Devoran School celebrated its First Birthday with a special ceremony including the official unveiling of the school’s new two metre ceramic mural, dance, poetry and musical performances by pupils and cream teas for guests. Staff, pupils and governors from the school moved into their new £3 million building in September last year. Now, twelve months on, they staged an Open Afternoon to celebrate the move and enable local residents and invited guests to look around their new school. Guests included former headteachers, staff and governors, members of local scouts, guides and brownie groups, members of Feock parish council and the local Parochial Church Council.

“Every day I look at and enjoy my two John Dyer paintings, although lately I look at them with an extra warmth - your kind and generous personality which is evident in all you do.”

The Waterside Café at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall has come to life during the Tall Ships regatta with an exhibition of children’s artwork inspired by Tall Ships and Small Ships.

With 100,000 people due in the town the gallery has partnered with Carrick Council and the Falmouth Tall Ships to enable 5 point of displays to be set up around the town and by the Tall Ships to display the official Limited Edition Print and Official Programme.

The National Trust have again chosen to feature Glendurgan Garden in their “Enjoy a great day out in Cornwall” leaflet by featuring a painting by Artist John Dyer rather than a traditional photograph.

Gallery featured on three new sites

“Buy It. You can still pick up a piece by an artist guaranteed to appreciate over time, like Kurt Jackson, for example, or John Dyer.”

The Visit Cornwall web site run by the Cornish Tourist Board has a web page dedicated to Cornish art with two of the counties best known artists mentioned; Kurt Jackson and John Dyer.

Falmouth Art Gallery has one of the leading art collections in Cornwall and features work by old masters, major Victorian artists, British Impressionists, leading maritime artists and contemporary painters and printmakers.

In the September 2008 issue  of A Place in the Sun Magazine you can find an article on Toyah Willcox and her home in Menton in France.

Falmouth Tall Ships, The National Maritime Museum Cornwall and The John Dyer Gallery are pleased to announce the launch of one of Cornwall’s biggest ever children’s art competitions.

Children and staff at Devoran Primary School celebrated the first year in their exciting new building by taking part in a week long arts project.