Born at Pengam, nr Bargoed, South Wales, she studied at the Newport and Swansea Schools of Art, and with Stanhope FORBES in Newlyn. She lectured at the Carmarthen School of Art and exhibited at RBA. She lived in Carmarthen.
A nephew has kindly confirmed that Winifred Thomas died 18 February 1980.
Born in St Just, Cornwall on 20 January, 1853 (GRO), by 1881 she was living in Bank Square with her mother Margaret and sister Lucy. A work with a Newlyn title has been found by Bednar as early as 1881.
She is known to have exhibited between 1883-1889 at the Royal Society of British Artists and also the Society of Women Artists. One of her paintings, from a private collection, Helford River (a watercolour) was exhibited at the Falmouth Group Show of Women Artists in Cornwall (1996), but she had limited success during her lifetime. The artist died on 1 June, 1939, aged 86, in Penzance (GRO).
A recent correspondent (2015) has written to recount the loss of Annie's artistic output, following her death. Her nephew, Herbert John Thomas, arrived in West Cornwall, prepared to supervise the closure of her estate, only to find that other relations, in the name of her 'privacy', had thrown her remaining paintings and travel diaries, down a nearby mineshaft!
Recorded as a 18 year old, Unmarried Lodger, Teacher of Art School, born in Marazion in the 1861 Census. Living in Queen Street, Penzance, Madron Parish. Also listed in the Paul Marriages (on-line) as Stephen Thomas, full age, Art Master of Newlyn.
A graduate of the South Kensington Schools, Thomas was active as an artist from the 1860s onwards. He taught art in Newlyn, and during the 1890s was headmaster of Bideford Municipal Science and Art Schools in North Devon. Ill-health forced him into a premature retirement, and he died soon after.
In Part II of J C Burrow's book 'Mongst Mines and Miners (1893) there is a description of the subjects photographed by William Thomas, then Secretary to the Mining Association and Institute of Cornwall.
He was one of a small group of painters working in the Camborne/Redruth area of Cornwall in the 1940s-80s comprising of professional, semi-professional and amateur painters. The group included William's brother Leslie THOMAS, Arthur Creed HAMBLY, William COCK and William Garfield Simmons DYER among others.
Chris Thomas is a painter based in north Cornwall who exhibits widely within Cornwall and beyond. His work has been seen regularly at the Brian Sinfield Gallery in Burford, Oxon. He is married to the painter Rosalind EASTMAN.
He says: 'Painting has never been a disciplined activity for me; other pressures have often prevailed when I wake each day, however it is an activity which I have constantly returned to over the last thirty years...'
Martina Thomas was born in north London and studied at St Martins School of Art. Though she never lived in Cornwall, she was a regular summer visitor to the county over many years. She and her husband, Eric James Mellon (an artist and ceramicist) and their children spent many happy holidays exploring the coastline of west Cornwall. During the winter months back home at her studio in Bognor Regis, she would work these sketches into fully composed paintings. While her early paintings were characterised by muted earth tones, visits to the south west, Spain and Italy resulted in a brighter palette and her later works possess a shimmering vibrancy reminiscent of Van Gogh or Cezanne.
Throughout the 1950s Thomas was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, but by the next decade commercial galleries began to favour abstraction. She did not change her style and so her work never gained the critical recognition which it merited. She and her husband continued to run a summer school for artists at Slindon in west Sussex. She died from breast cancer in 1995.
Six oil paintings by this artist are in the permanent collection of Falmouth Art Gallery, and were photographed for the Public Catalogue Foundation's 2007 survey. A further three of her oil paintings can be found in the collection of Penlee House Museum.
Bev Thomas was born in Hayle. He worked in the tin mining industry and as a property developer before retiring in 2007 to take up painting full-time. He is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Louise Thomas is a painter who divides her time between Berlin and her home town of Penzance.
She is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2017).
The artist exhibited at least twice at NAG, selling both paintings. No further information.
Charles Thompson studied at the Herkomer School in Bushey between 1892-1894. For some time afterwards he stayed on in Bushey, renting one of the Meadow Studios.
His future wife, Heather SUTCLIFFE, started at the Herkomer School in the same year as Thompson - and he painted a portrait of her which was shown at the RA in 1894.
Charles fell ill and was diagnosed as possibly suffering from TB, so he went to South Africa, where it was felt that the warmer climate might help his condition. Heather could not afford to go with him. He missed her so much that he decided to have the portrait of her shipped over. The ship sank and her cargo was lost, so Thompson was paid compensation - which was enough to pay for a ticket for Heather to join him. They were married in South Africa in 1896 and their only child, Lorenz Sutcliffe Thompson, was born there in 1898.
They moved to Cornwall in 1903, moving from Newlyn up into Oakhill Cottage, at the top of Lamorna, on the through road near Trewoofe. Thompson continued to paint, as did his wife. They captured the beauty of the landscape in a series of canvases that are unexpectedly impressive.
