Antarctica Watercolour Diaries

8^th - 16^th November 

10am - 5pm  - Closing at 4pm Saturday 

Enquiries: rosie-martin@hotmail.co.uk

'Joy and Grief'

Sara Sullivan and Kate Carnell

Sunday 16th Nov. to Saturday 22nd Nov. 
 
Sun, Tues and Friday 10am and 5pm. 
Mon, Wed and Sat 10am and 4pm. 
 
Private View 6pm Sunday 16th Nov.
 
Enquiries Contact sarasullivanart@gmail.com or katecarnell100@gmail.com
 

Kate's Artist Statement: 

‘’My art practice primarily explores expressions of the self through painting. Recently I have been exploring grief and loss and how art can help articulate these feelings. My work frequently refers to the universal experience of grief, and the ephemerality of life. I am interested in expressionism and creating melancholic abstractions of place. I use fluid mark-making and layers of loose washes of oil paint and smudged marks to convey a feeling of melancholy. I like to investigate through experimentation and play and employ a variety of interdisciplinary practices such as printmaking, drawing, photography, and filmmaking in my work.’’ 

Biography 

Kate Carnell has been a practicing artist since the early 1990’s. She achieved a BA first-class honours degree in Fine Art in Context from the University of the West of England in 1999 and was also awarded the Inns Wilkins Art in Architecture prize. Carnell recently completed a Masters Degree in Fine Art at Arts University Plymouth, where she was awarded a distinction. She was also awarded the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Travel Grant for artistic research, which funded a trip to Oslo to research the work of Edvard Munch.

Sara's artist statement:

My journey in art has always followed drawing as a central interest. I have always enjoyed the discipline and focus of it. I also think drawing is a bit of a miracle, specifically a human phenomenon, being able to look at something and translate it, through your body, into something else. I paint from the imagination as well as life, so observational drawing helps me to create a more convincing illusion when I paint from my inner world. However that always raises a question about what the truth is and how much perception changes that truth and if it does, would it then follow that drawing and painting are more concerned with the inner rather than the outer state anyway. I often return to creating what I think of as 'visual metaphors', for emotional states, for relationships, for power structures, for pain. But also as I get older, I find that I need to form metaphors for the experience of aging and the experience grief and loss, whether that means losing people that I've loved or losing a period of my life. All the things that are so hard to say. The paintings sometimes seem diminished by words anyway, so I try not to look to directly at the question of 'what is my artform?'  Often I am just painting what I see. Interpreting portraiture or landscape gives me a rope to hold onto when I take a deep dive into painting what is in my heart. I am trying to see the world truthfully and to see myself in the world, whilst also distancing myself from it. I try to express the painful beauty of this complicated world and the huge other world that's inside us, where there is always so much left unsaid.

November 23rd to November 29th

MIXED MEDIA MAKER KATE TOMS

PRESENTS:

‘'One for the Pot'’

AND OTHER STORIES,

IN CLOTH, PAPER AND STITCH etcetera.

Sunday 23rd  November  2 pm – 4 pm

Monday 24th  to Saturday 29th  November 10 am to 4 pm daily

katetoms35@gmail.com

Instagram:  @katetoms.mixedmedia

Facebook:    Kate Toms – Textiles and Mixed Media

Using paper, felt, wire, cloth and wood, Kate explores the ordinary and the everyday.  Celebrating humdrum with gentle humour, she invites the viewer to connect and to create their own narrative around each piece.

Working from her home workshop in Devon, these days Kate works mainly to commission and enjoys offering occasional workshops.

November 30th to December 6th

Devon Weavers Workshop

 December 7th -  December 13th  

The Button Collective

 December 27th -  December 10th  

Eila Goldhahn

An exhibition of oil paintings and charcoal drawings by Rowan Day.

Exploring the mystery of life, through a spiritual quest for freedom while stepping into love, translating her personal journey of meditation and discovery onto canvas.

Deeply inspired by nature and the belief that divinity permeates every particle of creation. Rowan aims to communicate her inner experience, while capturing the compelling play between light and dark, beauty and chaos in the world all around us.

Her work speaks of hope, of light in the darkness and the dynamic motion of life and nature. Opening the doorway to the great beyond.

Totnes Fringe Exhibition 

Saturday 4th - 11th July 2026