Atelier Avenda

Photoshoot at the gallery. It’s all looking good.

Putting an installation together, just working it out

Lovely exhibition at the Paradiso in Bovey Tracey. Just one piece selected, my slice of Dartmoor. Finishes 16 May.

You are all invited to the Devon Artist Network launch day 28 May at Thelma Hulbert gallery in Honiton, for FRESH! I submitted three pieces and one made the cut, plus a few small originals for the shop. all framed … Continued

Birdwood House, Totnes 17-23 April 2022 an exhibition by Contemporary Markmakers When the focus shifts and lockdown shrinks the artistic view, when inspiration from Devon’s land and sea reduces to four walls and a garden, what happens? I am one … Continued

Working with the Moor Poets and the Totnes Markmakers. This quick 30 minute splash of colour, possibly too much colour, as I still search for the history, the people, the secrets, the stories, the words, beneath the bleak landscape of … Continued

What catches your eye in the time it takes to boil the kettle …

A CT scan slice through the Dartmoor rocks, the mile below fascinating me far more than the moorland surface. Still working on this for an exhibition, a collaboration between the Markmakers and Moor Poets, for Dartmoor Trust..

Making do with very little. A pad of paper, a handful of paint tubes, no mediums, used a spatula, a hard pencil and some sticks. Thought I was using acrylics. Turns out they were watercolours, so straight from the tubes … Continued

Not normally one for a landscape but am getting ready for a collaboration with Moor poets. So a first stab then.