Chablis Diaries

Bowl of salad

The Orion Publishing Group and Hotel du Vin/Malmaison hotel are delighted to announce their collaboration on a “Writers in Residence” project that will run from July through to November 2010.
The tour kicks off with Veronica Henry who will be in residence at the Hotel du Vin in Poole and the Hotel du Vin in Brighton. She says, ‘I’m absolutely thrilled to be writer-in-residence at the Hotel du Vin. I remember going to the first Hotel du Vin when it opened in Winchester: I was enchanted, and have remained a huge fan ever since. We both strive for a similar style – quintessentially English escapism with a touch of wit – so I think it will be a very productive collaboration, and the perfect environment to find inspiration.’ Her current project, THE BEACH HUT, is published as an Orion paperback original on 22 July.

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West Buckland Gallery

'The Gallery' 2010

Drawing  above by Peter Bright

During the festival The Gallery exhibition will enable visitors to view and in some cases buy works of art by local Devon artists. The Gallery will be in St Peter's Church, West Buckland and will be open during the festival period.

The aim of the The Gallery exhibition is to enable and promote selected, amateur and professional artist living within the dispersed communities of North Devon and beyond. Past exhibitions have received critical acclaim and have been remarkably successful for artists and visitors. Diversity has been the success of these exhibitions, with entries ranging from textiles, painting, carving, printmaking and ceramics etc.


The objects in this exhibition have been selected by Peter Bright. A full list of exhibiting artists will be published as soon as possible.

West Buckland Festival is a festival of music, entertainment and leisure, held in a small village on the edge of Exmoor. This year's festival featured more than a dozen events between 9th and 12th September 2010.

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Broomhill Exhibition - Prices from £75 - North Devon Festival

New paintings and old drawings by
Peter Bright

Topiary for Beginners

Category:  Visual Arts & Literature
Starts: Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Ends: Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The bulk of the exhibition are based on drawings and lithographs from 1978. The image above is an image I used frequently during this period, the version above is the Internet Edition of 2006 and is available as a download (see below).

1978: I once had a girlfriend called Anne who wore ‘Charlie’ perfume. Every time we came close I sneezed. This was not conducive to a passionate affair. Her ‘big’ permed hair and ‘page three’ figure was always out of reach, until we discovered I was allergic to her bottled smell….later we discovered I was allergic to latex.

• Download Print £0.11

‘Walk Away or Jump’

'Inspired by a cliff walk with one of Robert Rauschenberg’s assistants in 1978.  The implications of this encounter still roll around in my brain. ‘Walk Away or Jump’. This was possibly one of the major turning points in my life – what did I turn down?  Fame, fortune?'

'Unfortunately the majority of landscape art fails miserably however, ‘Lake Lucerne: the Bay of Uri from above Brunnen‘ circa 1844 (by Turner) is the ultimate painting of landscape and nature – it tells a massive story with very little content. This has been an important painting for me since the early 1970’s. I have always admired the New York Abstract Expressionists of the mid 20th century but when I first saw this painting by Turner…… my sock were blown off. It is without doubt a clever (maybe unfinished) conceptual landscape painting.' Read more…
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