We believe that a love of creativity is innate in all of us. From the objects we use to the clothes we wear, to what we watch and listen to, creativity is at the heart of who we are.
Our dedicated gallery space in our Falmouth shop hosts a year-round programme of short exhibitions by Cornish artists. Everything from large oil paintings to smaller watercolours we always have an exquisite variety of artwork on show. Please see below for details on current and upcoming displays.
The sea and connection to the natural world are the key aspects driving Zoie Moody’s creative process, resulting in pieces that resonate with her enduring love for the wild, untamed Cornish coast.
For as long as she can remember she has been drawn to the sea. Zoie is passionate about the spiritual energy and colour of the ocean and how being immersed in wild, natural spaces, where the land, sea and sky meet, reconnects us to our true selves and a sense of freedom.
She paints in a semi abstract style to communicate her emotional response to the raw power and serene beauty of Cornwall’s coastline. Zoie works intuitively; her textured compositions emerge through the process of applying acrylic, pastel, ink and creased paper in layers. Her art seeks to express her gratitude and joy for wild, coastal spaces and how the sea speaks to our soul. Her ultimate aim is to invite the viewer to feel the salty breeze, hear the crash of waves, and lose themselves in the vastness of the horizon and the ocean’s power to restore.
Carla Jennings
21st October - 22nd November, 2025
Calm & intriguing abstract botanical art reflecting two adjacent worlds in nature – peaceful, wide open spaces & captivating details.
Carla Jennings approaches art with a sense of play & free expression. She uses a mix of media to create unplanned marks & a limited palette of fresh, delicate colours to form a soothing harmony that reflects the natural world.
She is particularly inspired by the tiny details within the ever-changing foliage & fauna among the Cornish hedgerows. Many pieces include hand printed collage papers using fresh foliage from my beautiful garden.
Natalie Toms
23rd September - 18th October, 2025
Inspired by the diverse countryside and coast of Cornwall, Natalie has been influenced by the natural world since childhood.
She works from her art studio at the bottom of the garden, nestled into the wild hedgerow, overlooking fields, hedgerow and woodland where she observes local fauna and flora through the changing Cornish seasons.
Natalie’s detailed original wildlife art is meticulous, sketched out and then painted by hand using watercolour paint and archival ink pen. She encourages wildlife to thrive with her partner on their pocket of land in mid Cornwall.
Laura Terry
26th August - 20th September, 2025
“My work is inspired by the ever-changing light and beautiful skies here in Cornwall. My paintings develop through long walks and time spent sketching and soaking up the atmosphere of a place. I love the visceral qualities of oil paint, working wet on wet allows me to literally go with the flow, often letting the paint lead the development of the painting.”
Born in Hong Kong to an English mother and Portuguese father, Laura worked as a freelance makeup artist in the fashion industry in Hong Kong and then London for many years. She moved to the Kent countryside with her husband to raise their children and gradually reduced her work in London. She completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art through the University of Kent in 2010 and then went on to complete a PGCE in Art and Design through Canterbury Christ Church University to become an art teacher.
Feeling the need to focus her attention on painting full time, she left her job as Head of Art in 2020 and moved to the north coast of Cornwall, near Trebarwith Strand, in 2021.
Laura’s work is held in private collections in Monaco, USA, France, Germany, New Zealand, Scotland and England.
Fran Marks – Shift: Perspectives on Memory, Place & Emotion
29th July - 23rd August, 2025
Colour. Emotion. Memory. Not a particular place, but a coming together of her visual and sensory experiences. Whether the wild sea and landscape of the Cornish coast where Fran lives, an autumn walk in the woods, or the shapes and colours of a spice market in North Africa, these encounters find their way into her work.
Fran uses a rich palette to create abstract and semi-abstract paintings that evoke an emotional response to her environment. Observing texture, shape, movement and space, she brings these elements into her painting, constantly searching for connection to the land, sea and sky. Walking by the shore or exploring new landscapes, Fran photographs anything that excites her, recording the marks on a rock, a stone wall, the blues of the ocean, the pattern of light through trees or the juxtaposition of colours. Back in her studio she uses this source material to inform her work, sometimes as direct inspiration, at other times as an impression or idea.
Fran works intuitively, making bold marks on the canvas with charcoal, oil pastel sticks or ink and adding texture with sand, marble dust, paste or collage. She often lays down sections of poems or sheet music which may become completely covered or may show through. Building layers of paint, scraping back, adding drips of paint and more marks and using a variety of tools to apply the paint she creates freedom, movement and visual texture.
Fran paints in a way that excites her. A personal journey of discovery which is constantly evolving. She continues to be drawn to the sea.
Gemma Lessinger
1st July - 26th July, 2025
Textural seascape artist Gemma Lessinger is mesmerised by the sea and her textured artworks are an ode to the wild, powerful, and healing properties of time spent by the ocean. Her aim in all she creates is to bring your beach memories to life in your home, whereever you may be.
Gemma is passionate about being as sustainable as possible, focusing on re-purposing and up-cycling other people’s waste into her treasure, and aims to use her art to help protect what she loves, the ocean.
The signature in all her work is texture, she strives to keep pushing boundaries in her paintings, creating an almost sculptural nature to her pieces. She does this using these two unique elements:
SAND – using a light sprinkling of sand collected from the exact beach your memory is from. Each location giving different colours and size of grain, creating a completely bespoke look with each piece.
RE-PURPOSED MATERIALS – up-cycling other people’s waste to create another dimension of texture in her work. Creating sculptural, 3D works that you want to reach out and touch. From waste fibreglass from surfboard manufacturing, neoprene offcuts and even damaged old surfboards destined for landfill.
