Trelowarren’s “Keeping Art in its Place” walks combine world class art, healthy exercise and fabulous views rolled into one – and the ancient estate’s “Cultural Autumn” offer throws affordable luxury into the mix too.

The walks - devised by Trelowarren’s Lady Vyvyan (Victoria Vyvyan) - take in artists, sculpture gardens and galleries including Tate St Ives, Newlyn Art Gallery, Kestle Barton, Hepworth Sculpture Garden and Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens. They run from St Hilary to Newlyn via Penzance, Helford and The Lizard or Carbis Bay and St Ives with all details provided by Victoria to guests staying at the estate.

Trelowarren manor was Daphne du Maurier’s inspiration for Navron House in “Frenchman’s Creek” and the two or three bedroom luxury eco-houses in its grounds are available through “Cultural Autumn” at £295 for three mid-week nights, subject to availability, with 15% off one-hour treatments at their Walled Garden Organic Spa.

The 1000 acre estate running down to the Helford River provides a perfect spot from which to explore the life, lives and inspiratiosn of Cornwall’s artists and while Tate St Ives and Barbara Hepworth speak for themselves, the Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, for instance, include works by David Nash, Kishio Suga and James Turrell - with an incredible view of St Michael's Mount and Mount's Bay as their backdrop.

Victoria's idea for the walks is this: “What often strikes me when I’m reading about the lives of painters from the Newlyn School or the St Ives School is that in the 19th century and for at least the first half of the 20thCentury, walking formed part of the artist’s everyday life.

“And I don’t mean pottering around the corner for some absinthe; Stanhope Forbes happily walked from Newlyn to St Hilary and back to have supper with Bernard and Annie Walke and Laura Knight.  Ben Nicholson and Bernard Leech walked to Zennor (wartime home of DH Lawrence) and to Lelant.”

These days hardy, art-loving walkers can return home to the cosy luxury of Trelowarren’s log-burners and fine art - where "well-behaved dogs" are welcome and if cooking at home doesn’t appeal there is fantastic, locally sourced food to be found in the old stable yard. Details of “Cultural September” can be found by ringing 01326 221224 or taking a look at www.trelowarren.com. 

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NOTES TO EDITORS

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·  Trelowarren’s famous “green” leisure facilities include its eco-holiday homes, a twenty metre, pebble-lined ozone pool and state-of-the-art gym – heating and warm water for which are all provided by a 350 kWh biomass Binda boiler which itself burns coppiced and waste wood from the surrounding land.
· The history of Trelowarren and the Vyvyan family goes back to 1427,  but the story from 1945 - when the widowed Lady Vyvyan writing to Daphne du Maurier described everything at Trelowarren after war time requisition as ‘death-duties, dust and ruin’ - to the present day has been one of re-birth, renewal and restoration.
· Daphne du Maurier’s imagination was caught by the romance of Trelowarren when she first visited in 1930 and she described it in her diary as, ‘The most beautiful place imaginable.’ Throughout her visit ‘a sense of freedom and delight prevailed’ and the beauty and peace of the house made such an impression that she used it as the inspiration for Navron house in “Frenchman’s Creek”.

For more information visit www.trelowarren.com.

CONTACTS:

Louise Midgley Communications – louise@midgleycomms.co.uk

01326 319884 / 01326 316678 / 07831 696093

Trelowarren – Victoria Vyvyan – 01326 221224