Some good-looking exhibitions and events, courtesy of our friends at Field System Gallery, Ashburton, Devon…

_{All pictured artworks by Dougal Kirkland}

On display until Saturday 25th April, Other Landscapes brings together paintings, drawings, and prints by Corinna Spencer and Dougal Kirkland, two artists whose work explores the uncanny presence of landscape.

Corinna Spencer’s paintings and drawings evoke strange terrains where bodies seem to emerge from, dissolve into, or become entangled with the land itself. Organic forms, sinkholes and cavernous spaces suggest environments where the boundaries between body and landscape blur.

Dougal Kirkland’s works focuses on expanses of water, bog and remote terrain that conceal as much as they reveal. His contemplative images suggest landscapes charged with hidden histories, unseen forces and ancestral connections.

Together, the exhibition proposes landscape not as backdrop, but as an active, mysterious presence — darkly beautiful, ever present and quietly transformative. Find more information here.

Between Friday 1st May & Sunday 3rd May, join Field System for their third year celebrating Beltane, with brilliant folk bringing art, music, stories and dance to the beautiful Dartmoor town of Ashburton.

On Friday 1st May, Friends of the River Stone Club introduce their short film Stones of Kernow — a love letter to the myth, magic and monoliths of the Cornish landscape, with music by Matthew Shaw. The evening continues with CRAVEN, the folk trio whose raw, visceral performances move through soundscapes employing accordions, double bass, viol, violin, mandola, stomp boxes and a foot-keyed harmonium. Expect a beautifully askew night of songs exploring transness, queerness and yearning.

This opening night also launches an exhibition by Lally MacBeth, Matthew Shaw and Penny MacBeth, exploring portals, labyrinths and mazes — dreamscapes drawn from ancient landscapes and otherworldly thresholds. Through mixed media works including collages, paintings, music, costumes and photography, the exhibition forms a dreamscape of someone else’s making. Find more info and tickets here.

This year’s Beltane celebration is nestled into the programme of the Dartmoors Tors Festival; find out more about their other events in Ashburton and across Dartmoor here.