The Corner Gallery

1st January - 2nd September 2018

The Corner Gallery houses regular displays of archival material and artwork which celebrate founding members and artists related to the Society. The current exhibition features original works by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Sir Terry Frost, Borlase Smart and Bryan Wynter.

Studio Gallery: Mary Taylor and Martin Grimshaw ‘Transience’

3rd February - 3rd March 2018

TRANSIENCE Joint exhibition by Mary Taylor and Martin Grimshaw Studio Gallery. Mary Taylor and Martin Grimshaw, live and work on the Lizard Peninsula, and are members of the Lizard Art cooperative, based at its gallery on the Trelowarren estate. At the foundation of both artists’ work is a love of this unique landscape, although each […]

Main Gallery: Members’ Exhibition

3rd February - 24th March 2018

Members’ Exhibition. February 2018, Main Gallery. A selection of images from our current Members’ exhibition. To view work details or to enlarge the photograph please click on the image. If you’d like to discuss a piece of work in more detail or have any questions please contact us on 01736 795579 or email: mail@penwithgallery.com

New Gallery: Associates’ February Exhibition

3rd February - 3rd March 2018

Associate Members’ February 2018 Exhibition, New Gallery.

New Gallery: Porthmeor Programme – Final Show

10th March - 17th March 2018

This exhibition showcases the work achieved by students of the year-long Porthmeor Programme at St Ives School of Painting. This programme of development gives artists at any stage of their practice an opportunity to pause, reflect and find their true creative voice.

Studio Gallery: Alan Hampson ‘Close to the Edge’

10th March - 7th April 2018

Close to the Edge The work explores the historical, industrial, and social aspects of the coast. The subjects are shelters, huts, coastguard lookouts, mines, lighthouse buildings, surf shacks, the wreckage of industrial structures, WW2 defences and other coastal features. Structures: The places selected are marked by human activity, but with not a person in sight. […]

New Gallery: Porthmeor Programme – Tutors show – 80

23rd March - 7th April 2018

This second exhibition showcases the talent of the School’s highly regarded artist tutors, and includes work by Alice Mumford, Gary Long, Hilary Gibson, Kerry Harding, Ges Wilson, Amy Albright, Ashley Hold, Emma McClure, Marion Taylor, Liz Hough, Greg Humphries, Ilker Cinarel, Liz Luckwell, and Steve Dove. We open with a special one-man performance by artist […]

Main Gallery: Members’ Spring Exhibition

31st March - 12th May 2018

Members’ Spring Exhibition. Main Gallery

Studio Gallery: Same but Different. Joint exhibition by Roy Goodman, Suzi Gutierrez and Mark Verry

14th April - 12th May 2018

“Same but Different” Art shows often have a “theme”, and this one is the same…but different. Three artists, a painter, a printmaker and a sculptor from different cultures and backgrounds met for the first time (more or less) last year, and started occasional conversations. We discussed our influences and inspirations and explored, amongst other topics, […]

New Gallery: Time Spent. Group exhibition by Saul Cathcart, Mary English, Susan Thomas & Mike Newton

14th April - 12th May 2018

Time Spent is an exhibition of painting and ceramic work by four artists whose work is either a direct response to, or invokes memories of, ‘time spent’ in the landscape. Saul Cathcart dispenses with the sketchbook and works directly on to the canvas from life. Giving importance to every mark he makes, he works by […]

Main Gallery: Members’ Exhibition

19th May - 21st July 2018

Opening Night: Friday 18th May 18:30 -20:30 All welcome to attend!

New Gallery: ‘The Eye and I’ by Ken Spooner

19th May - 16th June 2018

Private View: Friday 18th May 18:30 -20:30 This is an exhibition of works selected from the past 20 years living and creating in Cornwall. My art is like a fight in the dark – then suddenly there is light. I am very much an intuitive thinker – I need stuff: paint, metal, glue, wood, objects. […]

Studio Gallery: PRAED

19th May - 16th June 2018

Joint exhibition by Michael and Nick Praed Private View: Friday 18th May 18:30 -20:30 All welcome to attend! MICHAEL J PRAED Michael Praed is one of the most well-known contemporary artists working in Cornwall. He is a prolific painter, working mainly in oils and pastels, drawing inspiration from the Cornish countryside and people. Strongly graphical, […]

