Beside The Wave Gallery has decided to embrace this subject and has created an exciting opportunity for several of its regular exhibiting artists to produce work on an industrial theme. This fine selection of work highlights the visual dynamism of the man-made landscape, which is a by-product of a variety of industries and is now an integral part of the Cornish landscape.

Some of the artists in this special exhibition regard this as familiar territory while others see it as breaking new ground.

For Roy Goodman painting the china clay pits of St. Austell and the surrounding area is second nature to him. As a chemical research scientist, Roy spent his career around such landscapes as a research manager for English China Clay. But since retiring and studying art and its history, he has learnt to view it in a different light as a painter. Roy says the china clay landscape "has got its own colour palette: greys, whites and browns. I find it visually quite stunning." Known for his brightly coloured constructed paintings, Roy's vision of this unique terrain is an eye opener and helps us see this seemingly empty landscape in a new way.

Miles Heseltine has not been long in Cornwall, since he returned as a painter after spending his formative student years here. Based in Penwith, Miles feels that it is only natural to include the remnants of Cornwall's industrial past, in particular its mining heritage in his paintings and drawings of the West Cornwall landscape. The mine buildings at Botallack fascinate him and using his bold, expressive style brings out the individual personality of these monuments to past industry. Miles has also become intrigued by the remaining navigation beacons on the coast that have made redundant by satellite navigation, but his paintings of them remind us of their remarkable appearance in the landscape, like surrealist sculptures.

Neil Pinkett as he showed in his recent one-man show, 'Waterfront' at Beside The Wave, that he is increasingly focused on recording the working life of Cornwall. He has been painting the industry around the harbours and docks in Falmouth, Penryn and Newlyn. Neil also includes whenever possible, the buildings and structures associated with a particular stretch of coast whether it is the engine houses perched on the cliff edges at Botallack or the piers and docks in many of Cornwall's working and disused harbours. Attacking the canvas with everything but the kitchen sink, Neil creates a painterly surface that reflects not just his energy as an artist but conveys the hard work of the industry he depicts.

Falmouth based painter John Raynes, has also tackled the complex terrain that makes up Falmouth Docks, but in a very different style. John uses his consummate drawing skills to decipher the composition of cranes and boats, buildings and people and set it in the context of its place in the Carrick Roads.

The cliffs of West Penwith scarred by the remains of mining work have been the regular subject of Paul Lewin's dramatic paintings. Famous for painting the point where land meets sea, in this exhibition Paul also paints inland views capturing the dramatic treeless, baron landscape changed by industry. Since moving to Cornwall, to the small hamlet of Pendeen, Paul has walked and painted the coastal scenery from Pendeen to Geevor Mine on many occasions and in all seasons. This time he has included the actual mine buildings of Geevor in his work and has been using red clay from the soil around the mine to draw with. Some of these drawings along with his paintings are included in this group exhibition.

Andrew Tozer sees South Crofty Tin Mine as beautiful in its own way. He has aimed to transform it in the same way Monet transformed 'Rouen Cathedral' in his series by painting it in varying seasons and at different times of day. Andrew has known the area around South Crofty since a small boy when as a competition swimmer he made daily trips to the swimming pool for training sessions under the looming presence of the mine. It stuck in his mind and has become an obsession similarly to his ongoing obsession with the Monterey Pine trees around the Helford River which he has painted frequently over the past few years.

This exhibition is a surprisingly refreshing look at Cornwall's industrial landscape seen through the eyes of some of its most exciting artists.