St. Ives Cornwall, engraving, artist and date unknown.

I am so lucky to live in St.Ives! Somewhere so important on the global art stage, home to so many influential artists such as Dame Barbara Hepworth and Patrick Heron, and the town still has the unique small town magic to it despite being an extremely popular tourist destination. As it was such a refuge for artists (and still is) we’re blessed with so many impressions of the town through the years, which to me makes me feel closer to it and part of a wider important history.

Regatta, St. Michael’s Mount, oil on canvas, artist unknown. 1850.

Despite seeing St. Michael’s Mount very regularly for all my life, it is still so special to look at and I can’t not take photos of it whenever I’m near. One of my favourite views of the mount was from the Psychology classroom in college. This painting has such a dreamy feeling to it and just makes me want to run and jump into the water and soak up the sun.

Promenade, Penzance, watercolour on paper, artist unknown. 1930-1939.

I love the Promenade in Penzance so much. It’s one of the places I used to practice riding my bike when I was younger with my grandad. It’s a very nostalgic place, and the recent year it’s been under construction has been torture not being able to walk along it! This painting evokes the feeling of nostalgia to me despite the fact that it was hundreds of years ago and the version of the Promenade and Penzance that exists in the painting is very different to today, it still is home.

I love looking at old images and artworks of where I’ve grown up and seeing both things that have changed in time, but also things that despite being hundreds of years apart, are still very much the same; an essence of West Cornwall that is timeless.