Lanyon and Friends

22nd August 2025 - 22nd September 2025

You are invited to attend the naming of The Lanyon Gallery at The Penwith and the opening of the “Lanyon and Friends” exhibition at 5.30pm on Friday August 22nd 2025 (exhibition on until September 22^nd).

Two new limited edition books about the painter will be launched during the evening, “The Driving Eye” and “Peter Lanyon Drawings, Andrew Lanyon Photographs”, and at 6:30pm a previously unseen 1962 sketch for the Seeger mural by Peter Lanyon will be unveiled by his son Martin Lanyon. The exhibition also includes many works that appear in Andrew Lanyon’s books, published since 1976.

Lanyon and Friends | On display in our officially named “The Lanyon Gallery” until 20th September 2025.

An unmissable exhibition celebrating the legacy of Peter Lanyon, featuring a previously unseen panel, a sketch for his iconic Porthmeor painting, alongside two intimate figure drawings.

Presenting works by:
Andrew Lanyon · Arthur Lanyon · Matthew Lanyon · Peter Lanyon · Sam Lanyon · Stella Benjamin · Michael Chaikin · Julia Ciccone · Sally Cole · Milly Freeman · Chris James · Simon Marsh · Eleanor Mumford · Sam Pascoe · Tanya Peixoto · Terry Pope · Gillian Potkins · Debbie Prosser · Ivan Savage · Joe Skinner · Richard Sorrell · Paul Spooner · Sue Spooner · Carlos Zapata

A dynamic collection that bridges generations and celebrates the breadth of artistic influence surrounding one of Cornwall’s most celebrated modernists.

For a list of books see AndrewLanyon.com

Chris James 'Adam and Eve' (2013), pencil, 22 x 12 cm, £1,500

Andrew Lanyon 'Rabelais Tumbles the Perilously-Built Edifices...' (2016), oil, 33 x 26 cm, £1,750

Andrew Lanyon ‘Salt Water and Fresh’, (2022), Pencil, and collage, 24.5 x 19cm, £750

Andrew Lanyon ‘Map and Train Leaving Redruth’, (2023), Oil, 25.5 x 33.5cm, £4,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Comet and the Haircut’, (2010), Oil and pencil, 30.5 x 29cm, £2,750

Andrew Lanyon ‘Sketch for 'Evening'’, (2023), 9 x 9cm, £1,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Creep of Time Indoor and Onto the Pulse’, (2005/25), Oil, 37 x 40cm, £3,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Tarring the Boat II’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 12 x 14cm, £1,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Tarring the Boat III’, (2025), Oil, 29 x 32cm, £5,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘Tarring the Boat IV’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 26.5 x 24cm, £3,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Sketch For Map With Train Leaving Redruth’, (2023), Pencil, and crayon 13.5 x 11.7cm, £750

Andrew Lanyon ‘Sketch for Snow Scene’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 9 x 12cm, £950

Andrew Lanyon ‘Snow Scene’, (2025), 25.5 x 38.5cm, £2,750

$Peter Mates 'Number 93' (Oct. 1998). 60 or more remain in the artist’s studio. He would part with the entire fleet for a very modest sum. A boat based on those in paintings by Alfred Wallis. Peter has carved over 100 of these out of wood from decommissioned Newlyn fishing boats i\n the spirit of Alfred Wallis, who collected old iron. Wood & Paint, 32 x 43 x 9cm, £450$ $Peter Mates 'Number 93' (Oct. 1998). 60 or more remain in the artist’s studio. He would part with the entire fleet for a very modest sum. A boat based on those in paintings by Alfred Wallis. Peter has carved over 100 of these out of wood from decommissioned Newlyn fishing boats i\n the spirit of Alfred Wallis, who collected old iron. Wood & Paint, 32 x 43 x 9cm, £450$

Andrew Lanyon 'A Loss of Colour', (1976). From 'The Vanishing Cabinet' - an elaborate exhibition which began at the Photographers' Gallery then toured via Bristol to the Penwith Gallery. Card, wood, glass & metal, 26 x 34.5 x 15cm, £150

Sally Cole ‘Beneath the Surface’, (2019), Linocut, 25.5 x 25.5cm, SOLD

Andrew Lanyon 'Monument to the Last Pedestrian I', (1987), Oil, 10 x 21cm, £2,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Each Time Nature Laughs at the Antics of Man She Throws Back Her Head’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 36 x 37cm, £3,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Dusk’, (2009/15), Oil, 20 x 25cm, £3,750

Derek Guthrie 'Civilian Casualty', Plaster, wire and wood, 12 x 56 x 21cm, £450

Andrew Lanyon ‘Tortured Flowers’, (2010), Oil, 27 x 27.5cm, £1,000

Carlos Zapata ‘Child Soldier’, (2010), Wood, £2,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Cassowary's Favourite Tree’, (c.2020), Oil, 22 x 16.5cm, £1,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Parasol and the Walking Wood’, (2023), Oil, 26 x 28.5cm, £2,000

