kim bentley's beach pictures

There’s still plenty of fun to be had in Cornwall whilst keeping to social distancing rules. The warm weather is bringing out the best of the county. So  if you’re pining for white horses, sandcastles and gulls take a look at my three latest pictures.

Flying High On Daymer Bay

Cornwall is famous for its brisk sea winds and what better way to enjoy them than with a kite. But don’t worry if you can’t get airborne, grab a shovel like nippers here on Daymer Bay – and get dug in!

Sea Gulls watch the crabbing at Fowey

I’ve always had a soft spot for Fowey, possibly due to its connection with Daphne du Maurier. And there’s always things going on at Albert Quay, at the back of the car park close to the Fowey River Gallery. Messing about on boats, pasty lunches and hungry gulls.

School’s Out Harlyn

One of the good things about lockdown is it’s given youngsters who would otherwise be at school the opportunity to brush up on their surfing skills here Harlyn.  Just down the road from The Padstow Studio in Duke Street where you can sea this picture.

Last year I was invited to take part in Sarah Adams’ wonderful 10th year anniversary show at her Padstow Studio.  My contributions were these three images – all sold: On Stile Selfie; Paddling Pooches; Sitting On The Rock On The Bay.The preview was wonderful event with many of Sarah and my own clients making the time to share the occasion.

Sitting On The Rock On The Bay

On Stile Selfie

Coffee Break With Venus On Sloane Square

Last year I adapted my painted/silk taffeta Cornish beach scenes to encompass London’s Parliament Hill and Hampstead Heath. This month much of the work I am showing at Art’s Blooming Marvellous, at Battersea’s Affordable Art Fair (March 13-16), has a south west London feel.

I will be showing on the Beyond The Sea Stand, belonging to a Cornish art company with galleries in Padstow and St.Ives.

Of the five new London images on show are ‘Coffee Break With Venus On Sloane Square’, that is just what it says; looking north along Sloane Street with buses and taxis, cyclists, walkers and a group of people sat around the statue of Venus. Another is ‘A Spring In Their Step In Battersea Park’, looking west along the embankment with Chelsea Bridge in the distance and a cavalcade of joggers, cyclists, and dogs. You don’t have to look far to find Asta.

A Spring In Their Step At Battersea Park

Then there is ‘Posing At The Pagoda’, depicting the same spot but facing the other way, with the Albert Bridge in the distance and, a golden Buddha and a family posing for a photograph – on an iPad.

Posing At The Pagoda

This three (and they may be more, I’ll have to wait and see) will be joined by three more familiar Cornish scenes: ‘Snap Happy On Constantine Beach’; ‘Jump For Joy’ and ‘Summer Days At Brea Hill’.

Summer Days At Brea Hill

Prices are from £595-£695. Beyond The Sea, Stand E3, Art’s Blooming Marvellous, Battersea Park, London, SW11 4NJ. Thursday March 13 to Sunday March 16, 2014. affordableartfair.co.uk

Snap Happy On Constantine

If you find yourself in north Wales, between now and the beginning of December do call in at the wonderful Ruthin Craft Centre.  It was a real privilege to be invited to show at Rendevous, where three of my pictures sit alongside those by a number of other artists who either studied or taught at London’s Goldsmiths College, where I was a student in the late 1970s.  The idea is to show the impact of Goldsmiths College then and now with work from students and teachers still producing to this day.

Wetsuit Weather

This is how the Ruthin Craft Centre describes the exhibition: ‘There are three pieces of my works on show: Snap Happy On Constantine, Wet Suit Weather and Dog Day on Primrose Hill. I am also delighted that two of my Goldsmith friends are showing there too. Sally Spens, my partner for so many years in the textile company, Bentley & Spens, and Sue Kinley, who like Sally lives in Cornwall and did for a while teach art at Falmouth.  There are two display cases of Bentley & Spens if you’d like to see how my work has evolved.’

Rendevous Goldsmiths, 21 September – 1 December 2013

Ruthin Craft Centre,  The Centre for Applied Arts,

Park Road, Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1BB

+44 (0) 1824 704774

Dog Day on Primrose Hill