We had over 200 visitors to our open week from 6th – 14th July and met some great people.

Mary Bramble’s children’s trail was hugely appreciated by many who accepted her challenge of identifying garden sculptures from some pretty small details of a piece, they were rewarded of course with treats!

We are hoping new projects will follow from some of our encounters.

A new Veronica Gosling drawing.

A new Veronica Gosling artwork.

Steven Bramble will be joining Veronica Gosling, and the work of Gordon Hill, for an Open Studio week at 36 Denmark Rd, from Saturday July 6th – Sunday July 14th, which will hopefully include a children’s sculpture trail, a series of discussions and, of course music. Details to follow.

Our resident artist and Veronica’s partner, Gordon Hill, born in Bolton, sang in the Rossendale male voice choir, headmaster of Stafford Leys school in Leicester, charismatic international football referee, outreach educationalist in the United States, and latterly an artist with a huge love of colour, died here in Exeter on 21st March.

Always a free spirit, we will miss him very much as will his family in America. His latest work below. A lover of colour, he painted till the end.

We are planning at our Open Studio in July to show Gordon’s work, right up to his last pieces, and include open discussions on the effect and use of colour when Alzheimer’s causes other methods of communication to begin to falter.