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Thelma Hulbert Gallery Award-winning public art gallery and shop. Contemporary art + craft exhibitions, workshops, permanent collection of artist Thelma Hulbert. Free. thelmahulbert.com
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Open Tuesday - Saturday, 10 - 5. Accessible space, dementia friendly, family friendly. Temporarily closed for refurbishment, reopening 22.03.25. Thelma Hulbert Gallery is an award-winning public art gallery owned and managed by East Devon District Council. THG hosts exhibitions of contemporary art of local, national, international significance together with a permanent selection of works by artist Thelma Hulbert. Facilities : dedicated Learning Room, a Project Space and Shop. Admission is free, donations are welcome. Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10 - 5.

-Accessibility: Disabled parking bay. There is a ramp to the entrance, wide access and accessible toilets on the ground floor and a platform lift to the first floor. A wheelchair is also available.

08/10/2026

The material rendering of light and land in paint provides the focus for David’s watercolours of the mid-70s.

Her works incorporate an essential visual record of the land in general terms, a clear sense of the changing qualities of light, weather and atmosphere, and also offer us a sense of the artist’s personal, emotive and phenomenological experience of being within the landscape.

Her paintings are a distillation of all of these qualities, rather than straightforward representations of specific places.

This is borne out in her method of working. David built up a vast visual and conceptual archive of snapshot views of the Devon landscape, which include these preliminary watercolours made en plain air.
Dr Sophie Hatchwell, University of Birmingham.

© Yasmin David, Untitled Landscapes (Watercolour series, 1978) watercolour on paper



🎨 Yasmin David: The Nature of Light
📍Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX
📆 Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5 until 31 October

🎥 If you missed the artist talk on the opening day of Yasmin David: The Nature of Light, you can now watch it again.Dr S...
07/10/2026

🎥 If you missed the artist talk on the opening day of Yasmin David: The Nature of Light, you can now watch it again.

Dr Sophie Hatchwell and Dr Rebecca Savage share fascinating insights into Yasmin David's remarkable contribution to British landscape painting.

🔗 Follow link in comment to watch the talk.

Film credit: Sam Hatton-Brown
Photo credit: Simon Tutty



🎨 Yasmin David: The Nature of Light
📍Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX
📆 Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5 until 31 October

🎃Half Term Halloween Party📆 Friday 30 October, drop in between 1 and 4pm. 🎟️ Free, suggested donation £2.🍎 Celebrate Hal...
06/10/2026

🎃Half Term Halloween Party
📆 Friday 30 October, drop in between 1 and 4pm.
🎟️ Free, suggested donation £2.
🍎 Celebrate Halloween this October Half Term with spooky art activities, creative crafts and Halloween treats.
🪁 Create your own willow kite, make an apple creature, enjoy mulled apple juice, treats and spooky music
🎨 View our exhibition, Yasmin David: The Nature of Light.
👻 Why not get into the Halloween spirit and come in fancy dress!
🔗 see link in comment for more

'The atmospheric qualities in Yasmin David's work reach full expression in her later oils.These works expand a process o...
29/09/2026

'The atmospheric qualities in Yasmin David's work reach full expression in her later oils.

These works expand a process of layering, both in the material practice of a dense layering of paint and form, but also in the conceptual sense of layering multiple views and emotive and dramatic moods into single images.

Drawing on sketches, journal notes and memory, David's landscapes recall the different places she visited over time and in differing atmospheric conditions. The paintings seek to capture a sense of an accumulation of different moments experienced by the artist as she moved about within the landscape, and the emotional responses these moments inspired.

This interpretation is supported by her journals, which are full of fleeting instances captured in brief sentences, in metaphors, and in lists, often reflecting on the qualities and effect of light:

✍️17 March: Still, overcast metal light, but birdsong so exultantly abandoned that dizzy cliffs open among the bushes, and mountains appear above the trees, evoking great, imaginal worlds of song.'

Dr Sophie Hatchwell, University of Birmingham

📸 Yasmin David, Untitled (Grass), 2002
📸 Yasmin David, Untitled (Grass), 2002, detail
📸 Yasmin David, Untitled (Spangled Wood), c. 2003



🎨 Yasmin David: The Nature of Light
📍Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX
📆 Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5 until 31 October

'Her main influence was always the light and how it illuminated, shaped and sculpted the landscapes where she lived in D...
24/09/2026

'Her main influence was always the light and how it illuminated, shaped and sculpted the landscapes where she lived in Devon.

