The artist  currently featured in our Green Table Cafe at Dartington is Alice Robinson-Carter. Alice is a painter, printmaker, walker and explorer based in Plymouth. She is passionate about capturing the essence of place, in particular those places she adventures into close to home, and on her travels elsewhere. From foraging in the undergrowth, to watching birds take flight and plummet back to land, Alice uses a mixed media approach to capture both the details and expansiveness of these unique landscapes.
Her primary materials are watercolour, gouache, pencil and acrylic paint: through playing with the interrelationship of these processes, Alice mirrors the interconnectedness of these places in a way that holds and celebrates their essence."

Info about work on show at The Green Table:

Here on display at the Green Table cafe at Dartington Trust is a selection of Alice’s abstracted Dartmoor and Cornish coastal studies. These paintings have been inspired by a section of the South West Coast Path - from Mount Edgcumbe to Lantic Bay - and some of Alice’s special places on Dartmoor, includng Bench Tor. Alice embarked on this series of work in September 2021 drawing her attention to the elements, colours and forms found within these breathtaking and ever-changing landscapes. 
Undertaking these studies throughout the year, she noticed the seasonal changes of these landscapes over this time: from the changing colours in the sky and sea to the details underfoot and wildlife. 
All works here displayed are for sale.
If you are interested in purchasing one of Alice’s paintings, please contact her directly via:
Instagram: @alice.robinsoncarter 
Website: www.alicerobinsoncarter.co.uk

Visit the Green Table Cafe: https://www.dartington.org/visit/food-drink/the-green-table/

Green Table artist: Alice Robinson-Carter

In this gallery walk-and-talk we explore the thought-world of artist Lou Rainbow, who is currently exhibiting her ceramics, paintings and prints here at Dartington. Lou discusses the deep influences, distinctive processes and vivid characters that have shaped the bold, captivating work on display.

‘EVOKE’
25 November 2022 – 7 January 2023

Louise Rainbow is a painter, writer and ceramicist. She studied Fine Art, Printmaking and Creative Writing at Bretton Hall College, Leeds University.

After graduating she spent two years writing, performing and touring comedy and performance poetry called ‘Not Very Lady Like’ with The Live Poets Society in Manchester.

In her early career as a painter she had her work selected for the Royal College of Art Hunting Prize and has exhibited Field Notes and Vivid exhibitions, and has been painting and making ceramics since then.

Louise says: “All of my work is about surfaces and layers, about hiding and finding. Poems, stories, glazes, slips, varnish, wax, paint, ink. I want my work to show my energy but I don’t really want you to see. Each piece is made up of a million unconscious decisions”.

Her work is concerned with a personal need to recall a sensual often lost moment in time, an emotionally charged memory fragment, a mark, a touch, a taste something to be reordered, transformed and recorded, pocketed as it simply moves away from us in time.

Louise is the Arts and Literature Short Course Producer at Dartington Trust.

Lou Rainbow's Evoke exhibition in the gallery at Dartington

DartingtonPath

1. Introduction

17. Bench 6, From Cliffside To Dartiington Drive

16. Bench 7, From Old Sewage Beds To Cliffside

15. Bench 8, From The Grotto To The Old Sewage Beds

14. Bench 9, From The Mill Race To The Grotto

13. Bench 10, From Lime Kiln Yard To The Mill Race

12. Bench 10, Lime Kiln Yard And Back Again

11. Bench 9, From The Mill Race To Lime Kiln Yard

10. Bench 8, From The Grotto To The Mill Race

9. Bench 7, From Old Sewage Beds To The Grotto

8. Bench 6, From Cliffside To Old Sewage Beds

Dartington Trust is  stunning centre of heritage, culture, entertainment, hospitality and innovative sustainability set in rolling south Devon parkland near Totnes. This podcast is an window into our broad range of programmes, including conversations with lecturers at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School, recordings of live talks and events, as well as reports of our latest activity both here in Devon and further afield.

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