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SCULPTURE AT THE TURRILL GARDEN, OXFORD
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Sally Dorrity’s Hand Built Stoneware – “It’s a bit like building a wall”
Blog by Peter Baird Sally’s fascination with ceramics began many years ago at evening class where she learned to throw and became...
Katherine Shock
Mar 4, 20222 min read
Sculpture in my Garden
Peter Baird interviews Helen Morton For our occasional series exploring the attraction of placing sculpture in private spaces, we spoke...
Katherine Shock
Feb 25, 20222 min read
Hair Raising Winds!
With 80mph – 90mph gusts sweeping the country, we have perhaps been fortunate to escape the severest of the winds from Storms Dudley and...
Katherine Shock
Feb 18, 20221 min read
Love is in the Air
Spring is (very nearly) here, the sap is rising and are you struggling to think of something different, yet still romantic to give your...
Katherine Shock
Feb 12, 20222 min read
More time to enjoy the riches of the winter show
We are delighted to say that our current winter exhibitors have agreed to extend the show until the end of April – right through Spring –...
Katherine Shock
Feb 4, 20221 min read
Burns Night
By Peter Baird Robert Burns – 1759 - 1796 “But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed” - Robert...
Katherine Shock
Jan 23, 20222 min read
Classically elegant porcelain
by Peter Baird. Harriet Coleridge of the Ewelme Pottery has exhibited at the Turrill on a number of occasions and we are delighted to...
Katherine Shock
Jan 14, 20221 min read
Sparks Fly!
by Peter Baird. As you enter the Garden during our current Winter Show a very striking, large bright red poppy sculpture catches the eye....
Katherine Shock
Jan 8, 20222 min read
2022!
Happy New Year to all who have enjoyed the Turrill Sculpture Garden through the past 12 months, and to hopefully the many hundreds more...
Katherine Shock
Jan 1, 20221 min read
Christmas Flipbook for unique last-minute gifts
This blog will give you a taste of some of our great range of gifts available at the Turrill Garden this year. Just contact...
Katherine Shock
Dec 19, 20211 min read
Glass globes that glow in the light
Let us introduce you to another of our current exhibiting sculptors: Anne Arlidge is a glass enthusiast! The ancient art of glass working...
Katherine Shock
Dec 11, 20211 min read
Cheerful and Rosy Cheeked to the sounds of Carols
Photos, Video and text by Peter Baird Nothing says “Christmas” quite like mulled wine, mince pies, carols and fairy lights! On Saturday...
Katherine Shock
Dec 5, 20211 min read
Introducing Two of Our Winter Exhibition Sculptors
Blog by Peter Baird We welcome Michele Greene of the Bicester Sculpture Group and Oxford Sculptors who is exhibiting with us for the...
Katherine Shock
Nov 28, 20212 min read
We've been Working Hard
Video by Peter Baird
Katherine Shock
Nov 19, 20211 min read
The Art of Sustainability
If you were asked to create a piece of sustainable art, what materials would you use and what would you create? There are many answers to...
Katherine Shock
Nov 12, 20212 min read
COP26 Week – What the Turrill is contributing to our local Ecology
There are so many benefits to having a local public garden and we hope that many residents take advantage of having the Turrill so close...
Katherine Shock
Nov 5, 20212 min read
Top 10 Halloween Themed Plants
Everybody loves Halloween and the scary costumes and stories that appear at this time of year, but did you know that the plant world has...
Katherine Shock
Oct 29, 20212 min read
Be brave with colour!
Sculpture can often add vitality and form to a part of the garden that is shady or bland, but add colour and you have a lift that will...
Katherine Shock
Oct 22, 20211 min read
Tossing Autumn Leaves in the Turrill
There's nothing quite like the satisfying crunch of stepping through the Autumn leaves and enjoying the myriad of colours that this...
Katherine Shock
Oct 15, 20211 min read
Footfall Exhibition – Just take the first step
"He often used to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep and every path was its...
Katherine Shock
Oct 9, 20211 min read
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