Driving around in her car and looking at the passing landscapes was a great source of inspiration, and watching the light; on rainy days, seeing it diffuse on a black hill; on sunny days, watching it dance through leaves on to a dark stream; and how the clouds gathered and dispersed in the sky, casting shadows filled with drama on the landscapes below.'

Clio David, daughter of Yasmin David.

📸 Yasmin David, Untitled (Waterfall 2), 2004, oil on board
📸 Yasmin David, Untitled (Landscape with Cows), c. 2005, oil on board



🎨 Yasmin David: The Nature of Light
📍Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX
📆 Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5 until 31 October.

'Landscape with Horse' and 'Luscombe' record Yasmin David's home landscape near Dartmoor. ''Luscombe offers us a represe...
22/09/2026

'Landscape with Horse' and 'Luscombe' record Yasmin David's home landscape near Dartmoor.

''Luscombe offers us a representative image of the artist’s rural home, where she lived from 1961. The house seems to sink into the surrounding greenery. It is a landscape of a building: a seeming contradiction resolved by the formal and material interweaving of the architectural structure with the surrounding trees, hedges and field. The dimensions of the house and its walls, rendered through black streaks of paint, echo and extend the linear forms of the black tree trunk in the foreground, with the chimney stacks and pots of the house reaching skywards, in direct approximation of the tree’s upper branches. David gives us a house made out the land, and in doing so, forges a strong conceptual association between its inhabitants and wider landscape.

From Landscape with Horse, we get a sense of the artist’s fascination with light. It presents an almost archetypal representation of a rural landscape: semi-abstracted rolling green pastures surrounded by dense autumnal woodland. The shining figure of the white horse emphasises this liminal reading of the landscape. The rough rendering of its outline in a few broad brush strokes mark it more as a symbol than a representation of a specific animal, and bring to mind the symbolic function of the horse in Jungian theory, as a manifestation of the powerful unconscious.

Equally, it is an expression of the dramatic, atmospheric and symbolic capacities of landscape as a place experienced by and inhabited by the artist. The close attention paid to light in this work, to the way the sun reflects off moving clouds, presents the most forceful evidence for this claim: it is in the representation of the sky and sun that David is most clearly developing her material and conceptual practice."
Dr Sophie Hatchwell, University of Birmingham

📸 Yasmin David, Untitled (Landscape with Horse), c. 1968, oil on canvas
📸 Yasmin David, Untitled (Luscombe, Devon), 1962, oil on canvas



🎨 Yasmin David: The Nature of Light
📍Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX
Exhibition continues until 31 October.

Looking for new challenges and experiences? Join our friendly and supportive Volunteer team! Volunteering at THG offers ...
19/09/2026

Looking for new challenges and experiences? Join our friendly and supportive Volunteer team!
Volunteering at THG offers you great opportunities:
👉Meet interesting and like-minded people
👉Be part of an exciting programme of exhibitions and events
👉Share your knowledge and learn new skills
👉Valuable experience of working in a public gallery for your CV
👉Free THG Friends Membership
👉10% discount in THG Shop, workshops and events

✨ Expand your community network and be part of something amazing.
📞 Contact us to find out more: 01404 45006 / [email protected]

✨ Free Early Years Art Session 📆Friday 25 September, 10:30 - 12:00. Drop in, no need to book.🎨We invite under 5’s and th...
18/09/2026

✨ Free Early Years Art Session
📆Friday 25 September, 10:30 - 12:00. Drop in, no need to book.
🎨We invite under 5’s and their parents/carers to a fun art session led by artist Laurel Coxon.
🎨Activities are play-based and sensory, just bring your imaginations and curiosity.
🎨 Free, donations welcome.
🎨 Sessions run on the last Friday of every month.

17/09/2026

🎨 Check out this fabulous collaborative artwork created by families in our pigment painting workshop.
🔍 Can you spot your own painting in the finished artwork?
🖌️Local artist and ceramicist Sarah John led the family drop-in workshop exploring the colours, stories and landscapes of the as part of Heritage Festival.

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Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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