Artists & their boards

Joe’s bold and daring use of colour and application have captured the eyes of galleries and art enthusiasts alike.

Joe sells and exhibits his work in galleries across Cornwall, with an impressive range of collectors and followers of his pieces worldwide.

Salli took up painting when she retired 16 years ago and embarked on a year long Botanical Illustration course at the Eden Project.

Her work now features in Contemporary Botanical Illustration & Natural History Painting with the Eden Project. Salli also organises Art Clubs & Pop-Up Art & Craft shops in her village.

Inspired by the belief that music, language and art all have a mutual effect on one another, multi-award-winning painter Ed Burkes aims to find the peculiar pockets of the everyday.

Ed takes cues from the natural world, as well as lyrics and hooks from popular music and historical culture.

Elaine is Cornish born and bred and works in mixed media collage from her home overlooking Crantock beach.

Her seaside paper collages are inspired by coastal colours and textures and with her background in competitive sailing often reflect a variety of weather conditions. 

Katie bases herself at the Cliffside Gallery, Port Isaac – her working studio gallery which she set up in 1997 after taking a degree in textiles.

Colour and texture are reflected throughout her work by combining techniques of oil pastel and collage, with the local landscape providing a constant inspiration and theme throughout her paintings.

Steve Camps was born in Cornwall in 1957. Although working as a builder for most of his life, Steve always had a passion for collecting and selling antique artworks and frames. However it wasn’t until February 2023, that he turned his own hand to painting. 

He uses a naive style to paint a range of subjects, but it is his most common one which has earned him the title ‘The Prince of Whales’.

Jackie’s aim as an artist is to bring to life a slice of the world as she experiences it.

Colours, textures, patterns, dots and lines create images inspired by natural settings with balance, space and light.

James was born in 1949 and has a collector’s appreciation & tribute to the great and prolific Northern Art movement.

His inspirations come from the works of artists including L S Lowry, Norman Cornish, Peter Brook and others.

Sally is Crantock born and bred and finds drawing and painting her passion, diversion and at times, therapy.

She works in a variety of mediums and size; everything from miniatures to pantomime scenery and commissions for illustrations.

Mark paints as a hobby, but also sells his artwork at a market in St Ives.

His board painting pays tribute to one of his friend’s sons – Kyle who sadly passed away in January 2024. Kyle’s father Glyn asked Mark to paint him on the board from a photo of him surfing, the hobby he loved.

Ian was born in Newquay and attended Redruth art school in the 1960’s.

Ian’s preferred mediums are Acrylic and Oil. Surfing, tall ships and local maritime scenes are his favourite subjects.His paintings can be found in locations around the world.

Anthony Frost was born in St Ives, son of Sir Terry Frost he grew up surrounded by art and artists. He has lectured widely throughout the country and is a prominent member of the artistic community in West Penwith.

His work is immediately recognisable – his collage paintings are alive with vibrant colours, textures and abstract shapes.

Diane Griffiths is a contemporary artist based in Newquay offering original Cornish paintings and gifts in her ‘Beachscape’ style.

She grew up in the Midlands so going to the coast was always a real treat for her and it’s her memories of seaside holidays which inspire her to try and capture that holiday feeling on canvas.

Originally trained in Liverpool, Linda has worked in various artistic fields, including teaching. In recent years her interest in fused and mosaic glass has grown alongside painting

Originally from Yorkshire, Linda divides her time between the beautiful shores of Cornwall and Barbados where she draws inspiration to create images of the sea, it’s creatures and coastline.

Tracey’s painting is a passion inspired by the mood, light and the colours of the environment that surrounds her. Her studio is based on the fringe of Wadebridge, North Cornwall.

She works in many mediums but prefer acrylic and oils for their strength of colour and versatility using a limited palette, in both a traditional and semi-abstract Cubist styles.

Inspired by the coastline around St Ives Bay, Emma’s paintings express the beauty and vitality of the West Cornwall coast.

In her work, spring flowers, bright umbrellas and dazzling waters are framed against the simple shapes of sky, sea and sand. Emma’s talent with colour and the lively characterisation of people and places have made her work among the most recognised and best loved in Cornwall. 

Kit Johns is a 33 year old Cornish artist bringing a fresh, contemporary twist to Cornish landscape art.

He uses mixed media including acrylic, oil and ink encourage him to push the technical boundaries of traditional landscape painting. Authentic vintage maps and other found objects are often used as the base for Kit’s art, creating a rare unique canvas for each painting.

Richard is a self taught artist and works mostly in acrylics, often producing large, impactful pieces, influenced by the music and films he loves.

He has an experimental approach to his art, finding texture and different media to give a visual tone to his pieces. His playful style, clever use of colour and mark making keep his work wonderfully dynamic and fresh.

