Artist led fine art gallery in Bude, Cornwall

Art that inspires and transforms

Offering high quality artwork that is a little different to the usual, we are delighted to welcome you to Teyr Fine Art.

You can view information about our regular and featured artists here and there are links to their websites where you can view available work.

If you would like to arrange a viewing outside our regular hours, please use the contact form to make an enquiry.

Our regular open hours are:

Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 4pm

March Exhibition: These Lands of Ours

Featured Artist: Claire Gent

Editions is our first exhibition of the year at Teyr Fine Art, bringing together a gorgeous selection of limited and open edition fine art prints by Bude artists Hannah Wheeler, Natalie Day and Sue Read.

This showcase is a brilliant way to begin (or build) a collection, offering the joy of living with beautiful work with a little more flexibility than an original.

Expect a varied mix of subject matter and style across the three artists, with a range of sizes and price points, plus both framed and unframed options available throughout the exhibition. You’ll also find a selection of hand-embellished prints, each finished individually, making every piece feel that bit more special and one-of-a-kind.

Natalie Day creates semi abstract landscape paintings using hand gathered earth pigments, grounding her practice in a connection to landscape and materiality, blending ecological awareness with painterly abstraction.

Hannah Wheeler focuses on figurative oil painting on wood, creating multiple layers, scraping back to reveal underlying tones, and obsessively following threads between harmony, intensity and creative entanglement.

Sue Read collects glimpses and moments which remind us of nature and the spaces that support and sustain us. Layering washes of colour with memory, her work evokes the immersive energy of the ocean and coastlines.

Wednesday 4th to Saturday 28th February 2026

Open Weds to Sat 11am to 4pm

We are delighted to be showing a vibrant and exciting debut collection from local artist Claire Gent.

'My work is about finding joy in the familiar. My local landscape offers so much, freedom to explore, an escape from the chaos of life, delight in the breathtaking views, familiar, but never the same. There’s a little bit of inspiration every day, and I’m compelled to explore these ideas in my art. Each piece takes me on a little adventure.

An idea starts with a colour or a line, maybe trees on the horizon, or a yellow field. Landscapes that I see again and again over months and years, changing slowly. I see new forms and patterns emerge, and hints of unexpected colour. I wonder about the people that have walked the paths and worked the fields over time.

I sketch outdoors often, preferring a quick study that focuses on what I want to say. In the studio I work in series, starting with exploration, picking tools and colours intuitively, and playing with mark making and composition. After several layers, I refer back to my sketchbook and begin to make sense of what is often a chaotic riot of colour, leaving sections of the underpainting visible, a nod to the history of the land and the painting itself.

Although abstract in design and colour, if you look hard enough, you may recognise these lands of ours, known, or yet to be discovered.’

Wednesday 4th to Saturday 28th March 2026

Opening Drinks Party Wednesday 4th March 6 - 8pm - all welcome!

Open Weds to Sat 11am to 4pm

May Exhibition: About the Beach I Wander'd

With featured Artist Bryan Sentance

All my life I have been a beachcomber. I find not only subject matter and inspiration but many of the materials I need to make my sculptures of seabirds and boats. I like to use reclaimed materials that have had a previous life, whatever comes to hand and sparks my imagination.

I have worked with many media over the years, wood, ceramics, paint and, drawing on my working experience and travels around the world, have written five books on world crafts for Thames and Hudson and illustrated many more.

My paintings have been exhibited across the country and I was once commended in the International Artists in Watercolour competition subsequently exhibited at the Mall Gallery in London. I also illustrated two Indian Folk Tales for the BBC’s Jackanory programme.

For more than twenty years I have been making sculptures in wood which have been exhibited at Stone Lane Sculpture Gardens near Chagford and at RHS Garden Rosemoor. My Ceramic Harvest jugs in the North Devon sgraffito technique, made in collaboration with local potter Philip Leach, can be seen in the Craft Gallery at the Burton Museum in Bideford and at the Springfield Pottery in Hartland. For many years I have had shows at the galleries in the Castle in Bude.

I have also taught in many schools and lectured on Art and Craft at varied venues including the Embroiderers Guild and the Eden Project.

I continue exploring the different cultures of the world which helps me develop new ideas and approaches. To describe my style is difficult but I see myself as a ‘folk artist’ working intuitively from the heart rather than the head, inspired by the landscape and coastline of the West Country.

Wednesday 6th to Saturday 30th May 2026