Our lovely artist Katy Greenwood has chosen St Nectans Glen as the sacred place that has inspired her work for the upcoming Cornish Sacred Landscape event in Penzance, June 19 - 21 at The Union Hotel. The first time I visited St Nectans Glen was when my mum came to visit me in Cornwall. I remember the feeling of walking through the woods with her, listening to the trickling stream under a canopy of so many lush greens. It felt like an adventure akin to some of the children’s books I used to read about old trees & fairy magick. We finally got to a little hut where witchy women showed us down to a pool surrounded by ferns, wet mosses & colourful ribbons tied to trees that waved floatily in the breeze. Seeing the waterfall was spellbinding, the mists, the cool water rushing from the dark little cave above down through the rock portal below. It felt special, alive & so very beautiful. The wildlife, the history, the feel of being in a place like this creates so much inspiration to draw from for a painting. Revisiting the glen over the years, I’ve since become aware of ecological gems such as rare plants: liverworts & mosses living here & recorded the song of an Eurasian Treecreeper bird I’d never heard of before! I’ve felt inspired while soaking up the sunshine dappling through the trees as its glowed like bokeh lights, like it could be fairies dancing? On choosing a sacred site I knew it had to be St Nectans & I hope to paint a piece that evokes even a little of the energy, ecology & history of this special place. For tickets and more info , please see the link in the bio 🌿💚

Welcoming the the amazing Liz Williams @old_ways_cottage @liz.williamsphotography as the twentieth artist for our Cornish Sacred Landscape event in Penzance , June 19 -21 at The Union Hotel. Liz is an incredibly talented photographer and magical practioner, she has recently started a brilliant Zine called The Crooked Cauldron and is highly reccomended @the_crooked_cauldron . We are especially excited to see Liz’s photographic response to Ithell Colquhoun’s work on the Merry Maidens. Many of us are big fans of Ithell’s work, and the Merry Maidens is a site that holds a real pull for so many of us. More about Liz in her own words: I am a photographer living in and experiencing Cornwall as an animistic landscape. I believe our traditional cultural practices anchor us in the land, create a sense of belonging and tell our stories. This Merry Maidens project was about looking at the site from the microscopy of the soil to the aerial drone shots, thinking how it was used, how it sits in the land, then and now. I was also inspired by Ithell Colquhoun's work where she sketched a few of the stones with the shape of women within them, referencing the folklore around them being women turned to stone for continuing to dance into the sabbath. I expanded this idea and photographed my model contorting herself into the shape of the stones, blurring the boundaries of stone and female form. For tickets and more info about this event please visit the link in the Bio. #merrymaidens #ancientsites #esotericart #Cornwallartist #CornwallEvents

Our artist Stephanie Croydon @steph_art has chosen Porthmeor, Trevalgan and Trencrom as the sacred places that have inspired her artwork for the upcoming Sacred Cornish Landscape event in Penzance, June 19–21, at The Union Hotel. A little about why Steph chose these places in her own words: My artwork is exploring a spiritual connection to place. I have been using the title Earth Magick. I'm interested in exploring beyond what is visual; capturing a fleeting moment, a feeling, celebrating the cycles of nature and ancient places. Much of my artwork comes from exploring what's on my doorstep: the fields around reskidinnick near where I used to live and would walk regularly, Porthmeor beach and coast path close to where I work and Trevalgan and Trencrom halfway between where I now live and work. Connecting with my surroundings is important in my art and spiritual practice, which are combined to make sense of my place in Cornwall, which isn't my homeland. For tickets and more info on this event follow the link in the bio.

This was one of those pieces that came through almost automatically. I was in quite an altered, immersed state while making it, and I didn’t really know what I was drawing until afterwards. That’s often how my work happens , I follow the lines and forms as they appear, then later I look back and try to understand what was moving through me at the time. I use art almost like a tool for self psychoanalysis and healing. A way of seeing what is underneath the surface and what I was thinking , feeling or receiving at the time. This might be why I find it so uncomfortable posting my art , because its so personal and my subconcious is on display. I had been spending time with the Major Arcana at the time of doing this sketch and looking at this again, it feels perhaps like an abstract, surrealist version of The Magician Tarot card? This piece feels like something emerging from the chaos of the unconscious reaching out towards the infinite. There’s something very Magician like in that for me..like the conscious Will acting as a bridge between worlds, drawing the unseen into form. I look forward to making this into a painting after the upcoming Cornish Sacred Landscape exhibition with @carncrescentcrow in Penzance this June...and until then its back to the stones! #automaticdrawing #surrealistart #tarotart #magiciantarot #automatism

