Take a journey across space and time with the work of Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė’s epic film installation at Tate St Ives which ends 12th April 2026. Inspired by West Cornwall’s landscapes and tides, you’ll step through towering screens arranged like ancient stones and explore moving images of underwater worlds and mythical creatures. I thought […]
Tate St Ives
It was that day again. Car service and MOT day when I have to ditch the car and find something to do as returning home is not possible unless I walk 2 miles uphill and 2 miles back down again on a road without pavements in some parts. Or get an expensive taxi. My old […]
as I was going to St Ives…
It was a blustery day on Wednesday, but I have taken the opportunity to have a short walk when I have to visit the library in Hayle. Sometimes along the Copperhouse Pool and the garden, or along the quayside to the beach. This week I chose the beach as it was low tide. (Please click […]
Cloudscapes
Within the Salon community we count many devotees of the writing of Virginia Woolf and every year we offer a number of studies focusing on her work, some online and others based in some of the places she loved. This autumn we will run the seventh in our series of Virginia Woolf travel studies in […]
Campaign to protect views immortalised in Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’
Since the last update report there has been significant progress in preparing the Market House for use by the Archive. In early 2024 The St Ives Archive and Town Council were fortunate enough to receive central government funding from the Community Ownership Fund and the Town Enterprise Grant to renovate the Market House in the […]
Market House update
Something a little different from me today – another post in an occasional series of pieces about the art books I’ve accumulated over the past few years, mostly from shows I’ve visited in London and the South East. One of my current reading aims is to actually sit down and read some of these books, […]
Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour
Which political party seeking our vote in tomorrow’s local elections is the most ‘Cornish’? Putting policies aside, most of which are merely variants of ‘build more’, which has the greatest proportion of Cornish candidates? One, admittedly very crude, method for assessing this is to compare the surnames of candidates against the 850 or so surnames […]
Cornwall’s local elections 2025
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