Relevant to the Literature and Art Section
Situated near the mouth of the Dart on a deep and safe harbour Dartmouth has great topographical and historical interest, and clearly has had and continues to have lively residents and visitors in literary...
In the early 1600s, Tristram Risdon, when approaching the Dart near Buckfast, looked down on the: “skeleton of a huge body, whereby might be conceived what Bigness it once had, whose ruins might move...
The Camden Town Group — The Devon Connection As defined by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Camden Town Group (whose work I particularly admire) was a group of English Post-impressionist artists, who met on a...
In the centuries when national travellers wrote of their journeys around England and nationally celebrated artists travelled to paint Devon scenery, Tavistock was little visited by such notables. Of the early writers only Tristram...
The DA held its first ever art exhibition entitled ‘Artists of the Devonshire Association’ in October 2014. This beautifully presented and phenomenally successful three-week event was staged at the elegant gloss-Art Exeter gallery and...
Barnstaple has long been an attractive destination. Several of the indefatigable early travel writers included the flourishing borough on the Taw in their itineraries in North Devon. In 1538, John Leland found “manifest ruins...
It is fortunate that the one-time Literature section now includes some aspects of Art as Kingsbridge has proved to be a town and area with many active artists, a great number of whom show...
In two hundred years as a seaside resort, Torquay’s mild climate, clear light and general feeling of well-being have attracted residents and visitors seeking health and relaxation, with leisure to spend on reading, writing,...
Axminster must have been on the route in the last millennium of many writers using the main road to and from the south west counties, staying in the many inns or travelling south to...