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St Ives

Art-rich, beach-framed fishing port

Fishing boats

St Ives is a fishing port that spawned an art movement. With it’s golden beaches, heritage harbour and beautiful light, painters have long flocked here.

Beaches

St Ives is blessed by sandy beaches. Popular Porthminster sits just below St Ives train station. Harbour beach directly overlooks the fishing boats. Pint-sized Porthgwidden is backed by stylish beach huts. Porthmeor is popular with families, swimmers and surfers.

St Ives

The St Ives School

St Ives’ reputation as a hub for modern and abstract art really took off between the 1940s and 1960s after people like Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton, and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham set up studios there. The naïve style of local fisherman and self-taught artist Alfred Wallis became celebrated too.

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Arts

West Cornwall Sights

The Cream of Cornwall (7 Days)

Mines, gardens & beautiful bays – 288 miles

Text © Belinda Dixon

Images by Dr Bob Hall, Michael Livsey, Nana B Agyei, Phill Lister, Ray B's world