his work is simply to have an impact on the viewers’ personal aesthetic and to separate himself from the elitism of the art world.

Phil Stroud

Phil produces outside wicker sculptures. He is currently working on a woodland venture with the Coombe Woodlands Trust in Devon where a large woodland area has been opened up for conservation walks. The aim is to work in harmony with the environment to produce and display entertaining, educational and therapeutic works of art. Any schools, artists or just good ideas would be truly welcome. Please speak to Phil or if busy, please sign his woodland projects book.

Rachel Gundry

Working as a letter carver and painter, Rachel makes site specific inscriptions on limestone or slate, and paintings inspired by trees, earth, water, sky and colour, returning to a particular place over time to complete a picture.

She likes to work outside to feel the plants growing and hear insects moving around her. She has started painting in oil paint which allows a picture to be worked over a longer time, so she can return to it and follow a thread which comes during the process. She does not have a preconceived idea of how the picture will be. Her technique is still related to previous mediums of watercolour and inks, so she works in layers, with staining, glazes and areas of more opaque colour.

Louise Waugh

Painter and printmaker for many years Louise has exhibited both in Europe and America in solo and group shows and will be tutoring this year in Spain and Morocco with www.andalucian-adventures.co.uk Her part in the ten parishes festival will be to use Spring Grove Market Garden, set high above Wellington with far reaching views to the Blackdown Hills, as her inspiration. With painting and drawing as her chosen media she will document and follow the growing and planting activities in the gardens in an illustrative and figurative way following the workers' daily activities. The artwork will be displayed during the festival weather permitting at the gardens, or if not, in Milverton.

Chris Hamilton

Chris Hamilton is an occasional photographer working mainly in black and white, who uses a camera to explore and record the patterns and textures of physical world around him, the world on the doorstep. Among his favourite local haunts is Langford Common and he is drawn to the untidiness of the natural world rather than the picturesque.

At present he is making a record of the work of Spring Grove Market Garden, both the place and the people who are creating it.

Venue Information

Address

Spring Grove Market Garden

Milverton

Somerset

TA4 1NW

For Venue Information

07956 429531

Directions

From Milverton, follow Butts Way for 1.5 miles toward Spring Grove Cross. The entrance is on the left opposite woodland.

Parish

Milverton

Disabled Access

With Assistance

Other Facilities

Stout clothing/footwear - weather dependant

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