Olga Owczarek
3rd June - 28th June, 2025
Olga Owczarek is a tapestry weaver based in Cornwall. She inherited a family passion for weaving and spent her childhood dancing back and forth between Poland and the American Midwest, surrounded by strong weaving traditions in both landscapes.
Sustainability and the preservation of cultural heritage are close to her heart. She works with traditional weaving techniques and natural materials, designing and hand-weaving on upright analog looms, and incorporating materials grown in her dyer’s garden.
Olga’s inspiration comes from natural landscapes, history and folklore. She is fascinated by the stories and meanings held by physical places, and the sea in all its forms. She lives and weaves in the rugged southwestern coast of England, which the Romans believed to be the end of the world. The enduring allure of these coastal shores influences her work.
Aimee Shardlow
29th April - 31st May, 2025
Aimee Shardlow produces paintings that evoke place through representation and gestural mark-marking, to transcend the act of replication. Blurring the boundary between land and sea, her practice aims to capture the liminality of the Cornish, coastal landscape.
At the centre of this practice is a fascination with time elapsing. The landscape, as an ever-changing vessel, captures this through its impermeability: it is never the same twice. Aimee uses photography and acrylic painting as a method to explore these concerns. The process of painting allows Aimee to elongate an instantaneous moment, using dynamic mark-making to manipulate time within the image. Aimee’s obsession with mark-making results in abstract layers of paint that, on close observation, appear as a hurried assemblage of shape and colour, that come together to produce a pictorial landscape painting.
Aimee Shardlow has work for sale in St Mawes, Cornwall and The Poly, Falmouth. She has completed artist residencies at both CAST, Cornwall (2023) and Porthmeor Studios (2024). Experiencing a week at the Cyprus College of Art (2024), Aimee recognises the influence that changing location has over her artistic practice.
Susan Cuff
1st April - 26th April, 2025
Sue is a retired primary school teacher and self-taught artist, working from her garden studio in North Cornwall. She started painting in 2014 when she bought a box of oil paints from a car boot sale, for £3! Purchasing a small canvas, she thought she would give it a go and hasn’t looked back ever since.
When her husband suddenly died in 2017 she retired from teaching and gradually repurposed his woodwork shed, turning it into a light and spacious art studio. She took courses at both St Ives School of Painting and Newlyn School of Art, giving her fundamental knowledge of colour theory, composition and mark-making.
She continues to learn every day through exploring and playing with paint. Now working primarily in acrylic, she lays layer after layer, scratching back here and adding more there as she feels her way to a finished painting.
Her current work emphasises the negative space in each painting, pulling out the shapes to reveal previous layers beneath. Taking subject inspiration from everyday items, Sue simplifies shapes and abstracts elements to offer paintings with depth and often humour.
Leana Robinson – Momentum
4th March - 29th March, 2025
Leana’s artwork is all about capturing joy and movement, blending her passion for dance with her love of painting. As a self-taught artist working from her home studio in Cornwall, she creates vibrant abstract and semi-abstract seascapes that feel both soothing and alive. Since moving to Cornwall, Leana has deepened her artistic journey through the Porthmeor programme and courses at the renowned St Ives School of Painting.
Leana’s work is all about layers, textures, and letting the paint find its own rhythm. Words often weave their way into her pieces, adding another dimension to her expressive style. And just like on a dance floor, you might find her spinning and twirling in the studio as she paints—her way of infusing her art with the freedom and energy she’s always cherished as a professional dancer. Leana’s driving force is to bring this feel-good energy into your home with her art pieces.
Beyond the studio, Leana shares her work through her online shop, offering both original pieces and prints worldwide. Her art has been featured in various exhibitions. This year she is taking part in the “Where Art Meets The Wave” project and has two solo exhibitions planned.
Pip Barfield – Walking through the Wildflowers
26th November - 24th December, 2024
Pip Barfield’s art is inspired by nature and walking in wild places with her lurcher! The colours and textures of hedgerow flowers, beach flotsam and windblown baler twine all influence her mark making and sensory recall. As a printmaker and painter, the blending of inks and paints to create vibrant and poetic interpretations of flowers and abstract landscapes is how Pip creates a narrative of nature.
She is moved by ancient places, often slipping through a thin place and sensing previous ancestors and events that inhabit our landscapes. Much of her work evolves from visiting local beaches and exploring coastal hill forts, collecting feathers and worn fragments of pottery and rusty metal. These found objects inform her images, patterns and textures which appear on paper while making monoprints and etchings.
Pip started her artistic journey after her parents died and she adopted a lurcher for company. This led her to a foundation degree in Leek, followed by a move to Cornwall in 2018 where she studied BA Fine Art at Falmouth. Since graduating in 2022 she has exhibited her work in Morgans Gallery, Newlyn Gallery and The Exchange, The Crypt St Ives, Falmouth Art Gallery and the Poly.
Marylouise Delaney
22nd October - 23rd November, 2024
Marylouise Delaney just loves food; growing, cooking, eating (sometimes photographing in Lidl) and painting food. From necessity to sensuality, food is central to our very being, but there is a profound beauty within the modest vegetable, fruit or dish which is often overlooked. Painting is her reverence to the humble ingredients which sustain us and a celebration of The Joy of Food.
Marylouise is a nurse by night, painter and gardener by day and a parent 24/7, all of which require observance, thought and creativity. She paints in her kitchen when the house is quiet and spills into a world of colour, detail and uninterrupted thought where she is simultaneously lost and found. She likes to think that when you look at one of the paintings for a length of time, you might enjoy sharing this experience.
Marylouise has lived in Falmouth since 2010 and has a BA Hons Art for Community from Roehampton University and and MA in Three Dimensional Design from Surrey Institute.
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