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Eleanor Ludgate Fine Art
 
Artist's history

 1966-69 Guildford college of art and design,one year foundation course followed by three year course in fabric design.
1970 Moved to Devonshire and started professional career as an artist.
1974 First greetings cards reproduced by the Royle card company.
1975 Westward TV open-art exhibition at Plymouth City museum and art gallery.
1976 Century Galleries,Henley on Thames
1978 Fred Keetch gallery,Exeter;Market Place gallery,Collaton;Lee Ford,Budleigh Salterton.
1980 Mariner's Gallery,Lyme Regis.
1981 Bankside Gallery,London.
1982-83 Medici Gallery,London.
1983 Harmony Gallery,Ottery St Mary;Holmdale Studio',Sidmouth;Commissioned by John Fowles (author and curator of Lyme Regis museum) to paint rare wildflowers for permanent exhibition.
1983-85 Visual arts exhibition,Sidmouth.
1984-86 Sidmouth museum.
1985-86 Chapel Art Gallery,Saltram House, Plymouth.
1985 Devon Trust for Nature Conservation exhibition,Rolle Gallery,Exmouth.
1986 Joyce Grenfell Art Centre,Claremont,Esher.
1986-87 British Watercolour society exhibition,Castle Gallery,Ilkley;Barbican Theatre Gallery,Plymouth;Old Fire-House Gallery,Sidmouth.
1986 Joined as founder member of the Society For Wildlife Art For The Nation "Nature in Art",Wallsworth Hall,Gloucestershire.
1987 Queen Anne Gallery,Saddleworth;Bagpuss Gallery,Ottery St Mary.
1987 Launched the "Ludgate Studio" card and publishing company.
1988 Bovey House,Beer;Bicton House,East Budleigh; Broadwindsor Craft Centre; Tudor Amethyst Gallery,Salcombe; Chagford Gallery,Dartmoor.
1989-99 Opened "The Ludgate Gallery" in Sidmouth,Devon.
1993 British wildfowl art festival,Slimbridge,Gloucestershire.Became a member of the Society of Floral Painters.
1995 South-west women's art exhibition,Crediton,Devon.
1998 Sofiero Castle,Sweden(SFP);St Helier,Jersey (SFP).
2000 Opening of "La Galerie d'Eleanor" in Roussillon, Provence.
2000-04 La Rotonde,Simiane la Rotonde,Provence.
2002 Artistic advisor for an edition of BBC Television programme 'Holiday'.
2003 Location advisor, art and technical advisor for Channel 4 programme 'A Place In The Sun'.
2004 BNP,Apt,Provence.
2008 Eleanor has now returned to England & has a new gallery in the picturesque town of Chagford on Dartmoor in Devonshire. The Chagford Galleries.
2008 Eleanor launches Devon's Nature In Art. This is a permanent exhibition in Chagford Galleries. A celebration of the natural beauty of Devon.