Local heritage and Inspiration - Tate St Ives

Travel for me is the source of a lot of my inspiration as a designer. Throughout the pandemic I have turned my focus to the abundance of the local surroundings; which is home currently to many emerging artists, was home to some of the world's leading modern artists.

The Tate St Ives, is a permanent tribute to the remarkable phase of modern British art, which developed in the mid-twentieth century. It celebrates both the work of modern artists associated with the town, and artists in conversation internationally.

One of my favourites pieces is the relief OM, by Ben Nicholson, and the simplicity of William Scott’s, The Harbour 1954 (Bottom) part of the Modern bodies conversation.

‘In the 1940s and 1950s a new wave of artists were drawn to the Cornish fishing town in the wake of the Modernists who had moved there before the outbreak of the Second World War. They drank, they argued and they communed with nature, convinced that ‘colour is the only direction for painting’

Christies recent little article about this period.