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
LIGHT TOUCHES THE CLIFFS
Acrylic on cotton canvas on wood · Custom white painted wood float frame
“Seasons of `change ‘ exhibition Khaw Gallery, Daku, Kensington, London Dec 2025-March 2026
There is a moment when light touches the cliffs, just before the tide turns and everything glows gold.
This painting was made in direct response to that moment , the precise, fleeting instant when low Atlantic light breaks across the fractured face of the Bude Formation and the ancient rock suddenly blazes. Burnt orange and deep ochre ignite against Atlantic blue. The dark lines of fault and joint crack across the surface like a map of deep time. Below, the folded strata curve and flow - 300 million years of compression made luminous by a single shaft of light.
Light Touches the Cliffs is painted in acrylic on cotton canvas, mounted on wood and presented in a custom white painted wood float frame. The white frame lifts the painting from the wall and lets the colour breathe - the gold reads warmer, the blue deeper.
This is a painting about geology, but it is also a painting about impermanence. The rock has stood for three hundred million years. The light lasted seconds. Both are caught here.
Medium: Acrylic on cotton canvas on wood Frame: Custom float frame, white painted wood Location reference: #what3words coordinates device.showering.store
Collection: Ground Truth - North Cornwall
LIGHT TOUCHES THE CLIFFS
Acrylic on cotton canvas on wood · Custom white painted wood float frame
“Seasons of `change ‘ exhibition Khaw Gallery, Daku, Kensington, London Dec 2025-March 2026
There is a moment when light touches the cliffs, just before the tide turns and everything glows gold.
This painting was made in direct response to that moment , the precise, fleeting instant when low Atlantic light breaks across the fractured face of the Bude Formation and the ancient rock suddenly blazes. Burnt orange and deep ochre ignite against Atlantic blue. The dark lines of fault and joint crack across the surface like a map of deep time. Below, the folded strata curve and flow - 300 million years of compression made luminous by a single shaft of light.
Light Touches the Cliffs is painted in acrylic on cotton canvas, mounted on wood and presented in a custom white painted wood float frame. The white frame lifts the painting from the wall and lets the colour breathe - the gold reads warmer, the blue deeper.
This is a painting about geology, but it is also a painting about impermanence. The rock has stood for three hundred million years. The light lasted seconds. Both are caught here.
Medium: Acrylic on cotton canvas on wood Frame: Custom float frame, white painted wood Location reference: #what3words coordinates device.showering.store
Collection: Ground Truth - North Cornwall
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LIGHT TOUCHES THE CLIFFS
Acrylic on cotton canvas on wood · Custom white painted wood float frame
“Seasons of `change ‘ exhibition Khaw Gallery, Daku, Kensington, London Dec 2025-March 2026
There is a moment when light touches the cliffs, just before the tide turns and everything glows gold.
This painting was made in direct response to that moment , the precise, fleeting instant when low Atlantic light breaks across the fractured face of the Bude Formation and the ancient rock suddenly blazes. Burnt orange and deep ochre ignite against Atlantic blue. The dark lines of fault and joint crack across the surface like a map of deep time. Below, the folded strata curve and flow - 300 million years of compression made luminous by a single shaft of light.
Light Touches the Cliffs is painted in acrylic on cotton canvas, mounted on wood and presented in a custom white painted wood float frame. The white frame lifts the painting from the wall and lets the colour breathe - the gold reads warmer, the blue deeper.
This is a painting about geology, but it is also a painting about impermanence. The rock has stood for three hundred million years. The light lasted seconds. Both are caught here.
Medium: Acrylic on cotton canvas on wood Frame: Custom float frame, white painted wood Location reference: #what3words coordinates device.showering.store
Collection: Ground Truth - North Cornwall
LIGHT TOUCHES THE CLIFFS
Acrylic on cotton canvas on wood · Custom white painted wood float frame
“Seasons of `change ‘ exhibition Khaw Gallery, Daku, Kensington, London Dec 2025-March 2026
There is a moment when light touches the cliffs, just before the tide turns and everything glows gold.
This painting was made in direct response to that moment , the precise, fleeting instant when low Atlantic light breaks across the fractured face of the Bude Formation and the ancient rock suddenly blazes. Burnt orange and deep ochre ignite against Atlantic blue. The dark lines of fault and joint crack across the surface like a map of deep time. Below, the folded strata curve and flow - 300 million years of compression made luminous by a single shaft of light.
Light Touches the Cliffs is painted in acrylic on cotton canvas, mounted on wood and presented in a custom white painted wood float frame. The white frame lifts the painting from the wall and lets the colour breathe - the gold reads warmer, the blue deeper.
This is a painting about geology, but it is also a painting about impermanence. The rock has stood for three hundred million years. The light lasted seconds. Both are caught here.
Medium: Acrylic on cotton canvas on wood Frame: Custom float frame, white painted wood Location reference: #what3words coordinates device.showering.store
Collection: Ground Truth - North Cornwall