Cornwall is looking beautiful under summer sun and outdoor pursuits beckon, but St Ives provides the perfect alternative when the beach palls or rain threatens. Besides the Tate, there are a number of commercial galleries, and chief among them is Wills Lane, which offers a stimulating variety of fine and applied art. For the summer period I have selected a Critic’s Choice for the gallery (until 5 September); of 14 artists, some better-known than others: Maggi Hambling, David Inshaw and Colin Self rubbing shoulders with Tyrel Broadbent, Roland Collins and Nigel Ellis. Landscape is one theme, the sea another. Ceramic fish by Marcia Blakenham flee the marauding black-headed gulls evocatively drawn by Jason Gathorne-Hardy, Adrian Berg’s luxuriant landscapes swap tips on pattern with Stephen Chambers’s screenprints, and John Hubbard’s delicate watercolours of trees contrast with the lively impasto of Tory Lawrence’s north Cornish views. Victoria Achache’s colourful still-life paintings and Jo Welsh’s boxed tableaux bring further diversity.
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