{"product_id":"sea-salts-and-sail-festival-mousehole-24-x-24-inches-acrylic-on-canvas-original-painting-by-cornish-artist-john-dyer","title":"'Sea Salts and Sail Festival, Mousehole', 24 x 24 inches acrylic on canvas. Original Painting by Cornish Artist John Dyer.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTraditional sailing boats crowd the waters of Mousehole in this exuberant original painting by acclaimed Cornish artist John Dyer, inspired by the village’s celebrated Sea, Salts and Sail Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eViewed from the beach, Mousehole harbour becomes a magnificent theatre of sail. Historic working boats and colourful traditional craft pass between the harbour walls, their great red, cream, pink and yellow sails filling the bay. Smaller fishing boats weave through the fleet, swimmers enjoy the clear turquoise water and people gather along the shore to watch the maritime spectacle unfold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe Sea, Salts and Sail Festival was founded by the Pezzack family and the Mousehole community in 1996. Held every two years, it celebrates Cornwall’s maritime heritage and helps preserve Mousehole’s identity as a working fishing village, recreating something of the activity, character and atmosphere of an earlier age of sail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eJohn’s animated figures fill the beach with life. Families, sailors, children and dogs gather beside boats, their traditional sails billowing in the Cornish breeze, while gulls sweep through the brilliant blue sky. Seals swim among the boats and brightly painted buoys create flashes of orange, pink and yellow across the moving water. In the distance, the cottages of Mousehole curve around the harbour, with St Michael’s Mount rising across Mount’s Bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe painting’s richly populated narrative has an intriguing connection with the artistic heritage of west Cornwall. From the 1880s, the painters of the Newlyn School, including Stanhope Forbes and Frank Bramley, were drawn to the region’s fishing communities, coastal light and working maritime life. Their paintings recorded fishermen, harbour activity and the shared experiences of Cornish villages at a moment of great change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Sea Salts and Sail Festival, Mousehole’\u003c\/em\u003e echoes those historic subjects while speaking in John Dyer’s unmistakably contemporary visual language. Broad, energetic brush marks animate the water and sky, while complementary colours make the sails glow against the deep blues of the bay. The dramatic scale of the boats and the abundance of human, animal and nautical detail convey not simply how the festival looks, but how it feels to stand among the crowds as Mousehole’s maritime past returns vividly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAt 24 inches square, this substantial statement painting is a joyful celebration of boats, community and Cornwall’s enduring relationship with the sea. It offers collectors a contemporary link to the great tradition of Cornish coastal painting and would bring colour, movement and the festive spirit of Mousehole into a home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"table-data-sheet\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr class=\"odd\"\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDescription\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFramed Original Painting\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr class=\"even\"\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eArtist\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCornish Artist John Dyer (born 1968)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr class=\"odd\"\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSigned by the Artist\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSigned by John Dyer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr class=\"even\"\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePainting size\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24 x 24 inches\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr class=\"odd\"\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMedium\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAcrylic on canvas\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr class=\"even\"\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFramed size\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29.5 x 29.5 inches\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr class=\"odd\"\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFrame type\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe St Ives style picture frame is a Renaissance-inspired cassetta frame, Italian for 'little box', featuring a white stain finish that highlights the wood grain. With a 73mm wide profile and 39mm depth, it creates a recessed central panel, perfect for a timeless, contemporary and elegant display of the painting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr class=\"even\"\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eReady to hang\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eStrung with picture cord and ready to hang\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Dyer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49846349037810,"sku":null,"price":1895.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0476\/8448\/5279\/files\/SeaSaltsandSailFestival_Mousehole.24x24inchesacryliconcanvasbyJohnDyer.jpg?v=1784994268","url":"https:\/\/johndyergallery.com\/products\/sea-salts-and-sail-festival-mousehole-24-x-24-inches-acrylic-on-canvas-original-painting-by-cornish-artist-john-dyer","provider":"John Dyer Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}