Studio Gallery: ‘Stillness/Movement/Flow’ by Carol Hosking – Smith

23rd June - 21st July 2018

Stillness/Movement/Flow An Exhibition by Carol Hosking-Smith June 21st – July 21st 2018 Private View: Friday 22nd June, 18:00-20:00 My abstract paintings are improvised. Intuition comes into play too, counter balanced by rational design. Colour is a important part of my work, I use it freely to create my own lyrical language of poetic expression. Since […]

New Gallery: John Piper

23rd June - 21st July 2018

Piper at the Penwith Private View: Friday 22nd June, 18:00-20:00 A visit to the Penwith Gallery in 1964 as a seventeen-year-old student began a lifelong involvement with painting and the gallery for John Piper. In 1969 he had his first painting exhibited as an associate member and after a spell with the Newlyn Society of […]

Main Gallery: Members’ Summer Exhibition

28th July - 25th August 2018

Private view: Friday 27th July, 18:00 – 20:00. All welcome to attend!

Studio Gallery: Peter Morrell Retrospective

28th July - 25th August 2018

Private view: Friday 27th July, 18:00 – 20:00. All welcome to attend! Peter Morrell was born in Devon in 1931, and had “endured” 14 different schools by the age of 16. He was apprenticed as a cabinet maker from 1947 to 1949, during which time he began to paint. After a period of National Service […]

New Gallery: Associate Members’ Summer Exhibition

28th July - 1st September 2018

Private view: Friday 27th July, 18:00 – 20:00. All welcome to attend!

Studio Gallery: Sue Davis ‘Uncertain Spaces’

31st August - 29th September 2018

Private View: Friday 7th September, 18:00-20:00. The exhibition ‘Uncertain Spaces’ originates from a realisation of the vast differences between people and the influence those differences have on the rippling of an unsettled world. Working with abstraction gives Sue Davis the freedom to suggest without prescribing. One can see the work is built in layers and […]

Main Gallery: Members’ Exhibition

31st August - 3rd November 2018

Private View: Friday 7th September, 18:00-20:00. All welcome!

New Gallery: The London Group

8th September - 29th September 2018

The London Group is heading west to the historic and contemporary art colony of St Ives, Cornwall, to stage an exhibition of its members’ work at the Penwith Gallery, St Ives, home of the Penwith Society of Artists. Both groups are recognised as two of the UK’s most prestigious and longest-established artists’ collectives and have […]

Corner Gallery: Wilhelmina Barns – Graham and Breon O’Casey exhibition

5th October - 31st March 2019

The Corner Gallery houses regular displays of archival material and artwork which celebrate founding members and artists related to the Society. The current exhibition features original works by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Breon O’Casey. Breon O’Casey 1928–2011 ‘I am an abstract painter closer, in my work,to the older deﬁnition of a still-life painter than a landscape […]

Studio Gallery: Robert Jones

6th October - 3rd November 2018

Skies, Seas, Trees and Travels Private View: Friday 5th October, 18:00-20:00. Biography: Born in Newquay, Cornwall in 1943, Robert Jones studied at Falmouth School of Art where he was taught by Francis Hewlett and Robert Organ. After Falmouth he pursued post graduate studies at Manchester College of Art, and then spent some time abroad. On […]

New Gallery: OCTOBER SIX.

6th October - 3rd November 2018

Opening Event: Friday 5th October, 18:00-20:00. Group exhibition by Tom Leaper, Karen McEndoo, David Moore, Seamus Moran, Iona Sanders and Mark Verry A group of distinct local artists have come together to show their work in a striking group exhibition. These artists were identified and approached by Tom Leaper after having long admired the strength and […]

Studio Gallery: Patrick Haughton & Friends – 50 Years On.

10th November - 8th December 2018

Patrick Haughton & Friends – 50 Years On. A retrospective with re-connections Private View: Friday 9th November, 18:00-20:00. Patrick Haughton (b. 1942) spent his formative years in North Devon, and after a Foundation Course at Exeter College of Art he studied fine art at the West of England College of Art in Bristol, […]

New Gallery: Associates’ Winter Exhibition

10th November - 5th January 2019

Private View: Friday 9th November, 18:00-20:00.

