ST IVES & MODERN BRITISH 2024
31st March to 22nd April 2024
Our annual catalogue exhibition of Painting, Sculpture, Drawing and Prints by Modern British and St Ives artists working in the post-War period. This much anticipated show offers clients and collectors the chance to buy accessibly priced works by some of the major names in British Modernism.
Incudes works by: Gillian Ayers, W. Barns-Graham, Sven Berlin, Michael Canney, Christopher Chamberlain, Tom Cross, Terry Frost, Barbara Hepworth, Josef Herman, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, Bryan Pearce, John Piper, Brian Rice, William Scott, Keith Vaughan, Alfred Wallis, Karl Weschke, Bryan Wynter and many others.
WINTER EXHIBITION 2023
25th November 2023 to 8th January 2024
Our annual exhibition of more affordable and accessible works of art by Modern and Contemporary Artists working in various media; Prints, Drawings, Small Paintings and 3D works. The show comprises 127 works by 94 individual artists, a colourful and lively collection compiled over the previous 12 months.
A fully illustrated and priced 'broadsheet' catalogue accompanies the exhibition making it easy to view all of the works in the show. Planned to coincide with the time of year many people are considering gifts for family, friends and themselves.
Free packing and delivery is offered for most items and early selection will guarantee delivery in good time for Christmas.
TOM CROSS - Paintings from the Artist's Studio
14th October to 6th November 2023
Tom Cross was well known as a painter, teacher and writer. He exhibited his work regularly after graduating from The Slade (mid 1950s) as well as holding a number of educational positions culminating in Principal of Falmouth School of Art (1976 - 1987). Following retirement from Falmouth, he continued to write, lecture and paint. One of his most important achievements was the publication of 'Painting the Warmth of the Sun' (first published 1984) a book about the St Ives Modernist period that helped prepare the ground for the founding of the Tate Gallery in St Ives (opened 1993).
This exhibition brings together paintings and prints covering the artist's career from his time at The Slade to the late Helford River paintings.
ALICE MUMFORD - A Painter and a Poet - Conversations in Colour (with Sue Leigh)
9th to 30th September 2023
A book of paintings by Alice Mumford and poems by Sue Leigh will be launched at the Borlase Smart room, Back Road West, St Ives on Sat 9 Sept, 5 - 6.30pm. Painter and poet will be in conversation discussing their sources of inspiration, the process that surrounds the making of their work, and the limitations and possibilities of working in paint and with language. In addition Sue Leigh will be reading some of her poems and a selection of paintings from the book will be on the walls of the Borlase Smart room until 13 Sept.
A full exhibition of Alice Mumford's paintings will open at Belgrave St Ives with a Private View on Sun 10 Sept, 12 - 3pm and continue until 30 Sept.
SUMMER EXHIBITION 2023
30th July to 28th August 2023
A carefully selected mixed exhibition of single works (paintings, drawings and prints) by a wide range of Modern and Contemporary artists. The full exhibition will be viewable via this website and an online digital catalogue. Includes works by Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Ray Atkins, Julian Bailey, W. Barns-Graham, Sandra Blow, Virginia Bounds, Jessica Cooper, Tom Cross, Anthony Frost, Terry Frost, Sally Heywood, Ffiona Lewis, Jason Lilley, Alice Mumford, Ben Nicholson, Alan Pearson, Brian Rice, Graham Rich and many others.
BOB CROSSLEY - Artist's Prints
28th May to 19th June 2023
Known primarily as a painter, Bob Crossley became interested in screenprinting after a move from St Ives to London in the mid-sixties. Beginning at first by self-producing cards for clients, friends and family, he became intrigued by the effect of combining and overlaying the new opaque, transparent, matt and glossy printing inks becoming available at that time. Working from his home studio, and as commercial interest grew, he began producing larger 'art' prints in limited editions using greenscreen film and a professional vacuum table.
The prints chimed with the zeitgeist and Crossley held the first of a number of successful exhibitions in London at Curwen Gallery in 1968, going on to present shows of his prints at, amongst others, William Weston Gallery, Heal's Art Gallery and, notably, an exhibition of 31 of his prints at the opening of the new Singer headquarters in Stevenage in 1972. Crossley's last print was made in 1976 following his permanent move back to St Ives.
W. BARNS-GRAHAM - Artist's Prints
28th May to 19th June 2023
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham utilised printmaking as an experimental medium throughout her career, sometimes combining drawing, painting and printing in the same work. Print works informed her painting practice as much as painting drove her printmaking. The artist also acquired prints from her contemporaries throughout her life.
Printmaking is usually a collaboration between the artist and the print studio, and Barns-Graham worked with master printmakers Stanley Jones, Kip Gresham, Hugh Stoneman and the artist Rachael Kantaris in all the major print mediums; etching, lithography and screenprinting. It was in this latter medium the artist enjoyed a late flourishing of creativity working with Carol Robertson and her colleagues at Graal Press in Edinburgh. Many editions were produced during this period as well as further images that were proofed in the artist's lifetime and editioned, in small numbers, posthumously.
ST IVES & MODERN BRITISH 2023
8th April to 8th May 2023
Our annual catalogue exhibition of works by Modern British and St Ives artists. This much anticipated show offers clients and collectors the chance to buy accessibly priced works by some of the major names in Post-War Modernism.
Includes works by W. Barns-Graham, Sven Berlin, Sandra Blow, Maurice Cockrill, Dennis Creffield, Tom Cross, Paul Feiler, Terry Frost, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Rose Hilton, John Hoyland, Peter Lanyon, Alexander Mackenzie, John Milne, Denis Mitchell, Ben Nicholson, Bryan Pearce, Alan Reynolds, John Wells and many others.
PATRICK HAYMAN - Boxes and Constructions
26th February to 20th March 2023
Born in London, 1915, Patrick Hayman lived and trained in New Zealand during his formative years before returning to England in 1947. He lived in an around St Ives for two periods in the 1950s and 1960s before moving permanently to Barnes, Middlesex, in 1965. Always something of an outsider, Hayman became an honorary member of the Penwith Society of Arts at Barbara Hepworth's request in 1964. His work - primarily paintings and drawings - was never less than beguiling, and also included some fascinating painted objects and constructions, a group of which are included in this exhibition.
SVEN BERLIN - Self Portraits and Other Works
26th February to 20th March 2023
An exhibition of works by one of the most charismatic of the group of artists who centered themselves in and around St Ives in the immediate post-War period. A member of the Crypt Group who became a founder-member of the Penwith Society of Arts, Berlin moved away from St Ives in 1953 but maintained strong links with the town throughout his prolific and extraordinary career. The exhibition includes a group of fascinating self-portraits.
WINTER EXHIBITION 2022
20th November 2022 to 9th January 2023
Our annual exhibition of limited edition prints, works on paper, small paintings and ceramics - a selection of affordable works by St Ives Modern, Modern British and Contemporary artists. As ever, we will be on hand to help, advise, and hopefully get any purchases to you in time for Christmas!
CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS
17th October to 12th November 2022
An exhibition of paintings by 21 invited contemporary artists. Includes work by: Virginia Bounds, Jessica Cooper, Henrietta Dubrey, John Emanuel, Anthony Frost, Luke Frost, Jeffrey Harris, Bo Hilton, Liz Hough, Stuart Knowles, Ffiona Lewis, Jason Lilley, Mary Mabbutt, Felicity Mara, Jane Mac Miadhachain, Alice Mumford, Sarah Poland, Brian Rice, Graham Rich, Eric Ward and Jack Watson.
