Katrina Slack was born in Exeter. She studied Sociology in London, subsequently gaining a post-graduate qualification in Photographic Journalism. While working as a photographer and a teacher, she became involved in the music industry, playing in a band, writing and touring.
In 2001 Katrina moved to west Cornwall, attending a variety of classes at Penwith College and St Ives School of Painting. She employs a wide range of media to express her concern for environmental issues. The art of Kurt JACKSON has been an influence on her work. Recently she received a commission from World Animal Protection to make a series of sculptures out of 'ghost fishing' gear, for display around the UK to promote their 'Sea Change' campaign. Locally, her work has been shown at Blue Mist Gallery in St Ives.
Linda Slade was born in London and grew up in south Wales. After having an artwork accepted by the Royal West of England Academy, she obtained art tuition and settled in Cornwall in 2012. She works from a studio in her house overlooking Mounts Bay. Her work has been widely exhibited in Cornwall.
Linda is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Jessica Slater was born in Penzance. in 2008 she obtained a BA from Cardiff University. She works from a studio in west Penwith. In 2012 her work was shortlisted for the National Open Art Competition. Her abstract paintings have been exhibited in Cornwall, Bristol and Bath.
Richard Slater was born in Tottenham and became a student at Hornsey College of Art. He taught for thirty years, retiring in 1980 to take up painting full time. He exhibited widely in Devon and Cornwall and further afield, and received many awards and prizes. His work was commissioned by companies in the UK and USA.
Born in the W Midlands, Steve was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School. He left at 16 with eight O-Levels including art. At the age of 17, he had two terms of painting tuition with John MILLER. Self-educated from that time, he was employed by the civil service, then as a railway clerk. At 25 Steve became self-employed, beginning his painting career in earnest. He began selling his work in St. Ives in 1979 with Keith English. His paintings became more widely known in Cornwall and beyond. In 2009 his work was included in National UK Art A-Level syllabus, for students to study with regard to use of light.
Steve enjoys working alone, but he also paints collaboratively with Vincent RYMER. He is a regular exhibitor at Tregony Gallery on the Roseland peninsula.
The Penlee collection, Penzance, includes work from the early 1800s by such potters as 'Slooman of Penzance'.
Gary Trevenen Small was born in Cornwall. His varied career has included a spell as a mining engineer, a move to London to pursue life as a musician, and subsequently working as a chef.
In 1996 he returned to Cornwall with his wife and two children and obtained a Certificate of Education at Cornwall College. At the age of 60 he developed his artistic skills by achieving a BA (Hons).
His raku method of glazing and firing pots draws on his Romany background and Cornish roots in the tin mining industry. He conducts workshops from his west Cornwall studio.
It is believed that this artist had a studio in Looe in the late 1930s. He produced etchings which recorded local scenes in Cornwall and Devon.
Born at Kingsbridge, Devon, his studies were with F J Snell (1896), then at Plymouth College of Art (1897), Royal College of Art (1899) and under Julius OLSSON in St Ives (1913). The artist returned to St Ives after serving in the army in WWI and his drawings of the Western Front were purchased by the Imperial War Museum. He married Irene Godson in 1917, settled in St Ives (1919), and worked from The Cabin, 1 Porthmeor Studios and the Ocean Wave Studio (1929). In 1935 he was one of the St Ives group commissioned to do a poster, based on an aerial view, of St Ives for tourism purposes. He also designed another for the Southern Railway, and many others.
Though now he is mainly regarded as a coastal artist, his industrial and architectural drawings after WWI are among his most accomplished work (Wormleighton). The couple moved to Salcombe, Devon, in 1926, but returned to St Ives the following year. In 1929 he published a book on the technique of painting seascapes. In 1934-36, Peter LANYON was his pupil.
Works displayed at Newlyn included two studies of St Ives, The Steel Works, Lincoln; The Nitrate Works, Plymouth; The Old 'Implacable' in Dry Dock (1929) and Land's End (1937). During WWII he designed propaganda posters for the Royal Navy.
In the RCM, Truro are two of his coastal landscapes, Morning Light, St Ives (1922), and Cornish Cliffs, Zennor (1923).
Borlase Smart was instrumental in his final year of life in securing a permanent home for the St Ives Society of Arts in the Mariner's Church, St Ives. In 1949, a group of St Ives' artists banded together to become members of the Penwith Society, as a tribute to him. These included Herbert Read, Barbara HEPWORTH, Peter LANYON, Shearer ARMSTRONG, G R DOWNING, Bernard LEACH, Denis MITCHELL, Ben NICHOLSON, Misome PEILE, and Philip KEALEY. In that final year, his portrait was painted by the sculptor Allan G WYON.
