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Retired lecturer, ex-trawler skipper, artist, photographer, fishing industry guru. Socks soaked in seawater.

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🎨 Portraits of Zennor sessions recommencing tomorrow, Thursday 1st October, and every Thursday right through until Christmas. 🎄. These are untutored sessions open to all levels of experience wishing to engage in portrait practice, where the lovely, wild and character full folk of Zennor have been kindly sitting for us to paint their portraits.
In return we will be hosting an exhibition of them all and they can choose to keep their favourite painting of themselves.
It’s great fun and a really supportive group of people attending regularly. There is siace for more to attend.
It’s in a drop in basis though booking/payment needs to be made via our website: justlife.art however this can be done in the day.
Look forward to seeing some of you tomorrow.
Images are of some of the portraits of Zennor folk we have painted during these sessions so far. #portraitpainting #zennor #justlifeart #stives #cornwall

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After what seems forever, we’ve finally got @dawnlightih99 on her mooring at Orford. Our young skipper Josh is delighted with how she handles and looking forward to getting some gear in the water.

First the MCA tho 🤞🏻

The story starts here 🐟🦞

#plymouthpilot #inshorefishing #supportingourfishingcommunities #newentrant #sustainability

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One week until Newlyn Harbour looks like this 🎏😍

Once you’ve had the chance to enjoy freshly cooked sardines from the team @argoenewlyn and a drink served by @newlynharbourlights don’t miss out on the chance to meet the sardine skippers and crews who pride themselves on catching the finest Cornish sardines to bring to your plate.

Find out more at the link in our bio 🐟

#CornishSardineFest #CornishSardine #Newlyn #Cornwall

🎨: @capnh

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#cornishsardinefest #cornishsardines

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🎨 Save Penzance School of Art Art Auction! 🎨

@frances_bell_paintings , another incredible artist whom is very in demand teaching-wise, whom we hope to get down here somewhere along the way, is donating this very tranquil outside pool painting. Delighted Francis is in the mix as absolutely love her brushwork.
Am extremely grateful to all of you artists who are stepping up to help us fight for the preservation and future of these historic buildings that have served the community of West Cornwall and beyond for nearly a century and a half.
With it being the hub for the Newlyn School, many of whom taught there, with Oscar Wilde having been hosted there, with Peter Lanyon and Sir Terry Frost having been students there and Bernard Leach and Barbara Hepworth also taught there- how can it even be considered as fodder for development?!

Make sure you come along to see these amazing works.

📍 Where: Chapel House, Chapel Street, Penzance TR18 4AQ
📅 Auction Date: 19th July at 4:00 PM
👁️ Viewing Days & Times:
* 17th & 18th July: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
* 19th July: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

🚨 WE NEED YOUR HELP TO REACH THE FINISH LINE 🚨
While we prepare for the auction, reach out to art benefactors, apply for grants, and secure features in national and local press we have less than 6 weeks left until the deadline of 15th August and we need your assistance:

👉 Donate now via our Crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-penzance-school-of-art-crowdfunder (Link is also in our bio!)

👉Donate a painting to our auction. It could be yours, it could be a painting you have inherited.

👉 Donate via BACS: JUSTLIFEART CIC
Sort code: 524131
Acc No: 45332975

Please note: Should we not be in a position to save/purchase Penzance Schook of Art for whatever reason then donations made via Crowdfunder and BACS will be refunded as will payments for art purchases made at the auction upon their return.

#SavePenzanceSchoolOfArt #PenzanceArt #CornwallArtists #ArtAuction #Penzance PAOTY ContemporaryArt SaveOurHeritage CrowdfunderUK SupportLocalArt

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🎨 Save Penzance School of Art Auction 🎨

Here is a figure study generously donated to our benefit art auction fundraiser by the masterful @antonywilliams1410 , another pinch me moment that we are supported by such greats. Antony will be teaching a 3 day introduction to portrait panting in egg tempera in October followed by a ten day intensive in May 2027.
Antony is the Vice President of the @royalsocietyportraitpainters is a member of the @thecbpp and the @newenglishart and won the Herbert Smith Freehills portrait award at the National Portrait Gallery in 2024.

We are very grateful to all the contributing artists whether members of our faculty, very successful established local artists, emerging artists, students of ours, it is very touching the amount you all believe in our campaign. We have until 15th August to raise £450k to save/buy the historic Penzance School of Art. So please come to our auction, donate on Crowdfunder or directly via BACS and get in touch if you want to donate artwork. Details of art auction and ways to donate follow below:

📍Chapel House, Chapel Street, Penzance TR18 4AQ

📅 Auction starts 4pm 19th July
however you can arrive from 3.30pm for drinks and ti claim o seat as space is limited.
We can also take bids over the phone for those of you who cannot attend in person.

👓 Viewing is from 11am-4pm on the 17th and 18th July and from 11am until 2pm on the 19th.

We are creating a digital catalogue of all the donated works which we will be mailing out to everyone. Head to our website, justlife.art (link in bio) to be added to our mailing list.

How to Donate Money Now:
Crowdfunder: save Penzance school of art (link in bio)
BACS:JUSTLIFEART CIC , Sort code: 524131,
Account no: 45332975

Please note: Should we not be in a position to save/purchase Penzance Schook of Art for whatever reason then donations made via Crowdfunder and BACS will be refunded as will payments for art purchases made at the auction upon their return.

