As we welcome in the New Year and plan for another exciting year ahead, we wanted to take a moment to look back and reflect on some of our highlights of 2022.

• 190 volunteers worked across the Gallery, Garden, Visitor Centre, COMPO (our shuttle bus) and Learning departments donating over 12,618 hours of their time in 2022. We are very proud of what we deliver and none of it would be possible without our volunteers.

• In 2022, 350 tulips, 250 winter aconites and three new fruit trees were planted. 25 hydrangea plants were donated by a Sponsor, 82 pupils attended our Christmas wreath-making class, 50 native hedge plants were planted and 30,000 bees were buzzing in our bee hive.

• In 2022, we hosted three artists in residence: Ashleigh Fisk, a ceramicist and printmaker; Sarah Thien, a portrait artist who works in charcoal and oil; and Habib Hajallie, an artist specialising in portraits inspired by works from our current display,Faces of Fame: G F Watts X Simon Frederick.

• We exhibited 262 Delight paintings in the Old Kiln from four different schools. Across our whole Delight partnership, we carried out 26 printing workshops in 2022 with 13 different schools.

Read more about our creative partnerships here.

• The Watts Contemporary Gallery represented 97 artists and sold 194 artworks.

• 252 objects were displayed in our five exhibitions in the Historic Galleries in 2022.

• We sold 42,764 products in the gift shop. Over 15,000 greeting cards, 1,048 guidebooks, 694 exhibition catalogues and 383 pieces of ceramics.

• Over 27,000 cups of coffee were enjoyed in our Tea Shop this year, along with 22,000 cups of tea, 10,000 slices of cake and 7,500 scones.

• Towards the end of 2022, we raised £70,281 for our Big Give Christmas Challenge. These donations will help support our Art For All by All learning programme.

As a charity, we strive to make art, as well as our site accessible to all, and none of the above would be achieved without your ongoing support, so thank you.

We are very excited about our upcoming 2023 programme which offers a variety of creative activities, inspiring workshops and an exciting programme of exhibitions and events.

An exhibition of contemporary landscape art, A Sense of Place, will kick off the new year, featuring works byGrace Ellen and Tom Voycein the Watts Contemporary Gallery.

Heading into Spring with Halima Cassell: From the Earth, the first solo exhibition by a contemporary artist to be shown at Watts Gallery. The exhibition will explore Cassell's evolving practice over the past 25 years and will include a piece specially commissioned by the Watts Gallery, made with local Compton clay.