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Reflections Mirror Time at the Devon Guild

Thu 28 Apr 2011



Torquay artist, Deborah Treliving, is exhibiting exciting new work at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen.

The exhibition, ‘Reflections Mirror Time’ is the culmination of a two year artistic dialogue between, Deborah Treliving, member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, and award winning poet, Graham Burchell. The dialogue began at an exhibition in Torre Abbey with the bones of a poem full of youthful memories and summer nights, written in response to Deborah’s painting, ‘Midnight Reflections’. Since then the torch has been passed back and forth, with words inspiring colour and spatial shifts, and these in turn firing new ideas for writing.

Deborah’s paintings and original prints are displayed with Graham’s poems in the Riverside Gallery, which glows with vibrant colour, texture and words. In addition to this ekphrastic dialogue the exhibition shows how printmaking and in particular the construction of Deborah’s collagraph and carborundum plates has been fundamental to a new direction in her painting.

Emma Mahanay, Exhibitions Officer , the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, writes:   “I just wanted to pass on how beautiful your work looks in the Riverside Gallery. I went down this morning and, particularly in the morning light the work by the window looked stunning. “ 

Erica Steer, Director of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen said she was “blown away I was by the quality of the work and how it has been displayed in the gallery space. It has more than fulfilled my vision for creating a gallery out of the end room of the shop and I am sure it is offering an enhanced experience for all our visitors. “

In conjunction with the exhibition the artists will be talking about their collaborative project on Wednesday 30 March at 6.30 at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen.

Graham will also be running a full day Moor Poets’ workshop ‘Poetry from Art’ at the Phoenix Hall, Bovey Tracey, TQ13 9FF on Saturday 9 April 10am – 4pm.                              



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