Penwith Gallery

02/09/2026

Karen McEndoo 'Nets and Sails', acrylic, 30 x 40cm, £520

02/09/2026

Justine Lois Thorpe 'Silent Wreck', mixed media on board, 81 x 81cm, £1650

01/09/2026

We are offering these incredible collaborative canvas painting for sale in order to fund next year's workshops for local children.

Our fantastic Access Art workshop sessions have now finished for the summer, and as is traditional, their final collaborative piece is now for sale with 100% of the proceeds going towards running the workshops again next year. These beautiful works have been successfully sold for the past few years, last year to a gallery owner, and we are hoping this year's brilliant offering will catch someone's eye.

Each canvas measures 170 x 119 cm and has been worked on by all our young artists over the course of the summer workshops. You are welcome to make an offer for one or both pieces, and the gallery will cover UK postage and packing to get them to you.

This is a project very dear to the Penwith's heart - we're really proud to be a part of the St Ives community, and the chance to work with local families is very important to us. Please help us to continue to support our brilliant emerging local talent!

31/08/2026

Last Friday was the last of our fantastic Access Art workshop sessions for local children aged 7-11, led by the wonderful .

Our young artists have spent the summer learning different artistic techniques inspired by our gallery artists, culminating in their own exhibition in our Hepworth Room to show off their work! We had the opening party on Saturday for the artists and their families (complete with cupcakes), and the exhibition is on until this Thursday.

This is a project very dear to the Penwith's heart - we're really proud to be a part of the St Ives community, and the chance to work with local families is very important to us.

This project is supported by FEAST on behalf of Creative Kernow, with funding from Arts Council England and Cornwall County Council.

26/08/2026

25/08/2026

Imogen Rorke & Fiona Allen | Things Unsaid
21st August - 19th September 2026

https://penwithgallery.com/exhibition/imogen-rorke-fiona-allen-2026/

Things Unsaid brings together the work of artists Fiona Allen, based in Derbyshire, and Imogen Rorke, based in Cornwall.

Although we live at opposite ends of the country and work independently, we were drawn to one another’s paintings, drawings and words through a shared way of making and a fascination with the things we come to understand through making our work.

24/08/2026

Justine Lois Thorpe | Immerse
21st August - 19th September 2026

https://penwithgallery.com/exhibition/justine-lois-thorpe-2026/

Immerse is a new body of work by Justine Lois Thorpe inspired by her lifelong affinity to Cornwall and its rugged coastline which serves as both subject & catalyst.

Having grown up in St Agnes, on the west coast, the artist has a deep, physical & emotional connection to the Cornish Coastline. It has always been a place of solace, reflection, and creative renewal and her main source of curiosity.

Her paintings have always been the artist’s most natural form of self-expression, here offering a means to explore these connections and her emotional responses to nature and the restlessness of the Cornish coastline, it’s comforting embrace yet its sheer unpredictability. The rhythm of the tides, shifting skies, weathered cliffs, and vast horizons provide a constant source of inspiration.

The artist employs a spontaneous and intuitive process creating works of pure abstraction and abstract representation. Working predominantly with oils on board. Layers of paint are built, scraped back, and reworked, creating rich, layered surfaces and textures that evoke both the physical qualities of the coastline and the emotional response it inspires. Through bold mark-making, shifting colour, and atmospheric depth, her paintings capture not simply what is seen, but what is felt, those fleeting moments when seascape, memory and emotion collide.

Immerse invites you to step beyond observation and into experience. It is an exploration of connection to nature, to memory, and to the emotional currents that shape us. Through these works, the artist offers an opportunity to pause, reflect, and become immersed in the beauty, power, and restorative spirit of the Cornish coast.

13/08/2026

Join us for the opening night of our latest exhibitions on Friday 21st August, from 17:30, all welcome!

Members Autumn Exhibition
21st August - 24th October 2026
Main Gallery
https://penwithgallery.com/exhibition/members-autumn-exhibition-2026/

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Justine Lois Thorpe | Immerse
21st August - 19th September 2026
Studio Gallery
https://penwithgallery.com/exhibition/justine-lois-thorpe-2026/

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Imogen Rorke & Fiona Allen | Things Unsaid
21st August - 19th September 2026
Lanyon Gallery
https://penwithgallery.com/exhibition/imogen-rorke-fiona-allen-2026/

11/08/2026

Christian Escalante Castillo 'Dawn Within', epoxy clay, 10 x 45 x10cm, £280