Hugely talented young musicians Tilly Coulton and Sophia Lim will be performing a delighful programme of flute and piano music in Lukesland House on Friday 6th November at 7pm. Thanks to support from the Bryan Foster Charitable Trust all profits from the concert will go to the excellent local music charity, Plymouth Music Zone https://www.plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ There will be a donations bar in the interval - cash and card accepted.

Tickets for this recital are available from lorna.lukesland@gmail.com. Adults £15; Children under 16 £7

Tilly Coulton

Tilly Coulton is a flute player, improviser, and teacher from Devon, UK. A graduate with distinction from the Royal College of Music (MPerf 2024), and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (BMus(Hons) 2022), her skills range from orchestral playing and solo/chamber recitals to contemporary/experimental music and improvisation. 
 

Tilly is the recipient of several major awards, including the ABRSM Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award, and John MacGregor Flute Prize, as well as achieving first prize in both the RCS Concerto Competition and RCS Governor’s Recital Prize for Woodwind within the same week.
 

As a freelance orchestral player, Tilly has performed throughout the UK and taken part in professional schemes with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Scottish Opera. She served as principal flute with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland in 2022. Recent highlights include Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie at the Royal Festival Hall under Jac van Steen, and John Adams’ Harmonielehre at the Queen Elizabeth Hall conducted by Vasily Petrenko. 
 

A keen supporter of contemporary and experimental music, Tilly is Creative Director and principal flute player of the contemporary ensemble standard issue. She has performed at the Finnish National Opera Amphitheatre, Barbican Classical Pride, Music We’d Like to Hear, EMPOWER: Women Changing Music, PRX.LIVE, Colourscape Music Festival, and on BBC Radio 3. 

Sophia Lim

Sophia Lim is a Malaysian pianist from Sabah, North Borneo. She studied at the Royal College of Music in London under the tutelage of Danny Driver, following earlier training with her mentor Krzysztof Slomiak in Kota Kinabalu. Her experiences learning the erhu and growing up in Sabah enriched her musical insight and versatility through the influence of diverse cultures.

Currently based in the UK, She has made several appearances in the UK, including at the Pallant House Gallery as part of the Pallant Proms, as well as performing at the Mátyás Seiber 120th celebratory concert at the Liszt Institute in London, alongside musicians from the Liszt Academy Budapest. Sophia also frequently collaborates with flautist Tilly Coulton as a chamber musician. Sophia is the pianist of the Atlas Trio formed in 2025, a clarinet trio focusing on
contemporary repertoire.

A keen advocate for new music, Sophia has premiered several new works in the UK. Recent highlights include Amuse Bouche by Nien Chin Chai as part of the Rude Health Festival of New Music, performance at Milton Court Concert Hall with the premiere of Eluned Davies’ new piece from Collaborative Voiceworks. She gave her debut performance of the complete Java Suite by
Leopold Godowsky in 2025 and was Ambassador of the Benedetti Foundation for the 2024 cohort.

Naomi at Lukesland

Joanna Haigh

I am a self-taught Lino artist, having studied Art and Art History at Oxford Polytechnic and taught Creative Textiles in Secondary schools

The type of prints I mostly create are Reduction Lino prints which means the whole print comes from one block, therefore limiting the number of prints that can be produced. 

Each print is one of a very limited edition and, as they are hand printed, they all have slight differences that make them unique. 

I find it a very stimulating and exciting art form and am constantly learning from, and being inspired by, other artists.

I was brought up in South Devon and returned five years ago to live on the edge of Dartmoor, where I enjoy taking walks to seek inspiration for my work.

My main inspiration is the natural world, with a particular interest in trees.

In recent years I have exhibited during Devon Open Studios and South Hams Arts Trail.

My prints are also for sale in Artworks, South Brent and cards from The Ivybridge Bookshop.

Photo by Dan Soley

Sweet serenity lies behind a gate

 In the peace of a garden’s allure

Where time slows, seems to await

 Nature’s orchestral overture

Allowing a wandering soul to hear

Each season tell their story

 Across the swiftly fleeting year

In fanfares of floral glory

Natural living artistry

Composed in perfect harmony

Winters cold indifference

Melting, heralds Spring’s deliverance

Warm Summer’s rich magnificence

Aiding Autumn’s wild munificence

When colours change from green to gold

To orange, russet, red

On maples, hips and haws

And filigree seed head

From rill to stream to waterfall

Crescendos of thundering sound

Act as counterpoint to fungi

Murmuring softly underground

Wood smoke’s weaving tendrils

 Play their plaintive part

Spiralling through the tree tops

As clouds of starlings start

A concerto of exquisite movement

In perfect unison

Cobwebs catching rays of

The slowly setting sun

A moment transcendent

As God and soul align

In the wonder of nature

Ineffable

                                             Sublime                                    LH 2025

Members of the Ashburton Community Folk Orchestra will be playing informally in the garden at Lukesland on Sunday 18th May from 2pm

‘ A Way Within’ - A 5 week course of Yoga with Christian reflection is starting on Tuesday evenings in May 2025 in the Lukesland tearoom. £10 per session.

To express interest email: eRainsfordMcMahon@gmail.com.

Louise Scammell is a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists and Make South West. She teaches printmaking at Art House in South Brent where she also has her own studio. She has a deep connection with the sea and is committed tosharing her interest in the natural world. Louise draws underwaterusing a waterproof sketch pad and translates her images into print, using wooden lithographic plates (Mokulito), lino blocks, collagraphs and monotypes, processes suitable for catching the fluid ethereal creatures she encounters below the surface. Her work describes coastal and underwater encounters in the South West, Skokholm Island and also in the ‘Hope Spot’ Scotland, where she has recently been involved in a conservation project. She regularly exhibits her work in London at the ‘Natural Eye’ exhibition in the Mall galleries alongside fellow members of the Society of Wildlife Artists.

My inspiration is driven by the natural world, from which I am surrounded as my studio is based in the heart of the beautiful Tamar Valley in Cornwall.

Having been inspired by the richness of Impressionism throughout my life, I work with a sculptural creative process, using oils with only a small painting knife.  Each painting is heavily researched on site, capturing the ambience and composition that will enable a painting to embrace their audience.

Studying carefully my subject matter enables me to fully explore and work with the complexity of light, colour and texture. In particular, I am drawn to the rich vegetation and scenes of water where the intricacy of all three values can be fully explored.

Many of Clare’s paintings are inspired by Lukesland. they will be on display in the servery on all open days during the Autmn 24 season.

Reflection pond at Lukesland

The piano and flute recital on Tuesday 14th May raised £800 for Plymouth Music Zone, thanks to the generosity of the performers and the audience. It was a wonderful evening with a varied programme, showing off the talent of the 3 musicians - Maggie Grimsdell, Caroline Collingridge and Nina Savicevic

This Spring we are delighted to welcome well-known local artist and tutor Sue Ifould to exhibit her atmospheric paintings of local scenery during Lukesland’s spring opening season.