To get the New Year off to a good start, the Lander Gallery has put together a show for all Nature lovers with paintings of brightly coloured flowers to cheer up the dark winter days. It is also that time of year when we look out for wildlife and try and help birds and small creatures through the winter months. These are depicted by local artists with extraordinary attention to detail and include birds, animals flora and fauna. The exhibition includes two highly prestigious botanical painters Mally Francis and Honor Budden with their skillfully detailed and accurate depictions of spring flowers. Barbara MacMillan, who is based in Golant near Fowey has a bolder approach to the subject of plants and flowers. Her bright oils and acrylics use the colours of exotic flowers such as bird of paradise flowers and other tropical plants as her inspiration. Heather Winney captures to the lively playfulness of leaping hares in her subtle paintings whilst ceramicist Lynn Davey is exhibiting her animal and bird stoneware sculptures with everything from puffins to pigs.

Other artists include Michael Atkinson, Susan Hillier and Andrew Waddington.

The Lander Classics side of the gallery will include the work of a well known painter of birds and animals Charles Simpson (1885 - 1971) who is strongly associated with the Newlyn and Lamorna Schools with some of his wild bird series from the 1920s. The gallery is also showing a pen and ink drawing of horses by Lucy Kemp Welch (1869 - 1958), famous for her depictions of animals in particular horses. The gallery has also a fine collection of Newlyn copper on display where many of the pieces are decorated with hand beaten images of cormorants and fish, made from between 1890s - 1920s. There are also works on display by other members of the St. Ives and Lamorna colonies of artists from its heyday including Lamorna Birch, George Bradshaw and Frank Bramley.