'… Still … Shooting the Breeze': Sue Ifould, a painter and Gaynor Williams, a maker of books, celebrate landscape with an exhibition from 10am-4.45pm daily at Birdwood House, Totnes. ‘Shooting the Breeze’ is an American expression which broadly means ‘idle but pleasurable chat’, but there is also a subtext which suggests, ‘that any darn thing may happen’. Sue and Gaynor, return to Birdwood House and using quite different media, express their wonder at the bounty of the natural world in their local area of South Brent on the edge of Dartmoor and equally bewitching terrain beyond. Sue is an expressive landscape painter drawing upon the moor, river valleys and the coast. In this exhibition you will see a range of work from fleeting drawings to larger canvases finished in the studio. Sue often returns to the same place to experience different light and seasons. Gaynor likes to make gatherings of pages that ‘wait for your marks to fall’. Her journals, some colossal in proportions and some palm-of-the-hand size, bound in covers fashioned from either felted fleece or whole local sheepskins attract gasps of: “Oh, but what can I put in here!”, as in “I’m going to spoil it!”. But it is so very important to make that first mark, and then another… without those marks, it is a temporary and only part-made book. See www.birdwoodhouse.org.uk/.