WINNER – 2023

Best Independent Art Gallery – Suffolk

The Gallery is currently closed and re-opens on Tuesday 18th February 2025 with the annual winter sale, followed by the first exhibition of the year, Garner+Read ‘Light and Colour’

Welcome to the George Farnham Gallery. Now a multi award winning independent gallery 2023, including being nominated for the East of England Small Business Awards 2024.

We opened our doors in 2016 and have been showcasing and promoting the work of local creatives ever since.

Please visit the Gallery in the historic market town of Saxmundham in Suffolk to see our collection close up. A warm welcome awaits.

Garner+Read

Light and Colour

4 March – 29 March 2025

Hilary Garner – biography

Hilary works from her own studio in Holton, near Halesworth in Suffolk, mainly painting still life, landscapes and portraits in oils and pastels. Recently she has been developing her abstract practice with mixed media.

Hilary loves colour and is inspired by everything! She loves groups of objects, the landscape around her, patterns and textures, photographs, other artists’ work, music…Whatever the subject or medium, she uses bold marks and an enhanced colour palette to create an expressive painting in what has become her signature style.

Hilary exhibits and sells her work in several galleries across East Anglia and she has collectors in Europe, Australia and the USA. She opens her studio in June every year as part of Suffolk Open Studios.

Hilary has her own gallery and event space at Holton Lodge Barn, next to her studio, which operates from April to October.

Follow her on Instagram to be kept informed of exhibitions and other exciting events during the year.

Norma Read – biography

Many of Norma’s paintings are Suffolk landscapes from favourite walks in the Waveney Valley and Carlton Marshes Nature Reserve, the most southern tip of the Broads National Park and just a stones throw from her studio.

Walking in nature with peat-pools, dykes and scrubland, among grazing cattle, dragonflies, marshland birds and wild flowers, there is inspiration in abundance to experiment and develop Norma’s style of today, creating vibrant and textured paintings using expressive brush-marks and palette knives.

Norma’s sales extend internationally to France, Italy and USA, and she has representation in galleries and exhibitions throughout East Anglia, including the Royal Norfolk Show and is a member of Suffolk Open Studios.

In Norma’s portfolio you will find colourful landscapes, still-life and sensitively painted portraits in oils and pastels, with a particular liking for fun and character in animals.

Follow Norma on Instagram to be kept informed of exhibitions and other exciting events during the year.