MJHS contemporary

16/10/2026

Next Friday 6-8.30 Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery the FREE private view.
Book PV tickets through link in other post please if you can.

13/10/2026

Weeks in the making. All the artists at the TRESOR fair Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery with ACJ Cornwall were gifted from Kernowcraft Rocks & Gems Ltd with a unique piece of Serpentine !!
My piece looked like a ladybird or beetle. I hope that I have enhanced what the original stone cutter saw in this piece of Serpentine.
When I was taught stone carving on Portland in Dorset, we were told to let the stone reveal what was hidden with it. I can see that is what the cutter of this piece of Serpentine had done.
Such a beautiful piece of stone in itself but such a dark looking stone that would be lost in the wrong placement. I do hope that I can give it the right setting to show the true potential of this piece.
Stay tuned for more and consider visiting the private view Friday October 23rd at the Museum between 6-8:30
Visits to the show at the weekend of 24/25th October will have a charge of £10 entry to the Museum, but this gives a whole year of experience at the museum. Children/under 18s free.
I am running a workshop on the Sunday that can be booked through the museum or my linktree. I will be making positive affirmation necklaces with attendees, that includes a mini glass container to hold seeds to plant a beautiful future garden and give back to nature.
I hope to see you there xx

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30/09/2026

I will be running a workshop on Sunday 25th October during the exhibition TRESOR Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery
Positive affirmation necklace inspired by the exhibition MYTHS AND LEGENDS on show at the moment xx Book through the Cornwall Museum website

22/09/2026

We have worked with some awesome people making Copper jewelry with rocks this St Ives September Festival
Two more workshop dates available this Wednesday and Friday.
Then we will be running something similar in the October half term followed by workshop on 25th October during the TRESOR exhibition Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery
Open evening on 23td October from 6pm till 8,30
Do come along and see works by artists and jewelers inspired by the exhibition there Myths and Legends.
Each artist has been gifted from Kernowcraft Rocks & Gems Ltd a beautiful piece of to create a work with. These will be also in the exhibition.

14/09/2026

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10/09/2026

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09/09/2026

Good luck ph***ic symbols carved by Romans in Cumbria.

While gathering material from a stone quarry in Cumbria’s Gelt Woods for renovations to nearby […]

03/09/2026

After catching a wonderful lecture on this beautiful artifact Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery done years ago, I have made many works inspired by the

One of the most extraordinary objects of the European Bronze Age may have a very special Cornish connection it's beyond me if this is actually true but there you go.

The Nebra Sky Disc, discovered in Germany, dates to around 1600 BC and is one of the earliest known representations of the heavens. It shows a crescent moon, a possible full sun or moon, 32 stars—including the distinctive cluster of the Pleiades—and golden arcs representing the horizon and the movement of the sun.
But where did its precious metals come from?
Scientific analysis has found that the gold used to decorate the disc closely matches gold from Cornwall, particularly alluvial gold associated with the River Carnon in the Devoran area. Research has also linked the tin in the bronze to Cornwall.
That means that more than 3,500 years ago, metals from Cornwall were potentially travelling hundreds of miles across Europe and ending up on an object representing the Bronze Age understanding of the night sky.
It gives us a remarkable glimpse into the scale of prehistoric trade and connections. Cornwall wasn't an isolated corner of Britain—it was part of a much wider network of people, metals, ideas and technology stretching across Europe.
And perhaps most amazingly, Bronze Age evidence for working these resources is now emerging from Cornwall itself. An antler pick from the Carnon Valley has been dated to the Early Bronze Age and provides evidence connected with prehistoric extraction of tin and/or alluvial gold.
So when we look at the golden stars of the Nebra Sky Disc, we may literally be looking at a tiny piece of ancient Cornwall.
Cornish gold. Cornish tin. A German sky. One extraordinary Bronze Age story.