‘My Life in Textiles’
Celia Batorijs – a retrospective
Sunday 22nd - Saturday 29th March 2026
Private view – 2-5pm Sunday 22nd
Open every day 10h - 17h
Closing at 16h Saturday
Further enquiries:
Stefan Batorijs
01364 652162
A retrospective exhibition to celebrate the life and art of Celia Batorijs. Celia was a prolific and colourful local textile artist who loved to experiment in every aspect of textile creation from spinning and weaving rare breed wool to lacework, felt, indigo and making her own unique clothes.
This collection showcases Celia’s development, life journey and unique spirit that made her a popular teacher and friend.
Celia was a consummate seamstress, embroiderer, knitting and crochet expert, and she loved to travel to exotic destinations with rich textile histories with an appreciation of the traditions and culture that reflected the lives of the women of that land. Celia was inspired by these excursions alongside the patterns and abstract shapes within Nature.
Texture and Light
www.camphilldevon.org.uk
Sunday 29th March - Saturday 4th April 2026
Open every day 10h - 17h - Closing at 16h Saturday
For enquiries please contact: lizwcave@camphilldevon.org.uk
This exhibition showcases the work of adults with learning disabilities and autism.
The people we support create beautiful and unique pieces across a range of crafts, including woodwork, pottery, glass, metal, jewellery and textiles.
Working across a variety of materials each maker brings their own perspective and sensitivity to their craft. The grain of carved wood, the smooth curve of glazed ceramics, the shimmer of glass, the delicate nature of handcrafted jewellery, and the layered qualities of woven and stitched textiles all reveal how materials respond to touch and illumination.
Rough and smooth, matte and polished, opaque and translucent — every piece tells a story.
At Camphill Devon, we believe in lifelong learning and creativity. Our workshops are places of exploration, where individuals are supported to develop practical skills, artistic confidence and a strong sense of purpose.
\Making is not only about producing beautiful objects; it is about growth, expression and belonging.
Unearthing Templer Way
Teign Contemporary
Sunday 5th April - Saturday 11th April 2026
Open every day 10am - 5pm
Closing at 4pm Saturday
Preview & Poetry. Sunday 5 April. 2-5pm
Any Enquiries - Rachael Bennett rachaelannab@gmail.com
Sunday 12th April - Saturday 18th April 2026
"Gathering"
Nancy Pickard and Verity Newman
Open every day 10h - 17h
Private View - Sunday 12th April, 4 – 6pm
Friends and collaborators Nancy Pickard and Verity Newman
(Day of the Nearly Dead…Phantasmagoria…)
return to Birdwood House Gallery
with a new and vibrant exhibition of paintings, sculpture and jewellery.
From groups, flocks, herds, forests, mobs and murders to collections and meeting points – the gatherings and the gathered – these two artists curate the threads of our creative experience.
An exhibition of paintings by Alan Dax SWAc
email alandaxartist@gmail.com
The essence of Alan’s work attempts to convey a spirit of place, from atmospheric scenery to reflective interiors.
Alan’s home village backs onto Dartmoor, where he can experience these surroundings in all weathers. New ideas evolve from thought provoking environments, from familiar scenes closer to home to the ever-changing moods outside and further afield, creating the inspiration for his oil paintings.
Alan regularly exhibits his work though out the United Kingdom and he is an academician with the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Art.
Dartington and Totnes Open Studios
Sunday 3rd - 9th May
Sunday 10th - 16th May
Storytime
Andy Coldrey
Open every day 10h - 17h
Enquiries- andrew.coldrey3@gmail.com
Insta @andycoldreyart
The work in this exhibition has been inspired by story- telling, both stories I have read and those I have told myself.
These self-scripted stories find their origins in dreams, poetry, the internet, TV images, politics, myth, music and in many other sources.
Some of the paintings are inspired by fiction I’ve read in the last months and years; and finally there is a series of work in response to surgery I underwent in 2024.
Sunday 17th - 23rd May
Ingrid Parker Heil
Sunday 24th - 30th May
Contemporary MarkMakers
Leaving Traces
10am - 4pm. Sunday
10am-5pm Monday weekdays
Saturday 10-4pm.
Meet the Artists: Sunday 24 May 4pm - 6pm
Any enquiries: janehellis@gmail.com
Since 2024 Contemporary Markmakers have been exploring our lived experience of the interwoven nature of the world; the interactions that occur and their impact over time in this
‘Leaving Traces’ exhibition.
Due to the nature of cause and effect, the physical and emotional traces of a place, impacting us all today.
We have explored our relationship to the changing nature of materiality through many processes such as palimpsests and pentimento; layering, concealing and revealing . These are reflective works that speak of memory, history and what is happening now in the delicate balance of eco-systems and their un-natural counter parts.
