The Truro School Art Collection is a true asset to the institution and it continues to be a brilliant educational resource for students at the School, as well as a source of intrigue and inspiration for artists and art enthusiasts across the Cornish and wider community. David Heseltine, former Head of Art, had the insight to begin the Collection in the 1980s with the aim of building a resource for all students to learn from ‘real art’.
The Collection includes work from the early 1950s from the likes of Julius Olsson and Robert Borlase Smart, two of the first significant artists to move to the Cornish Coast to record the light.
There are nearly 300 pieces in the Collection, many of which have been gifted to or purchased by the School. We are delighted to own work by artists who have been hugely influential in the international art world such as Jeremy Le Grice and Peter Lanyon, former tutors of the St Ives School of Art.
The Collection also includes collaborations by the late Hugh Stoneman and Sir Terry Frost, as well as a series of screenprints by Bryan Pearce, drawings by Bernard Leach, Oil and Pastel landscapes by Margo Maeckelberghe, sketchbooks by John Virtue and mixed media drawings by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham to mention but a few.
The Heseltine Guild is committed to preserving, promoting and building this impressive Collection and looks to revisit works with each new exhibition, inviting artists to study and select pieces that complement or link to their own practice or show.
Cloud Studies
Juggler | late 1970s|
Through a Blue Window
Boudicca Watching
Untitled 1
Untitled 1
Untitled Drawing
Untitled Drawing
Sketch for Seascape Painting |1980|
Cows 1
Cows 2
Apples and a Patterned Plate |1987|
Red Still Life
County Hall Truro |1983|
Road to River
The Hare
Falmouth Docks
Bridge Drawing 1 |1982|
Bridge Drawing 11 |1982|
Broken Boat Drawing |1981|
Fishing Boats 2
Fishing Boats 1
Peninsular Fragment
Reclining Figure |1992|
Figure |1992|
Birds in Winter |1992|
Interior With Figure |1992|
Reclining Figure |1992|
Sleeping Nude |1992|
Journey |1997|
Housel Bay and The Lizard
Housel Bay and The Lizard
Housel Bay and The Lizard
Dressed Lobster
Winter Fields |2002|
Scrimshaw from the Mary Rose | 2002 |
Leda and the Swan
Sleeping Woman
St Ives
Scorhill Circle, Gidleigh Common |1998 |
Middlecot Farm Chagford |1982 |
Grey Gillan
Carn Kenidjack Granite Eye |2004|
Porthleden Cove Rockpool Life |2004|
Brilliant Corner 111 | 121/125 Screen print 65 x 65 cm |
Blue Square |Signed screen print 71x71cm |
Halzephron | Eight-part colour wood cut and collage 120cm-150cm | Gifted by Hugh and Linda Stoneman
Summer Evening Near Crowlas
The Lizard |1999|
Lands End |1999|
Cornish Farm
Gull Flying over the Sea
Uffington White Horse Gifted from Artist
Uffington White Horse Gifted from Artist
Uffington White Horse Gifted from Artist
Uffington White Horse Gifted from Artist
Uffington White Horse Gifted from Artist
China Clay Pits
Rocks at Zennor |1945|
Sketchbook 1 Page 60
Sketchbook 2 Page 60
After the Promontory
Corfe Ruins
Reflection- Self Portrait and Street |1993|
Reflection-Sitting I n My Room |1993|
Dog Walking on the Edge of the Desert
Figure with Jug
Girl with Chickens
Green |1997|
Orange |1997|
Staffa 1
Stations of the Cross
Staffa 1 |1998|
The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth
The Fire Eater
Greenhouse 3 |1986|
Figures at a Window
Clay Pits
Harbour|1966|
A Quayside With Town Beyond
A Summer Evening St Ives |1998|
Mica Dam, Penhale | April 2004|
Rain and Black Edges |1988|
Kernick Mica Dam Treviscoe |February 2004|
Rain and Yellow Edges |1989|
Sky-Tip, Telavour Downs |March 2004|
Two Boats |1983|
Wind in the Hills |1918|
Red Totem
Mountain Gorge in Mist |1918|
Blue Totem
Portrait
Delirious |1992|
Untitled |1963|
The Moon, The Bird and The Bride
Blackbird
Painted Tree 2-Blue |1947|
Nets at Newlyn
Bridge |1971|
Untitled |1958|
Yellow Forest |1969|
Studio
Cadgwith Church from Goonhilly Downs
Gates of the Underworld
Fisherman's Return
School Children |1981|
Gillan Creek
Nude
Torso
Still Life with Flowers and Oranges
Rooms |2010|
Boats in Harbour
Untitled |1985|
Around Newlyn | Etching 1976 edition 60/75 45 x 59 cm |
Adytum SV |1978|
Still Life with Bowl of Fruit |1981|
Upright |2009|
Still Life with Flowers 1979 | Screen print Edition 53/75 61 cm x 50 cm |
Red Table |2009|
St Michael's Mount |1980|
St Ives |1987|
Bird Over The Sea |1999|
Hillside
Bird in Orange |2000|
St Elmo's Fire (Located outside the Burrell Theatre Truro School)
St Elmo's Fire (Located outside the Burrell Theatre Truro School)
Crucifix 2
Crucifix 1
Chapel Lights
Chapel Lights
Chapel Lights Truro School
Owl and Book
White Rose in Splendour
Red Rose in Splendour
Bees and Hive
Flower
Cough
Lamp
Sun
Lion Rampant
Chairs-Tate St Ives
Bye Bye Blackbird
Mediaeval Peace Tower |November 1965|
Crucifixion Triptych |1988|
Resurrection Triptych |1988|
No. 30 from 100 |1978-1982|
Shift |1989|
Storm Towards Longships Lighthouse and Brissons from Port Nanven, Cot
On St Agnes, Isles of Scilly |2008|
Self Portrait |January 2006)
Formerly Yugoslavia |1996/97|
Blue Still Life
Seascape, Fistral
Admiral, Battle Plan and Wasps
Autumn Landscape, Valley and Hills |1956|
Running for the School Bus, Atherington, Devon |1982|
Wilfie Spears Pouring Tea, Mount Pleasant Beaworthy
Irises |1981|
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Mandalas of the Month 1993
Golden Headland
Sand Drift(Movement 1) |1979-81|
Worktable May |1983|
Blue Hills Ireland
Untitled |1974|
Near Hell's Mouth
Mines, behind Camborne |1953|
Page Width
Odyssey-Rock of Ages
Ruth's Window
Blue Moon on Brown
Blue Moon
Tom Tom Time Tells
Meeting at the Beach
Squares
Endless Poems
Flying Wild
Secret Summer
Godrevy Island
Still Life Studio |1974|
Haystack
Shoreline Porthleven- Bottle on the Beach
Seascape St Ives
Cliffs and Engine House, Botallack
Rocks near Pendeen
Untitled |2000|
Milwall Docks 3
