Shan Miller Vivien Walters Sarah Woolfenden Mike Moss Pam Cox

It's over ten years since the 2001 outbreak of Foot-and Mouth disease hit the South West of England at Highampton from which it quickly spread across the Hatherleigh area and beyond resulting in the loss of thousands of farm animals across the County of Devon, closed livestock markets and caused a big cash flow problem for farmers who were unable to trade their stock for many months. Tourism and local businesses were also badly hit due to the restrictions in the countryside.

This exhibition brings together the work of two people who were influenced by the epidemic in contrasting ways, Chris Chapman and Shan Miller.

Documentary photographer Chris Chapman was commissioned by Devon County Council to make a record of Foot and Mouth Disease and its effect on the rural community. He centred his study on a contiguous farm in the parish of Beaford, North Devon. Later he invited the poet James Crowden to accompany him on a tour of the farm and the surrounding region, hoping to share with him the pain he had witnessed

In 2005, this was published in book form as ‘Silence at Ramscliffe'.

The silent fields of 2001 compelled artist Shan Miller to paint a series of life-size farm animals and their keepers and sponsored by the NFU and Royal Agricultural Society, the exhibition ‘ A Celebration of the Farmyard' which was initially shown at the Salar Gallery in 2002, toured the South West of England agricultural shows, including the Royal Cornwall and Devon County, the Dairy Show and also the Royal Show at Stoneleigh.

Other works by local writers that were inspired by the epidemic and can be seen at the Salar: local/ international writer Michael Morpurgo's book‘Out of the Ashes' described as ‘a powerful and moving fictional account of true events by one of the most acclaimed children's writers of our time' and a story of what it was like to be a child living through the epidemic and Hatherleigh resident Trish Wonnacott's ‘Foot and Mouth in Hatherleigh' which includes, a diary of events as they progressed (by Margaret Waddingham) together with photographs and poems from other residents of the Town.

Shan Miller's Market Day (NFS) Prints Available from 14th August - See Charity Corner here

Shan Miller's painting - the hand that feeds

Shan Miller's nose in the air

Shan Miller's Follow my leader (Pigs)

Shan miller's Wobbly legs

Shan Miller's painting - alert - three hounds

Shan Miller with her 'hound pack'

Ben May's relief carving in oak 'Out of the Ashes' : 70" long by 30" high (It was carved for the F & M exhibition)

Philip lake talking to his bank manager on the morning of the cull, Ramscliffe farm

Moving the last calf to slaughter, Ramscliffe farm

Shan Miller's behind the barrier

empty milking parlour at Ramscliffe farm following the cull - by Chris Chapman

Shan Miller's who left the gate open

'beatus' (blessed) - oil on canvas - by Anne Farrall Doyle

Ceramic blue fish platter by Maryjane Carruthers.

Ceramic swimming fish platter - by Maryjane Carruther

Cow head - acrylic on board - by Shan Miller

Gold -pink oak silk scarf - by Joy Moss

fruit & veg - series of ceramic reliefs in box frames
by Chris Bligh

Greator rocks - photoprint - by Alan Jacobs

The quiet forest - lt. ed. print
by Sarah Woolfenden

Large quilt (detail) by Gisela Banbury & Ann Taylor

'Magnus' (important0 - oil on canvas - by Anne Farrall Doyle

Older - original drawing
by Sarah Woolfenden

South Street, Hatherleigh
by Anne Farrall Doyle - oil on canvas

Hare-raising - acrylic on board
by Shan Miller

Oak - touch me - lt. ed. print
by Sarah Woolfenden

Rise & shine - quilted panel - by Caril Rowland

Tree at Meldon - photoprint - by Alan Jacob

Tiger head - acrylic on board

Exhibition of Paintings ‘From Source to Sea'
by Mike Moss
at Salar Gallery, Hatherleigh, Devon July 22 nd until 31 st August 2010
MIKE MOSS at SALAR GALLERY
In this Exhibition of recent Paintings which starts with the Hatherleigh Festival (July 22 nd to 25 th ) and continues until 31 st August, artist Mike Moss takes us on a journey through sunrises, mists, moonlight and volcanic ash as he explores the effects of light on water, the many moods of the coastal landscape of the South West peninsula lit or darkened by cloud and storm and other evocations of wildness, often tempered by a solitary low-flying cormorant or maybe a colony of sea-birds, his other great love, bringing life to impossible cliffs. Further inland the artist discovers hidden valleys amid wild woods as he travels nearer to the source of Cornish streams and springs.
There are approximately fifty paintings in this exhibition: some in watercolour, some in oils and in a range of sizes and the Gallery is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, from 10am-1pm & 2-5pm
Michael Moss was born in Preston in 1948. In his early twenties he emigrated to Australia and later travelled to New Zealand where he held his first exhibition. He returned to the UK to attend Preston and Plymouth Colleges of Art before settling in Cornwall.
In 1984 Michael won the Western Morning News Open Art Competition and in 1991 he was a prize-winner in the Ecco-Goodhousekeeping Open Exhibition. He has exhibited in all three South West Opens. In 1996 he won prizes in the Mixed Media and Drawing categories of the Society of Artists for Cornwall competition and in 1997 he was a prize-winner in the Sterts Open Competition. In 1998 he was a double prize-winner in the Watercolour and Drawing sections in the Society of Artists in Cornwall.
In 2006 he won the Watercolour prize at Stuart House.

