Our Summer group exhibition was held at Falmouth Poly in the Spring Gallery from 9th to 13th July 2024.

The exhibition, entitled Colours of Summer, featured the work of a number of our group members, with works in a variety of media.

There is also an online version of the exhibition HERE on our website.

As part of our ongoing collaboration with Truro High School for Girls, artists Sharon Bruster, Natalie Day, Sue Spence, Sarah Ransley and Roberta Hopkins had a two week residency in the school in June 2024.

Each artist used the time to pursue individual projects as well as working alongside each other and facilitating student art sessions.  The Residency was another opportunity to inspire and support the development of young female artists in our County, and a wonderful outreach opportunity for us.

There was a crazy Still Life setup for girls and the artists to make drawings about, two...

Our first creative project was a concertina collaboration.

Pairs of artists made concertina books together.

These books were developed over time – often being posted back and forth between collaborators over several months, with each artist responding to their partner’s work at each stage, to build up layers and layers of marks which ultimately create a rich and exciting collaborative work of art – which bears no resemblance to the first tentative marks on blank paper!

This process is hugely creative and exploratory. It involves trust between creative partners and the ability to let...

Our Spring Exhibition, Driven to Abstraction: Exploring Internal and External Landscapes was curated by artists Sharon Bruster and Fran Marks, and showed works by 17 members of the group.

Sharon said: “A range of thought-provoking abstract works in different mediums, including paintings, mixed media, photography, printmaking, textiles and collage, were selected for this exhibition.

“With myriad interpretations of the theme, we were excited to hold our second show at the beautiful Art Gallery in the Truro High School for Girls grounds.

 “The show was part of our ongoing collaboration...

In September 2023, textile artist Sue Spence invited group members who used textiles in their work to join her to share their work and practice. Six artists gathered in the first meeting and the Textile Artists subgroup, now numbering fourteen, have since met twice more.

The artists currently in the group work with yarn and textiles in diverse ways including hand or machine embroidery, fabric or mixed media collage, wet felting, needle felting, patchwork, crochet and weaving. Some are primarily painters, whose work includes stitched elements, or artists still experimenting or considering...