What The Land Remembers
- Feb 27
- 2 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
Words by Hannah Tapping
A new exhibition, revealing how the peninsula’s shifting light and untamed beauty continue to spark new forms of expression.
Cornwall's dramatic landscape is no mere backdrop for the artists who call this place home. It's a living, breathing presence. For its major new art exhibition, What The Land Remembers, Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery has gathered together ten contemporary women artists who carry Cornwall's wildness within themselves. The awe-inspiring landscape of Cornwall – with its jagged cliffs, restless seas, and untamed moors – holds an allure that seeps into the soul of those who encounter it. For many contemporary artists regardless of their medium, to work here is to enter into an ongoing conversation with the land.
These highly attuned observers who walk among us find beauty in storms and stillness. They chase the shifting light, and trace the contours of stone and shore with paint and clay. They are the latest in a long line of artists who have found endless inspiration here, for Cornwall has long shaped the imaginations of those who move with its rhythms, offering meaning, connection, and a creativity inseparable from place.
This exhibition brings together ten contemporary women artists whose practices reflect the unyielding pull of the Cornish landscape. Dotted across Cornwall, working from studios nestled in bustling harbours or perched on the edges of rugged moorland, each lets Cornwall’s landscape move through their work, shaped by salt air, stone, myth and memory.
Each piece chosen for this major new show reflects the enduring relationship between place and the people who inhabit it.
What The Land Remembers is at Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery until 30th August 2026.
Ashleigh Anne
Top: Cornish Pines – 40 x 30cm, mixed media on canvas Above Left: Golden Between Land and Sea – 59 x 79 cm, mixed media on canvas | Above Right: Cornish Summers – 30 x 30cmMixed media on deep canvas
Amy Albright
Top Left: Transient Light – 90 x 90cm, oil on canvas | Top Right: Where the Light Settles – 80 x 100cm, oil on canvas Above: The Land Knows – 80 x 100cm, oil on canvas
Charlotte Jones
Above: Charlotte Jones is inspired by the landscape around her home. Each finished vessel echoes time-weathered rocks and tactile stones smoothed by surf
Megan Gant
Top Left: Trio | Top Right: Wheal Prosper | Above: Two
Natalie Day
Top Left: Ancestral Circles | Top Right: Lunar Portal | Above: Ancient Light
Nina Brooke
Top Left: Camel Estuary Low Tide – 75cm x 95cm | Top Right: Swimmers – 105cm x 105cm Above: Curacoa – 100cm x 100cm
Ruth Bateman
Top: Bonnards Horse | Above Left: Utopia | Above Right: There Is Always Hope
Sarah Woods
Top Left: Bright Shores Hawkes Point | Top Right: Early Morning Light | Above: Ocean Storm Porthmeor
Sophie Carter
Top: Golden Hour | Above: Night Song
Tamsyn Trevorrow
Above Ceramicist Tamsyn Trevorrow’s work explores the material effects of time on the natural world, with weathered rock and corroded textures reflected in the clay forms
