Emma Jeffryes makes paintings that are synonymous with the town of St Ives. Like the many artists before her, Jeffryes has a fascination with painting fishing boats, sailing ships and the distinctive Cornish luggers that once filled the seaside port. She says “This may be a tiny vessel out in the depths of the bay or from sitting right in front of them moored on the sand where you can get a real feel for the volume and strength of their sturdy hulls.”  Demonstrating a unique awareness of both the cultural and literal landscape in which she paints, Jeffryes combines the historically important naive style associated with St Ives art since Alfred Wallis, with the high set horizons and luminous colour of contemporary Cornish landscape painting.

Sarah Frangleton - 2017