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8 Visual Arts September and October 2025 NORMA WALTON During Devon Open Studios, artists across the county will be inviting people into their studios and exhibition spaces. The event is an opportunity to meet the artists, hear about their inspiration and see how they work. Artists and makers will be demonstrating and showcasing their work in attics, sheds, galleries and other creative spaces. The art and craft on display will include jewellery, sculpture, printing, drawing, painting, ceramics, glass and handmade paper. Devon Open Studios In Exeter, Members and Friends of Double Elephant Print Workshop will be showing their work at Positive Light Projects on Sidwell Street. Visitors will be able to see all forms of printmaking, and there will be demonstrations and workshops to take part in. Lynn Bailey has a small printmaking studio in Exeter. She is inspired by nature - bugs, hedgerows and even weeds, and gathers a wide variety of natural materials which leave traces embedded in her artwork. Beth Osment is also inspired by nature. In her Exeter studio, she will be meeting visitors and talking to them about her nature-inspired quilts, which aim to create a sense of calm. Devon Artist Network has partnered with the Thelma Hulbert Gallery and The Beehive Community Centre in Honiton to showcase eight exciting up-and-coming artists. Three artists will be displaying their work at The Beehive. Louise Hutton is an abstract artist whose paintings are in fl uenced by the motifs in her dreams and her love of being with trees and by the sea. Gary Winters works with a variety of media, including oil pastel on found paper images taken from 1950s and 1960s movie review books of pin-ups and stars of the day. Norma Walton’s mixed media and collage is inspired by the Devon landscape and the colours changing with the seasons. Kat Blockley has been inspired by an archive of newspaper cuttings which she has been collecting since the 1990s. She stitches words and images selected from the cuttings, inspired by stitched samples of the past. Kat’s work will be at Thelma Hulbert Gallery, alongside Philippa Mills’ delicate illustrations and Sarah Burt’s prints inspired by the landscape and architecture of Devon. Through her mixed media work, Gill Melling invites people to think about how we exist as part of a living system. Francesca Elliot uses a 1940s analogue camera to capture her natural surroundings. More information is available at devonartistnetwork.co.uk , and a free guide is available in information centres. Gillian Taylor DEVON OPEN STUDIOS 6 - 21 September: Locations throughout DEVON. devonartistnetwork.co.uk . OCTAVIA MADDEN MIKE THOMPSON SIDDY LANGLEY