Debbie Prosser ‘The Cornfield (Falling for Columbine)’, Watercolour, 19.5 x 25cm, £150

Richard Sorrell ‘Beach’, (2025), Watercolour, 35 x 42cm, £850

Andrew Lanyon ‘Sketch for 'The Palanquin, the Steamer and the Tent'’, (2023), Oil and pencil, 12 x 10cm, £750

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Mower and the Shepherdess’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 23 x 23cm, £2,500

Debbie Prosser ‘Drawings for the film and book

Andrew Lanyon ‘A Composite Portrait with Sir Francis Galton's Head and A Horse
For Eadweard Muybridge's Body - Both Men Being Exponents of Different Sorts of Specialised Photography: The One Composite, The Other Sequential’, Oil, 14 x 20cm, £1,200

Andrew Lanyon 'Frank Perrycoste Fingerprinting Everyone in Polperro for Sir Francis Galton', (1976), Oil, 33.5 x 35cm, £1,200

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Dawn Raid’, (2021), Oil, 22 x 20cm, £500

Richard Sorrell ‘Promenade’, (c. 2024), Oil, 48 x 80cm, £2,500

Andrew Lanyon 'Lift Off', (2007), Two brushes and copper cone, 22 x 15 x 15cm, SOLD

Sam Lanyon ‘Sewing Machine’, (c. 1991), Cotton, 9 x 13cm, SOLD

Sam Lanyon ‘Mantlepiece Clock’, (18th May 1987, aged 6), Metal can and wire on slate base, 14 x 17 x 8cm, £500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Hollow Book - 'Every Rhyme'’, (2003), Brass, wood, metal, plastic and paper, 18 x 13.5cm, £550

Eleanor Mumford ‘The Classical Ideal and Fire and Brimstone’, (2018), Oil, on blackboard, 61 x 122.5cm, £800

Sam Pascoe ‘Nature's Prototype for a Human with Emotions on the Outside’, (2018), Mixed media, 27 x 20 x 13cm, £1,250

Chris James ‘Nature's Laboratory Assistant’, (2018), Pencil, 12 x 12cm, £500

Arthur Lanyon ‘Gods and Mortals’, (2017), Oil, charcoal, collage and pencil on panel 79 x 41cm, £995

Milly Freeman ‘Rabbit’, Watercolour, 10 x 15cm, £175

Sam Pascoe ‘Adam’, (2018), Mixed media, 20 x 13 x 10cm, £1,250

Andrew Lanyon ‘Hollow Book with Oil, paintings - 'Life and Death'’, (1998), Material, brass and wood, 15.5 x 14.5cm, £1,500

Matthew Lanyon ‘A bit of A30 (The Old One)’, (1995), 5 x 7 x 7cm, £550

Andrew Lanyon ‘Hollow Book - 'Words'’, (1997), Card, paper, material and wood, 18 x 18cm, £750

Paul Spooner ‘Serving Suggestion’, (2025), Wood, metal and plastic 26 x 8 x 14cm, £1,400

Michael Chaikin ‘Crow’, (see 'Three Soldiers', YouTube Andrew Lanyon films), (2025), Steel and cloth, 45 x 130 x 50cm, £3,950

Peter Lanyon 'Orange and Green', (1962), Gouache on paper, 112 x 328cm, £150,000. © Estate of Peter Lanyon

Terry Pope ‘Space Improvisation Drawing’, (1961), Perspex, Ink, and silver steel, 44 x 44 x 8cm, £9,950

Debbie Prosser ‘Ox-Cart’ (for 'Rabelais and Cervantes on the Road to Cornwall'), (2023), Watercolour, 45 x 67cm, £75

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Swing Down the Generations of Types and Traits’, (2023), Oil, 30 x 25.5cm, £1,750

Andrew Lanyon ‘Girl with Stick’, (2022), Oil, 28 x 37.5cm, £5,000. A girl is running a stick along railings. We learn that the
distance between the railings is so much, that the speed at
which she is moving is such and such, and that as we see
her hit one upright, we hear the sound of her hitting
the one before. So we can work out from the delay in the
sound how far we happen to be from the scene. In other words
we are too far away to see anything at all.
STILL LIFE WITH LUMPS OF URANIUM -P.35/36

Andrew Lanyon ‘A Dream of Time I’, (2023), Oil & pencil, 15.5 x 13.5cm, £2,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘Hollow Book - Time (Continued)’, Wood, card, leather, watch strap and ammonite, 19 x 13.5 x 3.5cm, £2,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘Splitting the Log’, (2025), Oil, 25 x 37.5cm, £3,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘Hollow Book - 'The Grubs of Thought'’, (2004), Worm eaten Wood, pencils, Wood, card, and cloth 26.5 x 19cm, £750