ALICE MUMFORD - New Paintings - Smaller Works from the Artist's Studio
10th September to 3rd October 2022
A collection of twenty new smaller paintings by the gallery's most popular contemporary artist, Alice Mumford. Exhibitions of Alice's work in September have become something of a tradition and are always eagerly anticipated. This year's show focuses on smaller works, some as small as postcards, with the largest work measuring 40 x 50 cms.
SUMMER SHOW 2022
6th to 31st August 2022
A mixed exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and ceramics by Modern and Contemporary artists and makers.. We are very pleased to announce that this year's selection will be made by Curator and Art Historian Matt Retallick (Instagram: @matt_retallick).
Artists/makers included: Frank Auerbach, W. Barns-Graham, Trevor Bell, Anthony Benjamin, Virginia Bounds, Michael Cardew, Trevor Corser, Henrietta Dubrey, John Emanuel, Paul Feiler, Anthony Frost, Luke Frost, Terry Frost, Jeffrey Harris, Patrick Hayman, Bo Hilton, Roger Hilton, Leon Kossoff, Janet Leach, Jeremy Le Grice, Jason Lilley, Felicity Mara, John Milne, Alice Mumford, Bryan Pearce, Arnold van Praag, Graham Rich, Troika Pottery and Karl Weschke.
JEFFREY HARRIS - Paintings and Prints from Cornwall and Australia, 1968 - 2022
26th June to 18th July 2022
26 June - 1 July at The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, then 4 July - 1 Aug at Belgrave St Ives, Towednack: An exhibition of work by painter and printmaker Jeffrey Harris. Born in 1932, Harris studied at Leeds College of Art before moving to St Ives in 1956, where he shared Porthmeor Studio 7 with Tasmanian artist, Gwen Leitch. Gwen and Jeffrey worked from the studio for 15 years before emigrating to Australia in 1970 where, now approaching 90, he continues a daily art practice. Long overdue for reappraisal, Harris's expressive oil paintings, subtle reliefs and carefully observed etchings of St Ives return to the town in a show not to be missed. There will also be a concurrent display of the artist's work in the Hepworth Room at Penwith Gallery, St Ives.
TERRY FROST - Eleven Poems by Frederico García Lorca
21st May to 13th June 2022
An exhibition of the complete suite of 11 etchings with aquatint, some with hand colouring. Published by Austen-Desmond Contemporary Books, London. Printed by Hugh Stoneman and Alan Cox at the Print Centre, London in an edition of 75 plus 30 A/Ps.
TERRY FROST - Trewellard Suns
21st May to 13th June 2022
An exhibition of the complete suite of 8 linocuts, some with hand finishing. Published by the Paragon Press, London. Printed by Vivien Hendry, London in an edition of 40 plus 5 APs.
ST IVES & MODERN BRITISH 2022
11th April to 9th May 2022
Our annual catalogue exhibition of works by Modern British and St Ives Modern artists closely associated with the gallery. This much anticipated show allows clients and collectors the chance to buy accessibly priced works by some of the major names in Post-War Modernism.
Includes works by Michael Ayrton, W. Barns-Graham, Sven Berlin, Sandra Blow, Michael Cardew, Maurice Cockrill, Paul Feiler, Terry Frost, William Gear, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Rose Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Bernard Leach, John Milne, Denis Mitchell, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Kate Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Breon O'Casey, Victor Pasmore, Bryan Pearce, Alan Reynolds, William Scott, Julian Trevelyan, John Wells and many others.
CAMBERWELL Teachers and Students - a Personal Selection
19th February to 14th March 2022
A selection of paintings by students and teachers at Camberwell School of Art. Includes works by Adrian Berg, Christopher Chamberlain, John Charles Clark, Peter Clossick, Mario Dubsky, Tom Espley, Antony Eyton, Maurice Feild, Terry Frost. Anthony Fry, Graham Giles, Keith Grant, Julie Held, Francis Hoyland, Henry Inlander, Dick Lee, Ben Levene, Anna Lovely, Sargy Mann, Felicity Mara, Philip Matthews, Robert Medley, Alice Mumford, Bernard Myers, Victor Pasmore, Christopher Pemberton, George Rowlett, Elliot Seabrooke, Terry Scales, Sarah Spackman, Michael Strang, Arnold van Praag and Keith Vaughan.
BOB BOURNE - A Celebration
15th October to 8th November 2021
In celebration of what would have been the artist's 90th birthday, Belgrave St Ives is pleased to present an exhibition of some key works from the artist's long and productive life in painting.
ALICE MUMFORD - Paintings for Autumn 2021
11th September to 4th October 2021
Following on from the highly popular exhibition held by Belgrave St Ives earlier in the year 'Alice Mumford - Paintings for Spring', we are delighted to be hosting a show of new paintings by Alice Mumford that continues the seasonal theme. The painterly nature and sensitively observed colour of the paintings included in this exhibition will evoke feelings of warmth and richness, particularly appropriate during the gradually shortening days of early autumn.
W. BARNS-GRAHAM - Selected Works 1951-2004
11th September to 4th October 2021
An exhibition of work in various media by one of the leading members of the St Ives group of Modernists - artists that coalesced in and around the small seaside town of St Ives during and immediately after the Second World War. The paintings, drawings and prints selected demonstrate the artist's unique vision and dexterity in handling different materials with a particular emphasis on her exceptional drawing skills.
JESSICA COOPER - Fantastic Flowers and Small Houses
6th to 30th August 2021
For this exhibition, Jessica Cooper has revisited two motifs/themes that have appeared in her work over the years, but that have had particular resonance in the past year.
In her still life work, Jessica has been using a sequence of placements to inform the emotional content of the overall composition. First, the placement of the vase: a stark, uncluttered icon; a considered place of centred peace. Second, the flowers: an exploratory area of colour and form; a symbolic exposition of release, spontaneity and pleasure in the paint medium. After a consideration of the way these forms interact with the space around them, a third form is often introduced: a smaller object, a line; an exploration of the way these can either anchor the composition or introduce a slightly disconcerting influence.
The simple motif of the small house is a surprisingly complex one for the artist. In the Cornish context, housing, property, and the question of ownership is constantly in the news, but the home is also a personal and intimate symbol for the self. As objects, houses stand in relation to one another in reality just as they do in symbolic placement within a painting, where planes of form and colour create their own identities and interactions. As with her still life work, the artist often introduces a secondary object; a bird, a tree, to add an emotional intimacy to the work.
ALAN WALLWORK - Ceramics
10th to 31st July 2021
Alan Wallwork (1931-2019) was one of the most distinctive post-War potters. His commitment to hand building was unfailing over some fifty years. He was, from the outset, remarkably inventive, making a range of individual forms that drew on the landscape, that resembled archaic, sometimes totemic shapes, and, most familiarly, structures in nature; seed pods, pebbles, shells and fossils. His techniques included coiling, slabbing and shaping directly in the hand, and occasionally using thrown components. The surfaces are varied; often pitted and pierced or abraded, sometimes as smooth as an egg or stone. There is an intimacy, a tactility about Alan's work. It needs to be touched, the smaller pieces cupped and turned in the palm.
JOHN EMANUEL - Paintings & Monoprints
10th to 31st July 2021
John Emanuel moved to Cornwall in 1964, making a living signwriting to support his family while he developed his drawing and painting skills with the help of artist friends such as John Wells, Denis Mitchell and Alexander Mackenzie.
Inspired by a love of his subject - the figure and the figure embraced by the landscape - Emanuel has developed a distinctive method of working. Often using a limited palette there is a sculptural quality to the work as the surfaces are worked and reworked to realise the form.
