Cornwall
mark.hudson
As Tate St Ives gears itself up for a major exhibition on the iconic Cornish painter Peter Lanyon – a show that will reinforce St Ives’s claims as a modern art Mecca – the artist’s son is responding with an exhibition that gently sends up the whole St Ives art mythology, while revealing a fascinating, but little known aspect of the town’s history.Born in 1918, Peter Lanyon created exhilaratingly airy abstract paintings, underpinned by a sense of something dark and primal beneath the surface of things – images that may have influenced the abstract expressionism of Pollock and de Kooning – Read more ...