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Yew Tree Gallery Sculpture Gardens and Organic Gardens.

Vegetarian B&B in a 300 year old farmhouse on Penwith peninsula. Organic and home grown and home-made produce; extensive gardens and beach nearby. Packs of herbs and saladings for sale.

YEW TREE GALLERY, on the West coast of Cornwall, is set among fields and gardens facing the broad Atlantic against a backdrop of the ancient moors of Penwith. The village of Morvah lies about a mile away, with the erstwhile mining community of Pendeen and Botallack to the west.

The gallery buildings nestle into the landscape at Keigwin, a farming hamlet on the B3306 coast road between St Ives and St Just. Exhibitions are held from Easter to the end of October, curated by Gilly Wyatt Smith who previously ran Yew Tree Gallery in Derbyshire then Gloucestershire for 30 years.

In between exhibitions the gallery space is also offered as a workshop venue for fully residential courses or retreats. Brochures with tariff available by post to those interested in organizing workshops here.

Many of the exhibitions follow a theme that links us to our environment – both particular to this place but also embracing the wider realm of the planet. Such artists as ANDREW WADDINGTON and LORNA GRAVES express this admirably, as do JOHN MALTBY and ELAINE PAMPHILON. This is an equally strong theme with DAVID KEMP who showed paintings and sculpture in THE LAND AROUND US in 2006.

Nationally respected artists living in West Cornwall, such as BREON O’CASEY and ROSE HILTON, exhibit in solo shows here. All exhibitors are selected for the very individual quality of their work, whether it be paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, wood, textiles or jewellery. Many, but not all, the artists work in Cornwall. Overall, the gallery’s aim is to show work of the highest calibre which expresses the true soul of the artist.

Visitors to the gallery are invited to wander through the sculpture gardens and organic potager with its wildlife pond, ( not missing the ducks and their comical antics ), and enjoy the views as well as the works of art and plants, herbs and saladings, which are also for sale when crops are abundant.

This newly built art gallery is situated in beautiful and historic Cornwall, in the far South-West of England. Yew Tree Gallery nestles into the lower slopes of Penwith's ancient moors, facing a broad sweep of the Atlantic. This peninsula, which juts out to Land's End, is studded with iron-age (and earlier) settlements and standing stones. The field patterns have not changed for thousands of years, bringing a deep awareness of the necessity of living in harmony with the land and the elements in this exposed part of West Cornwall.

The gallery opened here in November 2001 (after 30 years ‘upcountry’) with ‘EYE OF THE SOUL’, a retrospective exhibition of Lorna Graves’ paintings and ceramic sculpture and Kirsten Glasbrook’s colourful woven tapestries. ‘TOUCHING THE EDGE’ followed in May 2002 wth Fiona Millais’ paintings and Edwina Bridgeman’s mixed media sculpture. September 2002 saw the highly successful ‘TIDELINES’ exhibition, showing Elaine Pamphilon’s paintings of St Ives, John Maltby’s ceramic sculpture, Martin and Dowling’s sophisticated wood carvings and Wendy Ramshaw’s exquisite jewellery.

The 2003 season opened with ‘PEOPLE OF THE SOLITUDES’ – an unusual exhibition of photographs of nomadic Tibetan tribes by Diane Barker, etchings by Denny Long and ash and willow furniture by Guy Martin and Guy Royle’s jewellery. A legacy from ‘SEA GARDENS’ (summer) are Geraldine Jones’ living willow hut in the walled garden and a double arch in the potager. All for commissioning! Penwith painters Biddy Picard and June Miles brought more colour and light to the gallery in August. The solo show of BREON O’CASEY’s paintings, sculpture and prints in September/October was a sell-out. He will be showing here again in 2007.

In 2004 ‘CATCHING THE LIGHT’ included paintings by Anne-Cecile de Bruyne and Jane Scott; ceramic sculpture, ‘light prints’ and outside, a huge mobile sculpture – all by Peter Fluck; stone carvings by Baz Mehew and sea-glass jewellery in gold and silver by Gina Cowen. In June and July ‘VOYAGE’ showed paintings and sculpture by Derek Nice in the main gallery and Lorna Graves in the glasshouse with woven tapestries by Joan Baxter and Laurel Keeley’s ceramics.‘WILD AND FREE’ concluded the 2004 shows with oils and watercolours by Andrew Waddington and ceramics by Jill Fanshawe Kato.

‘WILD AND FREE’ concluded the 2004 shows with oils and watercolours by Andrew Waddington and ceramics by Jill Fanshawe Kato

Studio glass by JANE CHARLES, domestic pottery by JUDITH ROWE and small sculptures by LORNA GRAVES are usually available at the gallery, together with original prints by ROBERT GREENHALF and others.


Contact Information

Tel: 01736 786 425
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E-Mail: gilly@yewtreegallery.com
Website: www.yewtreegallery.com
Address: Keigwin Farmhouse
Nr. Morvah
Pendeen
Penzance
TR19 7TS
United Kingdom

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