THE Salar Gallery in Hatherleigh is to host a retrospective exhibition of paintings by a renowned sheep auctioneer in November.

Roger T G Vick was renowned as an auctioneer, but led another life as a painter of wildfowl, landscapes, moorland scenes and abstract paintings.

The exhibition 'Reflections' will show off a number of his paintings. He exhibited his work publicly on rare occasions at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust exhibitions at Slimbridge and Arundel, and in 1988 at a Vick family exhibition at Hatherleigh.

In 1980 a limited edition print, Sky Furnace, was published – the painting illustrating the poem of his friend, the poet, Ted Hughes.

Fascinated by wildfowl since visiting Slimbridge as a child, this subject matter with its associated expansive skies and reflections in water informed his painting throughout his life.

Dartmoor was another life-long passion from the time when as a teenager he would run from his home in Okehampton up to Yes Tor and back in all weathers to get fit for the 1st XV rugby team.

A trip to Alaska in 1990 resulted in cool abstract paintings inspired by icebergs and glaciers. Several of his later paintings are in this abstract mode, but he continued to paint wildfowl and Dartmoor.

The exhibition runs from November 5 to December 7. For more information call the gallery on 01837 810940.