Until February 7th

Joanna Long

Closed Sunday and Monday

Other Days - 11am - 4pm

www.taoeternity.com & www.thelongandthestroke.com

email: joanna@theblueschool.space

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.

Putting Our House in Order 

An installation and performances by Shared Habitat - www.sharedhabitat.net

Sunday 15th February - Saturday 21st February 2026

Monday – Friday: 10:30 am – 4:30 pm Saturday: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm

Ticketed Performance: Thursday, 19 February at 7:30 pm - followed by a finissage with drinks.Tickets: £7 (Concession: £4)

Artists: Eila Goldhahn, Mike McInerney, Eeva-Maria Mutka, Stuart J Young

Maps, tools, images, and traces of human labor unfold over the week, while live performances weave movement and sound through the installation taking place throughout opening hours.

Audiences are encouraged to visit the installation multiple times to and witness the work as it shifts and evolves

Enquiries Email: eilagoldhahn@gmail.com

Traces of a changing world order - maps, engineering and agricultural tools, a geode, fragments, gestures, sounds, still and moving images and marks - are assembled, dismantled and rearranged in an ongoing search for cohesion between memory, senescence and hope.

Beginning on the 15th  February  Goldhahn, McInerney, Mutka and Young initiate an installation-performance  that expands and contracts at its own tempo. A provisional constellation of objects, speculative mechanisms, drawings and sonic or choreographic traces sets the stage.

Over six days, materials migrate, accumulate or fade. Here, putting our house in order is not a cleansing of the unwanted but a hopeful, unhurried practice—an artistic reckoning with the mess we now inhabit collectively, and with fragile possibilities of renewal. 

Sunday 22nd  - Saturday 28th February 2026

Cariad Arts

SPRING ONION PUPPET THEATRE - A LIFE WITH PUPPETS 

OPEN EVERY DAY 10 AM - 17H PM

Email: cariadastles@gmail.com

THIS EXHIBITION SHOWCASES THE WORK OF MASTER PUPPETEER JOHN WILSON, WHO SET UP SPRING ONION PUPPET THEATRE IN THE EARLY 1990S.

JOHN LIVED IN GALWAY, IRELAND, TOTNES, DEVON, UK, AND FERRARA IN ITALY, CREATING WORK THAT DELIGHTED NUMEROUS AUDIENCES ACROSS DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

JOHN DIED IN 2013 AND HIS PUPPETS HAVE NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE THEN.

THIS EXHIBITION WILL IMAGINATIVELY TAKE VIEWERS ON A WALK THROUGH THE JOURNEYS AND SHOWS THAT JOHN CREATED, WITH IMAGES, PUPPETS AND SOMETIMES MUSIC. THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE GALLERY TO ACCOMPANY THE PUPPETS. THESE WILL INCLUDE SIMPLE DROP-IN PUPPET-MAKING WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS OF PUPPETRY PERFORMANCE, AND OPPORTUNITIES TO PLAY WITH SOME OF THE PUPPETS. 

Monday Life Group Exhibition 

Sunday 1st - Saturday 7th March 2026

The Monday Life Drawing Group, which has been in existence for about over 10 years, was formed when a group of friends got together to organise some life sessions.  Over the years membership has gradually changed but the basic aim, to provide a supportive and friendly space for drawing and painting from life, remains the same.

Models pose for varying lengths of time from 2 minutes to a full hour.  Most poses are approximately 20 minutes in length.

Most of the work on display is completed in the life drawing sessions themselves but some members of the group develop their work further at home using other media.

Eye Heart Hand

Peter Ursem

Sunday 8th - Saturday 15th March 2026

More information about Peter Ursem’s work:
www.peterursem.co.uk (art)
www.petrus-ursem.co.uk (writing)

Email: peter@peterursem.co.uk

This exhibition brings together recent works by artist and writer Peter Ursem.

Working in a modern Romantic tradition, Peter’s visual work originates from observation, often but not exclusively of the landscape. Why do some places speak to us and awaken feelings of longing or belonging?   Heart is a crucial station on the journey from Eye to Hand.

Based in East Cornwall, Peter is known for his relief printmaking, in particular multi-coloured lino prints and recently also wood engravings, but he also works in charcoal and oil paints, writes poetry and fiction.

Peter grew up in the Netherlands where he graduated in Literature from the University in Utrecht and in drawing, painting and printmaking from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague.He moved to Dorset in 1998 and to Cornwall in 2011, where he now has his studio in the Tamar Valley.

He works on a Victorian Hopkinson & Cope Albion press from 1852 and a new Polymetaal etching press for larger prints. In 1995 he was awarded a ‘Debut’ award from The Hague Arts Centre ‘Stroom’, and in the UK a series of Arts Council awards, including for ‘Reflections, Woodcuts of the River Stour’ (2001), ‘Intimate Space, Artist Face’ (2006) and ‘As the River Flows’ (2017). In 2010 he had a major solo show in Dorset County Museum (‘Dorset Footprint’) and in 2017 at Plymouth College of Arts (‘As the River Flows’).

Peter writes as Petrus Ursem and has published a trilogy for younger readers (The Fortune of the Seventh Stone, The Truth Teller, Black as Ink), as well as two collections of ‘friendly fables’ for adults (The Bigger Picture, Stellar Celebrations).

Rick Williams and George Birch

Sunday 15th - Saturday 21st March 2026

 Exhibition TBC

Sunday 22nd - Saturday 29th March 2026

Exhibition TBC

Sunday 29th March - Saturday 4th April 2026

Sunday 5th April - Saturday 11th April 2026

Totnes Fringe Exhibition 

Saturday 4th - 11th July 2026