Inside Brisons Veor

Upstairs at Brisons Veor with fantastic views of the sea.

Lots of good food and wine was served on this table.

Tim and my bedroom.

This is the downstairs studio where I did a lot of printmaking.

I love putting stuff on the wall.

My companions on my Cornish Journey: Michael (visiting Falmouth from Berlin), Sarah (teaching and living in Falmouth), my husband Tim (staying at Brisons Veor with me), and me.

 

Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth, the amazing sculptor, reminds me of Bette Davis in her photos.  Katherine Hepburn would surely be the perfect person to play her in a biopic. She is the original influencer.  I can imagine her instagram account because she looks incredible in every picture that is taken of her. How did she do it? Have three children, two marriages, a stellar sculpture career, and always look so beautiful and intelligent.  Barbara - please tell me your secret. 

I have been reminded of Hepworth during my trip to Cornwall. 

Sarah, Tim and I visited Barbara Hepworth's house and sculpture garden in St. Ives.  It was an amazingly inspirational place

Here's a photo of Hepworth working in her studio.

Here's her sculpture garden today.

Because what I love drawing and painting I was surprised to find these works but Barbara Hepworth in a variety of styles.

Here's a self portrait

This dancer (a surprising work by Hepworth)  reminds me of my redhead sketches of Ia.

A portrait she did.

These women remind me a bit of Picasso.

I also found some landscape paintings

 

I was so pleased to find a textile design by Hepworth.

Drawings for sculpture.

Whimsical works

I love this previsualization for a sculpture.  I want to do this for my tall ships idea.

And this is the sculpture

Bench Ends at St. Ia’s Church

I love St. Ia's church in St. Ives.  There's a cafe inside that promotes itself by offering in a "brew in the pew."

These are St. Ia's brothers.

St. Ia looking a bit like Mary or Claire.

 

Barbara Hepworth's sculpture and candles.  She crafted the sculpture in memory of the death of her son Paul.

This church is bench end heaven.  After being a bit disappointed at Zennor it was amazing to see all the bench ends in St. Ives.

 

Penny’s Daffodils

"In the contemplation of Nature we are perpetually renewed, our sense of mystery and our imagination is kept alive, and rightly understood, it gives us the power to project into a plastic medium some universal or abstract vision of beauty." - Barbara Hepworth, 1936

I spent many mornings looking out this window, drinking my tea, and eating toast.

Penny left us these beautiful daffodils that she bought from the honor system stand/kiosk/tiny structure that is on the way to St. Just.  I don’t know how daffodils are blooming this time of year.  I finally drew them while everyone was sleeping New Years morning.