The coastal landscape painter Sarah Adams, who has lived and worked from a terrace house on Duke Street in Padstow since 2006, says: “I make paintings about rock formations. I’m interested in geology and Cornwall was the obvious place for me to head for.”
Adams is the daughter of a master builder from Berkshire, and in her youth her family would visit the Cornish coast for holidays and later moved to Jersey, where her grandmother hails from. She returned to England for a foundation year in Falmouth, followed by studies in Cheltenham and the Royal College of Art in London.
“I ended up back in Jersey for about ten years and I converted what my mother referred to as a cow shed on the west