Since the early 1980s Emanuel has lived in St Ives, working from one of the famous Porthmeor Studios overlooking the beach. He is a member of Penwith Society of Art and Newlyn Society of Artists.
ST IVES & MODERN BRITISH 2021
1st to 31st May 2021
Our flagship annual exhibition of works by most of the best known names in post-War St Ives art, has been expanded this year to include works by Modern British artists working outside the St Ives milieu. This large exhibition of 117 works can be viewed on this website and also by appointment at the new Belgrave St Ives Studio in Towednack, St Ives. Call the gallery for details.
Includes works by: Robert Adams, W. Barns-Graham, Anthony Benjamin, Sven Berlin, Bob Bourne, Michael Canney, Christopher Chamberlain, Maurice Cockrill, Trevor Corser, Tom Cross, Bob Crossley, Alan Davie, Robyn Denny, Patrick Dolan, Clifford Ellis, John Emanuel, Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Merlyn Evans, Anthony Eyton, Yankel Feather, Paul Feiler, Edna Ginesi, Michael Finn, Colin Freebury, Anthony Fry, Duncan Grant, Terry Frost, Patrick Hayman, Barbara Hepworth, Patrck Heron, Howard Hodgkin, Roger Hilton, John Hitchens, John Hoyland, Bryan Ingham, Bernard Leach, Peter Lanyon, Jane Lanyon, Jeremy Le Grice, Margo Maeckelberghe, Alexander Mackenzie, Antoni Malinowski, William Marshall, John McLean, F E McWilliam, Robert Medley, Margaret Mellis, Henry Moore, John Milne, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Rachel Nicholson, Jane O'Malley, Julius Olsson, Victor Pasmore, J A Park, Bryan Pearce, John Piper, Patrick Procktor, Michael Rothenstein, William Scott, Elliot Seabrooke, Hyman Segal, Tony Shiels, Algernon Talmage, Kaith Vaughan, Robin Welch, Karl Weschke, E Wright and Bryan Wynter.
ALICE MUMFORD - Paintings for Spring 2021
27th March to 19th April 2021
Artist statement about the exhibition:
''When I say the word light, I tend to think of it as one thing; not dark. But when I look and take in the world through painting, I see there are so many types of light, and with each different type of light there is a different context and a different mood. Im sure film and theatre lighting designers have a deep knowledge of the extent to which lighting can affect narrative.
To watch and be immersed in the changing light that is part of those subtle shifts in our changing seasons is a thing of wonder. Being able to conjure up the feel, smell and sensations of spring when I am in deep winter probably starts with the light. These paintings are that watching and absorbing of time and place.''
JOHN EMANUEL - A Collection of Works
5th to 27th July 2020
A selection of paintings and prints by St Ives-based artist John Emanuel. John has lived and worked in the St Ives area since the 1960s and is a well know and respected figure in the town. He has worked for many years from one of the town's prestigious Porthmeor Studios. The artist's work focuses primarily on the female figure, often integrated into the landscape.
ERIC WARD - About St Ives
13th June to 4th July 2020
Interested in art from an early age, Ward is a natural painter working in the tradition of the Realist, plein air painters, and can often be seen painting in St Ives using his trusted pochade painting box. Eric began painting in 1985 at the St Ives School of Painting and has been an active member of the St Ives Society of Artists for many years.
As well as examples of his signature views of St Ives, for this exhibition we asked Eric to consider views of St Ives painted historically by some of the artists that have inspired him, including Arnesby Brown, William Cave Day, John Anthony Park, Leonard Richmond, Borlase Smart, W.H.Y. Titcombe and Terrick Williams, and to reinterpret those views in his own style.
JESSICA COOPER - Reflecting Images
4th to 30th May 2020
An exhibition of new paintings by Jessica Cooper. This is Jessica's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, following her exhibition 'The Intimate Landscape' in 2018.
'The paintings in this exhibition are informed by three specific places and periods of time. A number of the works are executed on canvas - a support and surface with which I am familiar - representing safety, in a certain sense. The others employ wood panels - something of a voyage into the unknown - leading to experimentation and the highlighting of a certain abstraction in the work. These latter works are left unframed, imbuing them with a sense of freedom, breathing space and a lack of restriction. These important qualities are echoed thematically in the subject matter of some of the paintings.'
SARAH WOODS - The Edge of the Land
4th to 30th May 2020
An exhibition of recent paintings and prints by Newlyn-based artist Sarah Woods. Sarah first showed her work here as part of our exhibition 'Artscape', which highlighted the work of four young artists working in a Cornish context. This new exhibition will present a larger body of newer works. Talking specifically about the paintings, Woods says:
"This collection of paintings and prints brings attention to the process of making, the method of mark making, and the act of repeating a single movement to represent minimal and balanced observations. The paintings focus on the simple notion of repeating a single mark. Every element is worked by hand, and each piece features a sewn line between the canvas, often suggesting the landscape in the form of a diptych. As each tone is layered, I visualise the landscape in areas of light and dark, similar to the method of mark making in my drawings and prints."
ST IVES EXHIBITION 2020
23rd March to 20th April 2020
Our flagship exhibition of works by artists associated with St Ives Modernism, this annual exhibition offers collectors the chance to buy accessibly-priced works by most of the key names in post-War St Ives art, as well as presenting quality works by some less well known artists working in St Ives during the period.
Artists included: John Barnicoat, W. Barns-Graham, Max Barrett, Trevor Bell, Anthony Benjamin, Sven Berlin, Sandra Blow, Bob Bourne, Charles Breaker, Michael Canney, Max Chapman, Tom Cross, Bob Crossley, Alan Davie, John Emanuel, Michael Finn, Clifford Fishwick, Terry Frost, Jeffrey Harris, Patrick Hayman, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Inez Hoyton, Bryan Ingham, Peter Lanyon, Jeremy Le Grice, Bernard Leach, Janet Leach, Padraig Mac Miadhachain, Margo Maeckelberghe, Margaret Mellis, John Milne, Denis Mitchell, Paul Mount, Ben Nicholson, Kate Nicholson, Simon Nicholson, Harry Ousey, JA Park, Victor Pasmore, Bryan Pearce, Douglas Portway, William Scott, Tony Shiels, Michael Snow, Troika Pottery, Doris Vaughan, John Wells, Karl Weschke and Guy Worsdell.
TERRY FROST - A Selection of Prints
6th to 23rd March 2020
The gallery is delighted to present a timely and uplifting online exhibition of prints by Terry Frost.
Prints were an essential element of Frost's oeuvre - he believed that painting and printmaking were inseperable and that each medium informed the other. Described as one of the most significant printmakers of the twentieth century, Frost made his first print edition in 1949, and the last 20 years of career saw an astonishing outpouring of joyous and celebratory images that demonstrated both his facility and passion for the medium.
This exhibitions contains examples from the 1960s and 1970s, and focuses primarily on the vibrant last phase of his career.
SVEN BERLIN - Drawings from The Dark Monarch
11th to 25th November 2019
A very special exhibition of 27 of the 32 original pen and ink drawings made by Sven Berlin to illustrate his infamous roman-à-clef The Dark Monarch in 1962. The work was a thinly-disguised and irreverent portrait of St Ives, its artists, and others who lived and worked in the town. Among the loosely disguised cast of artistic characters were W. Barns-Graham, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Bernard Leach, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, Bryan Wynter and many others. The novel was withdrawn soon after publication, when legal action was taken by four of the local 'characters' in the book. This is the first time that the original drawings made for the novel have been exhibited and made available for sale.
