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Ian Harrold

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Cornwall fine artist | washhousepress.com Represented by Porthminster Gallery, St Ives | ex BBC graphics | Amateur Historian | 🚫 NO CRYPTO, NFTs, AI, FAKES | https://www.porthminstergallery.co.uk/artists/ian-harrold-art-paintings-for-sale/

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This is a distraction. I have lived in Cornwall for 11 years, 33 years in the SW. I consider myself a member of our community but not Cornish. The idea of Cornwall being the 5th nation is inherently alienating to all but those born here. And BTW The Duchy is not Cornwall, assuming 'County' is πŸ‘Ž?

01.08.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watch out for tide going over to Île Callot John. Three more weeks and we will be on Île Grande. Have s lovely time!

25.05.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Because the industries that oppose it represent the status quo, i.e. Inertia. Well practised processes of extracting wealth using a system which hides the profits of multinationals.

30.04.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He also had absolutely nothing to do with acquiring the Gazan gas fields for Israel.

30.04.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Available from The Porthminster Gallery St Ives Cornwall

18.04.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ian Harrold | Artist | Sailing to Byzantium | A series of oil paintings on card and board Oil paintings. East meets West

#art #oilpainting #abstractart #contemporaryart #StIves #Cornwall

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18.04.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow! Pow!

17.04.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A swallow visiting a nest in the porch of a cottage in North Cornwall.

A swallow visiting a nest in the porch of a cottage in North Cornwall.

We have a pair of #swallows in number 1 nest already. Making their crazy purring sound. We had 13 babies from 2 nests last year. 🀞

17.04.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Three of ours arrived on Monday, one in the nest last night! Very early this year. In Brittany we saw them on April 1st in Morbihan. Joy! The best day of the year for me.

13.04.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow..."

27.03.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

John is a top guy. I used his studio for a while too.

22.03.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bunker tax. It's the future...

20.03.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wash House Press Blog by Ian Harrold | St Ives | The New Pier | New Perspectives The story and history of the New Pier, St Ives, Cornwall. Re-imagined through 3D modelling

Many of the #shipwrecks on the coast of North #Cornwall were the product of #gales barreling up the Bristol Channel. The #wind would start as a southerly then veer north west, trapping ships on 'The Ironbound Coast'.
The New Pier at #StIves fared no better.
washhousepress.com/blog_New_Pie...

06.12.2024 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Porthminster Gallery: Ben Nicholson and Patrick Haughton Porthminster Gallery’s first big exhibition of the year opens on 6th March, showcasing work by Ben Nicholson and Patrick Haughton

Porthminster Gallery’s first big exhibition of the year opens on 6th March, showcasing work by Ben Nicholson and Patrick Haughton stiveslocal.uk/porthminster... #art #stives #artexhibition

17.02.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anima Mundi: Andrew Hardwick, Uncultivated Land Uncultivated Land, continuing at Anima Mundi until 29th March, demonstrates Andrew Hardwick’s ongoing concern with, and depictions of, contemporary landscape

Uncultivated Land, which is continuing at Anima Mundi until 29th March, demonstrates Andrew Hardwick’s ongoing concern with, and depictions of, the contemporary landscape stiveslocal.uk/anima-mundi-... #art #stives #artexhibition

17.02.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ian Harrold | Artist | Totem | The library of forms Images and words by Ian Harrold based in North Cornwall and St Ives

#BlueSkyArtShow #monochrome #photography #BlackandWhite #totem #unearthed
washhousepress.com/blog_Totem.h...

16.02.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent! I think I will watch them again at some point.

13.02.2025 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kresen Kernow might if prompted?

11.02.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We did museum drawing at the British Museum, Natural History or the V&A when I was at college in the 70s. Taught by the Private Eye illustrator Bert Kitchen. Four years of it every Tuesday morning. I loved it, and i have talking about it this very day! Recommended.

11.02.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There are ones out there with the bottom half textured.

10.02.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Pardon our interruption...eBay Home

Looks like a Rembrandt lamp? Maybe this, all appear to be in the states. A torchiere?
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15545455...

10.02.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ian Harrold | Artist | White Space | A series of oils on board Oil paintings. Inspired my marine architecture and memories of Brittany

#FebruArty #rings #art #fineart #oilpainting #StIves #Cornwall
washhousepress.com/White_Space....

10.02.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Gold Wanted | What's New | A 20th century store room above a shop in Plymouth, UK

Gold Wanted | What's New | A 20th century store room above a shop in Plymouth, UK

The market hall in Plymouth showing the distinctive 'wave' roofline, security camera and dirty windows

The market hall in Plymouth showing the distinctive 'wave' roofline, security camera and dirty windows

The old post office sorting office in Pennycomequick, Plymouth showing rectilinear arrangement of coated masonite panels and glazing

The old post office sorting office in Pennycomequick, Plymouth showing rectilinear arrangement of coated masonite panels and glazing

The old Woolworth building in Plymouth showing brickwork detail, rectilinear arrangement of windows, security light and goods entrance

The old Woolworth building in Plymouth showing brickwork detail, rectilinear arrangement of windows, security light and goods entrance

20th Century #Plymouth | #architecture | #postwar

09.02.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Budeful here too!

09.02.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought zoom was dead. You should have seen some of the ones we had with the BBC in lockdown. Chaos.

06.02.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

More mooz than zoom?

06.02.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#poetry #tagore

06.02.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ignore the Guardian's **. Yes, subjective and opinionated, but so much touched on my own experience and interests. In the opening shot he is looking over the roof of my squat in Whitechapel I had for 8 years. His family lived in those streets as immigrants. That place is where my life in art began!

06.02.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Art, in its myriad forms, is a lens through which much of the world sees us. Did you see Dimon Schama's mini-series?
#SoftPower

06.02.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Write the debt off.

06.02.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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