Art In St Martins - Exeter April 2026
St Martin's Church, Exeter
© CROW
In its third year, Art In St Martins is back for 2026! Come along to an exhibition at St Martins Church on Exeter's Cathedral Green to see local artists at work, demonstrating their methods and displaying their work.
This spring, from 30th March to 26th April, eight local visual artists who work in a variety of mediums will be displaying and selling their artwork over the course of the month. They will be happy to talk to visitors about their work, demonstrate their techniques and answer questions. The mediums used include drawing, painting, textiles and ceramics.
The exhibition is free and the art work will be available to buy.
All welcome to drop in.
Schedule:
Monday 30 March - Sunday 5 April - Annette Wolske and Lucy Rockliffe
Monday 6 April - Sunday 12 April - Marion Hingston-Lamb and Ray
Monday 13 April - Sunday 19 April - Lorraine Gilroy and Kate Gold
Monday 20 April - Sunday 26 April - Vanessa Cecil and Sue Lucas
About the artists:
Lucy Rockliffe
Ceramic hand built vessels, figurative clay work and tiles
Lucy enjoys the expressive, responsive immediacy of clay hand-building in her various work. Coloured slip painting, oxides, firing, mark making and gesture into the surface of the clay are all processes inspired by the natural world and her drawing practice. Lucy is also a community artist bringing people together through art participation and collective artworks.
Vanessa Cecil
Vanessa draws and paints, using mixed media and tending towards rich colour and figuration. She explores meaningfulness in everyday life, focussing on the daily places, spaces, objects and actions, whether sacred or secular, that hold special meaning for people: They may be communal events, intimate shared meals, or personal keepsakes.
Instagram: vanessa_cecil
Ray
Ray’s work is based around organic shapes within the sea and landscape. She uses these shapes to inform her abstract work.
Ray enjoys mark-making to enhance her paintings to give the work more depth, and exploring different techniques to achieve this.
instagram: @ray_sue_gosney
Sue Lucas
Sue creates sustainably with foraged and recycled materials. Her 2D and 3D textile pieces are inspired by her regular journeys between Teignmouth and Exeter where she explores detail of the unseen or overlooked aspects of nature, inviting viewers to slow down and consider the intricate textures and patterns of the natural world.
Instagram: @suelucasart
Marion Hingston Lamb
Marion is a feltmaker, weaver and stitcher. Inspired by the stark beauty of the Icelandic landscape and the colours and textures of the Devon countryside, she creates meditative abstract works.
Instagram: @marionhingstonlamb
Lorraine Gilroy
Lorraine is a sculptor, working with stoneware clays and porcelain to produce vessels and sculpture in series for exhibitions and gallery shows. For Art in St. Martin’s, she is including forms based around peace, hope and reconciliation for our world.
Member and former Chair of Westcountry Potters Association, CROWs (Creative Older Women) Exeter, Exeter Artists’ Collective and Associate member of Flameworks Plymouth
https://westcountrypotters.co.uk/members/lorraine-gilroy/
Annette Wolske
Annette is a multi-media artist. Annette is interested in layers, textures, contrast and disruption. In her work, particularly her collages made from hand-printed or painted papers, she explores how disparate elements can coexist, how connections are interrupted or continue – a reflection on our experience in the world.
Instagram: @annettewolske.art
Kate Gold
Kate Gold is a Dartmoor based mixed-media artist. Her most recent work has been inspired by the wide skies and stretching moorland of Dartmoor. Using her own printed and painted papers to create texture and atmosphere, her mixed media collages reflect the love and connection she feels to the land she lives on.