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Exhibitions in Falmouth

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.

If you would to enquire about exhibiting in the space, please email create@inspiremakers.com.

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Current Exhibitions

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Leana Robinson

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

 

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.

Fran Marks

29th July - 23rd August, 2025

Colour. Emotion. Memory. Not a particular place, but a coming together of Fran Marks’ visual and sensory experiences.

Whether the wild sea and landscape of the Cornish coast where she 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.

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.

Sally Atkins

23rd September - 18th October, 2025

Sally Atkins is a Cornish based artist, illustrator, maker, and accidental historian working on personal projects inspired by her life in beautiful Cornwall, the Cornish scenery and the rich history of this amazing county. She is fascinated by architecture and social history, often mixing the two in her colourful creations.

In previous years she had been retracing her Cornish ancestors, visiting the places they lived, worked and were buried. It was an emotional journey, standing in a church where her ancestors stood 200 years previously, looking at a plaque dated 1770 and knowing they have stood in front of it too.

In 2021 she completed an MA in Illustration through Falmouth University, fulfilling a lifetime dream of attaining a degree in art. It was here in her final project that she mixed historical research and illustration together.

In 2023 she began working on a project based on a 1926 Old Cornwall Society pamphlet entitled The Cornish Year. The project celebrated a slice of Cornish history every day with illustrations of an event, a person, an interesting story for each day of the year. The project ended up with over 740 separate illustrations along with a synopsis of each of the stories involved. 

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.

Zoie Moody

25th November - 24th December, 2025

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.

Previous Exhibitions

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.

Monoprint Created From Found Flowers In Shades Of Dusky Pink And Blue By Pip Barfield
Monoprint Created From Found Flowers In Shades Of Dusky Pink And Blue By Pip Barfield
Examples Of Flowers Used In Creating Monoprints
Monoprint Created From Found Flowers In Shades Of Dusky Pink, Blue And Yellow By Pip Barfield
Colourful Painting Of Pink Flowers In A Blue Vase Sitting On A Table With Stripey Background By Pip Barfield
Examples Of Flowers Used In Creating Monoprints
Artist Portrait Of Pip Barfield Standing In Front Of A Painting
Monoprint Created From Found Flowers In Shades Of Dusky Pink And Blue By Pip BarfieldExamples Of Flowers Used In Creating MonoprintsMonoprint Created From Found Flowers In Shades Of Dusky Pink, Blue And Yellow By Pip BarfieldColourful Painting Of Pink Flowers In A Blue Vase Sitting On A Table With Stripey Background By Pip BarfieldExamples Of Flowers Used In Creating MonoprintsArtist Portrait Of Pip Barfield Standing In Front Of A Painting

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.

 

Still Life Of Peppers In A Dish By Marylouise Delaney
Still Life Of Peppers In A Dish By Marylouise Delaney
Still Life Of Pomegranates By Marylouise Delaney
Still Life Of Tomatoes By Marylouise Delaney
Still Life Of Tomatoes By Marylouise Delaney
Still Life Of Orange Halves By Marylouise Delaney
Still Life Of Squash By Marylouise Delaney
Still Life Of Fruit By Marylouise Delaney
Portrait Of Artist Marylouise Delaney Painting Fruit In Her Kitchen
Still Life Of Peppers In A Dish By Marylouise DelaneyStill Life Of Pomegranates By Marylouise DelaneyStill Life Of Tomatoes By Marylouise DelaneyStill Life Of Tomatoes By Marylouise DelaneyStill Life Of Orange Halves By Marylouise DelaneyStill Life Of Squash By Marylouise DelaneyStill Life Of Fruit By Marylouise DelaneyPortrait Of Artist Marylouise Delaney Painting Fruit In Her Kitchen

Helen Leaver – Liminal

24th September - 19th October, 2024

Liminal – from the Latin word limen – meaning threshold
Liminal – The space between spaces
First light, before dawn
The moment before you realise you were dreaming
The innate threshold
Emerging….crossing.…
Hesitate.
A beacon, calling you to stay awhile…pause…notice…

Meditative oil paintings, inspired by the shapes and patterns noticed when in quiet, still places. It’s often the spaces between objects that Helen is most drawn to. The act of creation for Helen is a form of meditation, a deeply absorbing process where she’ll enter a flow state and where time passes unnoticed. She intuitively responds to marks, resulting in soft organic forms and uplifting gestural arc lines. Primarily working with oils, either thinned down ink-like or mixed with cold wax medium, Helen’s paintings hold multiple layers, which she often scrapes back to reveal the colours beneath, imbuing a liminal quality.

