Cornish Sardines at Ola Greek, Truro

Meze for starters!

Newlyn School of Art School heralds New Dawn

Not a Silver Dawn but a New Dawn in the Newlyn Art Scene according to the latest edition of the Spectator!

‘The street scenes in Newlyn lack nothing of subject for the painter,’ reported the young Frank Richards from the Cornish art colony in 1895; ‘paved with cobblestone, some of the narrow streets are occasionally strewn over with fishheads and entrails, so that one’s progress in going “up” or “down”-along is sometimes considerably facilitated by an alarmingly quick slide to an unexpected destination.’
While visitors no longer have to negotiate entrail-strewn streets, Newlyn remains a working harbour. Garfit leases the school building from local fish barons Stevenson, along with a harbour-front gallery named Bucca after the Cornish god of storms, where newcomers show alongside established local artists. It’s a promotional strategy rather than a money-making enterprise. ‘We almost want galleries to steal artists from us,’ says Garfit.

His sentiment is echoed by James Green, director of Newlyn Art Gallery (formerly the Passmore Edwards) and its sister gallery The Exchange in Penzance. This month saw the launch of Platform — a new series of solo shows by members of Newlyn Society of Artists — with Kate Walters’s exhibition The Secret Worth A Thousand(until 9 February). Although represented by Millennium gallery in St Ives, this is Walters’s first show in a public gallery and, in a reversal of the Cornish stereotype, it’s rooted in the land rather than the sea. Walters’s animal-human forms tap into primitive shamanistic beliefs in our common ancestry: ‘the secret’ that Goethe reckoned was ‘worth a thousand’. Beneath the earthy surface of her densely worked watercolours glows a prism of hues as radiant as a Turner ‘colour beginning’ — colour given full rein in photographs and films of the artist’s small garden that fill the downstairs gallery with birdsong.

Read the full story in the Spectator here. 

Can you help a fisherman's daughter and her school project?

Here's a request from fisherman Alan Cahill:

Hi Everyone ! Happy Holidays. My 14 year old daughter and her friend are conducting a survey for the BT Young Scientist exhibition in Dublin next month and the survey is focused on the use and design of life jackets by and for commercial fishermen and anglers. 

The survey is available here.. http://www.formexperts.com/forms/J58BL0Z4EBVJ 

No personal information is required or shared.

"Hello, This survey is our project for the BT Young Scientist Competition. 

School safety project online survey.

Our project is (A Statistical Analysis To Investigate The Usage Of Life Jackets On Commercial Fishermen) and we please ask that the survey be filled out truthfully, by ticking the correct box next to the answer (ticking one answer unless instructed otherwise). If more than one answer applies, tick the most appropriate one. 

Thank you very much for your time, as each survey benefits the project greatly! Please note all surveys are used for the project only, and we do not identify the names or boat names of any fishermen."

Survey Closes January 6th and takes less than a minute Thanks Everyone in advance

Newlyn's first fish auction for 2013

Maybe the one of the harbour's New Year resolutions is to save some leccy as the buyers huddle in a dark recess...

with all but a handful of the fleet tied up over the break it was down to

a handful of inshore boats to put ashore a mixture of oily fish like sardines and mackerel along with boxes of bass and other top quality whitefish...

looks like the Wayfinder got more than a stockingfull...

hardly a breath in the harbour for a change...

still shining brightly in the early hours...

along with the Govenek of Ladram's splash of colour...

work in progress on the Corin's new beamer, at least she now has her numbers, just waiting on Squirrel to get her name in paint...

the Cornish Sardine boats filled their boots just off the harbour last night.

Happy New Year for 2013!

Fish is the Dish Family Cookbook out now!

Calling all fish fanatics!
 

Our brilliant Fish is the dish Family Cookbook is now available for download! Packed full of healthy, delicious and simple recipes for everyone to enjoy, we’re sure it will fill you with confidence cooking fish and inspire you to make seafood a part of your family mealtimes.

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Many thanks,
Karen, Joanna and Heather

Winter blues

Despite the heavy rain there's the odd break and the people of Penzance enjoy a stroll in the sun, down by Abbey Slip.