More than seventy works by the popular St Ives artist, Robert Borlase Smart (1881 - 1947) are on show at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance in the exhibition Borlase Smart: A Passion for the Sea.

Curator Katie Herbert said: "Borlase Smart settled in St Ives after the First World War and his contribution to its artistic community made a huge and lasting impression. He led the resurgence of artistic life in St Ives in the twentieth century and encouraged the creativity of both the traditional painters and the new avant garde artists. In his personal practice, he excelled at marine painting and this exhibition includes many of his magnificent seascapes that depict the turbulent seas of the West Cornwall coast."

Captain Smart worked from one of the studios converted from old fish lofts overlooking Porthmeor beach. He was fascinated by he effect of light, the movement of water and the structure of waves.

Also on show are works by his contemporaries, such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Leonard Fuller, Peter Lanyon, Julius Olsson and John Park.