Surrey Sculture Society Exhibition At The Savill Garden
The Surrey Sculpture Society will be showing nearly 100 pieces of original sculpture
at The Royal Landscape’s Savill Garden and Savill Building, Windsor Great Park,
from 31 May to 6 July. Visitors will also have the opportunity to find out more
about sculpture with a special weekend of artist demonstrations in the Garden on
7 and 8 June.
Over the demonstrations weekend, artists will talk about their work and also explain
the processes involved in creating their sculptures. On Saturday 7 June, five artists
will be talking to the public including Gilbert Whyman who works with scrap metal
and clay portrait sculpture; Eric Duggan who works in resin sculpture incorporating
fossils; Marie Shepherd who does colour resin casting; Di Tims who uses bronze resin
casting and stone carver Hilary Frew.
On Sunday 8 June, the sculptors will include Guy Portelli (Fellow of the Royal Society
of British Sculptors) who will be talking about the wide range of media in which
he works; together with Daren Greenhow, a metal sculptor who specializes in producing
unique work from reclaimed steel bicycle parts, and large scale wood sculptor Roger
Day.
Sculptor and Exhibition Organiser Daren Greenhow comments:
“The Savill Garden is the perfect backdrop in which to showcase the diverse variety
of work sculpted by members of The Surrey Sculpture Society, many of whom are recognised
nationally and internationally in the artistic world. Visitors are always curious
about how we create our sculptures and the wide range of skills and materials involved.
We always enjoy the opportunity to talk about our work to our audience and, hopefully,
inspire visitors to explore their own creativity.”
Visitors to the Garden will see 60 outdoor sculptures, including Veló-ciraptor,
a fun representation of a predatory dinosaur made entirely of reclaimed bicycle
components; together with Lizard, Ostrich, Otter Pair, Nile Goddess, Flamenco Dancer
and Pond Man. In the award-winning Savill Building, people will be able to view
over 30 indoor sculptures such as the life-like Cut Apple, Doc Marten Boot and Spanish
Conquistador. Every piece, which is either unique or a limited edition, is for sale.
The Savill Garden is part of The Royal Landscape, which also includes the Valley
Gardens and Virginia Water. It is England’s finest woodland and ornamental garden
with over 35 acres of trees, shrubbery, ponds and streams, lawns, meadows and formal
beds which are home to some of the world’s most decorative plants. Throughout the
period of the Surrey Sculpture Exhibition, visitors will enjoy the Summer Gardens,
with resplendent rose beds, deep herbaceous borders, the contemporary cottage Golden
Jubilee Garden and the drought-tolerant Dry Garden.
Background Information
The Royal Landscape is an area of a thousand acres of lakes, gardens and parkland,
accessible to the public, at the southern end of Windsor Great Park. It includes
The Savill Garden, the Valley Gardens and Virginia Water Lake. It is a man-made
landscape, which has been shaped and planted over a period of 400 years. For more
information visit www.theroyallandscape.co.uk
The Savill Garden is open all year round and from March to October, The Savill Garden,
restaurant and shop are open from 10am-6pm. Last admission to the Garden and restaurant
is 30 minutes before closing. Admission prices: adults £7; seniors £6.50; family
£18; children under 6 free; children 6 to 16 are £3.50; groups £5.50 per person.
Winter opening hours are from 10am-4.30pm.
The Surrey Sculpture Society was founded in 1994 by Crispin Rayner with a group
of 14 sculptors in the Guildford area to promote interaction between sculptors,
to organise exhibitions and to encourage the appreciation of sculpture. Since then
the membership has grown to establish a vibrant Society, already sending quiet ripples
throughout the sculpture world, with some 300 members drawn from all over Surrey
and the surrounding counties. For more information email fleurfitzgerals@surreysculpture.org.uk
or visit www.surreysculpture.org.uk