BRIAN RICE - Recent Paintings
14th October to 4th November 2019
'In February 2014 I had an exhibition of my early early work (1959 - 1970 ) at the Redfern Gallery, London. I have found in the past that reviewing my work in a major exhibition has brought about a change in direction. In this case, having the opportunity to review work I made 55 - 60 years ago, I felt that there were many avenues I had failed to explore in my youthful rush to make new work. I decided that I would make my future work based on the influences and ideas embedded in my paintings of the 1960's. Those influences being mainly Constuctivism and it's offshoots in the Bauhaus and De Stijl.
The paintings in this exhibition are spontaneous creations that have come about as a result of my revisiting this early work. Like the paintings the titles are mostly words I have created, although on occasions I have found words in books or on road signs that have appealed to me.'
GRAHAM RICH - A Different Kind of Space
14th October to 4th November 2019
'I built my first boat when I was ten and since then boats and water have been important to me. The sailing boat in my work first appeared as an involuntary image - an image that Herbert Read had called 'eidetic', an image that precedes conscious thought. I began scratching the image of my own boat on pieces of wood found as we voyaged around the coast. By using found material, I was able to release a different kind of space in my work and unlock the realisation that 'the found is more powerful than the made'. The addition of the etched boat would mysteriously reveal the coastlines, weather conditions, harbours and underwater hazards of our real voyaging experiences. Sometimes, a piece of wood would reveal the image of the very place where it had been found.'
ALICE MUMFORD - Composite Shadows
14th September to 7th October 2019
An exhibition of new paintings by Alice Mumford. In this her fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, Alice explores the use of shadows in composition. She has written:
'Composite shadows are time experienced. I once went to the Tate to look at a Bonnard painting with a group of students. Someone asked, "what time of the day do you think it is in the painting?" We couldn't decide. We looked at the shadows for clues. Bonnard makes composite shadows like a composite character in a book. These paintings are not made from one moment but from a whole day or time, from being in a place.'
REBECCA HARVEY & POLLY CARTER - Part Earth, Part Flower
14th September to 7th October 2019
Painting with Plants and Porcelain
An exhibition by ceramicist Rebecca Harvey and heritage horticulturalist Polly Carter. It explores the interconnectedness between earth and flower in the vein of Zen philosophy. On entering the gallery during the St Ives September Festival, a series of especially made new porcelain works by Rebecca Harvey will greet you. Part of a site-specific installation of vessels, displayed with flowers by Polly Carter, these small vessels arranged on dishes will become interchangeable.
A DISTANT ISLE - Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in Lanzarote
10th to 29th June 2019
Barns-Graham touched down on the island of Lanzarote on Thursday, 16 February, 1989. She had been invited by a friend with whom she stayed, the villa situated on the east coast north of Arrecife, Lanzarote's main town. The visit was a huge success, leading to her making four further visits, the last in 1993.
As well as marvelling at the black rock formations and strange conic hills of the island, Barns-Graham's extensive study of Lanzarote's lava fields is consistent with her interest in geological forms that create the structure of a landscape. Since her move to Cornwall in 1940, her drawings constantly reflect the patterns, natural and man-made, of a place, be it of the Scilly Isles, Switzerland's Grindelwald Glacier (1949), the quarries and ravines of Tuscany/Sicily (1953-1955) or the rocky edge of the Balearics (1958). That she made five trips to Lanzarote in as many years indicates strongly that she found the lava landscape inspiring.
The Lanzarote collection is a remarkable and significant body of work from Willie's later career, the extent of which is yet to be fully assessed. This exhibition, that celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of her first visit, illustrates the breadth of what she achieved.
JACK WATSON - Life Here
10th to 29th June 2019
An exhibition of 10 recent paintings by Mousehole-based painter Jack Watson. In 2018, Jack was one of three artists selected by the gallery for 'Artscape - New Contemporary Painters', a show of works by three young, developing artists with strong links to Cornwall. This new body of work follows a period being mentored by gallery artist Alice Mumford, and follows Watson's ongoing exploration of abstracted figure and place expressed though the medium of paint.
ST IVES EXHIBITION 2019
8th to 29th April 2019
Our flagship exhibition of works by artists associated with St Ives Modernism, this annual exhibition offers collectors the chance to buy accessibly-priced works by most of the key names in post-War St Ives art, as well as presenting quality works by some less well known artists working in St Ives during the period.
Included artists: Robert Adams, John Barnicoat, W. Barns-Graham, Romi Behrens, Sven Berlin, Sandra Blow, Bob Bourne, Henry Cliffe, Roy Conn, Tom Cross, Bob Crossley, John Emanuel, Michael Finn, Clifford Fishwick, Terry Frost, Jeff Harris, Patrick Hayman, Isobel Heath, Adrian Heath, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rose Hilton, Roger Hilton, Inez Hoyton, Bryan Ingham, Peter Lanyon, Jeremy Le Grice, Margo Maeckelberghe, William Marshall, June Miles, John Milne, Denis Mitchell, Ben Nicholson, Kate Nicholson, Breon O'Casey, J A Park, Victor Pasmore, Bryan Pearce, Jack Pender, Douglas Portway, Peter Potworowski, Tommy Rowe, William Scott, Michael Snow, John Wells, Karl Weschke and Bryan Wynter.
BRYAN PEARCE - St Ives Artist
8th to 25th March 2019
An exhibition of oil paintings, drawings and prints by Bryan Pearce, who attended the St Ives School of Painting in the 1950s, led by Leonard Fuller, and had his first one person exhibition at the Newlyn Art Gallery in 1959. A truly natural painter, Pearce remained largely uninfluenced by other artists. Often paired with the earlier local Naive artist, Alfred Wallis, although with different temperaments, both are genuine 'Outsider' artists with a similar matter-of-fact freshness and singularity of view.
Always beginning a painting with a feint pencil outline and gradually blocking in areas using a personal palette of colours, a sense of order and calmness, bathed in the ambient light of western Cornwall, pervades Pearce's work. From the 1970s, with the help of other St Ives artists, Pearce produced a series of etchings. Also, under the direction of fellow artists and master printmaker, a number of silk screen stencils based on his oil paintings were produced. Sympathetic to the original paintings these limited edition prints are signed by Pearce.
JESSICA COOPER - The Intimate Landscape
6th to 29th October 2018
This new collection of works is inspired by two separate yet distinctly parallel landscapes - St Ives in Jessica Cooper's home county of Cornwall, and the village of Messanges in South West France - both of which have special meaning to the artist
Similar in their coastal beauty, with wide white sands, simple architecture and laid back coastal culture, the essence of these two villages are defined on canvas in Cooper's distinctively reductive style.
THE LONDON GROUP - The St Ives Connection
8th to 29th September 2018
An exhibition of work by earlier members of The London Group with a strong St Ives association, as well as several artists selected from the rich history of The London Group whose work has been represented in exhibitions of Modern British Art at the Belgrave Gallery, London since its opening in 1974.
Included artists: Robert Adams, Frank Auerbach, John Barnicoat, John Bratby, Robert Buhler, Jeffrey Camp, Dennis Creffield, Tom Cross, Alan Davie, Ronald Dunlop, Elizabeth Frink, Terry Frost, Anthony Fry, Duncan Grant, David Haughton, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Jacob Kramer, Bernard Meadows, Robert Medley, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, William Scott, Elliot Seabrooke, Graham Sutherland and Keith Vaughan.
