Textile artist, Wendy Topsey studied Art and Design (Textiles) in the early 1990s at Cornwall College, and has been a constant exhibitor, with a strong following, since that time. 

She uses fine cotton, organza and linen thread together with a variety of looms to create seascapes and coastal scenes, based on the inspiration she takes from the coasts of Cornwall.

Corinne Tournay lives in Polzeath, north Cornwall.

A painting by this artist, Round House, Sennen Cove (1985) is part of the art collection held by the West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance.

Art editor of Punch; reported as staying at Carbis Bay, St Ives in 1913.

Primarily an ornamental artist, he supplied decorative images for the Illustrated London News in 1860. He subsequently moved to Exeter where he continued to work producing topographical images of Cornwall.

St Ives exhibitor.

Wood lists at least two candidates for this artist, one Frederick Townsend (London address) who exhibited six works at the RA including Heather in Bloom, Deeside, Braemar, Venice and Old Mill, Poltesco Valley, Cornwall. The second, Frederick John Townsend (fl 1872) exhibited The Parting Gleam near St Rivan, Cornwall at the RA from an address in Chertsey Surrey. Though separately listed, the two speculatively could be the same artist. In 2002 an enquirer with two oil paintings in hand, St Michael's Mount (1868) and Trungle Mill Angarrack (1895), made contact with the WCAA, but to date no further information has come to notice.

Prolific artist, regularly painting Cornish subjects, although information about his life has been elusive.

Correspondent W Milburn has contributed the following: The artist was born in Bath, Somerset, and lived at Moor End, Hambrook near Bristol. Subsequently he lived at Ivydean, Lower Redland Road and at Union Street, Bristol. He died in Bristol in 1917.

The Census of 1891 records this artist as having been born at Milton, Near Gravesend, Kent, and living with his father Henry Edwin TOZER, mother, Louisa J, and older sister Marianne A Tozer (24) at Cape Cornwall, St Just.

A correspondent (2015) writes that he has a painting by Eustace which on the back is annotated in April 1888, signifying his presence in Newlyn at that date. In 1892 he and his father Henry Edwin exhibited in St Just together with his father's pupil Bessie BOYNS. His sending-in address in 1893 was listed as St Just. 

In 1910 he was based in Lydford, Devon (Kellys Directory).  By 1911 the Census found him at Lee Cottage, Bickington, Newton Abbot, Devon, lodging with Charles and Mary Green. He is known to have exhibited work at the RBA on at least one occasion.

Tozer served in the First World War in the rifle brigade. His death is registered in March 1931 at Exeter, Devon.

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Born on 8 July 1838, in London (GRO), Henry Edwin Tozer was the father of Henry Edward Spernon TOZER (1864-1955), Marianne Alice, and Eustace Arthur TOZER. Henry Edwin was the son of a tinplate worker and his stated profession on marriage to Louisa (nee Griffin) in 1861 at St Martin's-in-the-Fields was 'civil engineer'.

By 1888 the family had moved to Newlyn. At the time of the 1891 Census, he had an address in St Just, Cornwall. Bessie BOYNS was a pupil of his, and exhibited with him in St Just in 1892 and subsequently in Exeter. His friendship with her and her photographer sister Gertrude affected his marriage. On his daughter Marianne's marriage, Louisa moved to London with the newly-weds. Henry Edwin moved to Galmpton where he lived with Bessie and Gertrude. He and Bessie held a joint exhibition in Kingsbridge in 1912 and he died in Galmpton in 1913, aged 74. Upon their deaths (Gertrude in 1928 and Bessie in 1947) the sisters were buried beside him.

Henry Edwin Tozer exhibited Surf and Rocks at the Mouth of the Cove at the RA in 1892. Two works by him were shown at Birmingham between 1889 and 1892. 

Andrew Tozer's fascination for the Helford River valley began when he was growing up in Cornwall on the family farm. Working en plein-air, he captures the river in all its moods.

Tozer is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2016). He has led workshops in landscape painting at Truro Arts Company (2018).

 

Born in Sheerness, Kent, Henry Edward Spernon Tozer (H S Tozer) was the elder son of Henry Edwin TOZER. Unlike his father he does not seem to have spent much time in Cornwall, though he and his father and younger brother Eustace Arthur TOZER exhibited together in St Just in 1892.

A painter of interiors, mainly in watercolour, this artist is often confused with his father, owing to the similarity in their names.

Henry Edward Spernon Tozer died near Haslemere, Surrey, in 1955, aged 90.

Dunlop Tracy's RA successes were when he was living at Kingston Buci, part of Shoreham by Sea, Sussex (1908-12). His work is first mentioned in St Ives in an exhibition review, when his painting, Moonlight upon the Sea, was praised; but as he was then living in Holbrook, Ipswich, his contributions were not regular.

In the 1911 Show Day at St Ives he exhibited three paintings, all of which were seascapes; his works are again mentioned in 1940 and 1945, but it is not certain whether he lived in St Ives during the Second World War or not.

In the parish church at Shoreham, there is a memorial window to his son who died of pneumonia. Tracy is better known as an expert pistol shot and author of a WW1 book on The Service Revolver. He continued to paint between the wars when he moved to the East Coast.
 

Originally from Richmond, Surrey, Debbie Trant creates vibrant, emotive seascapes which reflect the constantly changing colours and extraordinary light and movement of sea and sky. She is thankful for the privilege of living in north Cornwall, surrounded by such beauty.

