Jan Wood

Jan Wood is showing at Highdown Gallery from 9 June to 13 June 2027, a five-day run in the heart of Highdown Gardens. It's a short window, so if you're planning to head over, you'll want to pick a day early rather than leaving it to the final weekend.

The gallery itself is the visitor centre for Highdown Gardens, a chalk garden shaped over 58 years by Sir Frederick Stern, whose collections date back to 1910. It's a versatile space that hosts art and craft exhibitions, workshops and talks, and it sits right inside the South Downs National Park. The gardens drew around 80,000 visitors in the last twelve months, and entry is free, so you can easily pair the exhibition with a wander through the grounds.

One of the gardens' best-known features is the waterfall, which was originally fed by a natural chalk spring and later revived with an off-grid solar system known as the 'Solar Pagoda'. It's a good spot to clear your head before or after you've spent some time with the work. With the gallery inside the visitor centre, you're never far from the gardens themselves.

So, Jan Wood at Highdown Gallery, 9 to 13 June 2027. It's a short run, and since the gardens are free to enter, it's an easy one to fit in around a walk in the South Downs.