9 - December at Lyme Regis - oil - 35x46cm - plus frame

50 Battened down and running for home - oil (unframed) - 90x90

48 Boxing Day near Crackington - oil - 100x75cm - plus frame

8 Autumn on the River Lynher - oil - 67X23cm plus frame

49 January on Lundy - oil (unframed) - 122x92cm

41 Moonlight II - oil - 30x30cm - plus frame

42 Lobster Pot - oil - 40x40cm plus frame

40 Sunset through Volcanic Ash - oil - 30x30cm - plus frame

44 Frozen Stream at Temple - oil - 49x49cm - plus frame

30 School Bass - watercolour - 25x24cm (image) 52x55cm (frame)

18 Tern in the Mist, Lyme Bay - oil - 101x76cm - plus frame

24 - Whites Day - oil 40x30cm- plus frame

4 Woods at Harrowbarrow - oil - 46x35cms - plus frame

38 Lundy Sunrise II - watercolour - 74x42cm (image) - 106x75cm (frame)

14 Lundy Sunrise - oil - 100x75cm - plus frame

W - Sea Fog - Oil - 45x35cm - plus frame.

17 - Winter Moon - oil - 29x16cm - plus frame

12 - Wave Sequence - triptych -oil - framed 68x40cm

37 - Off Boscastle - watercolour - 31x39cms(image) - 55x66cm(frame)

13 - Near St Just - watercolour - 20x29cm (image) - 51x61cm (frame)

PAST EXHIBITIONS

Vivien Walters' " SOFT TOUCHES" until 10th November 2009

Vivien Walters is a professional artist specialising in paintings of animals in pastel and mixed media. Her work ranges from commissioned portraits of her clients' beloved animals to the livestock of Devon and the wildlife of Exmoor and Dartmoor. Vivien uses hard and soft pastels to reproduce the soft textures of animals' coats, and has recently written a series of articles for the Society for All Artists' “Paint” magazine demonstrating her mixed media techniques. A selection of her work has been published as limited edition prints by Buckingham Fine Art Publishers.

Vivien lives near Torrington, where she runs workshops and courses from her home /studio.

British Blonde Bull

Calf

Lily

‘COLOUR & LIGHT' AT SALAR GALLERY until 26 th September 2009

It includes the work of three Devon designer/craftsmen, Inka Gabriel's glass lamps, Isabella Whitworth's silk scarves and shawls and Alan Endacott's stained glass panels.

Inka Gabriel exhibits contemporary glass lights, both table and bracket, out of opalescent or opaque white glass with various colourful inclusions of glass, crystal and other materials using copper foil techniques. Each of the table lamps is set on a hardwood base.

Isabella Whitworth, who lives in West Devon, makes scarves and shawls using wax resist techniques and some of them are dyed with her own supplies of home-grown indigo. She leads workshops throughout the Country and recently had an exhibition of her work at the Burton Gallery.

Alan Endacott (who was the Founder-Curator of the Museum of Dartmoor Life at Okehampton) exhibits a selection of stained glass panels which demonstrate the various ways in which stained glass can be put together and patterned. He designs windows and panels for traditional and for more contemporary settings as well as restoring old stained glass windows and has recently produced work for the Bedford Hotel in Tavistock and Delamore House in the South Hams.

