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    My Britain: St Ives

    Jul 20, 2021 4 minutes
    “Why am I so incredibly and incurably romantic about Cornwall?”
    - Virginia Woolf

    hey say the light is different in St Ives. Perhaps that’s what has attracted so many artists to this Cornish seaside town. JMW Turner, Barbara Hepworth, Maurice Sumray, Naum Gabo and Piet Mondrian have all lived for some time in this quaint town, inspired by the stunning nature and that fabled St Ives light. In the 2010 BBC documentary, , presenter James Fox explained that, “For a few dazzling years this place [St Ives] was as famous as Paris, as exciting as New York and infinitely more progressive than

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