Penlee House Gallery + Museum in Penzance, West Cornwall
Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK is the only Cornish public gallery specialising in the Newlyn School artists (c.1880 - c.1940) including Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, Frank Bramley, Walter Langley and Laura Knight.
Set in an elegant Victorian house and park, Penlee House also covers West Cornwall's archaeology and social history, and offers an excellent café and shop.
Publisher: Penlee House Gallery and Museum and Visit Cornwall Producer: SoundView Media
Penlee House Gallery and Museum Penzance Cornwall
Penlee House Gallery and Museum may encourage you to leave the house more often and explore the many attractions of Penzance Cornwall. Even if you know the area well we are here to help you and can offer advice to help you make the right decision. Simply visit our website.
The Bigger Picture Exhibition Penlee House Gallery, Penzance
Showcasing a marvellous assortment of painting in Cornwall from the 1920s to the 1960s, this film reveals the rich diversity of artistic styles that this region has inspired. We hear about the influence of the landscape and artists contribute including rare archive of Sir Terry Frost and a insightful interview with Rose Hilton, wife of painter Roger.
Penlee's Gallery Director Louise Connell introduces the film and experts Michael Gaca and Michael Bird offer their views. The film reveals how hanging alongside the better-known names of Trevor Bell, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Cedric Morris, Ben Nicholson, Adrian Ryan, Bryan Wynter and John Wells is a plethora of remarkable work by artists from the same period including Shearer Armstrong, George Lambourn, Mary Jewels, Albert Reuss and Charles Breaker. Some of the works on loan come from The Cornwall Schools Collection.
Gibson & Sons
A short film about the Gibson Family of photographers, first shown during Penlee House's exhibition: 'Luminaries: Victorian Photographers in West Cornwall'.
The film was produced by VisionOn Communications using National Lottery Funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Top 17. Best Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Penzance - Travel Cornwall, England
Top 17. Best Tourist Attractions in Penzance - Travel Cornwall, England: Minack Theatre, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Trengwainton Garden, Penzance to Marazion, Tanglewood Wild Garden, Merry Maidens, Men-an-tol, Morrab Gardens, Chapel Street, Trewidden Garden, Chysauster Ancient Village, The Egyptian House, Newlyn Art Gallery, Lamorna Cove, The Exchange Gallery, National Dahlia Collection
Tour round Castle An Dinas Quarry near Penzance
Castle-an-Dinas Aggregates Quarry has been supplying a range of quality Cornish stone products for over 100 years. Edgar, Operations Manager takes you on a tour round and explains the history of the quarry right back to the bronze age!
The Orangery Cafe at Penlee House, Penlee park Penzance
Introducing The Orangery Cafe at Penlee House & Museum, Penzance, Cornwall.
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A tour of the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Penzance, Cornwall
A short video guide to Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Penzance, Cornwall. A fascinating family-friendly museum. Discover the hub of Britain's global communications in the secret WW2 tunnels.
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Best Attractions and Places to See in Penzance, England
In this video our travel specialists have listed some of the best things to do in Penzance . We have tried to do some extensive research before giving the listing of Things To Do in Penzance.
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List of Best Things to do in Penzance, England
Minack Theatre
Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Tanglewood Wild Garden
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens
Morrab Gardens
Trengwainton Garden
The Hoxton Special
Chapel Street
Men-an-tol
Polgoon Vineyard & Orchard
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Penzance, Cornwall
4th July 2014
We enjoyed walking around Penzance, which we could not get to yesterday because of a bus not turning up. Lunch was Cornish pasties.
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RNLB Storm Rider Visits the Old Penlee Slipway at Mousehole
Wednesday 23rd September 2015: With retired St. Ives Coxswain Tommy Cocking at the helm and Lowestoft Coxswain John Fox among the crew, RNLB Storm Rider stops by the old Penlee RNLI slipway to say hello to The Lifeboat Station Project whilst on passage to St. Ives.
Filmed by Jack Lowe with exit footage by Peter Naylor of Schoolhouse Digital.
Heritage Heroes Award Winners 2018 - Newquay Old Cornwall Society Museum
The Newquay Old Cornwall Society archaeology group work tirelessly to care for the ancient archaeological site around Newquay. Never afraid of hard work, or poor weather they work throughout the year undertaking site monitoring, clearance, provide guided tours and walks and conservation care for the ancient sites.
MORRAB GARDENS PENZANCE CORNWALL
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Wolvesey Castle, Winchester
Quick clip of Wolvesey Castle in Winchester.
A tour of Falmouth Art Gallery in Cornwall
The Falmouth Art Gallery allows you to discover masterpieces by Thomas Gainsborough, Laura Knight, Alfred Munnings, John Singer Sargent, Henry Scott Tuke, Charles Napier Hemy and George Frederick Watts alongside pictures by contemporary artists such as Naomi Frears and Trevor Bell.
The Art Gallery's most famous painting is The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, which is known throughout the world.
