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According to Cornish folklore, young girls were often transported to fairyland after breaking fern fronds. They would be confronted by a 'fairy widower' and would agree to look after his son with the promise:

'For a year and a day,
I promise to stay'

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2019-08-15

1/ Cornish ladies used roses for divination. Walking backwards into a garden on Midsummer's eve (as you do), they would pick a rose, then place it in a bag... [A plate from 'Flora Londinensis', by William Curtis.]

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2019-08-09

Other designs are purely aesthetic. Sparkpaw(Bakugou) is based on the Laperm while Stickypaw(Sero) is a Cornish Rex. Sometimes I just look at a cat and be like, yep that's definately *insert character here*.

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2019-08-07

Kirsten Elswood's "Seed Head, Newlyn Beach". Kirsten has now moved from Somerset to Cornwall and is getting around new locations!

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2019-07-30

A commission of as bad ass cornish rex! 🐱

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2019-07-27

A third sketch from my Cornish One more coming soon . . .

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2019-07-20

According to Cornish legend, St Michaels Mt in Cornwall was built by the giant Cormoran. A local boy dug a trench into the side of the island & blew his horn so loud Cormoran woke and rolled down the hill. The boy would earn the name "Jack the Giant Killer."

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2019-07-18

Rooftops and chimney pots! A detail from the underpainting of my next acrylic painting...🏠

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2019-07-13

Grilling New Hampshire style- in an abandoned chimney deep in a mosquito filled glen. Not pictured, me in a chiton making Greek god poses with a spatula, because Cornish.

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2019-07-05

Lucia Fairchild Fuller’s mural “Plymouth Women” for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, in a former Grange hall (now a really junky vintage store) in Plainfield NH, a few doors down from the town hall with Parrish’s stage set. Got that weird de Chavannes vibe.

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2019-07-04

Ben Nicholson
Cornish Landscape
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2019-06-24

Norman Cornish: The Portraits at Gala Gallery, Durham. Sun 30th June – Sun 1st September. This exhibition features an interesting selection of portraits and lesser seen self-portraits from throughout the artist’s career.

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2019-06-17

Cornish pasty...

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2019-06-16

Georgie Adams, author of over 80 books for children, and of our very own STORYTIME, is an ambassador of .

Georgie grew up in Kent and Sussex by the sea. When she's not writing, she love walking the North Cornish coastal paths.

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2019-06-09