Evolver 117 - September and October 2020

13 VISUAL ARTS Please book a timed slot before visiting any gallery SIMON QUADRAT 19 September - 7 November Sladers Yard Contemporary Art, Furniture & Craft Gallery, West Bay Road, WEST BAY, Bridport, DT6 4EL. Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 4.30pm. 01308 459511 / sladersyard.co.uk . “The artist’s memories of growing up in cosmopolitan post-war London, feed into highly distinctive multi-layered oils painted with extraordinary humanity, humour and tragedy.” ‘SAME SKIES’ 22 September - 10 October Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, ILMINSTER, TA19 0AN. Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 2pm. 01460 54973 / themeetinghouse.org.uk . Paintings. ‘WILTSHIRE MONUMENT’ (Oil on canvas, 117 x 117 cm, 2018) DAVID INSHAW: NEVER AND ALWAYS David Inshaw, the consummate painter of the English landscape, is at the height of his powers, able to paint extraordinary light effects, moonlit trees, birds in flight, bonfires and figures not posing but caught up in their own inner lives. David’s landscapes are real places, interpreted through his memories, dreams and associations, in paintings that are both intensely personal and universal in their potency. David Inshaw has seen West Bay and its environs as a place of inspiration since the seventies. His famous Cricket Ground paintings are set at Little Bredy, just up the road. This, his third solo exhibition at Sladers Yard, includes three magnificent tree drawings and a powerful group of etchings based on earlier paintings of bonfires and fireworks in West Bay and Hay Bluff as well as over forty wonderful fabulous oil paintings. Until 12 September: Sladers Yard, WEST BAY, Bridport, DT6 4EL. Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 4.30pm. 01308 459511 / sladersyard.co.uk . ‘AWAKENING’ 24 September - 12 October The Gallery, Symondsbury Estate, BRIDPORT, DT6 6HG. Thursday - Monday 10.30am - 4.30pm. 01308 301326 / lymebayarts.co.uk . “A showcase of colourful artwork created during lockdown by three Southwest artists: Zee Jones, Pam Allsop and Lucy de Albuquerque.” Above: Lucy de Albuquerque ‘Summer Garden’ JULIE OLDFIELD: ‘20 20 VISION’ 24 September - 14 October Malthouse Gallery, Town Mill Galleries, Mill Lane, LYME REGIS, DT7 3PU. 11am - 4pm. 01297 444042 / townmill.org.uk . “New work inspired by the mixed emotions of lockdown and the freedom to explore new country walks as nature and quiet reclaimed my surroundings.” RICHARD AARON WARD: ‘OIL AND WATER’ 26 September - 17 October That Art Gallery, 2 Upper Maudlin Street, BRISTOL, BS2 8DJ. 0117 329 2522. “Improvised work, exploring, experimenting and re-imagining visual elements and observations into worlds where potentially anything can co- exist.”