The gallery is open 11am to 5pm weekends or by appointment
Telephone: 01392 877 737
Email: theartroom@eclipse.co.uk
Address: 76 Fore Street, Topsham, Devon EX3 0HQ
Directions: From Exeter follow Topsham Road straight through to the High Street which becomes Fore Street, Topsham.
The light and spacious open-plan design of the ART ROOM gallery allows each exhibition to bring its own colour and style.
Congratulations! Superb space, excellent hanging and good conversation.
Fantastic! Topsham has waited far too long for this, congratulations!
Lovely show, wonderful to see such an inspiring space
A lovely exhibition, well done we'll be coming again.
How wonderful to have a gallery like this in Topsham, and with such mind-blowingly wonderful artists, thank you.
A wonderful space and some stunning work, thank you!
Above: Over 180 people attended the Private View for the Fishwick and Garton exhibition.
Left: Deborah Wood (foreground, right) discusses the new Fishwick and Garton exhibition at the Private View.
Private View for the Dewar & Green exhibition
THE ART ROOM TOPSHAM is above the 'cafe' and next to Lloyds
Parking is available opposite in the Town Hall / Fire Station car park
Private View for Benedict Rubbra exhibition
Topsham is a popular estuary location which offers visitors a wide selection of shops, antiques, pubs and restaurants. There is ample parking and easy access to our exciting gallery!
THE ART ROOM Topsham
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Gallery Talk by Robert Jennison
Tom Epton writes: Dear Deborah - A really good evening and thanks so much for creating such a lovely occasion. Jill and I feel that these conversations are very fruitful and insightful and we both know that you have given much thought as to how you want to realise your vision of things. All this does not go unnoticed or unappreciated, I assure you!!
Superb space, superb work, I hope this gallery is a great success.
It's great to have a real gallery in Topsham, excellent exhibition - Pat Fishwick
Thank you for opening your gallery -
J A Hughsn
Absolutely superb paintings - Robert Jennison
A short note of warm thanks for the quite excellent talk by Benedict Rubbra and for the way you had set up the whole evening. It was very companion-able and BR came across as a lovely man with such a strong humanity and sense of purpose - Tom and Jill Epton
THE ART ROOM Topsham
"Day by day they prompt development of one's outlook, one's emotions, the whole atmosphere and sensation of being alive. In their 'stories' they carry mysteries that do not threaten but by their very nature raise powerful questions which are presented for you to answer - not by glib answer but rather by reflection and unconscious insight. Words become inadequate and superfluous.
"The subjects appear simple, sometimes on the edge of the surreal, but reveal a quality of wisdom and quiet suggestion that is the mark of Robin Rae's humanity as well as of his curiosity about the world. These paintings do not flee one's mind or imagination but implant themselves within us, not as viruses but as inner signposts to which we are invited to respond as best we might. We have been given work to do!!
Robin Rae
"Robin Rae is a good painter. In his innate modesty and the simplicity of his professional and personal life this might be, perhaps, the only recognition for which he has striven to achieve and to which he continues in current and future work so to aspire. Within his own long journey, I suggest that he has indeed now 'arrived', thereby gifting us the privilege to look upon his works and draw deep-rooted responses from our own individual 'view of things'.
"Deborah Wood of The Art Room, Topsham, is to be congratulated, once again, for presenting yet another major exhibition by a contemporary artist of warm humanity and significance."
— Tom Epton - May 2010.
LINKS to other sites
Zoe Cameron: Zoe is a British Figurative Painter, living and working in Cornwall
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