Introducing our nineteenth artist, the wonderfully talented Joe Blewett @stoneanima , who will be exhibiting at The Cornish Sacred Landscape in Penzance, 19–21 June at The Union Hotel. Joe creates exquisite jewellery and sculpture from rocks and materials found within the Cornish landscape. His work feels deeply rooted in place and the memory held within stone ,and we are really excited to see what he brings to the exhibition. Make sure to give Joe a follow @stoneanima or visit his website: stoneanima.com A little about Joe and his work, in his own words: “Born in and based on the outskirts of Penzance, Cornwall, my name is Joseph Blewett. Using both age-old and modern methods, I make beads, jewellery and sculpture from stone and other materials found along life’s walks within this timeless place. With an animistic outlook, I am especially interested in cross-cultural ancestral values, particularly those with Cornish roots. Learning to live more in tune with nature, including my own, is important to me, and making in the way that I do is a part of this practice. And so, in being true enough to this, I find I have these things to offer — which, to me, are not only filled with natural beauty and spirit of place, but also deep-time memory of our earthly origins, our ancestors and the stars — snapshots of the ineffable.” For tickets, programme and more info, please follow the link in our bio 🖤🐦‍⬛ #CornwallArt #stonesculptures #Penzance #AncientSites #CornwallEvents

One ticket. A whole solstice weekend. Join us in Penzance for The Cornish Sacred Landscape , a weekend celebrating Cornwall’s ancient sites, folklore and landscape through art, talks, ritual, sound performance and alternative culture. Taking place at the historic Union Hotel, the weekend brings together 23 artists, guest speakers, workshops, alternative DJs and performances inspired by Cornwall’s sacred and ancient sites. 19–21 June · Penzance One ticket · full weekend entry Pay what you can from £2.50 Exhibition-only entry is free ( between programme) Limited capacity: 80 people per day Neurodiversity friendly day Sunday 21st June. If you feel drawn to Cornwall’s ancient sites, folklore, creativity, and music we’d love to welcome you 🖤🐦‍⬛ Tickets/info: carncrescentcrow.com #CornwallEvents #Penzance #CornwallArt #AncientSites #CornishFolklore

Fridays St Cleer well dressing made me very emotional. I’m still not completely sure why. Part of it was the children, I think that very simple, innocent folk tradition of carrying flowers to the well and giving thanks to the water for everything it does for us. It felt so hopeful, against the absolute psychotic mess of world events at the moment. And maybe it was also the beauty of seeing Christianity and something perhaps more pagan sitting together without any obvious conflict. A blessing at a holy well, children singing and dancing, flowers, water and gratitude . The tradition here at St Cleer has been revived fairly recently, but well dressing itself is very old, and its origins are uncertain. CPRE says the custom may have begun as a pagan ritual of leaving gifts in thanks for fresh water, although the exact origins have been lost over time. St Cleer well itself is special too. Historic England describes it as the only known open porch like well house of its type in Cornwall, still holding clear water in the well . Cornwall Heritage Trust, who organised the event, also describes the ceremony as a blessing of the site in Cornish and English, with children from St Cleer Primary Academy taking part. And honestly, the well felt so different this time!. When I’ve visited before, the Mary line there has felt very faint and delicate to me. This time it felt much more active and present, really palpable . It made me wonder whether the Mary and Michael lines respond to reverence? whether being honoured, sung to, gathered around, remembered, somehow wakes something up? Or maybe it’s seasonal. Maybe as we move towards summer, the inner currents of land had fully awoken being post Beltane ?. It was a lovely little tradition. Small, local and heartfelt. In the middle of all the nonesense that is happening in the world, its exactly the sort of thing that makes you have a little more faith in humanity. #holywell #folktradition #oldcornwallsociety #ancientsites #maryline

Welcoming the fabulous Christine Smith @artyred1 as the eighteenth artist for our Cornish Sacred Landscape event in Penzance , June 19 -21 at The Union Hotel. Christine is wonderfully creative, not only through her artwork, but also through the incredible headdresses and costumes she makes. We’re really excited to see the outfit she wears to this event. More about Christine in her own words below: "I'm an artist living near to Dartmoor but grew up in a suburban town. Ever since the early 1990's, I have been escaping to Cornwall for the wild landscape and coastline that invigorates and inspires me. I first visited Lanyon Quoit and Men an Tol around 1992, again in 2002 and recently in 2026. My art for the exhibition is inspired by these 2 places and includes photography, prints and mixed media. I love the stories, myths and legends that the Cornish landscape evokes and for this girl who grew up near Heathrow Airport, the lure of a wild landscape with mysterious granite stones was always a special place to be." Tickets for this event can booked via the link in the bio #ancientsites #menantol #megalith #Cornwallartist

Lunar Pilgrimage: Waxing Gibbous, Accompied by lovely @eviee.art to the Well of St Keyne, Liskeard. The well is dedicated to the hermit and princess, Saint Keyne 600AD,( daughter of King Brychan,) who possessed the ability to turn serpents into stone. She refused to marry and cursed the water; the one who drank the well water first in a marriage would assert dominance in the relationship. The poem by Robert Southy follows "A Well there is in the west country, And a clearer one never was seen; There is not a wife in the west country But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm-tree stand beside, And behind doth an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to the water below." The most fascinating element surrounding this site is the single root that connects an Elm, Oak , Willow and an ash tree. This visitation helped complete 4/8 of my latest project the 'Lunar Dial', that marries ceramics and Cornish sacred springs to the Lunar cycle. This installation will be on display from 19th-21st June, for the @carncrescentcrow exhibition, Union Hotel, Penzance Sketch in Oak Gall ink scanned through a printer

