Spring Art & Garden Fair “Island Retailer” Booking Portal

31st October - 16th April

The 2027 Isle of Wight Spring Art & Garden Fair will take place this year on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th April and will be open for visitors between 10am and 5pm daily.

The Fair has become one of the busiest early season events on the Island and is a great opportunity for a huge range of quality Isle of Wight businesses to promote and sell their products and produce.

With an estimated 5000 visitors in 2026, the Fair continues to grow in popularity with visitors and has become the leading early season outdoor event of the Island’s busy calendar.  The is normally considered to be the first  ‘get out of doors weekend’ of the year and thus provides some great trading opportunities for a range of local and regional businesses who want to take part with many reporting this as one of their best events of the whole season.

The Fair of course has a specific focus on art and gardening and businesses who trade in to these sectors are particularly encouraged to take part. If you have an Island or mainland business selling anything relating to plants, gardening and the great outdoors, this is the event you have been waiting for! If you are an artist producing quality work good enough for an exhibition, then step forward…we have an art showcase inside Northwood House that will be a super opportunity to promote and sell your work.

Outside, the Isle of Wight Spring Fair is perfect for everyone from plant nurseries and growers, landscaping products and service providers, and garden machinery dealerships, to furniture, clothing and other lifestyle businesses. What better way to start the new season than a show focusing on everything to do with the Island’s favourite pastime? It’s a great chance to activate promotions and show off a range of all your latest plants and products to a wide audience looking to not only see, but buy! Island exhibitors will be joined by a range of horticultural based businesses from the mainland including a selection of RHS medal-winning plant nurseries.

Of course, it’s not just about gardening and high quality art. Producers and retailers of other quality items are welcome to attend over the weekend, including makers of craft, jewellery and local food (for take-home consumption, though sampling is of course permitted!) with options to bring your own gazebo or book an all weather marquee.

Charities and local organisations and businesses who want to promote themselves are also welcome to attend. The Fair also has a green business & eco section, where businesses selling environmentally friendly products and services are welcome to attend, including retailers of green energy systems and electric vehicles. It’s an eclectic mix, with the emphasis always on quality, making it very popular with visitors.

The two-day fair will be the first prime selling opportunity of the year. It will be one of the first main ‘Get Outdoors’ weekend of the season, when customers are at their most eager to revamp their gardens and buy new items for the upcoming season.

The Fair is family friendly and free to enter for children 15 years old or younger. There will be some free kids craft activities and general fun activitys to keep everyone occupied. The popular Spring Fair Tea Tent will again provide a delightful range of lunches, drinks, cakes and afternoon teas and the Lawn Bar will be open with the chance to enjoy the first Pimm’s of the summer season!

The event will be staged  as ever on the lawns and within the grounds of Northwood House and Park, now one of the Island’s leading event venues. The venue is managed by Northwood House Charitable Trust, with proceeds from the event going to the charity. This will help to continue the ongoing restoration of this iconic Island building for future generations of Islanders to enjoy.

There’s lots to look forward to and exhibitors are now invited to take either an outdoor pitch for the event (providing their own shelters and gazebos), or in one of several all-weather marquees (provided by us, no need to provide your own gazebo).

All weather marquees could be located on the lawns or in the park depending on the final show plan, which isn’t plotted until all the pitch bookings are closed in early March.

Please note pitches are only available for the entire two days. Bookings for single days only aren’t available, sorry.

Assume widest measurement is your selling frontage, although bigger pitches maybe open on more than one side. 

Even though we prefer exhibitors not to have their vehicles parked on their outside pitches, if it is essential for storage or trading then exhibitors can do if they wish. But their pitch must be larger enough to do this, and therefore no smaller than a 6m x 6m ‘Outside Square Pitch’. Please measure your vehicle to make sure you book a big enough pitch and still have enough room for retail items and a gazebo. You will not be able to encroach beyond your marked pitch boundary and this is strictly enforced.

Exhibitor vehicles will be parked nearby in the park for access if required.

Pitches rental fees are VAT exempt under our Charity status and thus exclude any VAT that can be reclaimed by VAT registered businesses.

Each pitch booking comes with 2 exhibitor wristbands included. Others available at standard admission rates.

 

Please use the booking section to complete your application, take special care in reading through the terms & conditions at the checkout. See you soon!