Sharon Bruster – Beachcombing

27th August - 21st September, 2024

Sharon Bruster is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in St Mawgan on the north coast of Cornwall.

Her creative inspiration is the water’s edge and the spaces between high and low tide. Walking, photographing, gathering, writing haiku, drawing, printmaking and painting are all integral aspects of Sharon’s practice.

In this mixed media exhibition Sharon will share her fascination with the ‘tiny treasures’ gathered on her daily beach walks and the shapes, textures and patterns observed along the water’s edge.

Abstract Teal Contemporary Painting Resembling Seaweed By Sharon Bruster
Abstract Teal Contemporary Painting Resembling Seaweed By Sharon Bruster
Abstract Contemporary Painting With Orange Seaweed By Sharon Bruster
Abstract Contemporary Resembling Red Seaweed On A Wavy Green Sea Painting By Sharon Bruster
Abstract Contemporary Painting Representing Rocks By Sharon Bruster
Abstract Contemporary Painting Representing Rocks By Sharon Bruster
Abstract Contemporary Painting Representing Rocks By Sharon Bruster
Artist Sharon Bruster On A Rocky Beach On A Sunny Day
Abstract Teal Contemporary Painting Resembling Seaweed By Sharon BrusterAbstract Contemporary Painting With Orange Seaweed By Sharon BrusterAbstract Contemporary Resembling Red Seaweed On A Wavy Green Sea Painting By Sharon BrusterAbstract Contemporary Painting Representing Rocks By Sharon BrusterAbstract Contemporary Painting Representing Rocks By Sharon BrusterAbstract Contemporary Painting Representing Rocks By Sharon BrusterArtist Sharon Bruster On A Rocky Beach On A Sunny Day

Aimee Willcock – Land and Sea

30th July - 24th August, 2024

Aimee Willcock grew up in Nottinghamshire and earned a BA in Fine Art from Loughborough University School of Art and Design, often traveling to Cornwall to gain inspiration for her practice. After graduating Aimee moved to Cornwall where she now lives and works, using the changing Cornish coastline and landscape to inform her practice.

Rooted in romantic traditions, the paintings are an investigation into mark, colour, and the language of paint to form a contemporary depiction of her local environment. Exploring the repetition of mark, simplifying shape and colour, responding to the environment both all prima and building layers over sittings to form an impression of a place, evoking a sense of space and capturing a moment. The transformation of the familiar into something less familiar, the desaturation of colour and the overpowering experience of nature, combine in a landscape structured yet ambiguous.

By uniting contrasts – sky and earth, painterly and illustrative, desaturation and contrasting colour, the paintings invite the viewer to experience the atmosphere and emotions conjured by our experience of nature, the calm and serene, or the most powerful and dramatic aspects of landscape.

Pair Of Contemporary Seascape Paintings On Paper By Aimee Willcock
Pair Of Contemporary Seascape Paintings On Paper By Aimee Willcock
Seascape Paintings By Aimee Willcock Hanging On A Wall With Shadow Of A Tree
Unframed Contemporary Landscape Painting By Aimee Willcock
Unframed Contemporary Landscape Painting By Aimee Willcock
Group Of Nine Contemporary Seascape Paintings On Paper By Aimee Willcock
Black And White Portrait Of Artist Aimee Willcock Painting
Pair Of Contemporary Seascape Paintings On Paper By Aimee WillcockSeascape Paintings By Aimee Willcock Hanging On A Wall With Shadow Of A TreeUnframed Contemporary Landscape Painting By Aimee WillcockUnframed Contemporary Landscape Painting By Aimee WillcockGroup Of Nine Contemporary Seascape Paintings On Paper By Aimee WillcockBlack And White Portrait Of Artist Aimee Willcock Painting

Rebecca Van Vestraut

2nd July - 27th July, 2024

Becky is inspired by the Cornish coast, and loves the variety of seascapes we have here. She strives to portray the beauty and atmosphere of a particular moment in time, and is interested in the constantly changing colour and light of a scene.