JOHN MILNE - Sculpture
11th August to 3rd September 2018
A collection of 13 sculptures by the highly regarded St Ives sculptor, John Milne. Milne studied electrical engineering at Salford Royal Technical College but transferred to the Art School in 1951 to study sculpture and painting. After briefly studying at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and making the first of what would become regular visits to Greece, Milne moved to St Ives. He became the pupil of, and later assistant to, Barbara Hepworth with whom he established a close friendship. Milne's early work was directly carved in stone, but from 1966 he started experimenting with metals and learned cold casting methods for bronze and aluminium.
BARBARA HEPWORTH - The Aegean Suite
11th June to 2nd July 2018
Barbara Hepworth produced two sets of lithographs with the Curwen Press, including The Aegean Suite, 1971, which developed Hepworth's fascination with Greece and made links between geometric forms and sites associated with its ancient culture. Drawing on impressions formed by her trip to to the country in 1954 with friend and patron, Margaret Gardiner, Hepworth also infused the works with references to the Greek landscape.
This exhibition brings together all nine works from the suite, each of which is framed and available to purchase on receipt of this email, priced £5750. The lithographs are signed, dated and from the original edition of 60 prints. We only have one copy of each print.
As a special promotion we are also offering free delivery by professional art movers for each of the works purchased during the duration of the exhibition.
PADRAIG MAC MIADHACHAIN - A Life of Painting
11th June to 2nd July 2018
Based in Swanage, Dorset, from the early 1950s and working from studios in various parts of the world, Pádraig Mac Miadhacháin established a full time career painting for a living and living to paint.
Following early career scholarships to Russia and Poland, Mac Miadhacháin made almost annual painting journeys to Argentina, Mexico, Uruquay, Canary Islands, Ibiza and Ireland. The experiences of travel and the discovery of alternative cultures fed into his work directly, and several paintings in this exhibition illustrate these various cultural references. However, Dorset remained the artist's mainstay throughout the seven decades of his artistic life, and he was always excited to return there to see the place afresh.
This retrospective exhibition is the first attempt to view Mac Miadhacháin's work in chronological order. It is interesting to see not only the evolution of a personal visual language, but also the artist's ability to move from abstract to figurative and back again, from tonal painting to high chroma, minimalist to narrative, dependent on the subject and artistic intent.
ST IVES EXHIBITION 2018
5th May to 4th June 2018
Our flagship exhibition of works by artists associated with St Ives Modernism, this annual exhibition offers collectors the chance to buy accessibly-priced works by most of the key names in post-War St Ives art, as well as presenting quality works by some less well known artists working in St Ives during the period.
This year's show includes works by: John Barnicoat, W. Barns-Graham, Trevor Bell, Anthony Benjamin, Sven Berlin, Clive Blackmore, Sandra Blow, Vera Bodilly, Charles Breaker, Michael Broido, Roy Conn, Tom Cross, Bob Crossley, Alan Davie, Francis Davison, Patrick Dolan, John Emanuel, Michael Finn, Nan Frankel, Terry Frost, Patrick Hayman, Adrian Heath, Isobel Heath, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Marion Hocken, Inez Hoyton, Shigeyoshi Ichino, Jeremy Le Grice, Alexander Mackenzie, Pardaig Mac Miadhachain, Margaret Mellis, Denis Mitchell, Paul Mount, Robin Nance, Ben Nicholson, Harry Ousey, Victor Pasmore, Bryan Pearce, Jack Pender, Douglas Portway, Tommy Rowe, William Scott, Douglas Swan, Billie Waters, John Wells, Fred Yates and Karl Weschke.
ARTSCAPE - New Contemporary Painters
2nd to 23rd April 2018
Artscape is an exhibition of recent works by three contemporary painters new to the gallery - Jack Paffett, Jack Watson & Sarah Woods. All three artists have established painting practices over the past few years and are following distinctive and personal approaches to their work. The paintings will be shown in the context of a unique collection of 10 previously unseen works on paper by key St Ives Modernist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
W BARNS-GRAHAM - A Unique Collection of Works on Paper
2nd to 23rd April 2018
A unique collection of 10 works on paper by key St Ives Modernist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Held in a Private Collection since the 1970s when they were purchased direct from the artist, this previously unseen group of the artist's wave/line works will be of great interest to the many admirers of one of Barns-Graham's signature styles.
PATRICK HAYMAN - Poetic Painter
13th November to 2nd December 2017
An exhibition of works by two artists working in St Ives during the early 1950s. Whilst sharing a similar poetic vision in their painting, born within a year of each other the two artists came from very different backgrounds, pursued distinctly personal approaches, and, as far as we know, their paths rarely crossed in St Ives. And yet there is a something that unifies their work, and this exhibition explores these correspondences.
TOM EARLY - Poetic Painter
13th November to 2nd December 2017
An exhibition of works by two artists working in St Ives during the early 1950s. Whilst sharing a similar poetic vision in their painting, born within a year of each other the two artists came from very different backgrounds, pursued distinctly personal approaches, and, as far as we know, their paths rarely crossed in St Ives. And yet there is a something that unifies their work, and this exhibition explores these correspondences.
SVEN BERLIN - Polymath
7th to 30th October 2017
An exhibition of sculpture, paintings, drawings and prints by one of the major names of St Ives post-War art. Sven Berlin arrived in Cornwall in the mid 1930s, before even Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and was a founder member of the Crypt Group (1946). After leaving St Ives he lived among the gypsies of the New Forest before finally settling in Dorset, where he died in 1999. An awesomely creative man, Berlin's work was full of the passion and enthusiasm of a man fascinated by life, displaying consummate draughtsmanship, and imbued with an indomitable polymathic spirit.
ALICE MUMFORD - Strategic Colour
11th September to 2nd October 2017
In this her sixth solo exhibition to be held at Belgrave St Ives, Alice has created 34 new paintings to be exhibited throughout the main gallery. The artist asks the viewer to study and celebrate with her the importance of colour; how it can be used to picture both everyday ordinariness and the wonder of life. A fully illustrated catalogue, available on request, accompanies the exhibition with an introductory essay by Dr. Ian Massey.
The exhibition will be complemented by a show of St Ives Modern and Modern British works in Gallery Two.
GRAHAM RICH - A Cabinet of Riches
22nd July to 29th August 2017
Devon-based artist Graham Rich has shown regularly with the gallery since a landmark solo exhibition in 2009, 'Open Sea'. As part of this year's Summer Show, we have asked Graham to present a group of his smaller works for an intense display utilising a glass display cabinet and a small side gallery. Combining his love of sailing with his work as an artist, Graham makes beguiling paintings on wooden panels found during his travels on the River Dart and surrounding rivers and seas.
TERRY FROST - A Book of Ideas
19th June to 15th July 2017
Following the artist's death in 2003, the studio contents were gradually relocated to a specially converted storage facility. Whilst archiving the artist's collection many years later, a large format bound sketchbook (46.5 x 37.5 cms) was discovered amongst the artist's retained paintings and effects. This richly illustrated volume contains over 50 very complete paintings, collages and studies for larger scale paintings and prints. Some of these images were developed into larger works of art but some have remained as fascinating prototypes/imaginings of what might have been. We have selected a group of 30 individual works from the sketchbook to be mounted and framed for this unique exhibition.
ST IVES EXHIBITION 2017
3rd April to 10th June 2017
Our annual exhibition of works by the key St Ives artists working from the 1940s through to the 1970s. This exhibition offers our clients and visitors a chance to buy accessibly priced works by many of the major names in St Ives art. Includes works by W. Barns-Graham, Sven Berlin, Michael Canney, Tom Cross, Bob Crossley, Alan Davie, Michael Finn, Terry Frost, David Haughton, Patrick Hayman, Isobel Heath, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Margo Maeckelberghe, William Marshall, John Milne, Kate Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, Bryan Pearce, William Scott, Michael Snow, John Wells and others.
