Event information
Date: Friday 1 May – Friday 19 June 2026
Time: 10am – 5pm daily except Sunday
Venue address: The Mariners Gallery, St Ives Society of Artists, Mariners Church, Norway Square, St Ives, TR26 1NA
The annual Spring open exhibition features two of my artworks.
One from from my Shorelines Collection – Horizons 5 (pictured), and one from my Soul Mining Collection – What Lies Within.
Horizons 5, formed from acrylics, sand, beeswax, rope, resin and rivets on linen, echoes a lone boat on the Porthminster horizon – one of my most cherished shorelines.
It draws on the quiet magic of early‑morning sea swims, taken before the beaches fill with visitors and ocean craft. It distils the essence of the place – reflecting the deep turquoise waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the blue skies and the golden sands – abstracted into colour, texture, and rhythm.
At the heart of What Lies Within, part of my Soul Mining Collection, rests a soft yet assertive pink square — a quiet pulse of hope, love, and human tenderness. It reads almost like a beating heart, glowing from within a darker, more turbulent atmosphere.
The pink square lies within a deep green, near‑metallic verdigris structure: monolithic, architectural, protective. Surrounding this outer form, blocks of paler greens, white, sand and copper interrupt the darkness, suggesting fractures, pathways, and the traces of what has been weathered or endured. The gathered materials — sand, beeswax, resin — carry their own histories, grounding the work in the physical world even as it leans toward abstraction.
The painting becomes a meditation on resilience: the quiet strength that persists inside us, and the luminous things that survive beneath the weight of experience.
The show is on at the Mariner’s Gallery, St Ives Society of Artists and runs until 19 June 2026.
