Offered the opportunity by Exeter Phoenix to take part in a new one-day workshop at the lively arts centre and write about it for The Exeter Daily , I agreed with alacrity. I signed up for 'Experimental Drawing' thinking it might give my drawing practice the kick-start it needed.
The group of ten who gathered on Monday morning came with widely differing experience and expectations. ‘Experimental’ could sound intimidating, but at least one participant interpreted it as open to those with little technical expertise. This proved to be true as there was no assumed knowledge and no...
Join the National Campaign for Drawing at the Devon Guild this year - with 2 free fun days for the whole family. Creative activities take place in the Guild gallery and are inspired by artist Michael Honnor's current exhibition of atmospheric landscape prints - and this year's Big Draw theme: 'Every Drawing Tells A Story'. Help us save the world from a weather disaster by adding your own superhero to a giant, graphic storyboard. And you can create your own extreme weather mobile to take home.
Free, drop in event. Supervised, all materials provided. Children...
18 October - 9 November Thurs - Sat 11am - 5pm, Sun 12 - 4pm (or by appointment) Uneven Territory is an exhibition of new and previously unseen paintings and drawings that, alongside key work made since 2006, forms an uncensored view of Michael Calver’s output. The work is at turns intimate, highly formal and sometimes unsettling. Best known for his exploration of colour and its aesthetics through ‘colour field’ painting, this exhibition delves beneath the surface, presenting a new vision of Calver’s varied but interconnected artistic production. Alongside his signature work there are...
