Exhibitions

Current

Viv Richards
Featured Artist 1 - 30 May 2022 Whitewater Contemporary's focus in May is a collection work by Viv Richards. Viv's paintings are about finding calm and peace on the beautiful Cornish coast – even on a wet, stormy day. Her work celebrated the vastness of the sea and sky, and the sublime feeling of open space. The... Read more

Forthcoming

Luke Knight
Featured Artist 1 - 29 Jun 2022 Throughout June, Whitewater Contemporary exhibits work by award winning painter Luke Knight. Click HERE to register to receive the digital show preview catalogue 24 hours prior to the show opening. Luke’s new collection of land and seascapes is inspired by the spectacular North Cornwall coast, with a particular focus on... Read more

Hannah Billingham
Featured Artist 1 - 30 Jul 2022 Throughout July, Whitewater Contemporary presents new work by artist Hannah Billingham, this year’s Prestige Award’s Yorkshire Ceramic Artist of the Year. She was also awarded the Gibney Prize for Outstanding Achievement in 2016 and was nominated for the Emerging Artist Award in 2019. Click HERE to register to receive the... Read more

Past

Simeon Stafford
Featured Artist 1 - 29 Apr 2022 April 2022 sees Whitewater Contemporary's 'Featured Artist' commence with new work by much loved and highly collected painter, Simeon Stafford. Simeon's new collection includes paintings inspired by the busy North Cornwall beaches of Polzeath and Daymer, the harbours of Padstow and Port Isaac in summer, and the daily workings of... Read more

Hugh West | Time for Tea
1 Dec 2021 - 7 Jan 2022 In a unique exhibition for Christmas, Whitewater Contemporary presents Time For Tea , an exhibition inspired by our nation’s love of tea. The exhibition leads with a collection of 25 teapots by potter Hugh West, who celebrated his 50th year in ceramics this autumn.Since the start of his career in... Read more

Suki Wapshott
Featured Artist 1 - 29 Nov 2021 This November, we presents an exhibition by painter Suki Wapshott. Her new collection reflects the artistic ideology of the great Romantics - painters, writers and poets who have experienced the joy and heartbreak of real life, and then poured that energy into works inspired by the sublime beauty of the... Read more

Virgina Ray
Featured Artist 1 - 30 Oct 2021 Throughout October, Whitewater Contemporary presents a new collection of paintings by Featured Artist Virginia Ray. Virginia’s mixed media landscape works are inspired by the dramatic weather and rich industrial heritage of West Cornwall, and include materials taken from the land itself - slate, tin, copper and stone dust – so... Read more

Hugh West
Featured Artist 1 - 29 Sep 2021 This year marks potter Hugh West’s 50th year in ceramics, and Whitewater Contemporary are proud to host his anniversary exhibition, Ethereal, throughout September. Hugh studied at Hereford School of Art & Design aged seventeen, later studying ceramics at Redruth School of Art, where Mary Rich and Roger Veal were his... Read more

Caroline Cleave
Featured Artist 1 - 30 Aug 2021 Throughout August, Whitewater Contemporary presents a summer collection by Featured Artist Caroline Cleave. Caroline has lived and worked in Cornwall for over thirty years and is part of a family with a 400-year history in the fishing village of Port Isaac. She is well known for her contemporary paintings and... Read more

Hannah Billingham
Featured Artist 1 - 30 Jul 2021 Throughout July, Whitewater Contemporary presents new work by award winning ceramicist Hannah Billingham, as part of the gallery ’s 2021 Featured Artist series. Hannah was awarded the Gibney Prize for Outstanding Achievement at Lincoln College of Art & Design in 2016, and was nominated for the Emerging Artist Award in... Read more

Suki Wapshott
Featured Artist 1 - 29 Jun 2021 Throughout June our Featured Artist series continues with an exhibition of twenty new paintings by Suki Wapshott. Suki graduated from Oxford University with a BA in English and used the inspiration gained from her studies of Anglo Saxon and Medieval Poetry to become a painter of poetic landscapes, seascapes and... Read more

Simeon Stafford
Featured Artist 1 - 30 May 2021 Whitewater Gallery Polzeath continues its 2021 Featured Artist series with new work by much loved and highly collected painter Simeon Stafford, in a must-see exhibition for everyone who looks forward to the return of togetherness, leisure time, and existing shoulder to shoulder with our fellow human beings. This new collection... Read more

Luke Knight
Featured Artist 1 - 29 Apr 2021 Whitewater Gallery began its 2021 Featured Artist series with an exhibition of new work by landscape painter Luke Knight. Luke studied Fine Art at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, and at the L'Ecole De Beaux-Art in Nantes, France. European painting, in particular the work of Pierre Bonnard, and... Read more

Online

Stewart Edmondson
Virtual Showcase 13 - 20 May 2022 This month, for our virtual showcase we present new paintings by Stewart Edmondson. Stewart is a contemporary landscape artist based on Dartmoor National Park in Devon. Working 'en plein air' throughout the seasons and in all weathers, he draws inspiration from the light and energy of his dramatic rural surroundings,... Read more

Suki Wapshott
Virtual Showcase 23 Apr - 5 May 2022 A collection of seven new paintings by Suki Wapshott that capture the essense of springtime in North Cornwall. Suki graduated from Oxford University with a BA in English and used the inspiration gained from her studies of Anglo Saxon and Medieval Poetry to become a painter of poetic landscapes, seascapes... Read more

Simeon Stafford
Virtual Showcase 30 Dec 2021 - 7 Jan 2022 We’re celebrating all things winter at Whitewater Contemporary with a showcase of work by Simeon Stafford. This exciting new collection is inspired by snowfall and snowball fights on Polzeath beach, and all the fun of skiing in the Alps. Additional works now available at the gallery also include Simeon’s first... Read more

Luke Knight
Virtual Showcase 15 - 22 Dec 2021 Luke Knight’s oil on board paintings are inspired by the constantly shifting colours, textures and details of the Cornish landscape, and the beautiful scenes that inspire him whilst walking and surfing the coast. First saturating the board with paint, Luke strips back the surface of his works to create detail... Read more

Viv Richards
Virtual Showcase 21 - 31 Oct 2021 This month's virtual showcase presents new work by mixed media artist Viv Richards. Viv moved to Cornwall from London in 2017. She previously painted the sea as an escape from her busy London life, but now her paintings are about finding calm and peace on the beautiful Cornish coast. Her... Read more

Stewart Edmondson
Virtual Showcase 24 Aug - 23 Sep 2021 For our latest virtual showcase, we welcome talented mixed-media artist Stewart Edmondson to Whitewater Contemporary. Stewart lives and works on Dartmoor, but for this collection, available now at the gallery, he has created exclusive new work inspired by Polzeath and the beauty of the surrounding coast. Working ‘en plein air’... Read more

Peter Turnbull
Virtual Showcase 2 - 31 Aug 2021 Read more

Ian Hargreaves
Virtual Showcase 2 - 9 May 2021 In the second of our series of online Virtual Showcases at Whitewater Contemporary, we present new work by landscape painter Ian Hargreaves. Ian began his painting career as a young man, travelling across Europe and recording his travels in watercolour. In particular, he developed a strong association with Mediterranean subjects,... Read more

Sally Spens
Virtual Showcase 9 - 25 Apr 2021 Read more

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