We love these!

Laura Weston's prints have enormous charm- some are printed on paper made from banana leaves! They are proving very popular here at the Lander Gallery. They have an innocent fresh charm- adn they look great in their smart white frames.

DAVID GREENHALGH

No prizes for guessing the inspiration of this picture by DAVID GREENHALGH - showing in our current exhibition PAPER, SCISSORS, STONE.
David creates his collages with paper torn from coloured magazine pages. From a distance, the pieces of paper look oddly like paint.

The effect is particularly striking when the picture is based on a Van Gogh.

UKULELE SUCCESS

The UKULELE TEA returned yesterday- and gave us another afternoon of unclouded joy. There were music teachers and visitors, all happily strumming their way through a joyfully daft repertoire which started at traditional folk songs and managed to sweep through Leonard Cohen and Elvis Presley before the final "When the Saints Go Marchin' In".
Informally planning things as they went along, they were cheerfully asking for requests and rising to each challenge. They had us singing along to "Why must I be a teenager in love?" and there were young children dancing away among the paintings. The gallery was warmed with smiles.

Supremo was Jamie Toms- whose Ukelele is just one string to his bow. 
I'm afraid do now know the names of all the players, or of the front man whose singing and personality gave the event its unique quality.
  There is talk of a RETURN OF THE UKULELE TEA !
Additionally, Mr Toms may be persuaded to bring a group of youg guitarists back at Christmas!

CORNISH ART HISTORY COURSE FOR YOU!

Want to learn more about The Newlyn School of Painting?
Local author, Curator and NADFAS lecturer
Catherine Wallace- who works here at the Lander Gallery too-  is running an 18 week course on
Cornish Art History - The Newlyn and Lamorna Artists 1880 - 1940
at TruroCollege              Tuesdays 7.00 - 9.00pm
from 27th September 2011

TheCourse is also available at PenwithCollege
Mondays 2.30 - 4.30pm
from3rdOctober 2011.

So come along and find outwhat you can learn aboutCornishArt history.
TruroCollege Part-timeCoursesContact: (01872) 265800
Quote course number 1051
PenwithCollege Part-timeCoursesContact: (01736) 335000
QuoteCourseNumber 5062
or visitwww.trurocollege.ac.uk

UKULELE TEA- THE RETURN!!

FRIDAY 16th SEPTEMBER- next week
4.30pm
UKULELE TEA
 DO COME ALONG!!!

Jamie Toms is a young Ukulele Master who teaches in schools around the area. He gathers together a gang of friends who come in with their Ukes and spend an hour playing together.
If you have a Ukulele you are warmly invited to come along and join in.

Last year's UKULELE TEA was a great success- lighthearted, relaxed, informal, heartwarming.
This year we anitcipate a similar treat.
FRIDAY at 4.30pm

PAPER, SCISSORS, STONE

The new exhibition is just being set up at the Lander Gallery. Lots of good things on the theme of paper, scissors and stone. More to come on this, but look at this wonderful stone piece by Richard Holliday.

POG'S FATHER

Here is an idyllic rural scene by VINCENT PHILIP YGLESIAS. He was a London based artist who exhibited at the RA and various other prestigious establishments from the 1870s until his death in 1911.
This picturesque building with its half timbering evokes a yearning for the simple country life- it might be rather pleasant to live halfway between Larkrise and Candleford.
The name Yglesias is familiar here in Cornwall through the artsit's daughter Phyllis, known and loved as POG. She moved in the artist circle that included Laura Knight (who painted her) and she it was who had the Bird Sanctuary at Mousehole.

This VINCENT PHILIP YGLESIAS painting, in a handsome gold frame, is for sale at the Lander Gallery with an asking price of £1,800.