This year’s annual exhibition by the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) at Mall Galleries will be the first public showing of work by 30 artists who are taking part in a year-long project capturing the natural evolution of Massingham Heath, between Fakenham and King's Lynn.

Launched in May 2025, the SWLA Massingham Heath Project has brought together the society’s artists to document the seasons, wildlife and transformation of Massingham Heath in collaboration with landowner Olly Birkbeck, director of the Little Massingham Estate.

Since taking over the estate in 2017, the naturalist has restored more than 1,000 acres of heathland in a bid to reverse biodiversity and soil health declines attributed to years of intensive farming, after the land was ploughed up to feed the nation during the wartime "Dig for Victory" campaign.

Now it is once again teeming with rare........

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