About Us

The beginning:

The Green Tree Gallery was created by sculptor, Julie Janvrin and Painter, Jules Middleton in 2008. Friends for over 15 years, they spent many of them talking about setting up their own gallery before finally one day, deciding to actually do it.   

Moving forward: Summer 2010

Since the beginning in early 2008 with just Julie and Jules and their willing (or not!) husbands handling the finances, the gallery team has grown to include Jules' mum, a bookeeper, accountant, artist in residence and 3 other artists (not to mention the 60 odd artists whose work we show!). The 'gallery gals' as the main team have become affectionately known (yes they are all women...) run the gallery between them, each with their own areas of responsibility.

The Gallery:

The Green Tree Gallery is based in a barn, in the beautiful surroundings of Borde Hill Garden, in Mid Sussex. Sandwiched as it is between Brighton and London, both well known centres for the arts they feel the gallery fills a void in the Mid Sussex Area.

The gallery offers its visitors a warm and friendly atmosphere in a stylish and contemporary setting and features a wide range of affordable arts and crafts from both local artists and those further afield.

Artwork:

The pieces in the gallery range from unusual hand made greetings cards to vibrant canvases depicting abstract landscapes; from ‘touchable’ raku fired figurative sculptures to delicate silver jewellery; from the beautiful colours of stained glass to hand hewn wooden bowls… and so much more.  Each piece is selected by Julie and Jules to maintain a high standard of work and an interesting range of items. The work is reviewed regularly to ensure that whenever you visit you will be sure to find something new and exciting to browse.

We are confident that the gallery holds something for everyone, so why not come and have a browse in the warm and friendly atmosphere of the Green Tree Gallery.

Green, Green Tree Gallery:

Running a business in this day and age, we are very aware of environmental issues and are concerned that we make as little ecological impact as possible. After all, there’s no better reminder of this than the beautiful surroundings of the gallery. To read more about how we do this click here.

Gallery Visitors...

Over the past few months we've had many visitors to the gallery but there have been a few more interesting ones.. click here for more info...

Geeky stuff:

We are now on Twitter and Facebook! For regular updates become a follower or a fan...

We've also updated our blog. It is now set up with a 'proper' blog provider so you can add comments if you wish. Click here to have a look! For those that have no idea what a 'blog' is, have a look anyway!