West Cornwall is famous for the Tate at St Ives, Newlyn Art Gallery (for cutting-edge modern art) and Penlee Art Gallery in Penzance (exhibiting changing exhibitions of the Newlyn School of Art). Over 20 independent galleries and specialist shops/studios are also based in the lesser-known St Just heritage area, which has long been an inspiration to artists and is now also home to a growing number of acclaimed artists who have helped inject it with a new lease of creative life.

These include major names like David Kemp, Rose Hilton, Jason Wason, Anthony Frost, and leading British landscape artist Kurt Jackson whose work is part of a social and personal commitment to the environment around him and closely reflects its distinctiveness.

Independent art and craft galleries and studios

See the free and widely available Just Arts booklet published by a collective of artists and traders committed to promoting the artistic excellence St Just has to offer - www.just-arts.co.uk

Central St Just SW 36 31

Great Atlantic Mapworks, West Place and Bank Square 01736 788911/788824 www.greatatlantic.co.uk – wide range of work by leading West Cornwall artists

Navigator Gallery, 41 Fore Street 01736 787052 www.navigatorgallery.co.uk - a diverse range of work by established Crafts Council members and young artists

Just Fine Art, 3-4 Market Square 01736 788869 www.justfineart.net – work by local and international artists in a cottage-style gallery

Smart Tart and St Just Pottery, Blackbird Barn off Bank Square 01736 787091 www.smarttart.co.uk – bags and more by textile designer Karen Arthur and www.stjust-pottery.co.uk domestic and ornamental ware by potter Jonathan Hancock

The Old Sunday School, Cape Cornwall Street 01736 788444 www.oldsundayschool.co.uk – paintings and jewellery by Danny Meehan and Nancy Pickard

Pentyr Publishing, 11 Carrallack Terrace 01736 788355 www.evocativecornwall.co.uk - Sarah Lay brought together her background in fine art and the print industry to launch Pentyr Publishing in 2003 with the first Evocative Cornwall Calendar

The Old Stores Gallery & Workshop, rear of Carrallack Terrace 01736 788209 www.theoldstores.com - home and workspace of furniture designer and maker Simon Pickard and 2D artist Jo Webster.

Just Cornish, Fore Street 01736 787877 www.justcornish.com - the place to go for anything and everything made in Cornwall

The Turn of the Tide Studio, Fore Street 01736 787268 www.hendersonsmith.co.uk – paintings and prints by Gabrielle Hawkes and Tom Henderson Smith

The Stone Age Studio, 8 South Place, St Just 01736 787872 – sculpture by Rory Te’Tigo

Nancherrow Studio, 34 Nancherrow Terrace, St Just 01736 788552 - paintings, sculpture and ceramics by local artists

Beyond St Just

Top Shop, 30 Fore Street, St Just 01736 788673 www.artglass-uk.com SW 37 30 - Fi Kilpatrrick - original hand-crafted glass-ware

Helen Jay Pottery, Cot Manor, Cot Valley 01736 787764 SW 36 30 - colourful domestic ware

Boscean Pottery, Boscean 01736 787093 www.studiopottery.com SW 36 32 - Scott Marshall oven-to-table ware plus cards

Tregeseal Gallery, Nancherrow 01736 787354 www.bob-vigg.co.uk SW 37 31 - paintings by Bob Vigg plus pottery

Adrian Smith, Tremorran, Botallack 01736 787169 (by appointment) SW 36 32 - seascapes and landscapes in an impressionist/abstract style

Steam Pottery, Pendeen 01736 788070 www.steampottery.co.uk SW 38 34 – work by national potters in working pottery

Yew Tree Gallery, Keigwin 01736 786425 www.yewtreegallery.com SW 39 34 - exhibitions of fine and applied art, sculpture gardens and organic potager

Morvah Schoolhouse 01736 787808 www.morvah.com SW 40 35 - 1744 Wesleyan school converted into gallery with coffee shop
 

Independent museums

Gem and Jewellery Museum and Gallery, Pendeen 01736 788217 SW 38 34 - free entry to private mine history museum selling hand-made jewellery, mineral specimens & gifts

Wayside Folk Museum, Zennor 01736 796945 SW 45 38
- Cornwall’s oldest private museum devoted to life in the area from 3000BC to the 1950s