She is a regular exhibitor at Zeath Gallery, Padstow Memorial Hall and Rock Institute, and her work has also been shown at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. She has had a solo exhibition at Grosvenor House Hotel in Mayfair.

Hilary Tranter's work, inspired both by her surroundings and the fleeting moment, expresses ambiguity and mystery.

Mary Trapp is a visual artist living in Falmouth, who works within the fields of sculpture, drawing and installation. Her work examines the relationship between body and water.

She was born in Cheltenham. In 2006 she took a foundation diploma in Art and Design at Bristol School of Art. This was followed by a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Falmouth University in 2011, and in 2018 an MA in Fine Art at Plymouth College of Art.

Her work has been widely exhibited in Cornwall, Plymouth and Bristol.

In the Royal Cornwall Gazette (18 Aug 1827) there is noticed on page 3: Mr Trathan's Museum of Painting, Falmouth. No further information at present.

A pupil of the FORBES SCHOOL in 1938.

Daguerrotype photographer of Carharrack: daguerrotypes are photographic images which were among the first made available to the general public. Popular from the late 1840s to the mid 1860s, these positive images were taken onto a plate of glass making each one unique. They were usually placed into a decorative leather case and cherished as family keepsakes.

A design artist who was born in Truro, Cornwall, Poppy studied first at the Falmouth College of Art (1994-5) and then at the Winchester School of Art (1996-1999) with an interest in textiles. Following college she worked abroad for some years in developing countries and amongst craft cooperatives. This gave her the interest in creating a business and working together with other artists. From 2004 she has formed her own textile-based company, Hidden Art, and now works with and employs a number of creative makers who produce her designs (and help create new ones) to patterns chosen for wide appeal. All are quirky, colourful and fun.

The company is based in Newlyn and the intention is to remain there in a bustling and creative arts environment. Starting with tea cosies and shoulder-bags, the range has extended to cards, ceramics, books, and virtually any item which can be sewn. These are offered from the POPPY TREFFRY Company, and can be seen on the website, and in various retail outlets who stock the company's work.

Listed as an artist living at Blight's Yard, Falmouth in the 1841 Census.

Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society exhibitor.

John Tregembo's family originated from Breage, St Hilary in Cornwall. He was born in Padstow and began painting at a very early age. He paints the local landscape in a loose and expressive style, always striving to capture the unpredictable nature of the Atlantic Ocean. He first exhibited his work in 2006 and has since established himself in many galleries in Cornwall. In 2012 he opened his own gallery in Polmorla Walk, Wadebridge, where he paints and shows his work.

A graduate of Falmouth University, Shelly Tregoning has in 2018, for the second time, had her work selected for the Columbia Threadneedle Prize exhibition at London's Mall Galleries. Her paintings have also been on show at the National Open Art Competition, the Discerning Eye exhibition, and the Royal West of England Academy show.

Working from a studio at the Cornubian Arts & Science Trust (CAST) in Helston, she describes her art practice as an exploration of the interior of people, of their deeper identity and selves.

Mentioned in Crozier article when the writer was perusing exhibitions at the Passmore Edwards, in 'The Newlyn School of Painting' (Girls Realm 1904) as producing a charming study of a red-haired maiden clad in green and gold, the work of MMT, 'whose first exhibited picture had the good fortune to be sold at the New(lyn) Gallery last year'.

In 1908 she sold another, (?Material) in the Bay at NAG (handwritten sales records are almost indecipherable). She also exhibited at least once at the New Gallery, London.

Dick Treleaven, whose home was in Launceston, became one of the foremost authorities on the peregrine falcon. Educated at Dulwich School, he went into the military, serving with distinction with the 14th Army in Burma. On his return, he visited an exhibition of paintings of birds of prey and became fascinated with the peregrine. He had always wanted to become an artist and soon made the acquaintance of a painter, George Lodge, who was to become his guide and mentor.

From the 1940s onwards, and for the next sixty years, he devoted himself to the observation and study of the peregrine on the north Cornwall coast. During the 1950s he found that the population was declining and, as a result of his investigations and analysis, it was found that pesticides were to blame. After a ban was imposed, the numbers began to improve until, much to his delight, a breeding pair were discovered again in Cornwall in 1969.

Treleaven's first book (1977) 'Peregrine - the Private Life of the Peregrine Falcon' was illustrated with his own drawings. In 1998 he published his second book, 'In Pursuit of the Peregrine' incorporating another 20 years of his experiences.

Dick was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, and exhibited every year in London. In 2007 he was awarded the MBE for services to ornithology.

In 2017 his paintings were included in an exhibition celebrating 'The Causley Century' at Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun.

Janet Treloar was born in Helston, West Cornwall and spent a year at Penzance School of Art before studying at Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained an MA.  After many years spent in various locations abroad, where she both continued her art studies and exhibited, she returned to the UK in the 1980s. 

She is currently Senior Vice-President of the Royal Watercolour Society, and divides her time between Cornwall and London.  Her daughter is the painter Alice MUMFORD.  Her works were included in the first exhibition of the RWS to be held in Cornwall, which took place at the Royal Cornwall Museum at the end of 2010.

She is exhibiting in July 2011 at the Lander Gallery, Truro, with paintings of Botallack and St Ives.

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