Colaton Raleigh's artistic commune
Judging by this website you'd be easily forgiven for thinking that Fairlynch Museum and Budleigh Salterton are the most happening places in East Devon . And by contrast you might well be wondering what people get up to in the quiet Devon villages surrounding us. Well, take a closer look, suggests villager Laura Boyd. Her own community of Colaton Raleigh, a few miles north-east of Budleigh, is, among other things, surprisingly full of artists. Proud artists of Colaton Raleigh "You probably know about our most distinguished painter Alan Cotton," says Laura. He's the most eminent of a virtual commune of artists. Seven of the others, amateur and professional, including Friend of Fairlynch Rowan Turnbull, have come together to show 'Village Art', an exhibition of painting, photography and ceramics." "The common threads of their work are a love of Devon , their need to express their reactions...