In 1993, a new building opened in St Ives whose business was hard to identify. Where once there had been a gasworks facing Porthmeor Beach, now there was an ebullient double-height rotunda, which ...

Tate St Ives, a recently expanded outpost of the Tate, has achieved something that has so far eluded the institution’s larger siblings, Tate Modern and Tate Britain. Last night, it became the first in ...

Of all the artists whose names are irrevocably associated with mid-century St Ives, only Lanyon was Cornish. He considered the others "incomers" (Cornish for interloper), and regarded their ...

Born in 1918, Peter Lanyon created exhilaratingly airy abstract paintings, underpinned by a sense of something dark and primal beneath the surface of things – images that may have influenced the ...