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John Brenton | Featured Artist: From Padstow to the Rumps
16 August - 10 September 2025Image of John Brenton | Featured Artist, From Padstow to the Rumps -
Suki Wapshott: Solo Exhibition
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Whitewater Contemporary Gallery is one of Cornwall’s most beautiful and inspiring art galleries. Situated on the seafront in the heart of Polzeath, the gallery specialises in painting, sculpture, applied art, photography, ceramics and craft by Cornwall and the UK’s leading contemporary artists.
Throughout the year, our exhibition space hosts collections by the best regional and national artists and makers, alongside a regular Featured Artist series of solo exhibitions, on show monthly from March to December.
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Suki Wapshott
Featured Artist 28 October - 29 November 2023This new work celebrates Suki’s love of the spectacular North Cornwall landscape where she has lived and worked for more than two decades. Inspired by her daily walks along the... -
Rebecca Styles
Featured Artist 26 August - 27 September 2023From August Bank Holiday onwards, Whitewater Contemporary presents a unique collection by rising British landscape painter Rebecca Styles. This summer, Rebecca is taking up an artist's residency at Brisons Veor,... -
John Brenton
Featured Artist 29 July - 23 August 2023Artist John Brenton takes inspiration from the natural beauty of the British Isles, working here in Cornwall and as far north as Scotland. Typically painting 'en plein air' he has... -
Stewart Edmondson
Featured Artist 24 June - 26 July 2023Stewart is a contemporary landscape artist who is renowned for his paintings of Dartmoor National Park in Devon, and, more recently the spectacular North Cornwall coast. Working 'en plein air'... -
Viv Richards
Featured Artist 27 May - 21 June 2023Mixed media artist Viv Richard’s lives and works in Bude and makes work inspired by her appreciation for the beauty of Cornwall's ocean views, far horizons and unique feeling of... -
Suki Wapshott
Virtual Showcase 9 - 16 May 2023This month’s Virtual Showcase introduces our latest paintings by Suki Wapshott. This group of new work features scenes of North Cornwall’s beautiful St Enodoc, Daymer Bay, Polzeath and Port Isaac.... -
Simeon Stafford
Featured Artist 29 April - 24 May 2023This spring, Whitewater Contemporary brings you the latest collection of work by Simeon Stafford. Over his 40 year career, Simeon has established himself as one of the UKs most recognised... -
Sam Brooks
Featured Artist 25 March - 26 April 2023On show throughout April, Whitewater Contemporary presents new work by painter Sam Brooks. Sam’s still life and landscape works are influenced by 20th Century European Modernism and explore colour and... -
John Brenton
Virtual Showcase 28 March - 8 April 2023For this month’s Virtual Showcase, we present a new collection by Cornishman John Brenton, ahead of a larger body of work to be shown this August as part of our...
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