Isabella Whitworth "scarf"

Alan Endacott "Celtic heart glass panel"

Inka Gabriel "Bracket lamp II"

Inka Gabriel "Table Lamp, part of "

HOWARD PAYTON:
Exhibition at Salar Gallery: June 30 th to August 1 st 2009
‘From Devon Hills to Northern Shores' – A photographic journey amongst the farmers and landscape of Britain and beyond.
‘The countryside where I have lived and worked for over 50 years is a place of many moods and physical changes. From season to season and from one weather pattern to another, I have sought to record in an honest and direct way its many facets and shifting moods and hopefully sensitively interpret my view of it.
‘A new birth or first growing shoot of a plant is unceasingly a moment of pleasure and beauty often accompanied by some inevitable hardship of nature; a field's still quiet calm lasting for weeks or months on end is changed dramatically and suddenly by machinery and men; the cycle of the land turning again as the men and women of the farming community strive in their most important work, to provide food for all, while maintaining the rich diversity of the landscape around us.
‘My own journey in the world I describe above began as a child on the South Downs of Sussex where I first started to absorb the influences of the farms and people around me. With the help of a period of college training in the technicalities of photography and film, I worked as a freelance professional but still continued my farming activities firstly in Berkshire and in more recent years in Devon, raising native breeds of sheep and cattle. I have been lucky enough to have spent time working and travelling in the remote islands off the coast of Great Britain, particularly Orkney and St Kilda, and for a while in Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands where I continued recording the rural life around me.
‘The photographs exhibited in this exhibition are some of a largely pictorial and documentary collection taken over many years and still ongoing' Howard Payton

In London, Richard is represented by Celia Purcell Contemporary, where there is a permanent show of work. He has exhibited in London and many places in the West Country for some 30 years, in solo and group exhibitions.

three pots of geraniums in a corner of the studio

iin Hawkes wood

barn in a landscape

‘QUINTESSENTIAL DEVON LANDSCAPE'
A solo exhibition of pastel paintings (and some prints) by Devon artist Pam Cox take pride of place at the exhibition rooms, Salar Gallery, Hatherleigh, from

23rd October to22 nd November 2008.
Born into a family of artists, Pam delights in capturing the essence of the Devon countryside – its lanes, streams and hedgerows, moors and wild flower meadows. Light and mood play a large part in her colourful compositions.
She regularly exhibits in the Southwest and last month, she was joint ‘Lead Artist' at R.H.S. Rosemoor's Artists' Garden exhibition where she sold several of her works.
In recent years her work has been published as limited edition prints and were so succesful that some of her designs, all based on a wild flower theme, were used by Wedgewood for a set of six of their collectors' plates.

PAM COX - PASTEL PAINTING - BLUEBELL TRACK, CHENSON

PAM COX - PASTEL PAINTING - AUTUMN COLOURS

PAM COX - PASTEL PAINTING - DEVON LANE, SPRINGTIME

PAM COX - PASTEL PAINTING - ON THE TARKA TRAIL, HATHERLEIGH

PAM COX - PASTEL PAINTING - DEVON FARM TRACK

PAM COX - PASTEL PAINTING - THE GARDEN HOUSE.

VIVIEN WALTERS - Animal Artist at the Salar – September/October 2008

Exquisite pastel paintings (of cattle, poultry, sheep) and prints (both limited and open editions) of animals by Vivien Walters are included for the first time at the Salar Gallery's current exhibition of work by artists in Devon – until 18 th October.
Animals and art have always played a large part in Vivien's life.
She decided to pursue a full time career as an artist following a move to the West Country in 1983 and has never looked back. She has seen her work published nationally and internationally in the form of prints, greetings cards and on giftware.
Vivien's paintings range from commissioned portraits of her client's beloved animals to the livestock of the pastoral country of North Devon and the wildlife of Exmoor, including the much loved Exmoor ponies. She is much in demand for commissions, demonstrations and tuition, runs art breaks, courses and workshops from her studio in North Devon and recently took part in Devon Open Studios.

HEBRIDEAN RAM - PASTEL BY VIVIEN WALTERS

CURIOSITY - LIMITED ED (150) PRINT OF PASTEL BY VIVIEN WALTE

LIMOUSIN BULL - PRINT OF PASTEL BY VIVIEN WALTERS

OTTERS - LIMITED ED (150) PRINT OF PASTEL BY VIVIEN WALTERS

STEPPING OUT - PASTEL BY VIVIEN WALTERS

YOUTHFUL CURIOSITY - LIMITED ED (150) PRINT OF PASTEL

THE BULL - PASTEL BY VIVIEN WALTERS

Current Exhibition A. F. DOYLE till 14 September 2008
From Devon pannier markets to Rosemoor woodland walk, from South Street, Hatherleigh to shady garden corners or sunset over Wimbleball, this is an exhibition filled with vibrant colours, the play of light and shade and lively brush strokes, by an artist who has a lifetime of experience in the fields of illustration, painting and design work. Anne, who now lives in North Devon, has lived and worked in Spain, Paris, Munich and Los Angeles, gained a worldwide reputation as a figurative artist and opened an Art department at the Pestalozzi School teaching children from Nepal, Tibet and India.
In 2003 she was invited to represent Ireland as one of six artists at the Florence Biennale, and had the honour to have six of her designs chosen for Irish stamps.
Ann continues to explore the interchange of life and social groups as well as landscape and floral subjects in her art.
In addition to Salar's usual opening times (please see advert), this exhibition is also open daily from September 6 th to 14 th as an Open Studio Venue on Trail 1 of the Devon Open Studios. (more info. available from Salar and T.I.Cs)

