well we've had quite an interesting time of it at the gallery lately....

It was the private view for Alasdair Lindsay and Simon Pooley last Friday evening and Simon invited some of his fellow tango dancing friends along. 

Everyone got in the dancing spirit and danced their way through the exhibition enjoying the evening of champagne, tango and beautiful paintings.

It's a really fantastic exhibition and we've had lots of people coming in for a look since the opening.
The was a fantastic review of the exhibition in Cornwall Life magazine recently: "This exhibition brings together two West Cornwall based painters whose works are defined by a powerful approach to both colour and composition. 
"Simon Pooley's bold compositions and strong draughtsmanship have developed from his years spent working as an architect." 

"Falmouth Art School graduate Alasdair Lindsay has attracted significant international interest since his graduation and his works can be found hanging in private homes throughout the UK, Europe and America. Lindsay's paintings of the Cornwall landscape exhibit the expressive colour and vivid contrast of American abstract artists from the 1950's and have a compositional punch reminiscent of the retro art of advertising illustration."

 Two days after the exhibition opened, we had a rather well known face pop his head around our door.... the Prime Minister decided to visit Penzance and both myself and my artist Simon Stooks, who happened to be in the gallery at the time, were rather astounded to see him!

Simon decided to follow him out of the gallery and have a little chat with him. He gave David Cameron his last Cornwall Contemporary exhibition catalogue and David has promised to come to his exhibition here in 2014 so watch this space.....!