The Brownston Gallery, in the heart of historic Modbury, South Devon, plays host to an exhibition of paintings from members of the South West Academy. In widening the group of partners it has extended and enhanced the public awareness of the work of the Academy and its Academicians, to paraphrase the words of the Chair of Trustees.

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Opening the new season in the Penwith Gallery, St Ives is a joint exhibition of Members and Associates of the Society. The combined exhibits fill both the Main and the New Galleries with a vibrant mix of paintings, prints, sculpture and ceramics.

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Following the exhibition 'Terrain' mounted in the Royal Cornwall Museum’s Philbright Gallery over the period September 2014 - February 2015, the Royal Institution of Cornwall has acquired the painting High Down Wavellite - Erythrite and Oxide Red for the museum’s permanent collection.

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The 9th Annual Rotary Club of St Ives ‘Spot the Artist’ exhibition and sale held in the St Ives School of Painting during this year’s September Festival has raised a record £10,400 in one day. The paintings went on show for two days beforehand and were displayed anonymously; they are signed on the reverse but seasoned buyers will know what they are looking for. Some 320 works were donated.

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Following nearly a year in the planning the Plymouth Society has broken from its usual exhibiting pattern. Moving out of the city and looking to the far south west, the group has accepted the invitation and mounted a month-long show in the Penwith Gallery. This has been timed to coincide with the Penwith Society’s autumn exhibition and the long-established St Ives September Festival.

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