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20 Visual Arts PERCY LIZZARD 1 - 7 October The Gallery, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Bell Street, SHAFTESBURY, SP7 8AR. Monday - Saturday 10am - 4pm. shaftesburyartscentre.org.uk . PIA ELLIOT: ‘WILD LINES’ 1 - 12 October Walford Mill, Knobcrook Road, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL. Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 11am - 4pm. walfordmillcrafts.co.uk. “Intricate pen and ink illustrations.” BULL MILL STUDIO ‘FIRST SATURDAY’ 4 October Bull Mill Studio, Bull Lane, CROCKERTON, Warminster, BA12 8AY. 10am - 5pm. 07730 400784 / nickandrew.co.uk. See 6 September. VIVIEN THOMASON 4 - 31 October Artwave West, MORCOMBELAKE, DT6 6DY. Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. artwavewest.com . LOUISE LUTON: ‘WILD WORLD’ 4 October - 15 November Fisherton Mill, 108 Fisherton Street, SALISBURY, SP2 7QY. Monday - Saturday 9.30am - 5pm. 01722 500200 / f i shertonmill.co.uk . ‘EARTH FORMS’ 7 - 31 October Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, ILMINSTER, TA19 0AN. Tuesday - Saturday 9.30am - 3pm. ilminsterartscentre.com . “Exhibition celebrating nature through artistic interpretations of landscapes, organic shapes, and natural elements.” JENNY LUCK: ‘FROM THE EARTH’ 8 - 14 October The Gallery, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Bell Street, SHAFTESBURY, SP7 8AR. Monday - Saturday 10am - 4pm. shaftesburyartscentre.org.uk . ‘GARDENS OF DELIGHT’ 8 - 19 October Yeovil Art Space, 23 Vicarage Walk, YEOVIL, BA20 1EX. 10am - 4pm. mirandapender.com . “Dawn Handy and Miranda Pender come together for a dazzling exhibition inspired by nature in full bloom.” WEST BRISTOL ARTS TRAIL 11 and 12 October Multiple venues in Clifton, Hotwells and Redland, WEST BRISTOL. 11am - 5pm. 07545 848919 / westbristolartstrail.co.uk . ‘LEIGH ART SHOW 2025’ 11 and 12 October Village Hall, Chetnole Road, LEIGH, near Sherborne, DT9 6HL. Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm. £2. 07516 632648 / leighartshow.co.uk . AVALON STITCHERS: ‘MEMORIES THROUGH STITCH’ 11 - 18 October Wells & Mendip Museum, 8 Cathedral Green, WELLS, BA5 2UE. Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 4pm. avalonstitchers.org . ‘SELECTED’ 11 October - 9 November Sou’-Sou’-West Gallery, Manor Yard, Symondsbury Estate, SYMONDSBURY, Bridport, DT6 6HG. 10.30am - 4.30pm. 01308 301326 / sousouwest.co.uk . ANDREA JENKINS 13 October - 2 November The Duchess of Cornwall, 12 Queen Mother Square, POUNDBURY, Dorchester, DT1 3DD. Monday - Saturday 9am - 11pm, Sunday 9am - 10pm. artattheduchess.com. “Vibrant abstract art to bring a smile to your face.” GARY YOUNG: ‘54’ 15 - 21 October The Gallery, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Bell Street, SHAFTESBURY, SP7 8AR. Monday - Saturday 10am - 4pm. shaftesburyartscentre.org.uk . Paintings. ‘AUTUMN JEWELS’ 15 - 26 October Walford Mill, Knobcrook Road, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL. Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 11am - 4pm. walfordmillcrafts.co.uk. “Exhibition of contemporary jewellery by the Wessex branch of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery (ACJ), a vibrant collective of professional jewellers, designers, and makers.” Helen Simpson “The newly refurbished Café Gallery in Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens is the perfect space for Helen Simpson’s work. The many doors and windows of the quaint, colonial style building invite you to look out at an array of plants, but when you look up into the exhibition space above the windows, Helen’s large-scale paintings of fl owers draw you into a closer relationship with plants than you might have imagined possible. When Helen looks into a fl ower, leaves and petals become swirling forms, defying gravity or swimming beneath the waves, suggesting times future and past. Since leaving The Royal Academy Schools, Helen has exhibited across the country, including Kew Gardens where she had 30 pictures on show. Helen lives in a village not too far away from Abbotsbury and is able to spend time painting in the Gardens. You may well fi nd her drawing under a white umbrella.” Until 31 October: Cafe Gallery, Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, Buller’s Way, ABBOTSBURY, near Weymouth, DT3 4LA. 10am - 5pm. Free entry to Café Gallery. 01305 871387 / helensimpsonartist.co.uk . ‘UNDULATION’ In conversation with 2024 Booker Prize-winning author, Samantha Harvey Friday 29th August, 5.30pm for 6pm Sherborne Abbey, as part of the GAIA exhibition £10 Sherborne Literary Society members / £12 non-members sherborneliterarysociety.com/events ‘A love letter to our planet’ The Booker Prize judges about Orbital GAIA by Luke Jerram will be at Sherborne Abbey 29th August – 12th September