Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, Steel studied at the Sheffield School of Art, and further in Birmingham and London. Best known for atmospheric paintings of coastal scenes, especially of Cornwall and East Anglia (N Waters, Retrosixty). His brother, Kenneth STEEL, also produced a number of paintings of Polperro.
In the mid 1920s he exhibited a number of paintings of Polperro. In 1928 his work, 'The Harbour, Polperro' was purchased for the Mappin Art Gallery in his home town of Sheffield. It seems that he visited Polperro again several times during the 1950s, and produced similar depictions of the harbours of St Ives, Mousehole and St Mawes.
Brother of George Hammond STEEL, Kenneth produced several depictions of Polperro during his artistic career. He was best known as a printmaker and railway poster artist.
A Canadian potter who travelled to St Ives as an apprentice to Bernard Leach from 1963-1965.
Steer was influenced by Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE and WHISTLER, and associated with Walberswick and France, the first artist to have a major Retrospective show of his work at the Tate in his own lifetime. His association with West Cornwall was a tour 1893-1911 to the main centres.
Having studied photography and graphic design in her native land of Germany, Margret Steigner moved to England in 1989 and attended Goldsmith's College of Art. From Penzance in 2005 she moved slightly west to the Lamorna Valley, where she now lives and works from her studio at home.
Lucy Stein grew up in Oxford and studied at Glasgow School of Art and de Ateliers, Amsterdam. From January to June 2015 she was resident artist at Porthmeor Studios under the Tate St Ives Artist Programme.
Stein's work engages with British modernist painting, feminist theory and women's literature. Her oeuvre ranges from painting to performance and film, and her work has been shown widely throughout the UK and abroad.
Jane Stephen of Victoria Square, Penzance, was awarded the Guild of Needle Laces Trophy in 2010, an international award from the world-wide contest, for her scarab beetle, Khepri, The Winged Scarab. Pictured in colour in The Cornishman (11 Nov 2010), Stephen commented that her piece of laced work was inspired by a Cartier brooch she had seen, and she rendered her own creation in a four-inch decoration in bold colour and intricate needlework.
The Census of 1891 records her as the Artist daughter, middle child of five, of John and Elizabeth Stephens, living at Ashfield, Budock. John Stephens was a well-known rope manufacturer and employer in Penzance.
In 1892 she exhibited a portrait at the RBA from an address in Russell Square, London.
Suzi Stephens is a painter living in west Cornwall.
She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open exhibitions.
Pupil at the FORBES SCHOOL from 1908-9, and in that period contributed a woodcut of Keigwin Arms (Mousehole) and another of a standing crane to The Paper Chase Volume I 1908. Her home was in Newburgh (1911) and she exhibited 3 works at Liverpool that year.
Daphne Stephenson was born in Holland but during her early childhood the family travelled extensively. When she was 11 they settled in Kent. Once she left school she spent some time in India and Africa before studying metalwork in Vienna. Work as a commercial artist in London followed. She has had a career in textiles, and as a freelance enameller, and for several years taught art to GCSE and 'A' Level students. Formerly chairman, she continues to play a major role in the running of the Association of British Naive Artists, exhibiting regularly at the Mariners Gallery, St Ives.
In 2010 Daphne moved to Cornwall. Together with Judy JOEL, she published a book in 2012 on the Association of British Naive Artists. Her work has been acquired by private collections throughout the UK and Europe, as well as South Africa, the USA and the Caribbean. Her largest collection of 12 paintings hangs in Nassau, Bahamas.
Val Stevens was born in Penzance. After 35 years in the NHS she became a self-taught painter, who is inspired by the 'ever-changing movements and moods of my native Cornwall.'
Kathryn Stevens grew up in St Ives but studied Fine Art at Bath School of Art & Design, graduating in 2013. Her paintings are 'constructions based on impulsive and improvised processes of colour and form, working with the language of abstraction.' A former member of Taking Space, she moved to Bristol in 2015 but continues to exhibit in Cornwall.
