The Art of Cornwall(2010)

The Art of Cornwall traces the dramatic lives and revolutionary works of eight avant-garde artists who shaped St Ives, the legendary Cornish art colony. From the visionary paintings of Kit Wood and the raw, untrained genius of Alfred Wallis to the monumental sculptures of Barbara Hepworth and modernist canvases of Ben Nicholson, the film charts how these figures transformed a quiet fishing village into a beacon of 20th-century artistic innovation. Their stories interweave ambition, struggle, and creative breakthrough against the rugged Cornish landscape. The Art of Cornwall rewrites the history of the avant-garde through the prism of this singular community, revealing how isolation and natural beauty sparked some of the era's most influential art movements.