Linda Weir
SPRING LIGHT, ST. IVES HARBOUR
Oil on canvas
23 1/5 × 38 in; 59 × 96.5 cm
Private collection
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular seaside resort.
The origin of St Ives is attributed in legend to the arrival of the Irish saint Ia of Cornwall, in the 5th century. The parish church bears her name, and St Ives derives from it.
St Ives was the most important fishing port on the north coast. The pier was built by John Smeaton in 1767–70 but has been lengthened at a later date. The octagonal lookout with a cupola belongs to Smeaton's design. More on St Ives
Linda Weir
'BIG SWIRL - SPRING TIDE'
Oil on board
15 7/10 × 26 in; 40 × 66 cm
Private collection
Linda Weir was born in Manchester 1951. She
gained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, then a
PGCE in Art and later an MA in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University. Her
extensive teaching career between 1983 to 2003 included positions at the
University of Nottingham and Manchester Metropolitan University. She was a
member of Manchester Academy of Fine Art. In 2005 she moved to Cornwall and now
lives and paints in St Ives. All her recent work is ‘en plein air modernist
expressionistic and is mostly impasto oils. Her paintings illustrate constant
change, movements, seasons, to catch a moment or moments making them live
forever in the paint. Her paintings are often colourful and the paint thickly
applied. Linda Weir has exhibited extensively throughout the UK including the
Royal Academy Summer Shows and she is regarded as one of Cornwall’s foremost
artists. More on Linda Weir
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