She wants to convey the connection she feels when she looks out to sea, so that someone else can also experience that joy when they look at her painting. Becky is fascinated by moments when the sea, sky and light change; one minute she can be looking at a calm tranquil sea, and the next minute heavy rain clouds appear; she is never short of inspiration for her work living here in Cornwall.

Seascape Painting With Pink Cloudy Sky By Rebecca Van Vestraut
Seascape Painting With Pink Cloudy Sky By Rebecca Van Vestraut
Framed Seascape Painting With The Rocky Cliffs By Rebecca Van Vestraut
Framed Seascape Painting With Sun Breaking Through The Clouds By Rebecca Van Vestraut
Artist Rebecca Van Vestraut Standing In Front Of Two Of Her Framed Seascapes
Seascape Painting By Rebecca Van Vestraut
Seascape Painting With Pink Cloudy Sky By Rebecca Van VestrautFramed Seascape Painting With The Rocky Cliffs By Rebecca Van VestrautFramed Seascape Painting With Sun Breaking Through The Clouds By Rebecca Van VestrautArtist Rebecca Van Vestraut Standing In Front Of Two Of Her Framed SeascapesSeascape Painting By Rebecca Van Vestraut

Lyndsey Vowell

4th June - 29th June, 2024

Surrounded by the natural beauty of the Cornish coastline, Lyndsey Vowell uses her contemporary style to capture and create paintings that are unique and inspiring. Born and raised in Cornwall, Lyndsey lives and works from her home studio in the stunning seaside town of Falmouth where the ever changing light, sky and sea ignites her passion for painting. Often using acrylic paints, her confidence to explore other mediums and experiment with different techniques truly brings each painting to life with its atmospheric style.

Although Lyndsey studied Fine Art and Design, she considers herself self-taught in the terms of the skills and processes she has developed over the last 18 years and with her background of interior design, she feels working on paintings and commissions to fit with interior schemes is a passion of hers.

Lyndsey has had an overwhelming response to her solo exhibitions with celebrity collectors such as the critically acclaimed Stephen Graham and partner Hannah Walters as well as selling internationally across the globe.

Following on from that Lyndsey was recently commissioned by The Headland Hotel in Newquay, Cornwall, working alongside interior designers Lomax & Chi and Cornish Gems Interiors to create original paintings for the stunning new ocean suites.

Atmospheric Seascape Painting In Greys And Blacks By Lyndsey Vowell
Atmospheric Seascape Painting In Greys And Blacks By Lyndsey Vowell
Vibrant Seascape Painting With Blue And Orange Sky By Lyndsey Vowell
Calm Seascape Painting In Shades Of Blue By Lyndsey Vowell
Seascape Painting With Blue Sea And Cloudy Skies By Lyndsey Vowell
Lyndsey Vowell, Artist, Painting Outdoors
Seascape Painting By Lyndsey Vowell
Atmospheric Seascape Painting In Greys And Blacks By Lyndsey VowellVibrant Seascape Painting With Blue And Orange Sky By Lyndsey VowellCalm Seascape Painting In Shades Of Blue By Lyndsey VowellSeascape Painting With Blue Sea And Cloudy Skies By Lyndsey VowellLyndsey Vowell, Artist, Painting OutdoorsSeascape Painting By Lyndsey Vowell

Fran Marks – Embodying the Light

7th May - 1st June, 2024

After a long career in the arts, Fran Marks is now based in North Cornwall and has returned to painting. She has been a professional artist since 2020.

Lockdown provided an opportunity to deepen her practice with online tutors and she completed a year-long in person course at Newlyn School of Art in 2023.

She has travelled extensively through India, North Africa and the Himalayas and her work is an emotional response to the light, shapes and colours of the land and sea both at home and abroad.

Using both oil and acrylic Fran plays with bold colours and textures to create semi abstract paintings on a variety of surfaces.

