Terre Verte

Contemporary Art Gallery based in North Cornwall & Online

The Dragon’s Back and Other Stories – Pete Bousfield at 80

4th September to 4th October Artist and dowser, Pete Bousfield has been exploring Fowey Moor ( aka Bodmin Moor ) for decades, creating his magnificent wall sculptures of what lies within and beneath places on the moor. This retrospective allows us a unique opportunity to see the whole story.

Brian Hanscomb – A Retrospective

15th October to 14th November Renowned throughout Cornwall and beyond for his superb copperplate engraving, painter and printer Brian Hanscomb treats Fowey Moor ( aka Bodmin Moor) with brilliantly miniscule detail and whimsical humour. This exhibition treats us to a superb selection of prints and paintings from the...

Marking Time – a retrospective exhibition by Jacqueline Jarvis

16th October – 27th November 2025 Jacqueline Jarvis is a painter and printmaker whose lifelong curiosity with the natural world has inspired the creation of wonderful paintings and prints for more than forty years. In particular, she has explored the complex motif of the passage of time represented either by figures...

Henry Israel & Caeria Strong

Paintings and drawings from their residual studio 21st August – 27th September 2025 Henry Israel and Caeria Strong moved to North Cornwall in the 1970s, to establish a smallholding where they could paint and raise a family. They became a focus and inspiration for a generation of younger artists in the area,...

Large Piece of Paper, Small Brush

A retrospective exhibition by Jacqueline Jarvis 16th October – 15th November 2025 Jacqueline Jarvis is a painter and printmaker whose lifelong curiosity with the natural world has inspired the creation of wonderful paintings and prints for more than forty years. In particular, she has explored the complex motif of...

Richard Sharland

I work mostly in collage, watercolour and acrylics and occasionally with found objects. My paintings are landscape based or abstract and painted mostly from memory. It is a way of rediscovering – I am interested in the way my perceptions and memories of places and events are continuously updated, fragmented and...

Kate Scott

I find myself striving to crystallise and recall the intangible sense of a particular place in time, how it looked and felt to be there, both emotionally and physically, be it landscape or exterior space. I experience the physical act of painting like a conversation in which using mark making and layers of colour I...

Jane Swan

I am an English watercolorist on a LARGE scale. I paint on a working stretcher on the floor. I am excited by the smell of wet, unprimed 15oz cotton duck and its drumlike tautness when stretched and the dispersal of heavy bodied acrylic paint in water.

Dorothy Hanna

I have had work selected for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Royal West of England Academy and have been a prize winner in the National Original Print Exhibition. I am also an elected member of The 21 Group and The Plymouth Society of Artists

Richard Sharland

I work mostly in collage, watercolour and acrylics and occasionally with found objects. My paintings are landscape based or abstract and painted mostly from memory. It is a way of rediscovering - I am interested in the way my perceptions and memories of places and events are continuously updated, fragmented and...

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The Dragon’s Back and Other Stories – Pete Bousfield at 80

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The Dragon’s Back and Other Stories – Pete Bousfield at 80

Coming up

Brian Hanscomb – A Retrospective

15th October to 14th November

Renowned throughout Cornwall and beyond for his superb copperplate engraving, painter and printer Brian Hanscomb treats Fowey Moor ( aka Bodmin Moor) with brilliantly miniscule detail and whimsical humour. This exhibition treats us to a superb selection of prints and paintings from the last four decades.

ONLINE RESIDENCY:

JACQUELINE JARVIS

My art is rooted in a lifelong fascination with the natural world and the passage of time—whether captured through figures in motion or the ever-changing landscape. Literature, poetry, philosophy, and art history have all deeply influenced my practice.

I am the author of two books: Time That Moves in Circles, Time Counted in Straight Lines (2016), exploring how we perceive and measure time, and Large Piece of Paper, Small Brush, a retrospective tracing the evolution of my work from student days to the present.

During my time as Artist in Residence at Terre Verte Gallery for Marking Time, I reflected on key moments of development in my practice—from early explorations of technique to the influence of artists such as Vija Celmins, whose conceptual approach encouraged me to look deeply and think critically. Encounters with original artworks in galleries and museums were equally formative, helping to shape my direction and clarify what I wanted to express.

JACQUELINE JARVIS' residency page