Art & Coffee at The Beaumont, Friday 17th April 2026: To St Ives with Peter Lanyon (Part Two): Ghostings – Generation, History and Myth

Greetings!

I hope you will be able to join us

on Friday 17th April, 11.30am (for about an hour)

at The Beaumont, Barchester Care, 15 Cannon Hill, Old Southgate, N14 7DJ

to further explore the life, times & art of Peter Lanyon (1918-1964), one of the foremost artists of the post-war St Ives School who combined abstraction with landscape, portraying his native Cornwall in rich brushstrokes of colour and texture. Today we’ll look at his paintings for what I’ll call “ghostings” – the generative accumulations of events, history and myth that lie on and under the surface.

Landscape with Cup (Annunciation) [1946; private c/o Christie‘s; and note the essay on Sotheby‘s]

There’ll be lots to look at and discuss – I hope you’ll be able to come along!

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The discussions are for everyone, whether residents or local community. Please note a £3 on-the-door request to cover the cost of coffee and biscuits. With all thanks to Barchester Health Care.

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Notes:

Very interesting books:

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