Art Exploring our Connection with Nature
Gwynne Penny is a visual artist whose work explores the environment and the connections between internal and external landscapes. Working across painting, photography, and assemblage sculpture, she captures the fragility and wonder of the natural world. Inspired by the landscape around St Ives, her practice reflects a deep sensitivity to place and atmosphere. Based in Surrey and spending significant time in Cornwall, Gwynne has exhibited in both regions. Through her art, she invites curiosity and a renewed appreciation for the landscape, encouraging viewers to pause, reflect, and engage with their surroundings in a more mindful way.
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Entangled Geographies: Displacement, Belonging, and the Spaces In Between
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Memories of St Ives - soft cover book
Visit St Ives in Cornwall through the eyes of visual artist Gwynne Penny. Journey with her as she remembers past visits through her collection of photographs and small paintings. Written as a way to ‘virtually revisit’ the place that she loves most in the world, during a time of global pandemic and lockdown, this book will resonate with you whether you’ve enjoyed time in St Ives on holiday and yearn to go back or simply enjoyed time spent by the sea.
St Ives Memory Paintings
A series of paintings originally started to illustrate the book. The latest paintings including St Ives Harbour, Sweeping Skies over the Island, Barnoon Terrace and To The Beach are available here.
Featured Painting: "Interwoven in The Ocean"
“Interwoven in the Ocean” is a layered acrylic painting on a wood panel, framed in a white tray frame. The painting including the frame measures 50cm x 50cm x 3.5cm. Part of The Biomorphic Collection, it relates both to the sea and to neural pathways within the mind, imagined as overlapping interconnected pathways that light up to resemble the thing that we are thinking about.
Explore the collection to read more about how the paintings evolved, or head up to Shop > Biomorphic collection to browse the paintings.
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