What Is This Place? is the spring exhibition at Newlyn Art Gallery, which opens on April 22 and continues until July 15.

The show features paintings by local artists including Sam Bassett, Romi Behrens and Lucy Stein, alongside those working further afield such as Danny Fox in London and Los Angeles, and Gordon Dalton in Cardiff.

In these rapidly changing times, socially and politically, the exhibition asks if this is the time to create an artwork over weeks or months, while the whole landscape may have turned upside down?

The paintings in this exhibition share a sense of improvisation. Like the act of drawing, the works are a way for the artist to work through ideas and pose questions. Their marks have been made with a speed and spontaneity, executed quickly to capture changing thoughts and ideas. Some of the artists have been drawn to a particular location, repeatedly, to better understand it; tapping away till it reveals itself.

For others, it is this social and political landscape of the world today that they are questioning. Memory, and its varied versions of truth, often acts as a source or starting point, to revisit, to reimagine. From the commonplace to the cosmic, the eight artists in this exhibition - Sam Bassett from St Ives, Romi Behrens from Rosudgeon, Gordon Dalton from Cardiff, Freya Douglas-Morris from London, Danny Fox from London, Ben Sanderson from Helston, Corinna Spencer from Torquay, and Lucy Stein from St Just - are questioning with paint, What Is This Place?

The exhibition will be open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm at the Newlyn Art Gallery on New Road in Newlyn.

There will be an opening event on Friday April 21 from 7pm to 9pm and an artists’ discussion on Saturday April 22 at 11am.