This summer’s exhibition at the Guildford House Gallery will celebrate the Year of Gardening by extending its gallery space to its courtyard.

The garden-themed exhibition will feature a number of popular aspects of the subject, including a mixed range of art and artefacts, and is backed by a full programme of supporting events.

A display of old postcards, showing the castle grounds and works from the Borough Collection will be on show, while the local area of Guildford and Surrey will also be presented by a section dedicated to local country house parks and gardens – including Loseley Park, Hatchlands and Polesden Lacey.

Exhibition Officer, Christian Dettlaff, has taken the opportunity not only use the indoor gallery space, but has extended the exhibition to the gallery’s courtyard.

The gallery said that: “The garden within art is a natural angle for the gallery, and presents an opportunity to display engravings, watercolours, oils, ceramics and textiles from the Borough Collection.”

Originally built in 1660, Guildford House opened as a gallery in 1959 and attracted 100,273 visitors between April 2003 and March 2004.