Current Exhibitions

Rod Walker & David Kemp | Keep On Keeping On

20th June 2025 - 14th July 2025

Preview: Friday 20th June 17:30 onwards, all welcome! ‘Still Life’ Keep On Keeping On David Kemp and Rod Walker “Look at the granite strewn landscape. Jagged stone spires light up the yellow moor tops. The fast changing storm clouds sweep in from the West horizon. The waves break the rocks break the waves break the […]

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Lydia Corbett (née Sylvette David) | The Muse and The Loving Minotaur

20th June 2025 - 14th July 2025

Preview: Friday 20th June 17:30 onwards, all welcome! ‘Sylvette David Looking Back at Picasso’ Saturday 21st June 11:00 A Talk with the Artist and Lucien Berman. Meet the Artist Saturday 21st June 11:30 – 13:00 Lydia Corbett (née Sylvette David) is a visionary artist, no less visionary for her failing eyesight, as her subject is […]

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Members Summer Exhibition

20th June 2025 - 18th August 2025

Preview: Friday 20th June 17:30 onwards, all welcome! A diverse exhibition of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and prints from the Members of The Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives, Cornwall.

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Esme Lansdowne | A Soft Landing | Young Penwith Artist 2025

18th July 2025 - 18th August 2025

Preview: Friday 18th July 17:30 onwards, all welcome! Cornish artist Esme Lansdowne presents ‘A Soft Landing’, a new body of work created during a transformative chapter of returning to her homeland of Cornwall and entering motherhood. The exhibition marks both a creative and personal homecoming – a full- circle moment shaped by early artistic influences, […]

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Associate Members Summer Exhibition

18th July 2025 - 18th August 2025

Preview: Friday 18th July 17:30 onwards, all welcome! Exhibiting a variety of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, photographs and prints from our Associate Members of the Penwith Society of Arts.

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Vincent Wilson

22nd August 2025 - 22nd September 2025

Preview: Friday 22nd August 17:30 onwards, all welcome! Vincent’s works evoke rather than describe the landscape.  He spends hours sketching on the moor and by the sea, returns to his studio and reinvents the scenes from his imagination, using fragments of torn paper to create the shapes then paint and ink to explore the different […]

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Members Autumn Exhibition

22nd August 2025 - 27th October 2025

Preview: Friday 22nd August 17:30 onwards, all welcome! A diverse exhibition of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and prints from the Members of The Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives, Cornwall.

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Lanyon and Friends

22nd August 2025 - 22nd September 2025

At 5.30 on August 22nd 2025 (until September 22nd) you are invited to attend the naming of The Peter Lanyon Gallery at The Penwith, when two books about the painter will be launched and an unseen sketch for a mural by him will be unveiled by his son Martin Lanyon. The show includes many works […]

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Stephanie Sandercock & Julie Moselen | Wishes on the Wind

26th September 2025 - 27th October 2025

Preview: Friday 26th September 17:30 onwards, all welcome! ‘Wishes on the Wind’ Where gold illuminates sacred offerings and prayers find form. Paintings by Stephanie Sandercock Sculpture by Julie Moselen At the heart of Wishes on the Wind lies a sacred act of remembrance and hope – prayers whispered into the wind, tokens tied to ancient trees, and […]

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Glyn Macey | Tree Folk

26th September 2025 - 27th October 2025

Preview: Friday 26th September 17:30 onwards, all welcome!

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Bruce Timson | Paintings 2020-25

31st October 2025 - 1st December 2025

Preview: Friday 31st October 17:30 onwards, all welcome! Bruce Timson | Paintings 2020-25 “This exhibition consists of a selection of acrylic semi-abstract paintings that have a central interest in the landscape and in Still Life. I initially record the environment through observational drawing and watercolour studies. This source material is then transferred onto board and […]

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Associate Members Winter Exhibition

31st October 2025 - 5th January 2026

Preview: Friday 31st October 17:30 onwards, all welcome! Exhibiting a variety of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, photographs and prints from our Associate Members of the Penwith Society of Arts.

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Members Winter Exhibition

31st October 2025 - 5th January 2026

Preview: Friday 31st October 17:30 onwards, all welcome! A diverse exhibition of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and prints from the Members of The Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives, Cornwall.

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