Cornwall Open Studios

This year 2026 we are highlighting two artists both of longstanding in Shallal one on the supportive sidelines since Shallal's inception nearly 40 years ago, Peter Willis ( married to Jo Willis founder and creative director) and the other Anna Willis seriously involved since she was 7 years old and started performing with Shallal Dance Theatre, now a fine art graduate from UAL and a Shallal associate artist.

Peter Willis

"My art has always been, and remains, a reflection of my search for meaning.

In recent years, my engagement with painting has had to shift with the development of Parkinson's and the tremor in my right hand that accompanies it. Rather than a hindrance it has been an enhancement.

The ethos of Shallal has freed me from the restraints of conventional fine art expectations. It has expanded and enriched my approach to painting, allowing my practice to encompass my changing abilities.

Shallal works for everyone."

Anna Willis

https://shallal.org/people/anna-willis

"I am fascinated by the transcription of improvised movement and the abstraction of the body through different media; as an exploration of the indescribable sensation and connection to one’s own body that occurs in improvised movement."

on show recent art work from Resonance exhibition and Form Art Festival, in a variety of mediums and prices.

Natural inks, abstract cyanotypes, photographs, prints, ink drawings and more