BRIAN RICE - Paintings from the Artist's Archive
6th to 27th March 2017
A rare chance to sample a selection of work from Brian Rice's own personal collection. During his long career, Rice set aside examples of each phase of his work. In the case of prints, he has always kept the number one print from each edition. Having published separate catalogue raisonnés of his prints and paintings, he no longer feels the need to retain so many of his earlier pieces. Belgrave St Ives has made a selection from this extensive archive and will be exhibiting both paintings and prints to coincide with the launch of the book Brian Rice Paintings 1952- 2016 (catalogue raisonné with essay by Andrew Lambirth.)
BRIAN RICE - Prints from the Artist's Archive
6th to 27th March 2017
A rare chance to sample a selection of work from Brian Rice's own personal collection. During his long career, Rice set aside examples of each phase of his work. In the case of prints, he has always kept the number one print from each edition. Having published separate catalogue raisonnés of his prints and paintings, he no longer feels the need to retain so many of his earlier pieces. Belgrave St Ives has made a selection from this extensive archive and will be exhibiting both paintings and prints to coincide with the launch of the book Brian Rice Paintings 1952- 2016 (catalogue raisonné with essay by Andrew Lambirth.)
MAURICE COCKRILL - From the Artist's Studios
8th to 31st October 2016
Maurice Cockrill is frequently referred to as a 'painter's painter'. We see this as meaning to possess an inherent feeling for, and joy in, the use of paint directly as an expressive medium. This includes a love for 'picture-making' and a deep knowledge and understanding of the history of this most ancient form of art. Finally, a 'painter's painter' has the desire to share these qualities and discoveries with other artists, especially students of painting. Maurice meets all of these criteria.
We have been fortunate in having included paintings by Maurice in exhibitions over the years. It is with great pleasure that we have assembled this group of work, in close association with Waterhouse and Dodd who administer the artist's estate, to present an overview of some of the key aspects of the artist's oeuvre.
WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM - St Andrews and St Ives
10th September to 3rd October 2016
Belgrave St Ives is delighted to present an exhibition of works selected from the Artist's Estate in collaboration with The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust. Works included present an overall view of Barns-Graham's wide ranging and important career within the context of Brititsh Modernism. Covering the period from the early 1940s to 2003 and with an emphasis on paintings and prints relating to the artist's practice in Cornwall.
This exhibition coincides with a major exhibition at Penlee House Museum & Art Gallery in Penzance: 'Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - A Scottish Artist in St Ives', 10 Sept - 19 Nov 2016.
FFIONA LEWIS - Tide Lines
25th June to 18th July 2016
An exhibition of 15 new paintings by Ffiona Lewis. Following another successful show at the Redfern Gallery, London, Belgrave St Ives is delighted to continue its 10-year relationship with this most accomplished artist. The new body of work is rich with coastal and maritime references, and thus resonates strongly with the gallery's St Ives location.
JESSICA COOPER - One Divided By Two
28th May to 20th June 2016
Following the success of her first one-person exhibition with the gallery in 2014, Jessica Cooper has produced a new body of work informed primarily by recent visits to Los Angeles, California.
The exhibition of 34 paintings considers her native West Penwith, Cornwall, in relation to these new experiences of America's own west coast.
ST IVES EXHIBITION 2016
30th April to 21st May 2016
Our annual exhibition of works by the key St Ives artists working from the 1940s through to the 1970s. This exhibition offers our clients and visitors a chance to buy accessibly priced works by many of the major names in St Ives art. Includes works by W. Barns-Graham, Anthony Benjamin, Sven Berlin, Sandra Blow, Michael Broido, Michael Canney, Tom Cross, Bob Crossley, Alan Davie, Clifford Fishwick, Paul Feiler, Michael Finn, Terry Frost, Patrick Hayman, Isobel Heath, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Bernard Leach, Margo Maeckelberghe, Alexander Mackenzie, Bill Marshall, John Milne, Denis Mitchel, Ben Nicholson, Breon O'Casey, JA Park, Victor Pasmore, Bryan Pearce, Michael Snow, John Wells and others.
KATE NICHOLSON - Cumbria & St Ives
25th March to 16th April 2016
Following the success of her first exhibition in 30 years, in 2013, the gallery is delighted to announce this new one-person exhibition of paintings by Kate, selected from the artist's studio and spanning the period 1940s - 1980.
Kate, the daughter of Ben and Winifred Nicholson, has lived for a large part of her life quietly in Cornwall, well away from public attention. However, she exhibited in many exhibitions from the 1950s to the 1980s including one-person shows at the Waddington Galleries and Marjorie Parr Gallery (both London) and LYC Museum and Art Gallery, Cumbria. Her work was also included in the landmark exhibition 'St.Ives 1939-64; Twenty Five Years of Painting, Sculpture and Pottery', at Tate Gallery, London in 1885.
Kate Nicholson is represented in several public collections, among them: Arts Council Collection, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettles Yard, Pallant House and Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery.
40 YEARS OF PAINTING - Camberwell Students and Teachers, 1945 - 1985
7th to 30th November 2015
John Watson, Chairman of the St Ives Society of Artists and a keen collector of art by Camberwell artists, and Michael Gaca, Gallery Director of Belgrave St Ives, who studied painting at Camberwell, have jointly curated this large-scale exhibition of paintings and drawings by 82 Camberwell artists, to be shown across both galleries in St Ives, Cornwall.
'Camberwell School of Art and Crafts in South London catered for local people and the grittiness of Peckham somehow informed it, giving it a rugged identity. Being south of the river has made it seem rather subversive as if it was on the fringe' Anthony Eyton RA.
TERRY FROST - Centenary Exhibition
8th to 31st October 2015
The Belgrave Gallery and latterly Belgrave St Ives have enjoyed a long and rewarding relationship with the artist and the artist's family since the 1980s, mounting many exhibitions over the years and publishing various catalogues and a book. Terry Frost was always so much part of any exhibition we worked on during his lifetime, through his enthusiastic support, contribution and vital presence at every exhibition opening. The Frost family have maintained this enthusiasm and support ever since and it is with great pleasure we celebrate what would have been Terry's 100th year with an exhibition of his work.
All of the work in the exhibition comes from the artist's studio (several of which haven't been exhibited before) and ranges from a 1943 watercolour painting of fellow Prisoners of War at Stalag 383 to a late large 'Sun Tree' canvas collage, bursting with colour and joie de vie. Approximately 40 works will be shown including paintings, collages, drawings and prints.
ALICE MUMFORD - Colour from Coast to Coast
5th to 28th September 2015
Belgrave St Ives is delighted to announce a full gallery solo exhibition of new paintings by Alice Mumford. Following a hugely successful exhibition 'First Light' at Belgrave St Ives in 2013 - her fourth for the gallery - this new exhibition is the culmination of two year's work made in three studios in the intervening period. The exhibition also launches the first monograph about Mumford's work, published by Sansom & Co. Richly illustrated, the book contains essays by Ian Massey and Professor Richard Demarco CBE, as well as insightful notes by the artist.
JOHN HOPWOOD - Personages
11th to 30th May 2015
This will be the first exhibition of John Hopwood's work since his 2008 show held at the New Millennium Gallery, St Ives and the first ever showing of the artist's work at Belgrave St Ives.
The exhibition is the culmination of work produced in the intervening period and the first posthumous showing since Hopwood's unexpected death earlier this year.
In this last group of work, Hopwood has combined both abstract and figurative idioms, and although the paintings are constructed in his mature style they are mostly representational in appearance.
