Exhibitions

Dartmoor and Beyond
James and Katharine Lightfoot are exhibiting together at the Monks Withecombe Gallery. 
 
"Brother and sister join artistic forces"    Article from Saturday January 31 2004
    "Like so many artists, Katharine Lightfoot was forced to subsidise her fine art income by working as a painter and decorator for a while, after graduating in Fine Art from Exeter College of Art & Design.  During this period she was unable to exhibit her work and yet the collapse of the dotcom bonanza in London which made her brother redundant, has enabled him to return to art and now the siblings are uniting in a joint exhibition at the Monks Withecombe Gallery in Chagford, starting Monday.
    This has followed a brave move to hold an exhibition in Cork Street, London, in November 2002, which although a difficult financial decision at the time, has now proved to be the springboard they needed to launch their individual careers and both James and Katharine are now able to concentrate on painting full time, with enough commissions and ongoing exhibitions to keep them afloat.
    Katharine paints mainly on Dartmoor where she lives, gaining inspiration from the barren but beautiful moorland around her as well as the creatures that roam it.  Her works are acutely sensitive to her surroundings with no attempt to disguise the harshness of the moor.  This brutal almost dangerous nature of the high moorland only compels her more deeply into the heart of the moor, as she strives to capture everything in sight.
    James lives in Brighton but spends a lot of his time visiting his family on Dartmoor where he also paints.  He has recently travelled through France and Italy, providing him with plenty of subject matter including rooftops scenes of Sienna and some dramatic swimming pool vistas.  His favourite subject matter remains the surprisingly lush valley running from Manaton up through North Bovey, where his family still live and the exhibition will bring together some of these varied themes, to form an intriguing and refreshing exhibition.
    The gallery is open from 11am to 6pm daily and the exhibition runs until Sunday, February 29." 
 
Katharine Lightfoot was the first artist to exhibit at the new Monks Withecombe Gallery in Chagford, Devon.  Oct - December 2003.  Her exhibition proved a great success. Click here to read the articles.

Opening Hours:  From 11.00 am to 6.00 pm daily.  Closed on Mondays, except by appointment.

Directions:  from the A30, follow signs to the A382 towards Moretonhampstead.  After 2 miles, turn right at the brown “Art Gallery” sign.  The Monks Withecombe Gallery is ½ mile off the A382, and approximately 1 mile from Chagford.  To find the Monks Withecombe Gallery on the map, click here. 

For further details, contact:
Nicky Heyworth, Monks Withecombe, Chagford, Devon, TQ13 8JY
phone: +44(0) 1647 432 854
email: nickywatt@strategic-art.com
web: www.strategic-art.com