My “Art taster” in St. Ives today.

You God will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is fixed on You because he trusts in You.

Isaiah 26 : 3

Today was planned but had an added surprise. We bought tickets for St.Ives Tate and the Barbara Hepworth exhibition , but then took a turn and found ourselves happily in a free Lydia Corbette, Sylvette David exhibition. My first question was, why did this painter use two names?

The simple answer is that at nineteen already engaged, she became the muse of Pablo Piccasso. While she sat for him, she would sketch, and later, when she married, she became an artist in her own right. She at first did not want to be thought of as his muse but wanted to be respected for her own work.

Here are a group of paintings I particularly liked and the full story on a notice board.

Now, let’s look through the door of a sculptor’s studio.

Barbara Hepworth’s studio.

The explanation was sad. The sculptor was living with cancer of the tongue and on medication. A lit cigarette started a fire, and she inhaled the smoke. She never returned to work on the stones neatly placed outside the door of this room.

She has left the world with a garden carefully planted to make her sculptures reflect nature in different ways. Here are a few views of this interesting place.

We appreciated this tranquil space with shapes to peer through and experience.

Rest in peace respected,

Barbra Hepworth.

It was then to  St. Ives Tate. I have chosen three paintings of trees each very different and then a painting by a person whose house I walked past.

First, guess who painted this:

Why of course he was French and lived from 1869 – 1954

Henri Matise.

He was born in the Netherlands and worked there as well as in France, the UK, and the USA.

There was also a new exhibition by a Finish artist . Here is one of her paintings and what was said about the tree she painted.

Thank you for letting me share this  taster of St. Ives today.

Sandy 🙂