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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

If you are visiting on Tuesday 4 November, please note that there is a special installation taking place in the house and galleries on this day for Remember Nature 2025.

From Tuesday 4 – Friday 14 November, our galleries will be closed as we install our next exhibition Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet. The house, café, and shop will be open as usual.

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

If you are visiting on Tuesday 4 November, please note that there is a special installation taking place in the house and galleries on this day for Remember Nature 2025.

From Tuesday 4 – Friday 14 November, our galleries will be closed as we install our next exhibition Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet. The house, café, and shop will be open as usual.

Photo: © Kettle's Yard

Painting

Sailing ship against a sandy beach, undated

Alfred Wallis
Oil on card
406 x 488 mm
[AW 54]
On display

About the artist

Born 1855 – Died 1942

Wallis was born in Devon. He worked as a fisherman and later a scrap-metal merchant in St. Ives, Cornwall. After the death of his wife in 1922, he turned to painting as a way of fending off loneliness.

Read the full biography