Main Gallery: Members’ Winter Exhibition

10th November - 5th January 2019

Private View: Friday 9th November, 18:00-20:00.

Studio Gallery: Stephanie Sandercock: ‘From Godolphin to the Sea’

15th December - 5th January 2019

Private View: Friday 14th December, 18:00-20:00. Following on from Stephanie Sandercock’s first exhibition at The Penwith, ‘Gwithian Rocks’ in 2016, ‘From Godolphin to the Sea’ explores the detail in the cracks and lines along the Cornish coastal rock looking out towards the Atlantic. The show presents a collection of paintings and 3D artwork using Moroccan […]

Studio Gallery: In a Silent Way

2nd February - 2nd March 2019

Joint exhibition by sculptor Richard Holliday and artist Sean Hewitt in our Studio Gallery. Private View: 1st February 2019. 5:30 – 7:30, all welcome. Through colour and form, two and three dimensions, canvas and stone, two accomplished artists attempt to explore the meaning of sound and silence through the conduit of Miles Davis “In a […]

New Gallery: Associate Members’ Exhibition

2nd February - 2nd March 2019

Exhibiting a variety of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings and prints from our Associate Members’. Private View: 1st February 2019. 17:30 – 19:30, all welcome.

Main Gallery: Members’ Exhibition

2nd February - 6th April 2019

Private View: Friday 1st February, 17:30 – 19:30

Studio Gallery: Liz Cleves

9th March - 6th April 2019

Private View: Friday 8th March, 17:30 – 19:30 Artist Statement: “Painting is a matter of fact for me. I am drawn to colour and to the surface of canvas. There is a certain alchemy within the process of mixing pigments, and putting them to work… a process that runs parallel to creating the picture itself. […]

New Gallery: St. Ives School of Painting: The Porthmeor Programme

9th March - 23rd March 2019

St. Ives School of Painting: The Porthmeor Programme Private View: Friday 8th March, 18:00- 20:00 This March at the Penwith Gallery see the fourth exhibition of the St Ives School of Painting’s Porthmeor Programme. This is a year long course run over 8 weekends which aims to explore, understand and develop the artist’s individual creative […]

New Gallery: St. Ives School of Painting: Young Artists

29th March - 6th April 2019

St. Ives School of Painting: Young Artists Presentation evening: Friday 5th April, 17:30 – 19:30 Cornwall’s young artists burst onto the St Ives art scene next week in the St Ives School of Painting Young Artists’ exhibition at the historic Penwith Gallery from Friday 29th March to Saturday 6th April. The show will culminate with […]

New Gallery: Abstract 7

13th April - 11th May 2019

Group exhibition from artists Christine Allen, Sue Davis, Sean Hewitt, Richard Holliday, Paul Jackson, Peter Morrell and Frank Phelan. Private View: Friday 12th April, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend! ‘Abstraction is a means of enlightenment, a kind of magic that reveals images of inner feelings beyond thought or mind. The work is […]

Studio Gallery: Michael Carter – The Face In The Studio

13th April - 24th April 2019

Private View: Friday 12th April, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend! Exhibiting 35 black-and-white A3 portraits of current Members of Penwith Society of Arts and 35 A4 laminated sheets of large-print quotes about the artists drawn from the book.

Main Gallery: Members’ Spring Exhibition

13th April - 15th June 2019

Members’ Spring Exhibition Private View: Friday 12th April, 17:30 – 19:30!

Studio Gallery: Saul Cathcart – Considered Intuition

26th April - 11th May 2019

Private View: Friday 26th April, 17:30 -19:30 All welcome to attend! “Knowing when to stop and leave a painting alone is something every artist has to confront and question. If you don’t sort this out, then you are forever disappointed with the result. My work has to excite me, but I also want this […]

Studio Gallery: In Our Element

18th May - 15th June 2019

In Our Element Group exhibition by Mary Taylor, Helene Fletcher & Jenny Beavan. Studio Gallery ‘In Our Element’ is an exhibition by three artists living in Cornwall: Two painters Mary Taylor and Helene Fletcher and a ceramist Jenny Beavan. Their Summer exhibition showing at the Penwith Gallery focuses on the elements that they are drawn to, […]

