Stephen DOVE

Stephen DOVE
Steve
1949

In 1976 Dove moved to Zennor, Cornwall, where he took rooms in The Old Poor House owned by Patrick HERON. Also living there at the time in the final two years of her life, was the impressionist painter, Alethea GARSTIN, the daughter of the famed artist and teacher, Norman GARSTIN of the Newlyn school. Taking tea with Alethea became a Friday afternoon treat for Steve.

In 1980 he moved into St Ives nearby and has been a much valued teacher of figure and landscape painting at the St Ives School of Painting and also at the Richard Lander School, Truro, while also exhibiting his work regularly in mixed and solo shows.

His studies in art had been undertaken at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry and Hull College of Art, followed by an Art teacher's diploma at Birmingham Polytechnic.

In 1980 he received a South West Arts Award, and a large exhibition of his work was shown at the Plymouth Art Centre. In Cornwall he showed with frequency at the Salt House Gallery, St Ives, Penwith Galleries and other venues.  He joined with the group that formed the Porthmeor Printmakers in 1990, from which much support has been given to educational ventures in the Penwith and Tate Galleries.

Dove works from the Porthmeor Studios, St Ives (2011), which have been in process of renovation this year.  Some of these studios will be ready for re-opening for OPEN STUDIOS Cornwall (28 May-5 June 2011).

www.bsjwtrust.co.uk

www.porthmeorstudios.com

media

Painter, printmaker, teacher, designer

works and access

Access to work: Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro

Cornwall Schools Collection

Cross (2002) illus of work in progress, Aquatic Light (1999); Near and Far - Porthmeor (1996)

St Thomas' Hospital, London

exhibitions

Salthouse Gallery, St Ives 1980 (ff)

Three Spires Festival (Inspire 2) Truro, 1987

NAG 1988 Art Share; 1993

Rainyday Gallery, Penzance 1994

2024: Truro School Art Collection, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (30 Jan-18 May)

memberships

Penwith Society

Porthmeor Printmakers

NSA 1995 list; resigned

references

Buckman (2006) Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945

Cross (2002) Catching the Wave pp105-7 photo likeness & illus

Hardie (1995) 100 Years in Newlyn, Diary of a Gallery p196

Inspire 2, Three Spires Festival (1987) Truro, Exh Cat: photo & artist statement

Open Studios Cornwall (2011)

Whybrow (1994) Studio Artists in their Workplace, St Ives (personal statement & photo in studio)

Whybrow (1994) St Ives;

Whybrow (2013) St Ives: The Story of Porthmeor Studios;