Free Art Friday NQY

To promote creativity & celebrate art in & around Newquay, Cornwall. #FAFNQY

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it's the first #freeartfriday for 2026, with our Party Pisky re-costumed to ride the tail of the Happy New Year shooting star! #fafnqy #mawganporth

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if you know us, you probably know that we, erm, quite like Christmas... we have been working on several new designs this year and have put several (count 'em!) out there for your #freeartfriday delectation!
#fafnqy #mawganporth

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We might've missed the start of #advent, but it's still 22 days to go... And who's counting anyway, as the sun comes out for long enough for us to drop our belated #freeartfriday Christmas tree!
#fafnqy #mawganporth

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you've probably seen our man Nikka before, the Cornish Fisherman Christmas! he's been hanging around for a while now, but this week you might catch him swinging on a star..!
#freeartfriday #fafnqy #mawganporth

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today, three elves were spotted in the woods, wondering how they ended up working the weekend, and what happened to #freeartFRIDAY...
not that they seemed to be working very hard!
#fafnqy #mawganporth

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it may not be blatantly supernatural, but it is still, somehow, a suitably #halloween-y landscape... perhaps it's that windswept tree, or maybe it's the big, pale moon... haunting
#freeartfriday #fafnqy #mawganporth

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what's madder than a box of frogs? two boxes! and that's what we've been up to this week, filling boxes with frogs, some with crowns, some without. needless to say, a few got free for #freeartfriday - can you find them?
#fafnqy #mawganporth

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Ride a cock-crow
Down by old Truro
On All Hallow's night
The witches take flight...
#freeartfriday in #mawganporth; 'tis the season to be witchy, as only we know how. Felt a little incongruous in the midday sun, but it makes for better pictures!
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I like that it's dry & windless; I've even glimpsed the sun... but it is a bit grey... Still, keep 'em peeled, for you never know when you might spot something exciting in the sky... or hanging in a tree! Shooting Stars! what do you wish for?
#freeartfriday #fafnqy #mawganporth

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buses are brilliant - if you're not too bothered where you're going, and when exactly you're going to get there...
and sometimes it good to get off and enjoy the #porthcothan air, but remember to enjoy the ride! #gcb56
#freeartfriday #fafnqy

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huffin' and puffin'. this week has seen a lot of huffin' (laser problems, the weather etc), but today is all about #puffins. see below. and indeed, sea below.
#freeartfriday #fafnqy #mawganporth

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#mawganporth, never the same view twice... and today, one of the reasons it looks different is because we secured a little bit of #freeartfriday in the gorse. that wind though, d'you think it's still there?
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we don't get out much, but the start of autumn is the perfect opportunity for a change of scenery. All the way to #porthcothan, where Will's Rock became our Landmark of the Week!
#freeartfriday #fafnqy

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Old school! with a laser outage in #mawganporth this week, we have returned to collage, stencils, and spraypaint. And this view of the beach is an all-time classic, so happy #freeartfriday, everybody!
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we've been lucky this week with our Green Lucky Kit, so we thought we'd share him with one of you for #freeartfriday. #fafnqy #mawganporth

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#freeartfriday this week: you better be quick before they are, ahem, doggone...
#fafnqy #mawganporth

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#freeartfriday for us means a new design every week; cut, paint, assemble (if unhappy, go back to step one...), organise appropriate weather and a suitable spot for the drop. in short, it means getting all our ducks in a row...
#fafnqy #mawganporth

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spring and summer can lead to a brightening of the plumage (or the purchase of a Fat Willy's t-shirt), but that's not for everyone: some of us greet august by leaning into our goth. we are the crow people, none-more-black. happy #freeartfriday #fafnqy #mawganporth

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we always come back to the crows; jackdaws in the chimney, rookeries in the cedar, choughs on the clifftop, and big black-beaked beasts hopping around the crazy golf. we love them all, and celebrate them in this week's #freeartfriday!
#fafnqy #mawganporth

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this here #freeartfriday is far more, ahem, 'mobile' than I feel like being in this heat, and the #seagulls prove there's a breeze even when you can't feel one!
#fafnqy #mawganporth