#savepenzanceschoolofart #artauction #penzance #fundraiser

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🚨 Save Penzance School of Art 🚨

We have a deadline of 15th August by which to raise £450k to buy/save Penzance School of Art from being sold to developers.

👉Head over to our Crowdfunder campaign: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-penzance-school-of-art-crowdfunder# (link also in bio)
and donate what you can comfortably afford.

Also you can set up your own fundraising too, either via Crowdfunder that can be linked to ours, or via another mode of fundraising out in the community.

You can also get in touch and offer rewards to put on our Crowdfunder Campaign to offer to donators. Rewards such as complimentary therapies, dinner for two, weekend getaways, anything and everything considered.

This will help us to reinstate this historic building as an art school in perpetuity, re-establishing the lost adult education art courses that used to be funded by the LEA, continuing master classes in portraiture and figurative painting, reopening the ceramics department, creating 2 year diplomas, affordable studios for artists, and a large community studio for hire.

The history and legacy of the art school began in 1853 with the art school first existing in Princes Street, a short walk away. As demand grew funds were raised and this purpose built School of Art was designed by Silvanus Treval, first opening its doors in 1881.

Over the years many of the Newlyn School taught here including Stanhope Forbes, and it being the first art school to be built this side of Bristol (and the first in the UK to be built in a town) it attracted important exhibitions and visitors. Even Oscar Wilde was once hosted here.

Later modernists such as Sur Terry Frost and Peter Lanyon were students here, with Bernard Leach opening an over flow fir his St Ives pottery in the basement and later teaching and Barbara Hepworth also being a tutor here.

Known to most generations today as having been the centre of creative access for all with LEA funded adult education art courses.

Please help us reinstate and reinvigorate this amazing legacy for future generations to come.
#savepenzanceschoolofart #penzance #cornwall

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Just finished 7 consecutive days of posing in Zennor for the fabulous portrait painters of @justlife.art under the expert tutelage of @owainhunt who has been made a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters at only 32. Lots of amazing portraits and some added drama as the other model dropped out halfway through the course which meant extra work for me but I loved the experience. The little documentary of the week is up on my channel now #bobosborne #rebelnottaken #belucky #portrait #zennor

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Can’t even bare to look at this 🤣🤣🤣 but needs must. We are about to launch a major campaign in the coming days so for those of you followers who I have yet to meet, here I am with a little information about me, justlife.art CIC and a teaser as to the project in hand. We are going to need all the support and help we can get so please keep an eye out for us in the coming days and weeks 🌹 x #penzanceschoolofart #majorcampaign #fundraiser #communityartschool

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Can’t even bare to look at this 🤣🤣🤣but needs must. We are about to launch a major campaign in the coming days so for those of you followers who I have yet to meet, here I am with a little information about me, justlife.att CIC and a teaser as to the project in hand. We are going to need all the support and help we can get so please keep an eye out for us in the coming days and weeks.🌹x

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LAURENCE HARTWELL
My artwork explores the intersection of documentary photography and narrative illustration. I use traditional and digital techniques to capture the essence of Penwith’s fishing industry and landscape.
My work strives to evoke emotion and spark conversation, inviting viewers to connect with the rich history and enduring spirit of Penwith.

e: laurencehartwell@gmail.com i: capnh

#cornwallartists #penzancestudios

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A Sardine Festival.

Fish, music, boats, bars and art. But truly so much more than that.

The passion on the faces of those who created this was apparent. Smiles and emotion at what we pulled together with limited resources in an impossibly short time, pure joy at the fact that all these people came to celebrate the sardine with us: This wasn’t a conventional food festival. It was our festival, a Sardine Festival.

Over a thousand people fed, visitors relishing in the atmosphere created by a thousand grilling fish, the sights and sounds of a Portuguese summer, in the heart of our harbour. Yes the queues were long - but we’re grateful to those who waited and hope that a freshly grilled sardine at the end was well worth it. Kind comments from those who saw how hard our team worked to make it happen made our day.

Tom, Andrew and Jack delivered on fish at 4am Saturday morning, just hours before crowds began to gather on the Harbour. You could not eat a fresher sardine.

A row of plates on the gunnels of the Lyonesse - crew, families and visitors tucking in with their hands. Their catch, eaten on their boat, behind us smoke from the grills filling the Harbour and The Strand. Alongside the net sheds, more ring netters, and the great sails of luggers that fished these waters centuries before in search of the same catch. History and tradition, alongside a modern and thriving present, and a group of people proudly upholding a heritage that they are the beating heart of.

To see such energy swirling around the harbour, and at the centre of it this group of genuine people, committed to something beyond just their own day to day, was a special thing. This was their day, and they enjoyed it to its fullest. Our team, along with crews and volunteers, danced until after dark, as WTWTA’s tunes signalled that the hard work was done, and we could kick back to enjoy our efforts. Well done all.

It goes without saying that this would not have happened without the best crew of organisers; an enormous thank you to Gus, Tom, David, Will, Marcia, Pete, Judith and Larry, whose love for this harbour and its community helped establish such a wonderful event.

See you in 2026.

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