‘Ways with Wood’, is a major exhibition celebrating the life and work of renowned Glastonbury-based artist Harry Brockway (1958–2024). Featuring an exceptional selection of his wood engravings, woodcuts and wooden sculpture, the exhibition offers a rich insight into the creativity, skill and craftsmanship that defined his distinguished artistic career.

Harry Brockway was an exceptionally accomplished printmaker, sculptor, illustrator and stone carver. Alongside creating independent prints, he produced wood-engraved illustrations for a wide range of publishers—from major houses such as Penguin to specialist presses like The Folio Society. His work appears in celebrated editions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and in texts by W. B. Yeats, Philip Pullman, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Mark Twain among others.

A Life Shaped by Craft

Alongside his wood carving, Harry worked as a stone carver and monumental mason, contributing to restoration and conservation projects across the UK, including Wells Cathedral.

His diverse portfolio included:

• Stonework for The National Trust
• Memorials for The Lettering Trust
• Design work for sustainable fashion brand Finisterre 
• Commemorative coins for The Royal Mint – most recently collaborating with other artists to design the new set of coins, to mark King Charles’s reign

Harry was an active member of The Society of Wood Engravers and The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.

Working from a studio at the bottom of his garden, each day Harry downed-tools for his daily walk up Glastonbury Tor, a place central to his creativity and daily rhythm.