Abstract Painting In Blues And Orange By Fran Marks
Abstract Painting In Blues And Orange By Fran Marks
Abstract Painting In Shades On Brown And Orange By Fran Marks
Abstract Painting In Teals And Orange By Fran Marks
Abstract Painting In Red And Pale Blue By Fran Marks
Fran Marks, Artist, Painting In Her Studio
Abstract Painting In Deep Pink And Yellow By Fran Marks
Abstract Painting In Teal And Deep Pink By Fran Marks
Abstract Painting In Blues And Orange By Fran MarksAbstract Painting In Shades On Brown And Orange By Fran MarksAbstract Painting In Teals And Orange By Fran MarksAbstract Painting In Red And Pale Blue By Fran MarksFran Marks, Artist, Painting In Her StudioAbstract Painting In Deep Pink And Yellow By Fran MarksAbstract Painting In Teal And Deep Pink By Fran Marks

Roberta Hopkins – Grounded

9th April - 4th May, 2024

Roberta was born in the West Country and although originally training as a Graphic Designer in Bristol, has more recently worked as a jewellery designer since moving to Cornwall in 2010. It was during lockdown, unable to work and looking for another creative avenue, that Roberta rekindled her interest in painting. Deciding to close her jewellery business meant that she could then concentrate on painting full time.

Moving to Cornwall was where Roberta finally felt at home, walking the coast path and exploring the rocks and pebbles around the many coves and beaches, taking endless photographs of the details that catch her eye. She can often be found scrambling over the rocks, studying the colours, textures and marks, and noticing the found compositions of the natural folds and strata and the interplay of shapes.

Slipping the odd pebble in her pocket, it is this and the photos taken that inform the work back in the studio. Using acrylics and mixed media on board, Roberta works abstractly, sometimes incorporating collage pieces that she has printed herself with rock textures and repeat patterns. Working in many layers of paint, textured gels and collage which are then sanded back and scratched into to reveal previous layers with unexpected results, which echo the erosion and passing of time of the natural landscape. Roberta has also been developing her love of monoprinting and collage to work alongside her paintings.

Abstract Painting In Shades Of Neutrals Evoking Rocks On A Deep Blue Background By Roberta Hopkins
Abstract Painting In Shades Of Neutrals Evoking Rocks On A Deep Blue Background By Roberta Hopkins
Abstract Painting Of Balancing Rocks By Roberta Hopkins
Abstract Painting In Shades Of Neutrals Evoking Rocks On A Deep Blue Background By Roberta Hopkins
Two Small Square Abstract Paintings On A Shelf By Roberta Hopkins
Roberta Hopkins, Artist, In A Blue Dress In The Doorway Of Her Studio
Abstract Painting In Shades Of Neutrals Evoking Coastal Pathways By Roberta Hopkins
Abstract Painting In Shades Of Neutrals Evoking Rocks On A Deep Blue Background By Roberta HopkinsAbstract Painting Of Balancing Rocks By Roberta HopkinsAbstract Painting In Shades Of Neutrals Evoking Rocks On A Deep Blue Background By Roberta HopkinsTwo Small Square Abstract Paintings On A Shelf By Roberta HopkinsRoberta Hopkins, Artist, In A Blue Dress In The Doorway Of Her StudioAbstract Painting In Shades Of Neutrals Evoking Coastal Pathways By Roberta Hopkins

Kirsten Basram – Thresholds

12th March - 6th April, 2024

Kirsten Basram works from her home studio near Redruth. Although she has always been creative, she did not have the opportunity to take up painting full time until 2020, having followed a varied career path, including speech and language therapy and university teaching.

She paints mainly abstract landscape, using either oils or watercolour. The physical act of making art connects her with the landscape and sensations around her. At the same time, it opens up expression of her inner, spiritual landscape and this becomes one with the outer form of the earth, sea and sky.

Kirsten paints and draws intuitively, both from sketches made in the landscape and responses to direct experience of landscape and what the paint or pencil are doing on the paper. She then refines and composes as the work reveals itself. She is interested in exploring the idea of “thin places” where heaven and earth meet.