Based in Cornwall, Alex formally trained in Technical illustration at Falmouth school of art and design.

He has been producing drawings, paintings, sculpture and photography, enjoying the freedom to express himself and challenge contemporary art.

Julie is an artist with a love of colour, an eye for detail and a passion for the protection of our green spaces.

Her paintings are not a portrait of one singular landscape, but rather a combination of many, an intuitive non naturalistic colour palette references a mood and explores the margins between control and nature.

Deborah Creed is an artist and a painter living and working in Cornwall. Her work investigates climate change and natural landscapes through colour and light.

She has worked extensively across the UK and Middle East region with solo exhibitions in Oman, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, London, Brighton, among others.

Andy is a professional artist working from his studio / gallery in Newquay. His work tries to capture the beauty and changing light of the Cornish coast.

His work normally starts as watercolour sketches that are painted “en plein air“ and are scaled up in acrylics back at his studio using the sketches and photos as reference for larger pieces, either on canvas panels or paper.

John paints in oils and on board or canvas. All his paintings are based on West Penwith. Granite cottages and barns with blackthorn trees are the main themes.

The paintings range from very small, 10 cms square to 150 cms square. Many of the paintings have previous ones beneath giving a highly textured surface. These are then scratched into allowing the underpainting to show through.

Chris has been invited to paint a board for Cornwall Hospice Care, following the untimely death of his beloved wife Alex, who painted a beautiful churn for us for the Around Cornwall in 38 Churns project in 2022.

Chris is a photographer and artist based in Bude.

Claire is a primary school teacher who loves art, nature and being outdoors. When not in school, you’ll find her exploring Cornwall’s beautiful coastline. Family beach trips never fail to bring home buckets of shells, sea glass and driftwood, often incorporated into her art.

She hopes her paintings and artwork evoke memories of time spent in Cornwall. Claire sells at craft fairs, art exhibitions and in local shops. She also undertake commissions.

Leana’s art is all about capturing joy and movement, blending her passion for dance with her love of painting. As a self-taught artist working from her home studio in Cornwall, she creates vibrant abstract and semi-abstract seascapes that feel both soothing and alive.

Leana’s work is all about layers, textures, and letting the paint find its own rhythm. Words often weave their way into her pieces, adding another dimension to her expressive style. 

Following a career in media and television as a graphic designer and latterly a senior executive and creative director, Paul relocated to St Ives, Cornwall to pursue his ambition to be an artist.

He applies hundreds of layers using all kinds of paints and image making tools and textures. Most of Paul’s work is based on the amazing seas around the Cornish Coast, aiming to catch the gravity and mass of water that is there in any single moment. 

Rod Walker is a widely travelled artist who incorporates those influences into his work. His painting can be seen as figurative as it references themes such as the sea, landscape, the figure and so on.

He uses simple themes and subjects and tries not to copy reality, but rather establish a relationship with it – altering and developing the colours, shapes and meanings to allow a deeper understanding of the image.

Glynn is primarily a sculptor with a workshop close to St Ives working in a mixture of mild steel, wood and other recycled ephemera. Sculptures range from the miniature to large scale garden/indoor sculptures.

His abstract figurative work comments on modern media/ fashion photography or simple family groups. Welded steel abstracts relate more to feelings of shape, space, balance, movement, windy barren moorlands, horizons, the ever restless sea and the ever changing clouds.

John creates original art in Cornwall that is inspired by the local landscape in and around the Newquay area and beyond.

A versatile artist he paints with acrylics, sketches in pencil and charcoal, produces cartoons and caricatures and decorates surfboards with intricate designs.

Nina is a wildlife & pet portrait artist working from her studio near Newquay. Her fascination and passion for wildlife started at an early age growing up in a small Oxfordshire village spending time in the woods sketching birds and animals.

She specialises in unique wildlife & pet portraits in pastel on velour paper, acrylics and alkyd oils. Nina also loves to paint on slate and offers house signs in acrylic on reclaimed Cornish slate.

After time spent travelling, particularly in New Zealand, Kevin returned to Cornwall and set up Sleepless Ink – to corral his art, design and photography work together in one place.

From Kevin’s early days thriving at art in school, to a life spraying surfboards both in Cornwall and overseas, he has been drawing, airbrushing, designing, cutting stencils, popping the lids off paint tins and soaking up many creative offerings along the way.

From the West Midlands but with a heart rooted in Cornwall, James Davis finds equal inspiration in both places. Drawn to woodcut art and the legacy of St Ives artists, he explores the story of British art from Turner to Stanley Spencer.

His creativity is fuelled by old churches, sweeping landscapes, and the vision of favourites such as Lucian Freud and William Blake, whose influence continues to shape his artistic journey.