This beautiful sculpture is part of Portal, a four piece sculpture series by Rob Vickery @darkcornwall , created for our upcoming Cornish Sacred Landscape event. Portal is an exploration of a realm Rob encountered in visions at Chûn Quoit in 2025. It is a world where the familiar order of things is overturned, where the rules are upended, and where the landscape is inhabited by beings and creatures we might call fantastical. Yet within that strangeness there is also light. There is something about this work that affects you very deeply, as if it awakens in you forgotten knowledge of the Celtic Mysteries hidden within the depths of the folk soul. Rob seems to have profoundly tapped into the Underworld current , familiar, but not quite the same. A place of reversal, initiation and enchantment. In Welsh and Celtic myth, Annwn is often understood as the Otherworld, a deep, mysterious realm connected with the faery, the ancestral, and the powers beneath and beyond the visible world. In Red Tree, White Tree, Wendy Berg writes about Faery presences being linked to particular sacred sites places where the atmosphere itself is shaped by the beings and Faery priesthoods connected with them, and where contact may be possible for those willing to still the conscious mind and tune in. This feels wonderfully present in Rob’s work, as though he has been guided by the very underworld beings his sculpture evokes. There is also something almost ultraviolet in this sculpture, as though Rob has caught a frequency just beyond ordinary sight. My teacher once described faery beings as visible at the edge of perception... almost as if they belonged to the UV spectrum. Many animals can see parts of the UV spectrum that humans usually cannot. Perhaps this is one reason they have so often been imagined, in myth and folklore, as intermediaries between worlds These pieces are deeply personal. They mark Rob’s first ever exhibition submission, which makes sharing them both exciting and nerve wracking for him. We’re honoured to be sharing Portal as part of The Cornish Sacred Landscape in Penzance, Jun 19-21 at the Union Hotel. Tickets available via the link in the bio.

Here's a brief recap of my incredible journey through Italy, where I accomplished several goals and took my art to new heights. I also look forward to exciting upcoming events on the horizon. I’m honored to be part of ANIMA MUNDI 2026 organized by @itsliquidgroup during the Venice Biennale, where I will present my work across all three chapters: RITUALS, from May 20 to June 04, 2026 CONSCIOUSNESS, from June 19 to July 03, 2026 VISIONS, from July 17 to July 31, 2026 Venice, with its layers of history, masks, and metamorphosis, feels like the perfect place for this journey. Come and take a look! 📍 Venice: Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello 📅 May 20 – July 31, 2026 Also some other exciting news: I currently have an extended exhibition at Palazzo della Racchetta in Ferrara, curated by Viviana Puello of Art Tour Internationa, and @artemis_collective_plymouth 2nd birthday show at @_cafe_momus_ until May19 So make sure you come and take a look there as well! Finally This might be a little long now. How about this: Finally, I will be attending a 3-day event in Penzance, England , which will be celebrating Cornish Ancient Sites with Talks, Art, Music and Ritual. Follow @carncrescentcrow for more info. @standarkart and me have made a hell of a lot of collaborations August will see a sizeable event with @mangualesextreme @drumsofwarfest @goran_metalhead in Barcelona with 31 top metal bands and a display of my art during this 3 days event Pre-orders are now open for two essential Heavy Music Artwork releases dedicated to Christophe Szpajdel — the “Lord of the Logos.” Both Oracles In Black(new volume) and the Archaic Modernism – Second Edition are now available to pre-order. Lord of the Logos - Oracles In Black, Christophe Szpajdel /products/lord-of-the-logos-oracles-in-black-christophe-szpajdel Archaic Modernism 2nd Edition, The Art of Christophe Szpajdel /products/archaic-modernism-2nd-edition-the-art-of-christophe-szpajdel

Welcoming the amazing Ellie Lawrence @ellielawrenceartist as the seventeenth artist for our Cornish Sacred Landscape event in Penzance , June 19 -21 at The Union Hotel. As well as exhibiting their wonderful art, we are super excited that Ellie will be presenting an experimental performance titled Stone listening device: Tin cans & Rope. A little about Ellie in their own words : In a landscape of ecological grief, I find myself journeying to stone; walking between sites that will remain when we perhaps no longer exist, places witness to the shifting baselines of the climate crisis. I recognise myself as earthling beside Stone, as I stand staring into the reflection of granite searching for an ancient connection tethered in the division of nature from man. My practice is one of seeking, as I walk, draw, map and gather, merging the topographies of site, experience and, speculation. Tickets for this event are available on a pay what you can basis from £2.50, via the link in the bio. #ancientsites #landbasedart #cornishart #performanceart #experimentalart