Abstract Painting In Blues And Greens Of Gardens By Kirsten Basram
Abstract Painting In Blues And Greens Of Gardens By Kirsten Basram
Painting Of Dark Green Woods And Light At The End Of The Tunnel By Kirsten Basram
Abstract Painting Of Green Trees At The Edge Of A Field By Kirsten Basram
Abstract Painting Of The Deep Blue Sea At Night By Kirsten Basram
Kirsten Basra, Artist Sitting In Her Studio With Paintings, Paint And Brushes
Abstract Painting Of A Distant View Across Golden Fields By Kirsten Basram
Abstract Painting In Blues And Greens Of Gardens By Kirsten BasramPainting Of Dark Green Woods And Light At The End Of The Tunnel By Kirsten BasramAbstract Painting Of Green Trees At The Edge Of A Field By Kirsten BasramAbstract Painting Of The Deep Blue Sea At Night By Kirsten BasramKirsten Basra, Artist Sitting In Her Studio With Paintings, Paint And BrushesAbstract Painting Of A Distant View Across Golden Fields By Kirsten Basram

Georgia Parkin-Jones

28th November - 23rd December, 2023

Georgia Parkin-Jones was born and lives in Cornwall. Having experienced a portion of her childhood growing up in rural France as well as residing on Dartmoor, she is widely inspired by and actively seeks out the natural world that has encompassed her life growing up. She offers the viewer insight into her world, a fragmented place of her external and internal self, resulting in very ethereal works. Georgia works predominantly in oil, water mixable oil and charcoal.

Georgia studied at Plymouth University and received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Photography. She is currently undertaking part time study in counselling, aiming to combine her practices and work as an Art Therapist,
alongside her personal Art practice.

Pastel Abstract Original Painting Of An Seated Figure With Two Blackbirds By Georgia Parkin-Jones
Pastel Abstract Original Painting Of An Seated Figure With Two Blackbirds By Georgia Parkin-Jones
Pastel Abstract Original Painting Of An Ghostly Figure With Plants By Georgia Parkin-Jones
Pastel Abstract Original Painting Of An Owl And Two People By Georgia Parkin-Jones
Pastel Abstract Original Painting Of A Figure Painting With A Palette And Vase Of Flowers On The Table And Two Blackbirds By Georgia Parkin-Jones
Artist Photo Of Georgia Parkin Jones Painting On An Easel In A Wildflower Meadow With Pink Flowers
Pastel Abstract Original Painting Of An Seated Figure With Two Blackbirds By Georgia Parkin-JonesPastel Abstract Original Painting Of An Ghostly Figure With Plants By Georgia Parkin-JonesPastel Abstract Original Painting Of An Owl And Two People By Georgia Parkin-JonesPastel Abstract Original Painting Of A Figure Painting With A Palette And Vase Of Flowers On The Table And Two Blackbirds By Georgia Parkin-JonesArtist Photo Of Georgia Parkin Jones Painting On An Easel In A Wildflower Meadow With Pink Flowers

Mick Dobie

24th October - 25th November, 2023

Local favourite, Mick Dobie returns for his third exhibition at Inspire Makers following two successful shows in 2021.

Showing a brand new collection of paintings Mick further explores his love of the Cornish landscape and seascape.

Mick finds the simple act of painting therapeutic. Concentration comes easily, with hours passing in what seems like minutes. Art can take you into your own world in so many ways.

Mick became captivated by Cornwall since moving here 15 years ago to study Fine Art at Falmouth. Currently Mick spends his time painting outdoors around the River Helford. Constant changing light brings a different feel each time he returns to his regular stomping grounds. Long walks with his dog Fergus feeds his inspiration.

Mick works with watercolour, acrylic and pastel mediums.  He hopes his paintings resonate with viewers. Should his work achieve this, then it can only serve to strengthen his enjoyment of the medium.

Acrylic Painting Of Purple Skies By Mick Dobie
Acrylic Painting Of Purple Skies By Mick Dobie
Acrylic Painting Of Helford Trees Against A Flaming Sunset
Semi-abstract Painting Of A Swimmer In The Sea By Mick Dobie
Artist Portrait Of Mick Dobie
Acrylic Painting Of Purple Skies By Mick DobieAcrylic Painting Of Helford Trees Against A Flaming SunsetSemi-abstract Painting Of A Swimmer In The Sea By Mick DobieArtist Portrait Of Mick Dobie

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