Hello hello im Shock, Im Cornish! My father is South African and bilingual but I was never able to learn much Afrikaans or experience much of the culture

but Cornish culture is super important to me, plus we're treated to really awesome landscapes here.

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Norman Cornish. A quick sketch, probably done a couple of minutes but captures everything he wanted to record. Stance, posture, character, and the dog. That's when you know someone's very good. 👍

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Brand new work heading to for beg. Nov with the group of Uber-talented women that are
Can’t come soon enough

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Stanhope Forbes was born in Belfast in 1847 and died in Newlyn in 1947. 'A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach' debuted in 1885 and was a huge hit, leading other artists to congregate in Newlyn. Forbes became the leader of the 'Newlyn School' art colony on the coast of Cornwall.

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Framed and ready for sale. “View from the dunes“. Acrylic painting 53x43cm frame size.

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Framed and ready for sale. “View from Porthtowan“ acrylic painting. 53x43cm frame size.

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'Pitmen at the Bar' https://t.co/H72B8b3LaQ Love this take on a Norman Cornish painting by Michael McManus - wouldn't be complete without a whippet!

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Alongside the traditional scenes observed by Cornish his family portraits stand the test of time to remain tender and timeless



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Large Lighthouse Canvas Original Painting, Lightening and the Eddystone off the Devon/Cornish coast. £200 Free delivery. Acrylic. https://t.co/cJgdW1trD1

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💔🐇❤️‍🔥Cornish folklore said that a woman who died of a broken heart could wreak vengeance on the man who wronged her from beyond the grave. Her spirit in the form of a beautiful white hare - visible only to her betrayer - would haunt and torment him to death.

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FAIRIES & SOULS Wentz recorded the belief in fairy hosts as the evil dead & Cornish Peskies as the souls of unbaptised babies, appearing at Twilight in the form of moths, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, 1911 🎨White plume moth; Pirnir, funeral fairies, 1888

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Hard times experienced in Bishops Close St during the depression where families suffered hardship but became subjects for the emerging young artist



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Welcome new followers of . You are so with the the the and ‘spread’ the word.

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This Wednesday 6 October Karl Terry will be painting in the gallery from 2pm as one of the events we have for the exhibition. 'Cornish Cliffs' is one of Karl's plein air paintings in the exhibition, which you can see the process of here! https://t.co/Xw4Qu4cw38

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I’m reading this fantastic book of photographs, poems and snippets of Cornish lives.

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A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach (1884-5) by Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857–1947). Plymouth Art Gallery. The men are wearing sou'wester hats, rough jumpers, oilskin trousers & heavy leather boots. The women, heavy aprons known as a "towser" & woollen shawls.

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Richard Tuff is a popular painter of Cornish Sea and Landscapes. His career in Textile design had been a successful one and then he moved to Cornwall ( Manchester born artist)

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A reminder of the work of mining artist Norman Cornish
who's the subject of an exhibition of 32 works opening on Saturday (18th) at in Cockermouth, The show ends on Oct 8.

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