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Sat 13 Jan 2018 to Sat 17 Feb 2018

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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

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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

Tue 03 Oct 2017 to Mon 30 Oct 2017

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Tue 03 Oct 2017, 6:30pm

Artists Wall Exhibition

Richard Wood

Richard Wood was a local artist who spent his whole life based in North Devon. At the age of 21 and already a promising young art student, Rich broke his neck in a diving accident which left him a tetraplegic. He trained himself to paint using his mouth and went on to become a professional painter for the Mouth and Foot Painters Association. Rich died at the age of 46 in January 2017. This exhibition is a celebration of his life and all that he achieved, showing work right through from his student days, encompassing traditional oils and watercolours, on to his later years when he began to... more

Sat 23 Sep 2017 to Sat 21 Oct 2017

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Fri 22 Sep 2017, 6:30pm

Joint Exhibition

Valerie Barden and Robert Organ

Tues /Sat 10am - 5pm

Robert Organ and Valerie Barden have exhibited widely over many years although rarely together, despite having been married for almost 60 years. They moved from East to North Devon a few years ago and this is their first show locally.

R.O.     For me, the essential problems of painting remain, as I believe they always were: the reconciliation of the illusion of reality and the ordering of the flat surface.
V.B.      And for me, similarly, the problems of rendering the world around me into a designed pictorial form.
 
You can view a short... more

Sat 02 Sep 2017 to Mon 02 Oct 2017

Hornet

Artists Wall Exhibition

Wildlife & Nature photography of North Devon

Wreford Leverton

Curious fox clubs, a cete of badgers or feeding kingfishers, are some of the subjects of wildlife and nature photographer Wreford Leverton who will be presenting his work for the first time and would like to invite you to share his discovery of nature.  Passionate about his hobby for over 20 years, his knowledge and understanding of the countryside has been the foundation for the stunning images he captures .  He says, “It’s not luck, it’s doing the ground work and staking out that is rewarded with the shot”.

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Sat 05 Aug 2017 to Sat 16 Sep 2017

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Fri 04 Aug 2017, 6:30pm

Open Exhibition of Flower Paintings, Photographs and Crafts

The Rev Keble Martin Project

Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm

From Saturday 5 August until Saturday 16 September the Plough and Torrington Museum will be holding an open exhibition of flower painting, photography and crafts as part of a celebration of the Rev Keble Martin's legacy. Not only was he the author and illustrator of the Concise British Flora in Colour but he was also the vicar of Great Torrington in the 30s and 40s. The museum will show two original Keble Martin paintings and one will be included in the show at the Plough gallery.

The exhibition includes photographs, oil paintings, watercolours and ceramics and is part of a wider... more

Mon 31 Jul 2017 to Fri 01 Sep 2017

One Person's Weed is Another's Wisdom

Pete Yeo

Artist's Wall Exhibition

As part of this exhibition, at 10 am on Sat 26th Pete Yeo will lead a free walk around the outskirts of Torrington which explores the key words found within the title of Keble Martin’s magnum opus - British and Flora - along with associated terms such as wildflower, native, alien, naturalised, invasive, etc.

What is the bigger picture behind these word/ideas and how useful are they?

In the process we may see  Keble Martin’s Flora as a  moment in time, inevitably transient, yet holding memories of the past - and clues to... more

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