The exhibitor was from West-hill, Ottery St Mary when he showed work at NAG in 1927. The reviewer comments 'Hand-wrought ironwork has a resourceful exponent in ...[Mr J A R S]'. Earlier in the same article he remarks 'A feature is the clever workmanship of a Devon blacksmith. At the present rate of development the time may come when the crafts section at Newlyn will be entirely Cornish.'
Born in West Cornwall, Lee trained at the Falmouth School of Art and then at North Staffordshire Polytechnic. After meeting teacher Sue LEWINGTON at the Penzance School of Art in the mid 1980s, he began intaglio printmaking with which he captures the moods of nature and places at all seasons of the year.
His work was selected for inclusion in the Falmouth Art Gallery review show, '20 Years of Contemporary Art' in 2000.
The only information that we have for this artist as yet is from a correspondent in November 2015 who wrote to ask if we had any knowledge of him? She has been able to send a lovely image which is signed and dated 1922 of sailing boats at the Land's End, Cornwall, and believes that the artist may have been teaching art in Cornwall. If anyone can share further or confirming information about Stevenson, we would be happy to add to this entry.
Other material indicates that he was a Scottish artist who is known for a painting of Market Street Airdrie, which also features on-line on BBC Your Paintings. Local newspaper cuttings from 1963 indicate that the late GCS had served as Chairman of the Monklands Art Club, Airdrie from its inception and showed his work in the annual exhibitions. The attached notice on BBC Your Paintings informed viewers that Stevenson was active c1957.
Meg Stewart is based in Illogan, near Redruth. She graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 1999 with a BA (Hons) in Illustration and embarked on a career in a design agency. After taking a career break to raise her children, she returned to work in 2018 as a studio technician at the St Ives School of Painting, becoming studio manager in 2020. During this time she focussed on developing her own art practice.
She became a member of STISA in 2025.
Born in Sandal, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, she studied under Gilbert Foster, Stanhope FORBES and Alfred Prago. Her addresses were in London (1913 and 1935); Harrogate (1910 and 1918); Brighton (1914); and Bournemouth (1923).
The late Brian Stewart was an enthusiast for art and promoting it in the community, locally, nationally and internationally. A great friend to many, and a loyal friend to Cornish art and art history, his contribution to the Falmouth Art Gallery as its Curator and Director since 2000 is unparalleled in its own history (est 1978).
Stewart was born in Dagenham, Essex, the son of a general medical practitioner and his wife. After an education diploma, he worked in the Old Masters department of Christie's, London for two years. After an art history degree at Canterbury Christ Church College, he became the art and exhibitions officer of Canterbury Museums for a nine year period. In 2000 he came to Falmouth, and since that time the Gallery has grown exponentially in stature, winning The Guardian's Family Friendly Museum Prize in 2006. The sub-title of his Times obituary gives the flavour of the man: 'Curator of Falmouth Art Gallery who exhibited Picasso and Matisse alongside local artists and encouraged children to be creative'.
Above all, he was inclusive, open-hearted, appreciative of all creative efforts, and a direct inspiration to all he met.
Andrew Stewart was at school in Canterbury and went on to study at the University of Amsterdam. During the 1970s he travelled extensively in the Middle East and India. Until 2010 he had a career in the antiquarian book trade. Since 2006 he has been painting and exhibiting not only in Cornwall but at the Bath Academy. He is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1911-20 list of artists in and around St Ives. From Census data it has been possible to identify Katherine as the younger sister of Charles E STIFFE. Katherine was born in Wales, the daughter of landscape artist and architect John Gilbee Stiffe and his wife.
Katherine grew up in London and was schooled there. As yet her art training is unknown, but she is recognised by Johnson & Greutzner as a floral artist, exhibiting between 1904 and 1939. In 1881 she was a scholar living with her family in South Hampstead, London (154 Alexander Road) and in 1904 her sending-in address for exhibitions was in Folkestone, Kent where she had settled with her unmarried sisters, Maria and Helena.
By 1913 she had moved to Lelant in Cornwall and from 1927 to Launceston, Cornwall, where her sister Helena had died two years previously. In 1928 she had moved to Uckfield and in 1932 to Horsham, Sussex.