Jessica Warboys, a Falmouth alumni fine artist, gave a lecture last night at the Woodlane Campus of Falmouth University.

Her large-scale paintings of Zennor and films which have been commissioned for the opening of the Tate St Ives tomorrow (31st March) will be showcased in the newly renovated galleries.

It is her first solo show in a UK national gallery and her paintings were created by casting mineral pigments directly onto a damp, folded canvas and then submerging them under the sea before being pulling them ashore. An exciting concept as the waves, wind and sand, shift and scatter the pigments, creating the images on the canvas.

Unfortunately, no canvases were present last night and she did not deliver an accompanying lecture which informed on how her latest work had been created by the technique of ‘sea dipping’. Our only brief glimpse of this body of work was via a digital slide presentation of similar painting she had created in the South East of England. The majority of the lecture highlighted her uninspiring past film work.