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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Wednesday, 11 September 2024

"And now for the Shipping Forecast" a contemporary portrait of fishing.

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In 2022, renowned portrait artist Morgan Penn envisioned a modern-day tribute to Britain's hardworking fishermen. He shared his concept ...
Friday, 22 March 2019

Bottle Top Factory - exciting new workspace project in the heart of Newlyn!

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Overlooking Newlyn and Mounts Bay and largely hidden behind houses is the Bottle Top Factory which, up until 2012, produced millions of bot...
Saturday, 2 February 2019

Enjoying the magical light in Newlyn on a Saturday morning.

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Cold and cloudy start to the Saturday in Newlyn... and it's the continuing wet weather that has slowed completion of the fina...
Thursday, 27 September 2018

Sketching at Botallack.

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You never know what will pass by when sketching on the cliffs over looking the Crowns engine house at Botallack... close to shore...
Sunday, 5 February 2017

Live! - Porthleven Art Lightshow - from 6:30pm on Sunday

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Weather permitting you can watch the Porthleven Art Auction Lightshow live here.  On the evening anniversary of the storm, all the pie...
Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Artist in residence - aboard the Karen of Ladram.

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England's greatest artist, JMW Turner famously lashed himself to the mast of a sailing boat to experience first hand a storm at s...
Thursday, 12 November 2015

Work in progress - Karen of Ladram dodging way west of the Scillys.

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More work in progress on the boat detail above the waterline - especially to place the two crew stood on top of the shelterdeck ahead ...
Saturday, 29 August 2015

Pirrip Press Fish Festival prints 2015

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The Fish Shop @PirripPress have been producing limited edition prints for the Newlyn Fish Festival for the past three years. This year...
Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Work in progress, day two.

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The sky and early morning clouds get sketched in before giving the sea some shape and depth... by roughing out each of the heavy se...
Monday, 24 August 2015

New work in progress - sketching out and underpainting

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Charcoal sketch on 30" x 20" primed canvas... with maybe too much detail gone in on the boat, hard to spot are the two cre...
Thursday, 30 July 2015

Work in progress...

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Beginning to pick out detail in and around wheelhouse and stern of the boat... and a little more on the water action as she takes a...
Sunday, 26 July 2015

Work in progress...

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In poor weather, weather too poor to haul the nets safely, the boats slowly 'dodge' head to wind... and although the boat pi...
Wednesday, 6 May 2015

How to paint Poldark country (once known as Cornwall)

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The Cornish landscape provides the perfect backdrop for enthusiastic painters - not to say fans of the BBC drama and Aidan Turner Here...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Brian Sewell on Amongst Heroes: the artist in working Cornwall, Two Temple Place

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Love him or hate him, art critic Brian Sewell never fails to deliver. This, bay far the most well informed review of the current Newlyn Sch...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Le Breiz Connection

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The Maritime museum welcomed some special visitors from Brittany last week to see their new exhibition which celebrates the links between...
Friday, 16 September 2011

Mount's Bay - Benjamin Warner exhibits at the Lighthouse Gallery.

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mount's bay - benjamin warner at the Lighthouse Gallery, Penzance 17th September - 1st October.  Light captured on canvas - JMW Turn...