Naomi Frears

Naomi Frears is a painter, printmaker and film-maker who has worked in St Ives since 1989, with a studio in the Porthmeor Studios. She studied at Loughborough College of Art and Sunderland College of Art, specialising in sculpture and printmaking. Her paintings hover between abstraction and the figure and are often reworked over years, and her images regularly appear on the cover of the London Review of Books. She taught printmaking at Falmouth Art Gallery and Tate St Ives for many years, was nominated for the Film London Jarman Award in 2023, and her work is in the Government Art Collection.