ST IVES EXHIBITION 2015
4th April to 8th May 2015
Our annual exhibition of works by artists associated with St Ives Modernism. This selling exhibition offers our clients and new visitors a chance to buy accessibly priced works by many of the major names in St Ives art.
Includes works by W. Barns-Graham, Anthony Benjamin, Sven Berlin, Michael Canney, Tom Cross, Bob Crossley, Clifford Fishwick, Terry Frost, Patrick Hayman, Isobel Heath, Barbara Hepworth, Bryan Ingham, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Bill Marshall, Denis Mitchel, Ben Nicholson, Kate Nicholson, Bryan Pearce, Peter Potworowski, John Tunnard, Michael Snow, John Wells and others.
WALLWORK & WALLWORK - Earth & Stone
9th to 30th March 2015
Preferring non-repetitive work using hand-building and wheel-thrown processes, Alan Wallwork has produced an extensive range of sculptural ceramic forms since the late 1950s, working mostly in stoneware and porcelain. In this exhibition's more recent works, he has focused on small and medium pieces, particularly variations on his favourite 'crescent forms'.
A regular exhibitor with the gallery, Amanda Wallwork's practice is concerned with archaeology, geology and a continuing enquiry into landscape. She is interested in the underlying factors that determine how our land has been used and shaped, how we move through it, the impact we have and the traces we leave behind.
PATRICK HAYMAN - Visionary Artist
9th February to 2nd March 2015
Born London 1915, Hayman grew up in New Zealand and returned to live in the UK in 1947, soon becoming a part of the burgeoning post-War art scene in St Ives. His work was admired by his distinguished contemporaries; Barabara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Peter Lanyon among them. Hayman's distinctive imagery, drawn from a multitude of experiences, literary and historic sources, was very much his own yet seems to touch something deep within the spirit of those who encounter it. Regarded by many as a 'Painter-Poet' this exhibition will explore Hayman's unique richness as an artist, drawn from paintings within the artist's estate held by Belgrave St Ives.
FIVE FROM ST IVES - Barns-Graham, Berlin, Frost, Hilton & Wells
15th November to 6th December 2014
An exhibition focussing on 5 key Modern St Ives artists: W. Barns-Graham, Sven Berlin, Terry Frost, Roger Hilton and John Wells. The five were also friends or fellow society members, and through their work helped establish St Ives as an internationally recognised location for advanced art during the 1950s and 1960s.
FFIONA LEWIS - On The Table: Collage and Painting
13th October to 1st November 2014
Ffiona Lewis' 3rd solo exhibition with Belgrave St Ives presents a group of thirty new predominantly interior still life paintings and collages.
Now working between Aldeburgh and London, where she is represented by the Redfern Gallery, Lewis has long and strong links with St Ives, where she has shown since 1994, and the West Country, where she was born in 1964.
Following a period focusing on landscape-based paintings, this exhibition explores the influence of habitual, spontaneous collage making on a seemingly more abstract tendency in recent works, as well as presenting a number of the flower paintings that have been a constant element of the artist's output. The show also illustrates the overlap between these keys strands of interest.
JESSICA COOPER - About Home
9th to 28th June 2014
This inaugural one-person exhibition of Jessica Cooper's work at Belgrave St Ives results from a number of paintings made by the artist over the previous 12 months. Travelling regularly during this period between St Ives and her current home in West Cornwall, the journey became a metaphor for life; evoking memories from childhood, when she lived in a small hamlet just off the famous coast road between St Ives and Cape Cornwall. Conjuring up images of domestic objects and family rituals the journey from home to St Ives acted as a thread between now and then and the meaning of home.
The distillation of everyday objects and places in Cooper's work contain an intense intimacy expressed in the simplest of forms through the artist's emotive power.
SVEN BERLIN - Drawings for Sculpture & Other Works on Paper
10th to 31st May 2014
To say Sven Berlin was a unique character is an understatement. In addition to his powerful personality, Berlin's creative output traversed a wide range of mediums - from poetry and writing through drawing and painting to sculpture. The graphic strength of Berlin's two-dimensional work underpins the three-dimensional draughtsmanship to be found in his stone carving. It is a fact that all great sculptors are consummate drawers (see for example Elizabeth Frink, Frank Dobson, Gaudier Brzeska et al) and many of the drawings in this exhibition relate to sculptures both conceived and made.
MICHAEL SNOW - Retrospective
7th to 28th April 2014
A retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Michael Seward Snow (1930-2012), including works from 1950 to 2002. This will be the first major exhibition of Snow's work for many years. The show will present the artist's work in the context of many of his St Ives contemporaries of the period, including Ben Nicholson, John Wells, W. Barns-Graham, Barbara Hepworth and others.
ST IVES EXHIBITION 2014
7th to 28th April 2014
Our premier annual exhibition of collectible works by artists associated with the St Ives School of Modernism. This year's exhibition includes works by: Barns-Graham, Sven Berlin, Sandra Blow, Terry Frost, Paul Feiler, Peter Lanyon, John Wells and many others. Also included is sculpture by Denis Mitchell and ceramics by William Marshall.
BRIAN RICE - 50 Years of Printmaking
10th to 29th March 2014
A retrospective exhibition of printmaking by Brian Rice, following the publication of a new catalogue raisonne of the artist's prints and a successful show of Rice's paintings of the 1950s and 60s at the Redfern Gallery, London. The exhibition will feature printworks from the 1950s through to the present day.
TERRY FROST - A Painter's Life
19th October to 4th November 2013
Terry Frost was a key member and leading light of the St Ives School 'Middle Generation'. Coming from a modest family background and out of wartime austerity, Frost quickly absorbed artistic sophistication and developed a unique approach to abstraction from nature, forming building blocks for the compositions and constructions that occupied his mature career. By combining apparent simplicity of form with a highly complex and refined sense of colour, Frost created a visual language that demonstrated academic rigour whilst enjoying wide popular appeal.
ANTHONY FROST - Zoomster
28th September to 14th October 2013
Anthony Frost's paintings and prints pulsate with a beat and rhythm akin to the alternative rock music that often inspires them. The work is a combination of control and spontaneity brought about through the use of various materials (hessian, sail cloth, sacking and many other materials that come to hand), and an expressive handling of paint. Always high chroma, the resultant paintings are energetic constructs that clearly reveal the creative process.
LUKE FROST - Volts
7th to 23rd September 2013
Luke Frost's work deals primarily with colour relationships in precise compositions that question the viewer's awareness of colour and space. He is interested in exploring the pictorial possibilities and perceptions of colour in strictly formal arrangements. Areas of layered colour are interrupted by stripes of contrasting or resonating colour - which he refers to as 'volts'. These visually interact with the built up background hues, drawing attention to subtle modulations and contrasts and enriching the viewer's experience of colour.
KATE NICHOLSON - Paintings from the Artist's Studio
10th June to 1st July 2013
The gallery is delighted to announce the first one-person exhibition for more than 30 years by Kate Nicholson. Kate, the daughter of Ben and Winifred Nicholson, has lived for a large part of her life quietly in Cornwall, well away from public attention. However, she has exhibited in many exhibitions from the 1950s to the 1970s including one-person shows at the Waddington Galleries and Marjorie Parr Gallery (both London) and LYC Museum and Art Gallery, Cumbria. Her work is in several public collections, among them: Arts Council Collection, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettles Yard and Pallant House.
