MORE than 100 works of art by the late Bere Peninsula artist Richard Woollcombe are now being exhibited in the Tavistock Museum ahead of an auction in November.

Richard, or Dick as he was known, was one of the last surviving Tamar Valley market gardeners of the post-war period and a founder member of the Tavistock Group of Artists. He spent most of his life at Rumleigh where his father had bought some fields in 1929 to set up a market garden.

LEFT: Family members Alan Woollcombe (son) and Sarah Ronan (niece) and Mimi Petit (daughter-in-law) are pictured at the exhibition, which runs until the end of the month, with family friend and exhibition co-ordinator Jane Miller.

Picture by James Bird