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Ahead of her latestsolo show at Lighthouse Gallery in Penzance, artist Amanda Hoskin returned to find inspiration in a dramatic stretch of the Cornish coast path – a place which holds special significance for her

When the story of Cornish art in the early 21st Century is written, Amanda Hoskin is likely to feature as an artist whose work epitomises a distinctive phase in the landscape painting tradition. Cornwall – particularly the rugged landscape of West Cornwall – ignites a powerful response and Amanda’s emotive canvases convey this masterfully.

The coast path is the key frontier for Amanda; the meeting place of rock and water, sea and sky, stillness and movement, permanence and ephemerality. Several years ago, she walked the entire Cornish coast path, a journey which had a profound effect on the development of her mature style.

For this solo show at Lighthouse Gallery in Penzance, she returned to a specific stretch – the 45 miles between St Ives and Marazion. Here the coastline is at its most dramatic, rugged and monumental; weaving in and out of wave-pounded coves, along windswept clifftops, across pristine beaches and through tiny sheltered harbours, the journey takes in some of the most spectacular and breath-taking views Cornwall has to offer.