New in from this marvellous young artist Beatrice Forshall
Drypoint etching  OYSTER CATCHER  - waiting to be framed. Will be £700 framed or catch it now at £600. Large and beautiful piece

MICHAEL HONNOR SOLO EXHIBITION

Opened last eve with lots of success and if you are near Totnes between now and May 28th do call by to see these marvellous paintings. Here is a selection!

 

 

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING EXHIBITION OF MICHAEL HONNOR'S WORK

the bowie gallery is excited about this upcoming show of work by painter and printmaker Michael Honnor.
A regular exhibitor with the Thackeray Gallery in London for 25 years, Michael is well known in the S W for his creation of the fantastic printmaking facility at Dartington, which he still runs with huge success.  He is also a marvellous painter,with work in many corporate collections world-wide. Please contact the gallery for an invitation to the PV. The exhibition runs from May 17 - 28

the bowie gallery TOTNES Gillespie print

IT'S EASTER at the bowie gallery in Totnes, Devon, and we have had enough SURELY of despair, gloom and dreadful weather!
Here is a stunning print by Sarah Gillespie. Cherry and Yew is a beautiful image printed on Hahnemule fine art paper. The image size is 50 x 65 cms. Unframed price is £250 and we have four left. Framed beautifully with double mount and a frame that picks up the slight sepia tint, the price is £385 Contact us now - edition of only 20! info@artspaces.co.uk

If still thinking about lovely things for your walls that won't break the bank (!!!) check out this:

 

Brave Soul. Limited edition hand finished silk screen print on arches paper. Unframed £350 framed £450 info@artspaces.co.uk also Sarah Gillespie

 

and in the bowie gallery (totnes) now we also have:

 

 

Rosie Sanders  Phaleonopsis Orchid and Phaleonopsis Ever Sring Lee  - both framed and the price is £295 each

 

Valentine's Day Seven ways to tell someone you love them ( 6 now one sold sorry!)

Some tasty magical  treats for your darling - at the gallery this week.

Helen Melland MYTH AND MALARKY until December 3rd

THE ABYSS: Peter Oswald at The Studio Lounge Totnes Devon

not bored

The Studio Lounge tucked away in the Industrial estate in Totnes Devon is not the most unlikely place to experience interesting theatre. All over the country there are intriguing venues where acolytes can gather and feel they are still part of a thinking minority. It’s refreshing here in this Devon backwater, however. Totnes’ recent fight against Costa Coffee has been national news and it is often referred to as England’s “funkiest town,” nonetheless it’s reassuring, especially in the light of the demise of Dartington, to see that theatre is still thriving here, in a tiny community-run venue.

Last evening’s performance of THE ABYSS – a handful of short plays and poems by Peter and Alice Oswald, performed by the Oswalds, and actress Josephine Larsen, allowed an audience of about 35 to reflect and be amused. At times there were moments of brilliance, and at others a lack of coherence, but overall what nice people and good integrity.

Alice Oswald’s superb poem FOX, read by the poet and describing an encounter with the wild animal, resonated with a haunting and emotive brilliance, while her husband’s “He Keeps Dying” where a wife is at a loss to save her perpetually keeling-over husband even though she has a purpose built “zapper” , allowed us to laugh, although at what I was not quite sure – possibly Peter Oswald slowly turning into a sort of youthful John Le Mesurier.

Oswald’s writing is at best, I felt as a newcomer to his work, when poetic, as in the highly engaging “Helen of Troy” strongly performed by Larsen, and reminiscent, it should be said, of Dario Fo’s Medea. In fact I did feel that Peter Oswald’s work is derivative – at times of Beckett, maybe of Edward Bond’s Saved – in “Pram” for example, where an angry woman seems to be in an intense conversation with her infant child – but this did not detract from what I felt to be the true integrity of the writing. Like a piece of abstract art – we may not always know why we are engaged and might need to spend some time with the painting.

I was at times greatly moved, amused and when able to allow the poetry to wash over me – captivated.

 Annie Bowie