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Starting on May 13th and continuing through the summer, this unusual exhibition celebrateS the publishing of a beautiful book of illustrated poetry by Eleanor Ludgate.
Eleanor Ludgate has been a successful professional artist since the 1970s and has been writing poems since her art school days in the 1960s. She just kept them in a folder until recently, when she started working on a collection of paintings with poems that accompanied them, to produce this striking and unusual book.
This is an unusual collection of 43 poems, spanning over 40 years, with a wide diversity of subjects and paintings, ranging from some written about Dartmoor and Sidmouth and the River Otter, to poems about love and emotions and Eleanor’s more recent works about wildlife and her concerns about it. There are also several poems inspired by the motif of the Three Hares - the ancient symbol connected to Chagford where Eleanor has her studio and gallery and also Devon, where there are 17 churches with this image carved in their roof bosses.
The Three Hares Gallery, at 20 The Square, Chagford, houses many of the original paintings together with the poems, some will be for sale and there are also prints and greeting cards made from the paintings in the book.