GRANITE&GLITTER are an arts collective based in North Cornwall, UK, Led by author and artist Sam Horton, our membership draws on a shared past in the creative arts to create work filled with a heady mix of folklore, glam rock, open moors and brooding skies.

We are determined not to paint any more seascapes than strictly necessary.

We want to challenge the idea that creatives in Cornwall can only survive by producing paintings of boats, or pictures that involve blue and white stripes. Can only write stories of pretty homes by the sea. The world is big, and easier to navigate online by the day. Our location is only part of our story and we are looking forward to telling it.

We've only just begun, and although at the moment we are producing work through digital methods we are a multidisciplinary group who fully intend to produce books, poems, paintings, sculpture, drawings, installations and anything else we damn well please.

Since 2019 we have been working as part of a residency on the lost island of Eythin, off the north Cornish coast. Research on the island led Sam to writing, which now takes up the majority of his time. For more information on the project click here.