Published by Falmouth Art Gallery and Visit Cornwall
Producer: SoundView Media
Penzance Place Identity
A film for one of my modules for my Masters in Spatial Planning at Oxford Brookes University.
Please note my reference list:
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THE ART OF COLLECTING | John Wilson
THE ART OF COLLECTING | An exhibition of paintings from the permanent collections of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery | Curated by Roger Cucksey and John Wilson | July 2007
* THE ART OF COLLECTING provides a public airing of works by some of the better known artists in the Newport Museum and Art Gallery's collection.
* Over a hundred years in the making, Newport has quietly built up a public art collection of which it can be proud. The exhibition highlights the way in which the Newport Museum and Art Gallery's permanent collections have been formed through a fortuitous mix of private benefactions, public educational principles and curatorial nurturing over the decades.
* The exhibition features a diverse range of mostly twentieth century works by notable British and Welsh artists including Sir Frank Brangwyn R.A., Christopher Wood , Alexander Stanhope Forbes R.A., Terrick Williams R.A., Sir William Russell Flint R.A., Dorothea Sharp, Merlyn Evans, Sir Alfred Munnings R.A., Patricia Preece, Edward Wadsworth A.R.A., Ceri Richards, Sir Kyffin Williams R.A., Sir Stanley Spencer R.A., John Elwyn , L.S.Lowry, Jeffrey Steele, and William Scott R.A..
A museum is like a living organism: it requires continual and tender care; it must grow, or it will perish | Sir William Flower, Essays on Museums, 1898.
Old Coast Guard Hotel, Mousehole, Cornwall
Old Coast Guard Hotel, Mousehole, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6PR
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Penzance Cornwall
2015 Oct 27 - Penzance, Cornwall. England.
Harold and Laura Knight (Newlyn School)
Happy birthday dear Julie, with love, Ernesto y Amalia
Music: “An Autumn Story” (original composition) piano Jose M. Armenta
Harold Knight (27 January 1874 – 3 October 1961) was an English portrait, genre and landscape painter.
Knight was born in Nottingham, England, the son of an architect, and studied at Nottingham School of Art under Wilson Foster. At the School of Art he met fellow artist Laura Johnson, whom he married in 1903. As Laura Knight, she became well known for her paintings of scenes from the ballet, circus etc.
After spending time in Paris, studying art under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin-Constant, then at Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, Harold Knight moved in 1907, with Laura, to Newlyn, a fishing port in Cornwall, where they became part of the famous Newlyn School.
During the First World War Knight’s principles led him to be a conscientious objector, which earned him the rebuke of many of his colleagues and former friends, and put a strain on his physical and mental health, as he was required to work as a farm labourer. When the War ended, he and Laura moved to London, although they frequently returned to Cornwall to paint.
Knight was elected a Royal Academician in 1937, and died in 1961 in Colwall, Herefordshire.
Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)
Born in Derbyshire, Laura Johnson was encouraged to paint by her artistic mother and first went to study at Nottingham School of Art at the age of thirteen. It was here that she met her future husband, Harold Knight, with whom she spent time in Staithes (a small fishing village in Yorkshire), where they both found inspiration and in Holland, where they studied the Dutch masters.
In 1907, the Knights came to Cornwall, at first taking lodgings in Newlyn and later moving to Lamorna, where they became central figures in the growing artists colony. Laura specialised in combining landscapes and figures, painting nude models out of doors, caused some controversy among the local population, but her charming and lively personality overcame most resistance.
During the WW1, Harold Knight was a conscientious objector and was made to work on the land. Afterwards, in 1919, the couple decided to leave Cornwall, moving to London. Laura kept her Lamorna studio for some years and continued to return to Cornwall, where she felt she had spent her happiest times.
She was made a Dame in 1929 for her services to art and in 1936 became the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy.
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Newlyn School
The Newlyn School was an art colony of artists based in or near Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early twentieth century. The establishment of the Newlyn School was reminiscent of the Barbizon School in France, where artists fled Paris to paint in a more pure setting emphasizing natural light. These schools along with a related California movement were also known as En plein air.
Newlyn had a number of things guaranteed to attract artists: fantastic light, cheap living, and the availability of inexpensive models. The artists were fascinated by the fishermen's working life at sea and the everyday life in the harbour and nearby villages. Some paintings showed the hazards and tragedy of the community's life, such as women anxiously looking out to sea as the boats go out, or a young woman crying on hearing news of a disaster. Lamorna Birch was the prime mover behind the colony and the work done there. The later Forbes School of Painting, founded by Stanhope Forbes and his wife Elizabeth in 1899, promoted the study of figure painting. A present day Newlyn School of Art was formed in 2011 with Arts Council funding providing art courses taught by many of the best-known artists working in Cornwall today.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lamorna, a nearby fishing village to the south, became popular with artists of the Newlyn School and is particularly associated with the artist S. J. Lamorna Birch who lived there from 1908.