PAINT IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF…1 ST OF 6
Glyn Macey
At the turn of the 20th century British painting was dominated by one school of art, the members of which were working in a tiny fishing village as far from the arts capital of London as you could get. I am of course talking about the Newlyn School of Art. And at the head of the Newlyn School was the brilliantly gifted artist and teacher Stanhope Forbes. Irish born and artistically educated in Brittany, Forbes wasn’t the first artist to make Newlyn his home, but under his influence a whole raft of gifted painters followed him to the busy harbourside village. The narrow, curvy alleys and streets, their tiny fishermen’s cottages huddled on the hillside like a pack of badly stacked cards, gave Forbes the subject he was searching for: real life.