Galleries

August

GALLERIES

August 13 - 31. The Gallery, Symondsbury Natural Forms. Lyme Bay Arts CIC will be welcoming back visitors to the Gallery in Symondsbury with its first post-lockdown exhibition entitled Natural Forms. The Gallery has re-scheduled its postponed Contemporary Crafts exhibition to run from 3-21 September. The Gallery will be open Thurs-Mon from 10.30-4.30 (closed Tues/Wed) and will be complying with relevant social distancing. The Gallery, Symondsbury Estate, Symondsbury, Bridport DT6 6HG. www.lymebayarts.co.uk.

August 1 - 29. The Arts Stable Contemplation. Ceramics by Adam Buick, Nel Faulkner, Jonathan Garratt, Ali Herbert, Nigel Lambert, David Roberts, Jason Wason, with furniture by Matthew Burt. Curated by Cigdem Baker Open Thur - Sat, 10am - 3pm. Kelly Ross Fine Art, Child Okeford, Blandford, Dorset DT11 8HB Tel: 01258 863866 www.theartstable.co.uk

Until August 12. The Malthouse Gallery Immersion. Joe Webster. Exhibition of breath-taking new artwork by acclaimed Southwest outdoor painter Joe Webster. 11am -4.30pm Sunday-Wednesday 11am-8pm Thursday-Saturday Artist in Gallery. The Malthouse, The Town Mill, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. www.townmill.org.uk/

Until August 13 Four Contemporary Landscape Painters. Hester Berry, Day Bowman, Rita Brown and Sam Travers. Guggleton Farm Arts, Stalbridge, Dorset. DT10 2RQ. https:// guggletonfarmarts.com/ August 14 - 26. The Malthouse Gallery Richard Kaye, Recent Work 2017-2020. Featuring works by Richard Kaye, including Painting, Printmaking and Drawing. Opening times: 10.30-4.30. The Malthouse, The Town Mill, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. www.townmill.org.uk/

Until September 12 The Summer Exhibition. A delightful showcase of diverse Artworks feature in this annual popular mixed exhibition. The show will include brand new oil paintings by the President of the Pastel Society, Jeannette Hayes and long awaited paintings by Kathy Little, a Gallery Artist that has exhibited with Artwave West for nine years. Regular visitors will also be familiar with Suchi Chidambaram’s dramatic palette knife paintings and will not be disappointed to see her new small paintings in the gallery. There will be numerous other artists and, as customary for this season, the exhibition will be constantly changing as pictures leave for their new homes and different pieces fill the gaps! Open Tues-Sat 10-5. Artwave West, Morcombelake, Dorset DT6 6DY 01297 489746. www.artwavewest.com

Until September 13 Never and Always. David Inshaw. Recent paintings and works on paper. the consummate painter of the English landscape, peopled by dreamlike figures, birds and animals. Called ‘perhaps the greatest living proponent of the English Romantic tradition’ (Spectator), Inshaw invokes the powers of nature, the moon, trees, stars, birds, animals, men, women, ancient landscapes and the sea to create his powerful intensely personal paintings. Sladers Yard Gallery and Café Sladers, West Bay Road, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL. 01308 459511. https://sladersyard.wordpress.com/

Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG) and Wild East Devon have announced the launch of a new travelling creative space—the Creative Cabin. This innovative, intriguing and inviting cabin is taking nature and culture on tour, coming soon to a neighbourhood near you!

The Creative Cabin is a fun, creative and safe space to explore art, culture and nature. It will set off on tour starting in Exmouth on 29 August. Throughout the autumn there will be a broad range of art activities, projects, talks, performances and workshops, to support health, wellbeing and respond to the local environment.

It draws together the skills and knowledge of East Devon District Council’s culture and countryside teams, who have developed activities to suit a wide variety of groups in both urban and isolated rural communities.

As well as individuals and families, the cabin will bring activities to groups most in need including schools, colleges, Memory Cafés, Devon Recovery Learning Community, Devon Young Carers, Refugee Support Groups, Devon Insight, and Headlight— an Action East Devon service for young people encountering mental health issues.

The Creative Cabin is an outcome of THG’s Culture + Climate 2020 programme, which sought to question our complicated relationship with nature and help identify new ways to coexist. The programme was launched in February with ARTIST ROOMS Richard Long, an exhibition of works by the Turner Prize winning artist, Richard Long, whose acclaimed career at the forefront of conceptual art has investigated the relationship between people and nature. Continuing to explore the themes of the exhibition, the Creative Cabin has been made possible by ARTIST ROOMS with the support of Art Fund, Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Community Fund.

Ruth Gooding, THG Curator said:

“For 2020 we had developed a really dynamic programme - Culture + Climate working with our partners Arts and Culture, University of Exeter, East Devon AONB and ARTIST ROOMS -National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. We are delighted we can now take this activity on tour to our local communities and continue to explore our relationship with nature and the climate emergency.

“This is a critical time for East Devon’s cultural recovery and we are responding to the needs of our communities by providing access to exciting creative activities and events in a safe way.”

For upcoming events near you, visit: thelmahulbert. com/creativecabin and follow #ourcreativecabin on social media