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1783 Maria Branwell is born in Penzance, Cornwall - she became mother of the most famous writing siblings of them all - the Brontes. Here she is in 1799, in blue (centre front) in a Penzance mural, and here also is the house she grew up:

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2021-04-15

Spriggans are small, ugly, malicious fairies in Cornwall. They guard treasure, steal babies and leave changelings behind, ruin crops, and attack those who spy on them. Said to be the ghosts of giants, they can swell to enormous size.

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2021-04-15

Belinda Fair
‘Virtuoso Violin’
Oil on Canvas
16” x 12”
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2021-04-13

Close crop details from a group of new destined for my next solo exhibition Encounters later this summer with Cornwall Contemporary Gallery in From 28th August

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2021-04-03

St Michael & the Devil were always getting into scraps, including in Cornish folklore. The devil was flying, with a giant Boulder, on his way to block the gates of hell. St Michael fights him until he drops the Hell Stone, which later became Helston in Cornwall

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2021-04-01

The airship engineer...been revisiting some older work to play more with textures.

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2021-04-01

The G7 meet in Cornwall this June and we have a question for them. What if the children of all beings were to be placed at the heart of our decision making? Lets get the young ones to share their dreams. Lets make this viral so they cant ignore it !🙏 https://t.co/8yMbRmysAO

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2021-04-01

Oil Painting from a Photograph - Alla Prima | Rinsey Head Cornwall https://t.co/Zh0Btuo6JJ via

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2021-03-31

- hesitant; indecisive or havering. In Scots to ‘haver’ means ‘to talk foolishly’ (see The Proclaimers ‘500 miles’). paintings of the Camden Town Murders of 1907, are seen as evidence that he was Jack the Ripper or is just havering?

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2021-03-29

A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach (1884-5) by Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857–1947). Plymouth Art Gallery. A fish auction on the beach near Newlyn, Cornwall.

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2021-03-27

Porthleven, Cornwall Pen and wash

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2021-03-27

‘Silver sea, golden field. 2017. mixed media and collage on board. 60 x 60cm.’

My latest exhibition ‘Wheat: From Plough to Plate’ is online at

https://t.co/TGE1mBrAaI

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2021-03-26

Good Day!
St Michael's Mount (Cornwall) by James Webb 1890s
(Kunsthaus Lempertz)

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2021-03-26

Windsurfer Cornwall, painted after a trip to beach last year. Pleased that this has SOLD and is on its way to a new home.

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2021-03-25

My latest exhibition ‘Wheat: From Plough to Plate’ is now live at https://t.co/dJ7pLWJMDk

Open physically in April (hopefully)!

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2021-03-24

Pennance entrance grave. Nice example of a Scillionian style. You can't get in the chamber anymore as it's pretty filled in. (sketches by Blight, 1865) on private land so please seek permission before visiting. 😀

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2021-03-23

Here’s my take on a Piskie who’ll be making an appearance in the next story arc for book 2. Just like Book 1 it will comprise of 3 comics.
https://t.co/QTfoRuBgix

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2021-03-22

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” Hamlet, Act 4, Sc 5.

Imgs: Picking Daffodils & in the Orchard, both by Harold Harvey, c.1912.

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2021-03-21