Eleanor King Watercolours

‘Body Language 3’ Exhibition, August 2022

This will be a first for me - exhibiting some of my life-drawing. I have thoroughly enjoyed attending the untutored sessions at Harbour...

Patching’s Exhibition Award

The Artist’s Magazine 2020 Open Competition finally held its exhibition of winners at Patching’s Art Centre in the autumn of 2021, some...

SHAF Arts Trail’

The South Hams Arts Forum’s Arts Trail is a well-established annual event that showcases an extensive range of artwork created by local...

‘Contemporary Passions’ exhibition

With the Covid pandemic still causing ripples of unease in the Spring of 2021, it might have been considered a gamble to press ahead with...

Exhibition Award - TALP

Exhibition Award (July 2020). TALP Open (The Artist & Leisure Painter magazines) ‘Red Kite over Dartmoor’ was originally destined for an...

Devon Open Studios

I discovered too late that artists in the South Hams area predominantly sign up to do the ‘South Hams Art Trail’, which takes place in...

Artizan Collective Pop up Gallery, Torbay

This exhibition was designed to launch Devon Open Studios, a much-loved South West art event, and provide a taster of all the artists...

Postcard Series: ‘View from Elston’

This started off as an exercise to ‘loosen up’, a common goal for many artists (like me) that have a tendency to faithfully,...

Contemporary Art Fair – Newbury Race Course

Gosh, whilst this was a lot fun – it also proved to be a huge learning curve! I set my stand up with the help of some very dear friends,...

When is a picture finished?

When you lose freshness – it’s already too late. And when you try and rectify that by applying too much detail . . . STEP AWAY! Go for...

Low season, Salcombe

Salcombe, situated on a landlocked salt-water inlet, bordered with picturesque cliffs and dotted with sandy beaches, is bustling with...

Plein-air sketching in the West Country

Rock and the Camel estuary evoke strong memories of happy beach activities with my children, when they were small and still happy to hold...