The Trail

Now in its sixth year, the blossom charity have added to its art sculpture trail in Eye, Suffolk to include animals in Harleston, Norfolk too. Across the two towns we have 16 beautifully decorated large safari animals and 27 mini animals. Visitors can walk with purpose to see them placed in locations on a route around these picturesque towns.

Whether you like beach scenes, flowers and nature, fairy stories, bright colours, animals or music, there is something for everyone - our artists and makers have been wonderfully creative!

Capturing the imagination of all those involved, each of the sculptures have been kindly sponsored by local businesses. Following their sponsorship, these businesses have sought to collaborate with an array of talented artists and creators, all of whom have volunteered countless hours of their time designing and decorating these glorious items.

We are also extremely grateful to the many volunteers behind the scenes who help make this event such a success - from updating a website to lifting, transporting, and installing the animal, from creating and designing the artwork to organising the auction and the food; and many more activities....we are very grateful, so thank you all!

The animals are dotted across the towns for all to see – you’ll find some of them in the motte-and-bailey castle and the magnificent church of St Peter & St Paul, in Eye, the church of St John's in Harleston and the market places in both towns. You can find each sculpture's exact location on the map below.

The trail will be in place from Friday 19th July to early September, following which the items will be sold at auction at The Oaksmere, on Wednesday 25th September. Please find a map of the trail below, with an additional pdf link to the full information leaflet which will also be available from dream on in Eye, The Pink Trolley in Harleston and all the other shops which are supporting us.

We are delighted to bring the ‘Go on Safari’ trail to Eye and Harleston and hope you enjoy it. Please share your photos sitting on the benches on social media with #eyesculpturetrail. A massive thank you to everyone who made it happen!