Sunday 31st May - Saturday 6th June 2026
Fiona Green
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
OPENING TIMES : 10-5 daily
Born in India and raised in Australia, I grew up with the brilliant colours of both lands in my blood 83 years ago.
This show is dedicated to the memory of Diana Heathcote Derioz,my exceptional sister who died in 2023 and who was my familiar friend for 78 years.
The show is named from a poem by Dylan Thomas and reminds us that Death is the silent,stellar companion that is with us continuously from birth.
My work tracks this in the various forms it has taken during my life, from the personal to the recent genocide occurring in Gaza.
Helen Wheatley and Stella Staab
Sunday 6th - 13th June
Joy Anderson and Neil Wiessell
Sunday 14th - 20th June
John Platt
Sunday 21st - 27th June
Catherine Bedford and James Williams
Sunday 28th June- 4th July
HA HA! YES YES!
(Let's record an album)
www.jazzient.com
Sunday 5th July - Thursday 9th July
10:30am - 5pm
Thursday evening till 9:30pm
Local duo using live looping with saxes, guitars and electronics creating a unique combination of jazz, rock and ambience, are taking over the gallery for the run-up to the Totnes Fringe Festival.
They will be recording their second album "Ha Ha! Yes Yes!"
Alongside the recording, music will be played throughout the period with invited guests. The doors will be open and visitors are welcome to observe and perhaps even improvise with the band.
Jazzient will be playing a live concert performance on Thursday evening, coinciding with the start of the Totnes Fringe Festival
Johnathan Bayes
Sunday 12th - 18th July
Totnes Art Society
Sunday 19th - 25th July
Emma Wright
Sunday 25th July - 1st August
South West Sculptors
Sunday 1st - 8th August
The Sapphire Blue Collective
Sunday 9th - 15th August
The 21 Group
Sunday 15th - 22nd August
Ron Moran and Clare Pumfry
Sunday 23rd- 29th August
David Dawkins
The Deformation of Hope
Sunday 29th- 5th September
Open every day 10h - 17h
I studied ceramics and glass at Plymouth University College of Art and Design, and glass at Farnham University College of Art and Design. I have been a practising artist for 22 years mainly making colourful glass lamps, bowls, and abstract sculptures until I changed to ceramics four years ago in 2019
Each one of my ceramic sculptures has two sides to it, like a two-page book and each one has a true story behind them. Some of my ideas come from various people I have known over the years, or something that has stuck in my mind that made me laugh.
My sculptures are mainly ceramic, but I also use acrylic, gold and silver leaf, liquid gold and silver, resin, paper, and jewellery. My ceramics sculptures have been described as philosophical quirky Pop Art, which are mostly humorous. But some have a more serious theme, reflecting what I think of our spiralling out-of-control world.
After losing my workshop, I have moved on to collage and paint, and I have passed my phase of making humorous art, I have moved on to a more serious topic of politics. Because there’s something I can’t quite understand about our democratic society: we, as a people, vote for the party we believe will lead us. But they don’t, they tend to fight against us by not giving OAP’s enough to live on, they spend far too much on defence to war monger, which none of us want. With a significant portion of the funds allocated in this manner being misused due to corruption and back handers, creating an unofficial parallel system of governance, which echoes right though our Houses of Parliament, who line their own pockets.
We all know that they all get together and swop the best financial deals, look at Epstein, look at trump, I’m sure he controls the gold market to get richer, one minute he puts tariffs on countries to push the prices up, and then he reduces the tariffs to push the gold price down.
And this is what I can’t fathom out, we vote for these people who don’t give us what we want, it mystifies me. Instead of making bombs we should be talking, our NHS should be fantastic, so should OAP care, and our schools, our universities, our police force, OUR SOCIETY. And sadly, we just except it, and complain, I cannot see it ever changing.
Each piece of my art has a life span, after ten or fifteen years the UV paint will eventually start to fade, like the promises from our governments. It will still be a picture but not the picture in its full glory like a new electrant with lies up his sheeve.
My mixed media collages are made from acrylic paint, coloured fluorescent card, and paint which break down and deteriorates over time. These colours only show up under an ultra-violet light.
When you buy a piece of my work it comes with a USB stick which has the image of the picture on it, when under UV light for a print which will have 1/1 on it, accompanied by a signed certificate that goes with the print when printed.
To cheer myself up, I sometimes steer away from politics.
Sarah Hoskins
Sunday 6th - 12th September
Ann Saward
Sunday 13th - 19th September
Ski Harrison
Sunday 19th - 26th September
TBC
Sunday 27th September - 3rd October
Ian Millstone
Sunday 3rd - 10th October
Ann Chester King and Bev Knowlden
Sunday 10th - 17th October
Ian McConagy
Sunday 18th - 24th October
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