A German artist who has been visiting Torquay with his English wife quite regularly over the past thirty years has joined forces with three experienced Devon artists. They would like to invite art students from Germany and the UK to attend courses at the English Riviera. A website has been set up to explain the benefits to interested parties. Back in Germany the painter who is also a member of the Devon Art Society has distributed posters and leaflets to a fair number of organisations near his home town and beyond. So the team are hoping to get people to spend a painting holiday in Devon...
The popular Doddiscombsleigh Art Show 2013 will be exhibiting for sale the work of over 70 artists, predominantly from the South-West at its new location, the Teign Valley Community Hall in Christow.
The range of art on show is astonishing, from oil paintings to watercolours, pencil drawings, lino prints, ceramics, jewllery, etchings, collage, embroidery, remaker art and sculptures, both indoor and outdoor.
Doddiscombsleigh Art Show prides inself on showcasing a wide range of art from both established international artists through to emerging artists including six students...
Porcelain Complexion - a new exhibition from Devon Guild and Plymouth Museum on show at Bovey Tracey's craft gallery from 4 October to 17 November.
The exhibition tells the story of porcelain’s journey from China to Devon. It combines historical artefacts specially loaned from Plymouth Museum with the work of several contemporary makers. Amongst the antique tea-ware sits Carl – part of a group of hand-dipped porcelain dogs by Helen Felcey. For her, porcelain embodies both sharpness and softness and gives the familiar an other-worldly quality.
120 guests attended the opening night and exclusive awards ceremony of The Exeter Contemporary Open, now in its eighth year and held at the Exeter Phoenix.
Sponsored by Chartered Accountants Haines Watts, the exhibition provides an important national platform for contemporary visual artists and is open to the public from 13 September – 2 November 2013.
The winner of the prestigious £1,000 award was Wales-based artist Rachel Busby.
Guests were welcomed with a specially mixed cocktail and invited to enter the ‘Untitled cocktail competition’ inspired by the works of...
Find out more about the county's diverse range of accomplished artists this month during Devon Open Studios, a free annual visual arts event that place from 7 to 22 September. Described by one visitor as, "a wonderful way to explore and discover all the talented people living in Devon," this is the largest showcase for artists in the county, with artists exhibiting their work in more than 140 locations.
Visitors will be able to view the work and practice of over two hundred artists who are opening their doors across the county, while touring the diverse countryside of Devon. The...
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New local company AventHolidays, the brainchild of Woodbury-based Jeremy Jackson, announces the first of its new all-inclusive six day Italian painting breaks in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Ferrara, Italy, an outstanding success. Ferrara - with a population of 350,000 - boasts the oldest university in Italy together with a castle and is linked to Exeter University. The inaugural painting holiday was led by Rebecca de Mendonça a renowned artist who has developed considerable skill in the use of pastels. She spent 10 years working alongside Channel 4 Grand Designs presenter Kevin...
Art, charity and travel have been combined in a unique collaborative project launched by Woodbury-based Jeremy Jackson, whose illustrious career as an artist, writer and honorary pastor and former public relations executive spans 30 years. Despite retiring six years ago, flamboyant Jeremy is far from taking it easy and his latest new venture combines two of his greatest passions – paintings and people.
As well as supporting a charity that helps orphaned and abandoned children in Tanzania, philanthropic Jeremy has now launched a new commercial business that will help raise funds for...
Exeter Community Centre holds four-month exhibitions of painting, drawing, photography, print and a few ceramics. The work is curated from submissions and is open for anyone to apply. There is a Hanging Policy regarding content, but a very open-minded approach to form.
Exhibitions are rolling, every 4 months. The next is from 2nd-3rd February 2013. There are no charges for exhibiting or commission taken for any sales.
Artists are required to have their own PPL insurance and further insurance at their own discretion.
Please submit an indicative selection of images by...
Unique works of art created using specialist equipment at the University of Exeter are on display in an exhibition that showcases the diverse potential of the technology.
The University’s Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing (CALM) invited 30 professional artists to work with its engineers on its “3D printers”, which build up an object layer by layer.
Dr Sara Flint , commercial manager of CALM, said: “This collaboration was an extremely exciting opportunity for us to work with 30 artists who all had very different creative ideas about how they could...
