WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM - PAINTINGS Paintings

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham who died on 29th January 2004 aged 91 was part of the original St Ives group.
She was working actively until the end. In the last decade of her life she produced a series of radiant and lively works. Despite ill health she worked very actively to produce several series of screen prints which we show here.
The Time Series is now almost finished but we have a few of the edition still available.She studied at Edinburgh School of art and came to st Ives in 1940 when Nicholson and hepworth were working there. She enjoyed the work and company of Nahum Gabo, Peter Lanyon and John Wells and founded the Penwith Society of Art. She divided her toime between her studios in St Ives and St Andrews. In 2001 she received a CBE followed by her 3rd honorary doctorate and a biography by Mel Gooding.

JACQUIE DENBY paintings

DAVID MARTIN RSA RGI SRA

LYNNE CHADWICK sculpture

1914 - 2003
chadwick who died in 2003 is one of our greatest modern sculptors

TERRY FROST RA

sir terry frost is one of britain's abstract painters with a career which spanned 70 years. He began painting as a prisoner of war in 1941 and waqs still painting in his studio in st Ives at 88. He regarded Victor pasmore, his tutor at Camberwell as a god. His work has alwayd been resolutely abstract with collages, paintings and sculpture in strong primary colours. His work reflects his joyous approach to life.

NEIL CANNING neil canning

Neil Canning is one of the new tranche of artists living, working and carrying on the St Ives tradition. In 1983 he became the youngest artist ever to be elected a memebr of the association of British Artists. 10 years later he won the bronze medal at the Paris Salon. He has exhibited at the Royal academy and major galleries.

CLIFF BLAKEY

MARY POTTER

HERCULES AND THE FARMER\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Stories from a Cumbrian Art Gallery

The book began as 15 stories about 15 paintings but developed into the story of the gallery told through paintings it has handled in the last 2 decades and more.
It includes Lowry's Fish and Chip shop, Fell's Cumberland, the elusive Percy Kelly, the mystery of the Purple House, the man who was irresistible to women and many more. As the story unfolds, the reader enjoys their own special Private View into the workings and secrets of the gallery.
Published by Aurum, 224 page Hard back. RRP £12.99. SPECIAL CHRISTMAS OFFER £10