In 1905 Thompson was appointed the first curator of the Watts Gallery at Compton, Guildford (created in memory of the famous Victorian artist George Frederic Watts). It was a prestigious post. Heather managed the pottery, which was very busy, while Charles oversaw the construction of the sculpture gallery and looked after the great Watts legacy. One aspect was a school and workshop for clay sculpture. Students for this were based at The Hostel at Compton. The Thompsons lived on site in the house, which is still used by the curator today. They remained there for a decade.
In 1915 they moved back to the far west of Cornwall. They set up home at Chyvarrian, on the road beyond Lamorna, leading towards Lands End, above the beautiful Penberth Valley. Charles continued to exhibit, particularly during the 1920s, participating in Show Days and Newlyn Society of Artists exhibitions. Heather suffered for many years from severe rheumatoid arthritis and died in 1936. In later life Charles became a familiar figure, walking around the area in an distinctive old felt hat.
Thompson died in 1949 while staying in Worthing. His body was brought back for burial at Sennen. Many of his paintings were destroyed as the studio was cleared.
Francis Thompson's parents ran a draper's shop in Great Malvern, Worcs. His father died young and at the time of the 1901 census, young Frank was helping his mother in the shop, which also sold books and stationery.
It is not certain when he joined the FORBES SCHOOL, but he was part of the 1907 students' five-week holiday organised by Elizabeth Forbes, which was spent at Boleigh Farm in Lamorna. His work was exhibited at NAG in 1908, and he created Pisky's Pool for The Paper Chase - an arts periodical initiated by Elizabeth Forbes which was shortlived owing to her illness.
The artist listed addresses at Paul, Penzance (1907) and Newlyn (1910 and 1911). During this time he was teaching at Penzance Secondary School.
Thompson continued to exhibit using an address in Malvern until his premature death in 1923.
Suffering from dwarfism, and with severe curvature of the spine, Mary Thompson overcame these difficulties to become widely known for her portrayals of the Welsh slate and granite quarries. Born in Braunton, Devon, she attended a Quaker boarding school in Darlington and then studied at St Albans School of Art (1913-14) and in St Ives under Alfred HARTLEY. She also trained under the noted Belgian Artist Emile FABRY who was in England during WWI, and he recommended that she attend the Academy in Brussels. Between 1919-1922 she studied drawing and sculpture, but finding it physically impossible to pursue her love of sculpture, she chose drawing as her medium (using carbon, rather than lead pencils). She returned to live in North Wales, moving eventually to Bethesda in 1937.
She joined STISA, perhaps on a re-visit to St Ives, and her drawings of Welsh mountain scenes were praised for their perfect draughtmanship. In 1939 the Army took over the mountain slopes for firing practice and she began drawing in the Penrhyn slate quarry, depictions of quarrying becoming her principal focus. She completed a series of drawings covering the whole of the slate industry. In 1954 she moved to join her family in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Her decreasing mobility caused her to abandon drawing after 1969. In 1981 a booklet was produced to accompany a Welsh Arts Council touring show, An Artist in the Quarries.
The artist was born in Surrey, and studied at both the Kingston School of Art and the Royal College of Art. At the BBC he worked as a production designer for more than a decade, before going free-lance in the world of film production.
His most recent exhibition of paintings was shown at the Cornish Range restaurant in Mousehole.
A former member of Taking Space, an exhibiting group of women artists.
Carolyn Thompson lives on the Lizard peninsula. She was born and educated in London and spent many years in Somerset before moving to Cornwall in 2017. She has a BA (Hons) in Textile Design & Printmaking. This was followed by a Central School Diploma in Printed & Woven Textile Design. She also has a postgraduate diploma in Fine Art and an M Ed in Museum & Gallery Education.
Thompson has worked both as an artist and an art educator in many different forms. She says her work has developed through a close association with the act of walking in different environments. Her work has been shown in London and throughout the south-west.
She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
The artist was born in North Devon, left home and school at the age of 13, having lived in 33 houses and attended 17 school by that time. 'After two years at Ipswich School of Art and two years National Service in the Middle East he had his first exhibition of painting and sculpture at Falmouth Art Gallery in 1989. Reviewed by Frank Ruhrmund: "Hard to accept that these 70 exhibits have been executed by the same person." [extract from p72 '20 Years of Contemporary Art']
Lillian Thomson works from Krowji Studios, Redruth. In 2011 she obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Falmouth University.
Carl Thorgood has lived in Cornwall since 2001, finding inspiration from the industrial shoreline areas of Penwith, particularly around Newlyn. He says: 'I seek to achieve a resonance between the industrial, elemental and inner processes that create my art work, and a sense of transformation and alchemy.'
In 1987 he gained a Foundation Art Certificate from Winchester School of Art. This was followed in 1991 by a BA (Hons) in Art Education Studies at the Cardiff Institute, University of Wales. There he went on to obtain an Art Teacher's Certificate.
His work has been widely exhibited in Cornwall. He is represented by the Market House Gallery in Marazion and the Fernlea Gallery in St Ives.