ST IVES EXHIBITION 2013
4th May to 3rd June 2013
Our premier annual exhibition of highly collectible works new to the gallery by artists associated with the St Ives School of Modernism. This year's exhibition includes works by: Michael Canney, Bryan Wynter, Karl Weschke, Clifford Fishwick, Parick Heron, Barbara Hepworth, Francis Davison, Adrian Heath and many others. Also included is scupture by Sven Berlin and John Milne.
ALICE MUMFORD - First Light
2nd to 25th March 2013
The culmination of almost 2 years' work, this exhibition will arguably be one of Alice Mumford's most comprehensive shows to date. The title 'First Light' refers to the poem by D M Thomas, a friend. These paintings have grown out of the artist's home and studio where she is immersed in daily family life. The subjects reflect the intimacy of the artist's surroundings; the objects, the glimpses of landscape and the interiors evoked through her use of composition, colour and light. This promises to be an exhilarating show.
ANDY HUGHES - Photographic Works
26th January to 16th February 2013
Andy Hughes' photographic work explores the littoral zone and the politics of waste. Hughes was the first Artist in Residence at Tate Gallery St. Ives and short-listed reserve artist for the Arts Council England Antarctic Fellowship. His book Dominant Wave Theory includes essays by leading commentators and scientists, and was designed by David Carson. This new exhibition features many of the images contained in this publication alongside other selected recent works.
BOB CROSSLEY - Centenary Year
10th November to 1st December 2012
Bob Crossley exhibited regularly with the Belgrave Gallery from shortly
after we opened in St Ives in 1998 to the year of his death in 2010.
In celebration of this association and to mark the centenary of his birth,
we have carefully selected a group of work from the artist's estate to
curate the exhibition. This is the first posthumous show and will be a unique
opportunity to acquire work by one of the important contributors to contemporary
art in post-war St Ives.
FFIONA LEWIS - Fieldbook
13th October to 5th November 2012
Following a successful exhibition earlier this year at Redfern Gallery, Lewis returns for a third solo show at Belgrave St Ives. Closely linked to recent works grown out of her journeys on the Alde at Snape Maltings, Lewis now returns to her most intimate and known riverscape, the Dart. 'Fieldbook' is Lewis's name for her assembly of this work.
W. BARNS-GRAHAM - Paintings and Drawings
1st to 24th September 2012
Born in St. Andrews 1912, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE arrived in St. Ives in 1940 and her development as a progressive artist is bound up with the town where she lived and worked up to her death. Coinciding with centenary celebrations, this exhibition concentrates on drawings and paintings made in St Ives in the 1940s along with later works.
ST IVES EXHIBITION 2012
2nd to 25th June 2012
Our annual exhibition of works by artists associated with the St Ives School of Modernism. This year's exhibition includes works by: Robert Adams, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Sven Berlin, Sandra Blow, Michael Canney, Tom Early, Clifford Fishwick, Terry Frost, William Gear, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, Margaret Mellis, John Milne, Denis Mitchell, Ben Nicholson, Bryan Pearce, William Scott, John Wells and others.
TOM CROSS - Paintings of Cornwall and Other Places
7th to 28th May 2012
Our second exhibition of works by artist, writer and teacher Tom Cross. Travel was an important part of Cross' artistic practice, beginning with a scholarship to the British School in Rome after graduation from the Slade School of Art in 1956. The show includes paintings from Cornwall, Wales, Guernsey, Sweden, Italy, The Middle East, Australia, Mexico and Belize.
PATRICK HAYMAN - Works on Paper from The Artist's Estate
26th March to 16th April 2012
Opening with a Private View on 24th March, this new exhibition of works on paper by Patrick Hayman promises to be a fantastic opportunity for fans of Hayman's work to acquire accessibly priced works for their collections. Always steeped with character, Hayman's drawings, watercolours and gouaches offer rich glimpses into his visionary world.
PHIL WHITING - Landscape & Memory
25th February to 19th March 2012
A solo exhibition of paintings by Phil Whiting. This exhibition, which focusses primarily on the Cornish landscape, coincides with an exhibition of Whiting's work at Truro Cathedral entitled 'Places of Mourning in the Western World', a retrospective of the artist's war/conflict-inspired work begun in the Spring of 1995.
BOB BOURNE - Bourne at Eighty
15th October to 7th November 2011
The gallery is very pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Bob Bourne in celebration of his eightieth birthday. Bourne moved to Cornwall in 1960, quickly linking up with artists of St Ives 'middle generation' of post-War Modernists, particularly Roger Hilton. Early, dark, Peter Lanyon-influenced landscapes eventually gave way to a highly individual form of landscape and interior paintings employing vibrant colour.
ALICE MUMFORD - Taste It
12th September to 3rd October 2011
Mumford is a painter of still life and of atmospheric interiors, adeptly combined, whose development over the past few years has seen a controlled, impressionistic adroitness give way to increasingly convincing and emotional expositions. Her paintings, always accomplished, subtle and tonally exquisite, have now acquired both an engaging looseness and a more insightful intellectual underpinning that heralds the arrival of an artist in her prime.
ST IVES EXHIBITION 2011
11th June to 4th July 2011
Annual 'St Ives Moderns' exhibition, includes accessible paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints by many of the key artists associated with St Ives including: Sven Berlin, Paul Feiler, Terry Frost, Patrick Hayman, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, John Milne, Ben Nicholson , Bryan Pearce, Alfred Wallis, John Wells and many others.
GRAHAM RICH - Open Sea
14th May to 6th June 2011
Our first exhibition of work by Fine Art Society artist Graham Rich. The paintings, utilising found marine materials, have an aesthetic quality that enjoys a rich resonance with the artist colony/fishing town of St Ives. However, the works are also totems - metaphors for the artist's ideas and experiences.
TERRY FROST - Works on Paper
11th April to 2nd May 2011
An exhibition of a new group of works on paper by this much-loved key member of the so-named St Ives Middle Generation. Several of the works have have not been exhibited in recent years. Includes drawings, collages and paintings direct from the artist's studio.
SVEN BERLIN - Newly Discovered Paintings and Drawings from the Artist's Studio
14th February to 7th March 2011
A group of newly discovered paintings from the artist's studio, including nine self portraits and some striking and vibrant still life work. Works are presented in a range of sizes and media, with an emphasis on paintings in oil and in acrylic.
FFIONA LEWIS - Summer Studio, Cornwall
18th October to 6th November 2010
Private View Sat 16 Oct
This exhibition represents a year's work - 'still life' in the main - culminating in a month's studio retreat just outside Zennor. The body of oil panels, multiples, drawings and seascape canvases are drawn from the artist's delight in the social nature of the interior, the landscape and all its observances. They depict a miscellany of table spoils, picnic views, coastal walk notes and paraphernalia about boats. Alongside the artist's usual indigenous domestic geography, the exhibition shows a group of floral portraits - picked flower offerings, the urban exotic, a botanical journey from urban shop, through the garden, to the verges of the coastal path. Plus on display, Modern British Paintings and Prints.
TOM CROSS (1931 - 2009) - Fifty Years' Work
6th to 27th September 2010
Tom Cross was well known as a painter, teacher and writer. He exhibited his work regularly after graduating from The Slade (mid 1950s) as well as holding a number of educational positions culminating in Principal of Falmouth School of Art (1976 - 1987). Following retirement from Falmouth, he continued to write, lecture and paint. One of his most important achievements was the publication of 'Painting the Warmth of the Sun' (first published 1984) a book about the St Ives Modernist period that helped prepare the ground for the founding of the Tate Gallery in St Ives (opened 1993).
This exhibition brings together paintings and prints covering the artist's career from his time at The Slade to the late Helford River paintings.
