GROUND TRUTH
Paintings fixed to the earth. One metre at a time.
Every painting in this collection begins with a location.
Not a view. Not a vista. A precise point on the earth, pinned to a one-metre square using #what3words coordinates. A place you can find, stand on, and know that this is exactly where Kate Grant stood when she made this work.
These are not paintings of Cornwall. They are paintings from it , drawn directly from the ancient geology of the Bude Formation, one of Britain's most dramatic and complex coastal rock sequences. Sandstone and shale, compressed and folded over 300 million years into chevron folds, turbidite structures and wave-cut platforms that tell the story of deep time in every layer.
Kate works on site, responding to the rock itself ,its colour, texture, rhythm and weight. The result is original mixed media work that carries the fingerprint of a specific place: its geology, its light, its moment.
Each painting comes with its what3words location reference , three words that will take you, and anyone who follows, directly to the ground where it was made. Buy the painting. Find the place. Stand there.
This is art with provenance written into the earth.
The Ground Truth collection is rooted in North Cornwall and the Bude Formation coastline - from Millook Haven to Sandy Mouth, Widemouth Bay and Compass Point. As the collection grows, so does the map. New locations. New geology. New ground truth.
For art collectors who want meaning. For geology devotees who want beauty. For those who believe the land has something to say.
Explore the collection. Find your place.
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"Ground Truth - paintings fixed to the earth, one metre at a time."
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Cornwall landscape art
✳︎ #what3words Site specific art ✳︎ Geotagged artwork ✳︎ "Ground Truth - paintings fixed to the earth, one metre at a time." ✳︎ Cornwall landscape art
Three panels · Acrylic on textured canvas mounted on wood panel · Custom white painted wood float frame · Each panel 81 × 41 cm · 2025
📍 ///fury.fluffed.bonnet
There is a wall of shale just within the high tide line, a place where I find a favourite place to sit near the lifeboat station at Crooklets Beach.
This is that place. These are those rocks.
Metamorphosis is a triptych born from a single spot on the North Cornwall coast - a precise point on the earth recorded as ///fury.fluffed.bonnet on what3words. A wall of ancient Bude Formation shale, sitting just within the high tide line near the lifeboat station at Crooklets Beach, Bude. A place worn by 300 million years of tide, pressure and time into something that looks, if you sit with it long enough, like it is still becoming.
Across three panels, the composition moves as one unified landscape. Above, a deep midnight sky blazes with amber and gold - lichen fire on ancient rock face, catching the last of the autumn light. Through the middle, the shale fragments and fractures into the intricate geometry of the Bude Formation - jointed, faulted, tessellated by millennia into shapes that feel almost architectural. Below, the wave-cut platform curves and flows, water over stone, tide over time.
The title is exact. This rock has been transforming since the Carboniferous period. It is transforming still. So is everything that looks at it long enough.
Medium: Acrylic on textured canvas mounted on wood panel
Panels: Three · Each 81 × 41 cm (combined width 123 cm)
Frame: Custom white painted wood float frame
Year: 2025
Location: ///fury.fluffed.bonnet · Crooklets Beach, Bude, North Cornwall
Availability: For sale · Triptych only
Collection: Ground Truth - North Cornwall
The triptych is sold as a complete set of three framed panels. Collector enquiries welcome.
Three panels · Acrylic on textured canvas · Hardwood frame with beeswax finish · Each panel 50 × 20 cm · 2025
📍 ///caves.irrigated.kitchens
The last of the summer seaweed lingers on the beach. Clambering over wet rocks to find this place - a crevice near the beach huts , the reluctant October sun dipping towards the horizon.
This is that place. This is that light.
Seaweed Days is a small, intimate triptych painted from a precise point on the North Cornwall coast, recorded at ///caves.irrigated.kitchens. A hidden crevice, found by scrambling over wet rock at low tide, tucked near the beach huts as the last warmth of the year begins to leave. October light. Summer seaweed clinging on. The season turning whether you want it to or not.
Across three panels the composition moves through the full story of this place. The left panel catches the rock in its most vivid mood - Atlantic blue and cobalt flooding the fractured strata, the Bude Formation geometry alive with light. The centre panel settles into the warmth of sand and stone - cream, warm brown and ochre boulder forms tumbling together at the tide line, soft and unhurried. The right panel is the quietest of all - dusty mauve, soft grey and purple shadow, the rock retreating into the dimming afternoon, the season finally, gently, letting go.
Three panels. One crevice. One October afternoon that will not come back.
Medium: Acrylic on textured canvas
Panels: Three · Each 50 × 20 cm (combined width 60 cm)
Frame: Hardwood with beeswax finish Location: ///caves.irrigated.kitchens · North Cornwall coast
Availability: For sale · Triptych only
Collection: Ground Truth - North Cornwall
The triptych is sold as a complete set of three framed panels. Collector enquiries welcome.
Two panels · Acrylic on textured canvas mounted on wood panel · Custom white painted wood float frame · Each panel 81 × 41 cm · 2025
📍 ///fatigued.petal.awaited
The DNA of Cornwall lives in the ancient cliffs, transformed and renewed by the battering waves.
Shaped by the Sea is two panels and one truth - that everything on this coastline is in the process of becoming something else. The cliff face fractures. The boulder rounds. The fault line shifts. The tide returns. At ///fatigued.petal.awaited, on the ancient Bude Formation coast of North Cornwall, this is what the rock looks like when you sit close enough and long enough to really see it.
