Galleries - July 2011

recalling Renaissance pieces – she has recently developed a range of scarves reproducing work by such modernist greats as Piper and Lanyon. Also in the town of course is the Newlyn Art Gallery , whose ‘Restless Nature’ show, exploring the psychological impact of nature, opens on July 16. In St Ives, The Wills Lane Gallery exhibits and represents a wide variety of artists and makers but, chiming nicely with the Tate St Ives’ exhibition, they are currently showing the work of seminal St Ives figure Margaret Mellis. Mellis, together with her then husband Adrian Stokes provided an initial home for wartime refugees Nicholson, Hepworth and Gabo. Encouraged by their influence she moved towards abstraction; it was a form that she was to return to in her later years in painted wood carvings by Guy Taplin’s son Sam share space, both with stained glass and ceramics by his mother Robina, and tableware, subtly coloured with oxides to recall the muted tones of birds eggs, by Judith Rowe. Outside there is always a treat and just now it is sculpture by Paul Connell. That most ubiquitous and weighty of Cornish materials, granite, is worked into wooden structures in such a way that it becomes mobile, responding to the wind and weather as if freed at last from its long sojourn in the soil. Painter and jewellery maker Helen Feiler spends her winters in Africa so that her gallery in Newlyn is similarly only open in the summer. Besides paintings and her dynamic jewellery – bold, intrinsically modern and yet with its weight and substance 21. GALLERIES JULY 11 Given the wealth and variety of galleries in Cornwall, providing an accurate overview of them in limited space is next to impossible. With that in mind, the July issue provides an opportunity to look in detail at some that, for whatever reason, attract less editorial coverage during the other months. Yew Tree Gallery in Morvah is only open during the summer season and, with its idyllic location and lush gardens, it is a joy to visit. The exhibitions are built around a theme that brings together the work of various artists and makers in a celebration of some facet of the natural world or the environment. The focus just now is on Birds. Paintings by Robert Greenhalf and Andrew Waddington are on the walls of the gallery while in the conservatory Angela Harding’s nostalgic prints and Westcott’s Gallery SUMMER EXHIBITION Painting · Prints· Ceramics Sculpture · Glass from the St IvesPost War period Westcott’s Quay, St Ives - daily 12-4 westcotts.gallery@btconnect.com 01736 756006 ART IN CORNWALL