New Gallery: Still Picking Bones

18th May - 15th June 2019

Exhibition by artist Martin Procter with ceramicist Laurel Keeley Private View: Friday 17th May, 17:30 – 19:30 Meet The Artists: Saturday 18th May, 11:00- 15:00 All welcome to attend! The connecting theme of this exhibition of Martin’s paintings with Laurel’s ceramics is to do with their individual ways of seeing over and beneath the landscape, […]

Studio Gallery: Peter Morrell

22nd June - 20th July 2019

Private View: Friday 21st June, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend! Peter Morrell was born in Devon in 1931, and had “endured” 14 different schools by the age of 16. He was apprenticed as a cabinet maker from 1947 to 1949, during which time he began to paint. After a period of National […]

New Gallery: Society of Wood Engravers

22nd June - 20th July 2019

Private View: Friday 21st June, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend! This exhibition is a showcase for some of the best wood engravings from Britain and around the world. The prints are chosen from an open submission and include other relief prints – linocuts and woodcuts. Whilst contemporary wood engravers all use the same […]

Main Gallery: Members’ Summer Exhibition

22nd June - 24th August 2019

Private View: Friday 21st June, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

Studio Gallery: Echoes

27th July - 24th August 2019

Group exhibition from Sue Davis, Lesley Harry and Jane Smith. Private View: Friday 26th July, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

New Gallery: Associates’ Summer Exhibition

27th July - 24th August 2019

Private View: Friday 26th July, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

Studio Gallery: Peter Wray & Judy Collins

31st August - 28th September 2019

Joint exhibition by artists Peter Wray and Judy Collins. Private View: Friday 30th August, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

New Gallery: Noel Betowski

31st August - 28th September 2019

Private View: Friday 30th August, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

Main Gallery: Members’ Exhibition

31st August - 2nd November 2019

Private View: Friday 30th August, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

Studio Gallery: Sally Spens and Philip Wakeham

5th October - 2nd November 2019

Private View: Friday 4th October, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

New Gallery: 70th Anniversary of Penwith Society of Arts.

5th October - 2nd November 2019

Private View: Friday 4th October, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

Studio Gallery: Sue Thornton

9th November - 7th December 2019

Private View: Friday 8th November, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

New Gallery: Associates’ Winter Exhibition

9th November - 7th December 2019

Private View: Friday 8th November, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

Main Gallery: Members’ Winter Exhibition

9th November - 11th January 2020

Private View: Friday 8th November, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

Studio Gallery: Ken Gill

14th December - 11th January 2020

Private View: Friday 13th December, 17:30 – 19:30 All welcome to attend!

Current Exhibitions

1st January - 2nd September 2018

3rd February - 3rd March 2018

3rd February - 24th March 2018

3rd February - 3rd March 2018

10th March - 17th March 2018

10th March - 7th April 2018

23rd March - 7th April 2018

31st March - 12th May 2018

14th April - 12th May 2018

14th April - 12th May 2018

19th May - 21st July 2018

19th May - 16th June 2018

19th May - 16th June 2018

23rd June - 21st July 2018

23rd June - 21st July 2018

28th July - 25th August 2018

28th July - 25th August 2018

28th July - 1st September 2018

31st August - 29th September 2018

31st August - 3rd November 2018

8th September - 29th September 2018

5th October - 31st March 2019

6th October - 3rd November 2018

6th October - 3rd November 2018

10th November - 8th December 2018

10th November - 5th January 2019

10th November - 5th January 2019

15th December - 5th January 2019

2nd February - 2nd March 2019

2nd February - 2nd March 2019

2nd February - 6th April 2019

9th March - 6th April 2019

9th March - 23rd March 2019

29th March - 6th April 2019

13th April - 11th May 2019

13th April - 24th April 2019

13th April - 15th June 2019

26th April - 11th May 2019

18th May - 15th June 2019

18th May - 15th June 2019

22nd June - 20th July 2019

22nd June - 20th July 2019

22nd June - 24th August 2019

27th July - 24th August 2019

27th July - 24th August 2019

31st August - 28th September 2019

31st August - 28th September 2019

31st August - 2nd November 2019

5th October - 2nd November 2019

5th October - 2nd November 2019

9th November - 7th December 2019

9th November - 7th December 2019

9th November - 11th January 2020

14th December - 11th January 2020