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Sat 19 May 2018 to Sat 23 Jun 2018

Preview:
Fri 18 May 2018, 6:30pm

Main Gallery

ANDREA McLEAN

“Journey-Lines unravel on the canvas. Pathways change colour. Unfolded buildings represent thoughts, ideas, and emotion. Reflections are shown as many faceted stones. The canvas is a body where miniature figures from the imagination of sleep step forward and reach for the sun and stars of realisation. Moons and dreams light the way. Layers bring clarity where new forms can be found.”

Andrea McLean studied painting at Falmouth Art School and the Slade School of Art followed by a scholarship year at The British School at Rome. She has worked as Artist in... more

Sat 07 Apr 2018 to Sat 12 May 2018

Preview:
Fri 06 Apr 2018, 6:00pm

Main Gallery

BENEDICT RUBBRA

“This exhibition, celebrating my eightieth birthday, can be seen as an extension of the 2015 retrospective at RAMM in Exeter. The work again focuses on my technique of constructing thee dimensional forms that become the point of departure for each painting.  The structures also become the space in which I can develop ideas. In the process of the making I can manipulate and alter shapes and colours and directions of light with total freedom until a conclusion is made. The structures are then acutely observed and the painting begins; and when painting is finished the structure has served... more

Sat 07 Apr 2018 to Sat 12 May 2018

Artist's Wall Exhibition

THE PLOUGH PRINTMAKERS

An exhibition showcasing the work from The Plough Printmakers. Work from those relatively new to Print who have attended the recent print course and experienced printmakers from past courses.  The prints will demonstrate a wide variety of different types of print making including Lino, Monoprinting, Drypoint and Wood Cut. The show will celebrate the fun we have had. If you are interested in attending the next print course please contact the box office for more information.more

Sat 24 Feb 2018 to Sat 31 Mar 2018

Artists Wall Exhibition

JOAN STRIBLING DE'LAUNAY

Joan Stribling de'Launay is an artist who trained at Chelsea and Byam Shaw and  has worked for many years as a Film,Television,Stage make-up, hair and prosthetics designer on a host of well known productions ranging from Northanger Abbey to The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy BBC [featured her original designs for Douglas Adams] She won a BAFTA CRAFT Award for her work on the film 'Vincent Van Gogh' and Royal Television Society and Design & Art Director's Awards for 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
This exhibition features her drawings, paintings, decoupage alongside examples... more

Sat 24 Feb 2018 to Sat 31 Mar 2018

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Fri 23 Feb 2018, 7:00pm

Main Gallery

ZOE HYDE and RIC HYDE

Ric Hyde and Zoe Hyde are father and daughter. They were both interviewed by documentary maker Martin Pailthorpe before their exhibition with us and a link to the two short films is included here and and on The Plough's Facebook site. 

Zoe interview 

Ric interview

Zoe Hyde: My paintings are inspired by the landscape. There is a personal narrative within my work, using dreams, memories, photographs, drawings and prints. Fragments may be applied to the surface... more

Wed 10 Jan 2018 to Sat 17 Feb 2018

Artists Wall Exhibition

New Boundaries

COLIN PORTER

Colin is  a landscape designer  and gardener, training at Kew, working at Rosemoor and running a landscape design and build business for the last 17 years. He feels part of the great British tradition of inspired gardeners.
He is a now a Fine Art student  and this gives Colin  different ways of interpreting and making images and compositions, be that paint,... more

Sat 13 Jan 2018 to Sat 17 Feb 2018

Preview:
Fri 12 Jan 2018, 6:30pm

Main Gallery

Wave/Particle

DUNCAN HOPKINS

Light can be explained as behaving both as a wave and as a particle. This exhibition features new and existing paintings and drawings that incorporate these ideas through observational studies of the sea, water, coastline, landscape, and organic abstraction.

The work is a celebration of the coast and land with its varied elemental qualities, and engages with concepts of chaos, complexity, tranquillity, perception and metaphor. The work is produced through observation and the intuitive creative process.

Duncan Hopkins lives and works in Bideford, North Devon and has been... more

Wed 29 Nov 2017 to Sat 23 Dec 2017

Preview:
Wed 29 Nov 2017, 7:00pm

Artist's Wall Exhibition

Anne Dennehy

Some decades ago I was living in Hong Kong.  It was here that I met a very strict, but wonderful Chinese art teacher.  I moved to Devon, about four years ago, to live in a bungalow after many years of ill health.   The Rheumatology Dept. diagnosed the “disease with a thousand faces”, Lupus.  Thanks to rheumatology (NDDH), the rheumatology O.T. and the physiotherapist at Bideford Hospital plus my GP at Bideford, I once again paint on my good days.

I have put on joint exhibitions in Hong Kong, America and England, then a number of solo exhibitions, at St George’s Hall, Bristol and in... more

Mon 30 Oct 2017 to Mon 27 Nov 2017

Artists Wall Exhibition

Luna North

Luna North is a printmaker and linocut artist who finds inspiration in the landscape, plants and animals of Exmoor, Devon. All of her prints are rich in colour and expressive detail. She hopes that her work will soothe and lift us, reconnecting us to nature.more

Sat 28 Oct 2017 to Sat 25 Nov 2017

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Fri 27 Oct 2017, 6:30pm

New Work: Starting From Scratch

Carol Rhodes

Tues /Sat 10am - 5pm

Following a stroke in 2006 which left her entire right hand side paralysed, Carol had to learn to draw and paint again using her left hand. Carol is an inspiration to other stroke sufferers who believe their lives have been shattered - it is a display of her determination not to be defeated. She has become again a fine painter; you would never know that she has had to "start from scratch".more

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