A new exhibition, The Nature of Light, at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton, is bringing overdue recognition to the landscape painter Yasmin David, whose extensive body of work only came to light after her death when her daughter discovered hundreds of paintings stacked in a cupboard. David, whose mother was the bohemian Lorna Garman and whose biological father was writer Laurie Lee, worked in private for decades from a converted school dormitory on her Devon farm, producing luminous depictions of Dartmoor's moorland, woods and rivers that she rarely showed to anyone. The exhibition situates her firmly within British landscape painting and reflects a broader reassessment of overlooked female artists.

David's daughter, Clio, found more than 200 canvases and 550 works on paper after her mother's death, alongside poetry, nature writing and letters from Laurie Lee, some of which featured in a 2021 memorial show at the New Art Gallery Walsall. The current show, featuring over 40 works plus drawings and archival material, is being staged about 40 miles from David's former home, with curators and art historians comparing her work to that of Joan Eardley and Gillian Ayres and linking it to a wider movement, including a recent Courtauld exhibition, re-examining women's contributions to landscape art.