Terre Verte Gallery
Established since 2014, Terre Verte in North Cornwall shows themed exhibitions of contemporary art at our gallery in Altarnun from May to December. Come and experience these shows of predominantly landscape and abstract work in our quiet rural gallery.
Open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
10.00 am to 5.00 pm
and by appointment only at other times
EXHIBITING NOW – EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS:
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.
Future exhibitions & events:
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.
Past exhibitions & events:
La Luna
La Luna
18th June to 18th July 2026
Moonjars and other vessels by Chris Prindl and Matthew Patrick; paintings and prints by Jane Swan, Dorothy Hanna, Jacqueline Jarvis and Richard Sharland.
Ceramicist Chris Prindl and woodturner Matthew Patrick are inspirational master craftsmen – they make some of the finest pots and bowls in Cornwall; their shared interest in the particular form of Korean Moon Jars is the core of this exhibition, set up as part of the programme for Music on the Moor festival, 14th – 18th July. Chris’s superb pots and Matthew’s exquisite wooden vessels have never been shown alongside one another before ; here they are complemented by moon inspired prints by Dorothy Hanna and paintings by Jane Swan, Jacqueline Jarvis and Richard Sharland. A lunar feast !
Further details of the programme for the Music on the Moor festival can be found at https://musiconthemoor.org.uk/ Look out for the prelude concert here at Terre Verte on 14th July with poets Maura Dooley and Cathy Galvin, and musicians Anna Brown and Joseph Barker. (Advance booking required.) and Meet the Makers here on 16th July Chris Prindl and Matthew Patrick in discussion about their work.
Treeology
23rd July to 22nd August
An exhibition exploring our relationships with trees as multi-species beings. Artists Tina Kutter, Ruth Bateman, Katie Bliss, Clair Winfield, Bettina Amtag and Richard Sharland use installations and multi media to explore plant sentience, creating invitations for visitors to extend their spectrum of understanding of trees.
The Sea Around Us
To mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s timeless hymn to the wonder of the sea.
25th April to 21st May 2026
‘The Sea Around Us’ is an artists’ celebration of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking book about the sea, first published 75 years ago. Sixteen contemporary artists – painters, printers, a photographer and a sculptor – all inspired by the moods, images and lifeforms of the sea.
In her hymn to the world’s oceans, Rachel Carson called the sea ‘the mother of life’ and opened many human hearts and minds to the wonder and importance of sea life. This exhibition opens a doorway into this diversity – of lifeforms, colours, vistas, relationships and mystery.
A 1958 edition of Carson’s book sits at the centre of the exhibition. Alongside it work by : Anna Goodchild, Sarah Adams, Janet Shearer, Georgina Maxwell, Philip Halstead, Phil Barton, Norman Ackroyd, Hatty Halstead, Rachel Marsh, Catherine Harvey Jefferson, Tina Kutter, Kevin Ford, Imogen Rigden, Liz Baxter, Steve Lunn, Rob Arnold and Richard Sharland.
A Connemara Island
A Connemara Island
19th March to 18th April —
Cathy Galvin’s elegiac memoir of poems explores her family roots on Mason Island in Connemara, elicits voices from this vanished island community and its enduring landscape. On all her recent visits to the now uninhabited island, she has been accompanied by artist Richard Sharland, whose paintings form the core of this exhibition. The show also features work by writer and map-maker, Tim Robinson; printmaker Norman Ackroyd; photographer and sound recordist Nic Dunlop and painter Catherine Harvey Jefferson, as well as memorabilia from the island.
There is a private view on Friday 20th March from 4.00 pm to 7.00 pm and a poetry reading by Cathy Galvin and Penelope Shuttle on Friday 27th March at 6.00 pm.
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 in motion or by the wonder of the continuously changing landscape. This exhibition coincides with the publication of Jacqueline’s new book which documents the evolution of her work and how influences and interests are reflected in the paintings and prints she has created over a lifetime lived in Trevalga, near Boscastle.
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, establishing this part of Cornwall as a vibrant yet peaceful location for those dedicated to the pursuits of the arts.
The State We’re In
An exhibition of contemporary art
12th June – 19th July 2025
This exhibition brings together the work of eleven members of the CAMP Writers’ Kin, artists who all enjoy working with language and text as part of their professional practice. The show expands on the group’s recent project The State We’re In 2024, a limited edition of twenty-four boxed sets of artists books: members created a polyphonic snapshot of the year developed from a collective sense of unease and disillusionment with the unsettled political, economic, social and ecological environment.
Excerpts from NASS & other new paintings
An exhibition by Richard Sharland
1st May – 23rd May 2025
New work by Altarnun-based artist Richard Sharland including part of a large suite of paintings exploring the memory of an emigration to the temperate rainforest of British Columbia in the 1970s.
In Memory of Rosalind Eastman
An exhibition by her friends raising money for Marie Curie
3rd August – 31st August
A percentage of the proceeds from all sales will be donated to Marie Curie whose nurses cared for Rosalind in her last days.
IT SPEAKS TO ME
Artist Saul Cathcart revisits old haunts
22nd June to 18th July
One of the west country’s foremost abstract landscape painters, Saul Cathcart, returns to the landscapes where his painting journey began more than twenty years ago. Saul’s plein air paintings have an exuberance of colour and movement which make connections between places he loves and the inner world of thought and emotion. This exhibition of recent work includes new paintings alongside earlier ones created in the same locations years ago.
