We will do 2 x Mini bus excursions for painting En Plein Air and these excursions are included in the holiday fee.
Zennor will be our one of our En Plein Air painting excursion and we will be painting in Acrylics with Mark. Please note acrylic pens can be used instead of paints if preferred.This mystical landscape is tucked away in a small dell off of the main road, just a few ancient buildings with St. Senara's church tower popping up just above the hillocks and trees. A church has stood on this site since the 6th century, said to have been founded by St Senara, a Breton princess who was visited by an angel and gave birth in the sea. Look out for the medieval chair that depicts the Mermaid of Zennor and the tombstone dedicated to a ‘henpecked husband’. We will pop in for lunch at the famous Tinner's Arms Pub which was originally built in 1271 as accommodation for the churches builders. During the First World War, the writer DH Lawrence who stayed in the Tinner's Arms pub for a few weeks wrote:
“One sees infinite Atlantic, all peacock mingled colours, and the gorse is sunshine itself. Zennor is a most beautiful place”. Patrick Heron's family moved down to Zennor from Leeds (where he was born) in 1925, and in the winter of 1927 his father rented Eagle's Nest, for five months. It is an extraordinarily dramatic sight, perched 600ft above the sea in a patchwork of Bronze Age fields, surrounded by huge stones, lichened with age.