WHAT'S NEW : NOTES FOR A DIARY

Jan/Feb '08

Yes, an odd way to start a new year: five weeks in the south of France a stone's throw from the Pyrénées and feeling homesick for West Penwith!

Castelnau-Magnoac, a village and commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées

...village bread available on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays!

FEBRUARY: MEANWHILE, back in West Penwith... I pack up and leave the gallery/studio in Bread Street, Penzance due to the sale of the building...

final exhibition

FEBRUARY: A visual feast at TATE St. Ives Until 11 May 2008:
Rose Hilton: A Selected Retrospective/ Hugh Stoneman: Master Printer/ Margo Maeckelberghe: Extended Landscape

& at HiltonYoung Gallery Penzance: Rose Hilton Drawings to 5th March PLUS Fine art, ceramics and prints.

& at Penlee House, Penzance : Jack Pender to 8 March 2008

& at The Exchange, Penzance: The Passage of Time MICHAEL PORTER until 6th April 2008

ARCHIVE: 2007

My paintings on show at the Great Atlantic Gallery,
St Just-in-Penwith, Cornwall (July 2007)

Getting ready to open the new Gallery in Bread Street, Penzance (2007)
Steve Prince and Noel Betowski

stephen.prince@tesco.net
www.betowski.com

August '07

Thank you to the couple (with a house in St Ives) who visited the Bread Street Gallery with such enthusiasm and encouragement!

Nice to see a little Pablo Picasso on show at Martin Val Baker's new 'Rainy Day Gallery' - word soon gets around.. www.rainyday.co.uk

A thank you to the gallery visitor, a collector from St Erth, for his insight and encouragement!

Well done to Maggie Matthews for her very successful show at 'Cornwall Contemporary' - good to see such work fully appreciated!

www.cornwallcontemporary.com

September'07

An excellent Matthew Lanyon painting is to be seen at the 'Rainy Day Gallery' - at 22 foot long, it is quite an outstanding achievement!

The 'Exchange' seems to have died a death. It is now empty, no one knows its there and the very expensive glass frontage is covered with seagull droppings! How we would all like to see SOMETHING on the walls there! Letters continue to be published in the Cornishman.

Good to see David Whittaker promoting his new book, a kind of 'Zawn Lens' 2, at the St Ives Art Club. 'StoneLight' is now available at most local bookshops including the Tate shop and the Salthouse Gallery, St Ives & at: www.wavestonepress.co.uk

A thank you to Peter Davies for giving me a mention in his new book 'St. Ives 1975 - 2005, Art Colony in Transition' and for turning up at Bread Street. We hadn't seen hide nor hair of each other for some twenty five years!
The book is now on sale at all the usual outlets. At the Belgrave Gallery, St Ives " St. Ives - Selected Artists" coincides with the launch of this new publication written by Peter www.belgravegallery.com

Lunchtime poetry (and music) outside the Salthouse Gallery during the St Ives Festival is a must-do. What a sunny corner of old St Ives.

Artists Breon O'Casey and Jane O'Malley feature at the Yew Tree Gallery's new exhibition THE IRISH CONNECTION until Oct 27th www.yewtreegallery.com

David Whittaker & myself at the preview

October'07

A very interesting showing of Jeremy Le Grice paintings at the Penwith Gallery, St Ives is now open. Also, at long last is the reopening of the Wills Lane Gallery. Both these galleries and the Sheviock Gallery near Torpoint, are fondly remembered as my introduction to 'modernism' westcountry style, back in the late sixties/early 70s! Later I had the good fortune to exhibit at the Wills Lane alongside Patrick Heron thanks to Gilly Gilbert (now retired) www.willslanegallery.co.uk

Late October : St Ives not quite off season...

November/ December '07

Until the end of November 2007 at the
Gallery in Bread Street:

PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS
by
KAREN FOSS

Open 10.45 till 4.30 Mondays, Thursdays
& other days when possible and by arrangement

Three of my paintings on show at the...

SALTHOUSE GALLERY, St Ives ( December 07 )

@ The GALLERYin
BREAD STREET
PENZANCE

UNTIL CHRISTMAS

STEPHEN PRINCE
paintings & drawings

OPEN Mondays & Thursdays 10.30 till 4.30
Other days when possible & by appointment
Situated off Causewayhead in Bread Street over Muffins Tea Rooms
ALSO at The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives and The Great Atlantic, St Just & Falmouth
www.stephenprince.co.uk

The gallery in Bread Street, Penzance
Due to the sale of the building now closed (2008)
above: paintings by Stephen Prince
below: paintings by Noel Betowski

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