A WALK OVER THE OLD BRIDGE - OIL ON CANVAS - £40

CHRYSANTHEMUMS II - WATERCOLOUR - £175

EVENING OVER EXMOOR - OIL ON CANVAS - £700

OLD TOWN - ACRYLIC ON CANVAS - £675

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July 10 - August 9th 2008

Freedom by Jo Seccombe

lucy turmaine - northlew church

DUNN PONY HEAD BY JOY GLASSPOOL

MINNIONS, BODMIN MOOR BY MARGARET TYRRELL

SHEEPWASH STORES BY HARRY MCCONVILLE

NORTHLEW SQUARE BY GEORGE TUCKER

Ducks by Shan Miller

Head of Amber by Jo Seccombe

Hatherleigh High Street by Eileen Gold

Maise cat with Attitude by Barbara Bird

Spring Evening near Exeter by John Staddon

Across the Valley by Bernard Jones (Oil on Canvas)

Instow Signal Box by Bernard Jones (Oil on Canvas)

Meeth Halt by Bernard Jones (Oil on Canvas)

Barnstaple Loco Depot by Bernard Jones (Oil on Canvas)

River Torridge, Hele Bridge by Jen Bryant (Photograph)

Taw Plain, Dartmoor by Jen Bryant (Photograph)

Hoar Oak Watermeet by Jen Bryant (Photograph)

Bridge Street Hatherleigh by Annie Farrall Doyle (Watercolour)

South Street, Hatherleigh by Annie Farrall Doyle (Watercolour)

River Scene by Annie Farrall Doyle (Watercolour)

Tarka Country, Illustrations by Eileen Gold

Mole's Chamber by Ken Hildrew (Acrylic)

Salmon and Weed by Peach and Bill Shaw (Metalwork)

Salmon Roll by Hermione Dunn, (Painting on Silk)

Frosty Morning by Pam Cox, (Pastel)

Hatherleigh Moor(Tarka Trail) by Pam Cox (Pastel)

Moor Landscape (Exmoor) by Ken Hildrew (Acrylic)

Harvesting at Iddesleigh by David Howell (Oil on Canvas)

Sillery Sands, North Devon Coast by Chris Lovelock (Pastel)

Brent Tor by Ken Hildrew (Acrylic)

Chetsford Water (Exmoor) by Ken Hildrew (Acrylic)

countryside & local scenes – mainly in pastel – by

Pam Cox, Paul Hardy & Leo Raymond.
see examples here

On April 13 th at 10.30am & 2.30pm, Paul Hardy will

demonstrate pastel painting in the Exhibition rooms.

May 23 – July 4

Salar 15 th Anniversary Exhibition. Celebrating Tarka Country. Paintings, photography, poems & 3-D on rivers, estuaries, grassland, wildlife, including work from Ken Hildrew, Jen Bryant and Peach & Bill Shaw.

July 13 – August 12

Farms for City Children 30 th Anniversary Exhibition.

Work from recent Artists-in-Residence including

Yuli Somme (felt wall hangings), Linda Lemieux (basketwork), the Wren Trust (music making project), and including the children's own work.

(A Hatherleigh Festival Exhibition)

August 17 – Sept 16

Devon Artsculture Exhibition

Sept 26 - October 21

Eileen Gold – solo exhibition

October 31 – Nov 25

Julia Barton – solo exhibition

December 1 – Jan 13

Christmas Exhibition

33 Shire

10 Black Beauty

32 Arabian Head

Overheads
From "Inspired by the horse" 2004, still available but not on display

14 Meet and Greet

9 Schooling Novice

15 Grace New Born

Moving on (Hunting Scene)
From "Inspired by the horse" 2004, still available but not on display

16 Sunbeam

30 Days Work Done

31 Corn Field Near Chumleigh

11 Storm II

6 Assyrian Horse Head

40 Sprite

5 Equus

17 Brusing Bilbo

'Countryside matters'

September 2nd to October 16th 2004

including paintings in pastel by Chris Lovelock (See image)
Animal, farm and wild paintings by Shan Miller
Etchings and photos by Julia Barton

Hedges and Fields phos by John Curno