Field System

Thank you for bringing your stories and songs. We had a wonderful time. Looking forward to a massive apple harvest come autumn.

Wæs hæl! We all had a wonderful wassail at @field-system.bsky.social hosted by me and Blabbermouth Storytelling. Everyone was really up for some apple-based nonsense! Thank you 😘 🍏

“Venomous ganglia” is our new favourite phrase. Joyous Yuletide to you, lovely friends!

Just saw this post (apologies for our tardiness). Your dad’s work is astonishing and joyful.

Likewise. Let’s get something happening with you at Field System in 2026. Really enjoyed meeting you, albeit briefly, back in June.

Tom is very astute; you might even say wise. Pay close attention to his every word! Merry Christmas and thank you for your support and friendship @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

If you are ever in Devon, UK, make sure you pay a visit to @field-system.bsky.social. You will not regret it.

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The Field System online shoppe is up and looking good - carefully curated by ourselves to feel as much like a little online version of our physical store as possible. Sorry, we can’t ship to the US currently.

fieldsystem.co.uk/shop

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Daisy Rickman, Year of the Serpent – Through Solstice, Stone, Stars, and Sun — Welcome to Field System A personal journey via paint and print into the celestial, the psychedelic and the folkloric. Daisy’s artworks are at once magical odes to her homeland and to the cosmos. Her paintings are deeply in...

We’re exhibiting Daisy Rickman’s paintings here at Field System until January 3rd. It’s a rich and engaging show and well worth a visit. fieldsystem.co.uk/events-2-1/d...

At the Threshold with CAMP — Welcome to Field System Samhain or Hallowe’en is a time of year when the division between the living and the dead is felt to be at its thinnest. Field System and CAMP are pleased to present a small-group exhibition of work b...

We open ‘At the Threshold’ this Thursday 30 October, 6-8pm. Curated in conjunction with CAMP artists organisation, the show is an intriguing, unsettling, amusing, inclusive journey into the folkloric and esoteric - fieldsystem.co.uk/events-2-1/a...

Valerie Asiimwe Amani: Here, At The Edge of Light… — Welcome to Field System Through textile, sound and installation, the black hole emerges as more than an astronomical anomaly, but is reimagined as a mythological symbol for transformation, desire, and the emotional archite...

Our gallery is in the process of being thoroughly transformed for our next show by artist Valerie Amani. Owning event this Thursday 2nd October, 6-8pm. Join us for something very different…

fieldsystem.co.uk/events-2-1/v...

Smashing afternoon at @field-system.bsky.social - massive congrats Mark and Milly on such a successful knees-up!
@alexmerryart.bsky.social the Boss Morris collection was to die for 🌞

Please do! Berry Pomeroy castle is very close by, and haunted to the hilt!

An exciting Saturday here! Boss Morris are visiting and dancing from 4pm and Angeline Morrison @angelcakepie2.bsky.social is performing - doors at 7pm, tickets on wegottickets.com/event/673344 and info about everything on fieldsystem.co.uk. Come to Ashburton for absolute folk magic!

This weekend is your last opportunity to see Max Naylor’s extraordinary paintings in the Field System gallery. If you’re in the southwest of England and feel your eyes deserve a reward, come along.

Guessing ‘Octopus’s Garden’ had already been taken, then.

We’d head up onto Dartmoor. Any of the Tors would provide a fabulous setting.

We had one visit our kitchen earlier this week. Haven’t seen one for years! Such a treat.

Treat yourself to a look at the horseshoes at Oakham Castle in Rutland. A quick search brings up loads of images, including the one below on luxuriousnomad.com. It’s a good place to visit, but a very long walk from here. There’s also a bakery nearby selling pecan buns that MUST NOT be ignored.

Max Naylor has made a beautiful fern design, which we have lovingly Lino printed onto bags and T-shirts. They’re available from both our online and physical stores… fieldsystem.co.uk/shop/p/lucy-...

We had a delightful day @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social yesterday (& wish we could have more). Highlights include bumping into @jenniferballads.bsky.social & @wessexhag.bsky.social & Socs getting a photo with Charlie Cooper after his fab talk. Hoping we’ll be more involved next year. Watch this space!

Opening event TONIGHT for this beautiful show by Max Naylor. Join us 6-8pm for a glass of wine (from our neighbours Le Vin Perdu) or something soft courtesy of Luscombe Drinks. Pics: Glow Down (detail), Blues Under Starlight (detail), Copse to Copse / Gorse in Bloom, Congregation / Cinnabar Dream.

Tomorrow we open the doors on our next exhibition - Max Naylor, The Thin Veil. This is a wonderful collection of the most engaging, absorbing landscape-based paintings. Opening celebration 6-8pm at the gallery - ALL WELCOME!
(Proper gallery shots tomorrow)

An arrangement of seeds and handmade twine on a black hessian background

‘Growing Season’ by Emma Thistlethwaite comes down this afternoon. If you’d like to see this enchanting show of floral artistry rooted in folkloric thinking, we’ll be open from 10am today. You can watch it being disassembled from around 2pm!

The art for Absolute Units - a podcast from The Museum of English Rural Life - with The Beast by Man in the Woods in the centre.

New Absolute Units!

This time we speak with Bristol-based artist @museumofmump.bsky.social - about exploring rural England, connecting to the stories of our places, and rebuilding our sense of ourselves in the 21st century.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

This will be a lovely listen, guaranteed. MITW show here at Field System was among the most popular we’ve had, plus he’s a genuinely lovely man! Also, there aren’t many artists whose life and work are so completely entwined - he’s the real thing.

A large arrangement of flowers on a gallery floor

A view of a gallery through a tangle of flowers

Close up image of a range of small, natural bits and pieces - a snail shell, crab apples, stones, dried sweetcorn - and a small sheave of corn

We’re spending the rest of this week bathing in the beauty of Emma Thistlethwaite’s installation before it comes down on Sunday