Cape Cornwall Arts & Crafts Exhibit

While Cornwall is a feast for beachgoers in the spring and summer, it’s also delightful for art lovers. Now through Friday, August 20, 2010, the Cape Cornwall Arts & Crafts Exhibition will offer a glimpse at both tradition and new arts and crafts being worked all over Cornwall. Two of my favourite artists, Mim and John Nash of the Old Well Studio, are involved. 

Recently sold Celtic Ceremonial Chalice by Mim Nash, Old Well Studio

Moon over the Cove by John Nash

  (The cove is Larmorna Cove, made famous by author Martha Grimes in her novel, The Lamorna Wink.)

The exhibit is held at the Cape Cornwall School, St. Just in Penwith, Penzance, Cornwall. It’s easy enough to find; the school is near a golf course (and in England, those are ALWAYS signposted) and Google maps does a grand job. Load your start point and then Saint Just, Penzance, Cornwall TR19 7JX, UK, and you’ll get all sorts of maps.

The admission charge is £1.00 for adults and 50p for children; fees are in aid of Cancer Research (reg charity 1089464).

There is wheelchair access to most areas at the exhibition, and you’ll find all sorts of things for sale.

Because of its location, you can make a day of it and visit any of several nearby sites, the Geevor Tin Mine Museum. Cornwall has been a source of tin since before Biblical times, with some reason to believe that Joseph of Arimathea visited, perhaps with a young man called Jesse, from Nazareth, in tow.

Exhibit at Geevor Tin Mine Museum (Wiki commons)