Across two panels, the composition reads as a single cliff face caught in quiet transformation. The left panel maps the language of compressed strata - diagonal fault lines, tessellated stone, the geometry of pressure accumulated over, some say, 300 million years. The right panel opens into something rounder, softer - cobble forms and boulder shapes emerging from the fracture, smoothed by millennia of Atlantic tide. Together they tell the complete story: the rock that breaks, and the rock that survives.
The palette is the grey Atlantic morning. Sage green, warm stone, dusty mauve, deep charcoal, luminous cream. No drama. Just deep time, made visible.
This is the fingerprint of a location. This is the DNA of Cornwall.
Medium: Acrylic on textured canvas mounted on wood panel
Panels: Two · Each 81 × 41 cm (combined width 82 cm)
Frame: Custom white painted wood float frame
Year: 2025
Location: ///fatigued.petal.awaited · North Cornwall coast
Availability: For sale · Diptych only
Collection: Ground Truth - North Cornwall
The diptych is sold as a complete pair of framed panels. Collector enquiries welcome.
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Original acrylic on textured canvas mounted on wood panel · Custom white painted wood float frame · 81 × 41 cm · 2026
📍 ///saying.dollars.factoring
To rush onto the beach, to claim it for your own, sitting silently without being disturbed, your back to the wind buffeting you from behind - silent with your thoughts.
This is that moment. This is that place.
Back to the Wind is painted from a single precise point on the North Cornwall coast, recorded at ///saying.dollars.factoring - a spot on the ancient Bude Formation where the rock face catches the full Atlantic light and blazes with colour that has no right to exist in stone. Iridescent aquamarine and acid yellow-green pulse against molten amber and burnt orange. A seam of vermillion fire runs through the middle like a fault line lit from within. Above, the cobble forms of the upper cliff face sit in their dark grid, patient and ancient. Below, the wave platform dissolves into purple and blue shadow.
This is the Bude Formation at its most alive. 300 million years of rock, and in this light, at this moment, it looks brand new.
Medium: Acrylic on textured canvas mounted on wood panel
Dimensions: 81 × 41 cm
Frame: Custom white painted wood float frame
Year: 2026 Location: ///saying.dollars.factoring · North Cornwall coast
Availability: For sale
Collection: Ground Truth - North Cornwall
Collector enquiries welcome.
Three panels · Acrylic on textured canvas · Hardwood frame with beeswax finish · Each panel 50 × 20 cm · 2025
📍 ///caves.irrigated.kitchens
The last of the summer seaweed lingers on the beach. Clambering over wet rocks to find this place - a crevice near the beach huts , the reluctant October sun dipping towards the horizon.
This is that place. This is that light.
Seaweed Days is a small, intimate triptych painted from a precise point on the North Cornwall coast, recorded at ///caves.irrigated.kitchens. A hidden crevice, found by scrambling over wet rock at low tide, tucked near the beach huts as the last warmth of the year begins to leave. October light. Summer seaweed clinging on. The season turning whether you want it to or not.
Across three panels the composition moves through the full story of this place. The left panel catches the rock in its most vivid mood - Atlantic blue and cobalt flooding the fractured strata, the Bude Formation geometry alive with light. The centre panel settles into the warmth of sand and stone - cream, warm brown and ochre boulder forms tumbling together at the tide line, soft and unhurried. The right panel is the quietest of all - dusty mauve, soft grey and purple shadow, the rock retreating into the dimming afternoon, the season finally, gently, letting go.
Three panels. One crevice. One October afternoon that will not come back.
Medium: Acrylic on textured canvas
Panels: Three · Each 50 × 20 cm (combined width 60 cm)
Frame: Hardwood with beeswax finish Location: ///caves.irrigated.kitchens · North Cornwall coast
Availability: For sale · Triptych only
Collection: Ground Truth - North Cornwall
The triptych is sold as a complete set of three framed panels. Collector enquiries welcome.
Two panels · Acrylic on textured canvas mounted on wood panel · Custom white painted wood float frame · Each panel 81 × 41 cm · 2025
📍 ///fatigued.petal.awaited
The DNA of Cornwall lives in the ancient cliffs, transformed and renewed by the battering waves.
Shaped by the Sea is two panels and one truth - that everything on this coastline is in the process of becoming something else. The cliff face fractures. The boulder rounds. The fault line shifts. The tide returns. At ///fatigued.petal.awaited, on the ancient Bude Formation coast of North Cornwall, this is what the rock looks like when you sit close enough and long enough to really see it.
Across two panels, the composition reads as a single cliff face caught in quiet transformation. The left panel maps the language of compressed strata - diagonal fault lines, tessellated stone, the geometry of pressure accumulated over, some say, 300 million years. The right panel opens into something rounder, softer - cobble forms and boulder shapes emerging from the fracture, smoothed by millennia of Atlantic tide. Together they tell the complete story: the rock that breaks, and the rock that survives.
The palette is the grey Atlantic morning. Sage green, warm stone, dusty mauve, deep charcoal, luminous cream. No drama. Just deep time, made visible.
This is the fingerprint of a location. This is the DNA of Cornwall.
Medium: Acrylic on textured canvas mounted on wood panel
Panels: Two · Each 81 × 41 cm (combined width 82 cm)
Frame: Custom white painted wood float frame
Year: 2025
Location: ///fatigued.petal.awaited · North Cornwall coast
Availability: For sale · Diptych only
Collection: Ground Truth - North Cornwall
The diptych is sold as a complete pair of framed panels. Collector enquiries welcome.
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