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16 / Flight Time / SEPTEMBER 2018
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Experiencing the Landscape: Art on the
East Devon Wayis a celebration of 25
years of the 40-mile footpath running from
Exmouth to Lyme Regis. It’s the culmination
of a year-long collaborative project
between the Thelma Hulbert Gallery
in Honiton and the East Devon Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership.
The aim of the project has been to use
diverse art forms and artists to enable
people of all ages to engage with the
natural landscape in new ways.
This exhibition, which runs from 8th
September -27th October at the Thelma
Hulbert Gallery, showcases new work
created especially for this project
by local contemporary artists Angus
Rutherford, Gabby Hoad and Jenny
Mellings. Exhibited alongside will be a
E X E T E R
Celebrating the
East Devon Way
reflection of the 80 nature-based creative
workshops undertaken with schools and
the public over the summer. They include
printmaking, creative writing, cyanotypes,
pin-hole cameras, tactile painting and
much more.
Angus Rutherford led investigative
drawing workshops in the landscape and
said, “It was enormously satisfying to work
with the students and equally satisfying to
‘learn’ the methods anew through their
varied and wonderful responses. The motto
for this project might have been ‘as long as
you observe hard, whatever comes from
your fingers will have an integrity’.”
Jenny Mellings, who explored pre-
photography methods of capturing the
landscape said, “In celebration of the 25
years since this walk was created (or more
likely re-established), I undertook to make
25 paintings with mainly local pigments,
and sometimes found foliage for tools.
There are also photographic records of my
walks that form a separate body of work.”
The exhibition is open from Tuesday to
Saturday, 10am to 5pm, and admission
is free.
The historic Highland village
of Carrbridge is the place
to be on the 6th October
as the 25th annual Golden
Spurtle World Porridge Making
Championships take place. The
competition attracts porridge-
makers from across the world
with professional and amateur
chefs, food producers, food
bloggers, small business owners
and home cooks vying for the
Golden Spurtle trophy and
the coveted title of ‘World
Porridge Making Champion’.
The spurtle is a wooden Scottish
kitchen tool, dating from the
15th century, that’s used to stir
porridge, soups and stews.
The cook-off begins with a
pipe band parade. The main
event takes place in the village
hall with competitors battling
it out, Bake Off -style, to create
their very best porridge using
oatmeal, water and salt. There’s
also a speciality category for
oatmeal combined with any
other ingredients to celebrate
the versatility of oats.
Once the cooking has
finished, guests will have the
chance to sample the entries
and enjoy whisky tasting, a
food market and the chance to
buy a hand-turned Spurtle.
Photo: James Ross
I N V E R N E S S
PERFECT
PORRIDGE