A "Fab day of Creative Arty Fun" for young carers: see the News page

Click to view images from the schools we have supported:

Topsham School 2009

Drakes C of E School 2010

Exmouth Community College 2011

Click Here to view the ExeDFAS fine arts and photography award winners from Exmouth Community College, September 2011 

In February 2011, 24 of the most talented year 9 artists at Exmouth Community College took part in a Digital Media Workshop run by Tony Minnion from a company called "Cloth of Gold". The students used Photoshop to create some fantastic images of imaginary landscapes by incorporating patterns and textures from the environment and also adding photographs of themselves in various poses. The day was very successful, according to the Art Department teaching team.

"These wonderful students all produced highly original work which they could be proud of, as well as learning new digital technologies." These images were on display at our April lecture and can be seen by clicking the Exmouth Community College link (left).  ExeDFAS contributed £150 towards the cost of this Workshop and Mrs. Jill Honour, Head of the Art Department, has expressed most warmly her gratitude for this most generous support.

Year 10 and 11 students at the College visited Killerton House and Gardens early in the summer term to work for the joint NADFAS and National Trust "A" Level Art competition. Thirty Fine Art and twenty Photography students have showed interest in the competition. We pledged £50 prizes to each of the two areas of study and the results can be seen by clicking the award winners link.

Sam Thorpe, the post-graduate art student to whom we granted £250 before Christmas for practical studies, is very enthusiastic about his visit to Berlin in January. He continues to work at his small studio at the Hussey's Centre in Alphington and has promised an illustrated report for our AGM.

                                                               Margaret Butt