Monday 16^th September to Saturday 21^st September  ~ 10am - 4.45pm daily

South West Sculptors are a group of over 60 sculptors based in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

This exhibition showcases 10 of these creative artists. Our work displays a great variety of content and style, including figurative work, portrait sculpting, abstract form, ceramics and so much more...

Ani Buckland: Ceramic & Bronze

Rose Ellis: Ceramics

Sara Evans: Ceramics

Hamish Holman: Stonemason

Bev Knowlden: Resin & Mixed Media

Spencer Larcombe: Metal

Jan O'Highway: Glass & Mixed Media

Anne-marie Moss: Stone

Deborah Stevens: Bronze

Almut Woolard: Wood

Check out our website for more information on each artist:
www.swsculptors.co.uk

Monday 23^rd September to Saturday 28^th September  ~ 10am - 4pm daily
Private View Sunday 22^nd September  ~ 4pm - 6pm

Multidisciplinary artist Julie Mullen brings her solo show to Birdwood House Gallery.  Julie, with a background in drama, art, poetry and improvisation intends to bring something diverse, a little bit comic, somewhat entertaining to the space. 

Julie says: -

“What is in this solo show is not unlike the contents of my handbag (chaos), my mind (busy), life experiences (odd).  I’ve called the show ‘ODD BALLS’ because over the last couple of years I have been dressing several rather interesting characters that I enjoy taking out to the streets of Totnes & Exeter, one called ‘Foggy Perkins’.  Call this my continued love of acting and dressing up, I do!  There will be abstract works of art that I have made this year and a few larger pieces.  I will display my poetry about family life with a focus on my ‘MOTHER’ and ‘FATHER’.  There will be a different character in the gallery every day to greet you (Thank you Anthea Tuckey for this marvellous idea)…… I will perform 5 mins of poetry daily on the hour and improvise a ‘10 minute play’ at 11.30am and 3.30pm.  I will invite you to engage but only if you wish to.  To laugh.  To encounter all that is MADE in situ.

Julie Mullen trained at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.  She spent 20 years working in radio, tv, stage.  She began making art in 2004 showing at ‘The Affordable Art Fair’ Battersea, Karen Taylor, Marine House Gallery at Beer, The Smith Gallery, Anran Hotel with Annie Bowie. (full cv on request).   My recent abstract portraiture received a very positive comment from Lucian Freud’s daughter Annie Freud “so good, I love it.”

Julie Mullen 07956877839

Sunday 29^th September - Saturday 5^th October.

Open Sunday 10am - 4pm otherwise 10am - 5pm daily

Including some completed paintings, work in progress and sketches responding to the Devon landscape this is the early stages of a two year project exploring a Buddhist mindful, meditative approach using painting and sketching initially.

In Buddhism, the main purpose of mindful meditation is to awaken to how the world is and to learn to live in harmony with it – a world of impermanence, interdependence and conditionality. This enquiry, using a slow, meditative listening, feeling and sensing approach, involves training your curiosity, letting go of interpretations and attachments until you are so completely okay with not knowing that you welcome it. This quality of presence, simply being with whatever is emerging, reveals the land seen afresh; dark, intense and chaotic yet light, spacious, free flowing and spontaneous. The middle path that wanders through it; full of wonder, awe and mystery.

England is part of an island of fertile land almost entirely composed of managed spaces, including those I am visiting here in Devon; Dartmoor, a local farm, community and home gardens and allotments. This is an enquiry into the smallest, sometimes invisible, naturally occurring phenomena involved in processes of change. I will be exploring what might be revealed, their interwoven relationships and how they might affect us.

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Monday 7^th October to Saturday 12^th October  ~ 10am - 4.45pm daily

An exhibition of work by Ian Millstone

This exhibition is also part of the SHAF Arts Trail, Venue 1

Sunday 13^th October to Saturday 19^th October  ~ 10am - 4.45pm daily

Enjoying and appreciating the wonderful natural world where we live in Devon and also visits overseas, provides great inspiration for my painting.  I love the sunshine and how it affects what we see. Hence, the title for this exhibition.  Painting in oils and experimenting with how to apply the paint provides me with great enjoyment even though at times, frustration, as I try to convey my memories and experiences in my colourful art.

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