Entertainment & Reviews

CONCERT goers will be treated to a free parachute display at next week’s (5th, 6th, 7th July) historic series of musical events at Wyvern Barracks in Exeter.

“100 Years Behind the Red Brick Wall” will see three evenings of open-air concerts and displays telling the story of Wyvern Barracks and its soldiers, from 1918 to the present day.

The evenings will be hosted by BBC Radio Devon presenter David FitzGerald and tickets are selling fast with the first night - Thursday - already sold out. Award-winning folk/acoustic duo Show of Hands will be headlining the first two nights...

A successful novelist from Exeter has just published her very own love story – and she hopes it will inspire others to find wisdom, peace and happiness.

Mother-of-two Catherine Harman wrote two gripping thrillers after relocating to Devon from her native Lancashire at the turn of the century to buy and run a convenience store.

The former computer programmer’s new surroundings inspired her to write the sensational five-star novels, What the Butler Saw and the sequel Rupert’s Unravelling.

Now, more than a year on, Catherine turned her attentions to telling her own...

Paintings, ceramics, sculpture and glass will be exhibited in Torquay this August.

From August 25 to 31 fingerpaintings by Saskia Skoric will hang alongside nautical paintings by Len Murrell and landscapes and seascapes by Lynda Kettle, former vice president of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) and chair of Sidmouth Art Society. There will be glass pictures by Sue Purser Hope (chair of the Contemporary Glass Society), sculpture by Nicola Axe and pottery by Andrew Matheson RBSA. This exciting exhibition, organised by Creative Coverage, takes place at Artizan Gallery, 7...

Dartmoor artist Shirley Kirkcaldy is celebrating after her work has been selected to be represented by a new Devon gallery.

The Tidal Gallery, which opens at Victoria Place, The Promenade, Kingsbridge, on July 22 will be exhibiting eight of Shirley’s latest landscapes and seascapes.

“It is pleasing that galleries are increasingly showing interest in my work,” says Shirley, who was recently featured artist in Dartmoor and Devon Life magazines.

Shirley’s work is informed by what she experiences when in the landscape – an intuitive response to a place and time. Working...