For our Festival and Gallery Exhibition this year we are showing drawings and some paintings by Yankel Feather.

Described by author & critic Peter Davies in his book "St Ives Revisited" Yankel Feather has "a lightness of touch and a fluency of colour that is French, even Renoir-esque in feeling".

He was a friend and correspondent of Terry Frost, who also encouraged him.

During the 1980's Yankel was in an enclave of artists with Rose Hilton and Bob Bourne. They were known for their natural colours at a time when genuine talent in Cornwall was thin on the ground.

At this time Yankel Feather exhibited at the Salthouse Gallery run by Bob Devereaux, who will perform his poetry on 27 August in front of the Gallery - see St Ives Comes to Arundel with Anthony Frost below.

20 June 2011

Laura Carlin has won the V&A Illustration Award 2011 for Best Illustrated Book with Iron Man, written by Ted Hughes in the 1960's and re-issued by the Faber & Faber and Walker Books last year.

Laura was presented with her prize at an awards ceremony at the V&A Museum on 7 June. Laura’s artwork, along with the other winners, will be on display at the V&A until December.

The Book was praised by judges for "her sophisticated approach to colour and scale" in what they said was "a stunning example of book illustration and production".

This is the second award Laura Carlin has received for this work, following her Bologna Raggazzi earlier this year.

We have just one copy of the "Deluxe" limited edition of the Iron Man, which comes in a cloth box, has a uniqiue illustrated book plate and a print from the book.

15 June 2011

During Arundel Festival, on 27 August, and for one day only Bob Devereux and Anthony Frost will bring St ives to Arundel.

Bob Devereux, poet, performer, artist, librettist, is one of the leading lights of the St Ives artistic community and Director of St Ives Literature Festival. For thirty years he ran the Salthouse Gallery in St Ives until 2010.

Bob will be performing some of his and others' poems and showing his watercolours in front of the Zimmer Stewart Gallery. Anthony Frost, will join him as he did in this years Hay Festival to show St Ives through his colourful abstract paintings and recollections.

15 June 2011

As part of the 2011 UK Town Criers Competition, held this year in Arundel on Saturday 4 June, individual Town Criers from all over the country performed "cries" outside various venues.

Here is the one at Zimmer Stewart Gallery.

6 June 2011

It is no coincidence that the start of June, bright sunshine and Summer Exhibitons happen at the same time!

This is our chance to show visitors a wide range of work by a number of gallery artists.

This image shows beach paintings and prints by Nick Bodimeade, Wild Water by Barbara Macfarlane and Blue Wolf, a large dry point by Kate Boxer.

3 June 2011