Andrew Lanyon ‘Still Life with Lumps of Uranium’, (2006), Oil, 20 x 22cm, £3,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Butterfly’, (2023), Oil and pencil, 27.5 x 36cm, £3,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Snip of Clippers Outside’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 21.5 x 19.3cm, £1,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Hollow Book - Full Stop and Comma’, Wood, 19 x 11.5 x 5.5cm, £5,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘A Painter Waiting until a Sound Dictates a Feeling’, (2019/25), Oil, 24 x 26cm, SOLD

Andrew Lanyon ‘Sphinx’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 23.5 x 24.5cm, £500

Debbie Prosser ‘Mildew the Mermaid’, (2018), Watercolour, 45 x 283cm, SOLD

Andrew Lanyon ‘An Ode From the Lips of Jugs for Ears and Eyes and for Sounds and Scenes’, (2025), Oil, 17 x 22cm, £2,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Hollow Book with Oil, painting - 'Intricately Wired'’, (1995), Wood, paper, material and card, 18 x 18.5cm, £1,000

Simon Marsh ‘Trencrom’, (2024), Mixed media, 23 x 32cm, £1,000

Simon Marsh ‘Soapy Cove’, (2023), Mixed media, 36 x 28 x 22cm, £1,000

Andrew Lanyon Hollow Book - 'The Submariners of Sense' (2005), Lead type, toy lead submarine, card, wood and cloth 27.50 x 29.5cm, £5,000

Richard Sorrell ‘Holiday’, (2025), Watercolour, 39 x 51cm, £950

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Porous Jug’, (2023), Oil, 24 x 24cm, £2,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘Painter with Muse, (2023), Oil and pencil, 26.50 x 24cm, £3,000

Sally Cole ‘Buzzard’, (2023), Oil, 63 x 63cm, £1,500

Ivan Savage ‘Woodworm’, (2016), Digital collage, 8.5 x 14.5cm,

Joe Skinner ‘Inchworm’, Wood and paint 28 x 17cm, £100

Tanya Peixoto ‘Phoenix’, (2016), Mixed media, (flames by Carlos Zapata), 23.5 x 19cm, £650

Chris James ‘Tome of Tactics Carried by an Ant’, (2016), Ink, on acetate, 40 x 26cm, £950

Sally Cole ‘Cormorant II’, (2021), Wood, engraving, 15 x 12cm, £75

Sally Cole ‘Nightfall’ (2021), Three block Linocut, 12.5 x 17cm, SOLD

Julia Ciccone ‘Rory’, (2016), Unique giclee print on canvas, 50 x 61cm, £420

Debbie Prosser ‘Badgers with One Squirrel’, (for 'The Musings of Creatures'), (2016), Charcoal, 180 x 45cm, £100

Andrew Lanyon ‘Bernard Leach’, (1966), Photograph, 24 x 13cm, £1,000

Gillian Potkins ‘Bookworm’, (2023), Ink, 14.5 x 21cm, SOLD

Debbie Prosser 'The Innkeeper's Daughter', (from the book 'Rabelais and Cervantes on the Road to Cornwall', Ink, 13 x 13.5cm, £450

Chris James ‘A Twist in the Tale’, (2023), Pencil, 30.5 x 21.5cm, £1,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Cliff Walk’, (2021), Oil, 29 x 28cm, £4,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Hedge above Zennor’, 1960's vintage print on litho Paper, 17.5 x 24cm, £1,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘Rosewall, above St Ives’, 1960's vintage print on Agfa Portriga Rapid Paper, 24 x 29cm, £1,000

Peter Lanyon 'Two Nudes', Undated. Stamped on reverse with Lanyon stamp by Sheila Lanyon. Conté, 55 x 76cm, £20,000. © Estate of Peter Lanyon

Peter Lanyon 'Nude', Undated. Stamped sideways on reverse with Lanyon stamp by Sheila Lanyon. Conté, 45.5 x 61cm, £20,000. © Estate of Peter Lanyon

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Sculpture of Liberty’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 30.50 x 38.5cm, £2,750

Andrew Lanyon ‘A Toast to Day and Night’, (2004/5), Oil, 39 x 40.5cm, £3,500

Andrew Lanyon 'The Assignation. Time, of course, gets the wrong venue and Space is late', (2023), Oil, 28.5 x 39cm, £2,750

Andrew Lanyon ‘Text Turned Back into Ink’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 12 x 11.5cm, £500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Leaning to the Light’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 12.5 x 12.5cm, £750

Stella Benjamin ‘Woven Tapestry’, Tapestry, 89 x 65cm, £7,000

Andrew Lanyon ‘The Kite and the Child’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 28.5 x 34cm, £2,750

Andrew Lanyon ‘Painter and Painting’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 26 x 29cm, £3,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘The View’, (2022/5), Oil and pencil, 18.5 x 23.5cm, £2,500

Andrew Lanyon ‘Science’, (2025), Oil and pencil, 23 x 34cm, £3,000

Sue Spooner ‘No. 8’, (2025), Tapestry wall hanging, wool on cotton, 79 x 151cm, £1,800