Art News and Art Events for Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset
Moor to Sea, an exhibition of paintings, prints and sculputure inspired by the grandeaur of the South West Peninsular by The Boscastle Group at The Willougby Gallery, The Castle, Bude, Cornwall.
October 9th to 31st, 2010. Open daily: 10.00am to 5.00pm. www.boscastleartgroup.co.uk
Saturday 25th September, 2010, sees the start of a new solo exhibition by landscape artist David Morgan.
Featuring a number of larger paintings the art exhibition titled A Wider Sky is on show at White Space Art, 72 Fore Street, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5RU. Telephone 01803 864088 or visit www.whitespaceart.com
Sunday, 26th September to Friday, 1st October 2010
Contemporary Art exhibition at the St Ives Society of Artist’s Crypt Gallery.
Featuring leading artists Ray Balkwill, John Brenton, Amanda Hoskin, Ken Howard RA OBE, Gary Long, Richard Tuff and others.
www.stisa.co.uk/the-crypt-gallery/
Accompanying hard-backed book available entitled A Picture of Cornwall by Ray Balkwill (Halstar, £29.99) also a smaller exhibition of these works will be at the Little Picture Gallery in Mousehole at 2 Mill Lane from October 3-16.
Exeter Castle, Castle Street, Exeter EX4 3PU.
Friday, 1st October to Saturday, 9th October 2010.
Open daily 10.00am to 5.00pm including Sundays.
www.southwestacademyoffineandappliedarts.org.uk
Cornwall based artist Kurt Jackson has a new exhibition of art work including paintings in acrylic, oil and mixed media on canvas, board, linen, limited edition etchings, prints and artist’s books, collage, stoneware vessels, wood and metal sculptures.
The art exhibition titled The Dart, followed the Devon river from sea to source high on Dartmoor.
Kurt Jackson – The Dart at the Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall until October 2nd, 2010. Call 01872 275757 or visit www.lemonstreetgallery.co.uk
Artist and photographer Adrian Gray uses the Jurassic coast in Lyme Regis, Dorset, as his canvas for creating magical sculptures of balancing rocks.
For more information about Adrian Gray’s art and photography visit www.stonebalancing.com
Fine Art, Modern Art and Contemporary Art Fair at the Riviera Centre, Torquay TQ2 5LZ.
Thirty five art galleries representing hundreds of artists from around the world. Doors open at 11am each day from October 1st to 3rd, 2010.
Admission £6, concessions £4.
For further information call 01875 819595 or visit www.devonartfair.com
Plymouth artist Nicholas Condy senior produced mainly small watercolours on tinted paper of shore scenes with figures and craft in the background, mostly of Plymouth.
A number of his nineteenth-century gouache art works are for sale by auction at Bonhams in London on September 28th, 2010.
Each art work is roughly six by four inches and are titled: Berry Head; Sutton Harbour; Fisherman, Plymouth Sound; and The Hamoaze, Plymouth.
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery own 17 oil paintings by Plymouth artist Nicolas Condy senior said to be the most admired marine painter to com from Plymouth.