Kate moved to St Ives herself in 1957 and became an associate member of the Penwith Society of Arts.
Around this time, Berlin founded the Crypt Group of modern-minded young artists, along with Peter Lanyon, John Wells and Bryan Wynter, and joined the Penwith Society of Arts for a short time, before leaving the group in distaste at its abstract tendencies.
Barns-Graham became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and the St Ives Society of Artists but was to leave the latter when, in 1949, the St Ives art community suffered an acrimonious split, and she became a founder member of a breakaway group of abstract artists, the Penwith Society of Arts.
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE (8 June 1912, St Andrews, Fife – 26 January 2004) was one of the foremost British abstract artists, a member of the influential Penwith Society of Arts.
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