In West Cornwall today, as administered by the Tate Galleries, are the artists' studios in both St Ives and Newlyn, carrying the joint name of the Borlase Smart-John WELLS Trust. These have been renovated to a high standard, and are made available to artists upon application.
Diggy Smerdon is an illustrator who has her studio in a disused fish factory in Cornwall. Her line drawn figures are creations of her dreams and subconscious.
Alex Smirnoff was born in London. He studied graphics at West sussex College of Design and then worked as an illustrator in London.
He moved to St Just in Penwith in 1987, after making a number of trips to visit previously. The ancient sites and stones and the folklore attached to them intrigues him, and there are various ways in which his self-expression feeds from them. He makes sculpture, he paints and he creates installations, as well as making music.
His work has been shown at Rainyday Gallery, Penzance.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth (UCF).
Victoria Smith is a member of Lizard Art Co-operative. She says: 'My paintings are a search for a balance, a stability of space and form fabricated by a process of layering and generating illlusionary depth.'
Smith was born in London, but has lived in Cornwall since 2001. His studies were at East Ham Polytechnic (1983-4), Norwich School of Art (1985-88, BA Hons) and then at the RA (1989-92, Postgraduate Diploma).
Jesse has travelled and exhibited widely - UK, USA, Germany - and has been greatly influenced by travels to Norway, Ireland, Turkey, Greece, Nepal and Italy. In 2007 his work was selected for Art Now Cornwall at the Tate St Ives. In 2010 he and fellow artist Richard BALLINGER worked as art tutors on a Norwegian cruise ship, and took great inspiration from visits to museums and working art colonies along the way. Briefly he has also served as chairman of the NSA (2009), but stood down due to lack of time.
Much of his subject matter has been in documenting family life (in his paintings) and especially the lives of his children and their manifest characters. Locally he is represented by Goldfish Fine Art, St Ives, Edgar Modern in Bath, and the Jill George Gallery in Soho, London.
The artist is a tutor on the course programme of the Newlyn School of Art, Chywoone Hill, Newlyn.
In 2012 he was part of a four-artist collaboration TAap-Chuan Xin with Sam BASSETT, Richard BALLINGER and Chris PRIEST, exhibiting at Cornwall Contempory, Queens Square, Penzance.
Leroy Smith was the curator of 'Edge of Dark', an exhibition of work by fellow members of NSA, planned for April 2020 at Tremenheere Gallery. This was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic until October 2020.
In April 2022, in collaboration with Creative Youth Network, he co-curated 'Unstable Monuments Bristol', a project to support emerging artists.
Trained by the Plymouth figurative painter, the late Robert O Lenkievicz, Smith moved to St Ives in 2013. He started printmaking in 2015 and is a member of Porthmeor Print Workshop. His current focus of interest is collagraph printmaking. He works from a studio in Towednack, St Ives.
He is also a maker of Spanish classical and flamenco guitars.
Simon Smith was born in Cornwall and on returning to the county settled in Porthtowan. His paintings have been exhibited at Galleria St Ives.
Born in Sturgis, Michigan, USA, Hassel Smith's life story in both England and America is well rehearsed on the internet on sites referenced below.
He first came to Britain in 1962 with his wife and four sons, at the suggestion of the Gimpels of Gimpel Fils Galleries, London. Their suggestion was Mousehole, Cornwall and the family stayed for one year, making many friends locally. They returned to the USA to various teaching posts and exhibitions, and in 1966 Paul FEILER invited Smith back to teach as a Senior Lecturer at the West of England College of Art. Remaining there until 1978, Smith spent a further period teaching as Principal Lecturer at the Bristol Polytechnic and Cardiff College of Art. His local connections remained strong through his friendships with Patrick HERON, Paul Feiler, Michael CANNEY and Peter LANYON amongst others who also taught art in the West country and lived part-time and long-term in West Cornwall.
Returning to work in the States, where he exhibited widely, Smith was to receive many honours and awards, and also taught at various art schools, Smith returned in later years to live in Britain. He died in Sutton Veny Nursing Home nr Warminster, Wiltshire in 2007.
A Bristol artist, with many Cornish titles to his name, Reginald Smith is not to be confused with Arthur Reginald Smith 1871-1934, a Yorkshire artist. A recent correspondent (2014) has stated that the artist was born at Batheaston nr Bath Somerset. And his later residence was at Oakfield Grove, Clifton, Pembroke Rd Bristol.
Jane Smith grew up in the Midlands and was a student at Dartington College of Art. Subsequently she obtained a BA (Hons) in Ceramics and Glass from Birmingham City University. She has been working with clay since the age of ten. She spent 25 years as a teacher of glass and ceramics but currently works full-time as an artist, while running her own business, Jane Smith Glass.
Her work is sold through several galleries including Cornwall Crafts Association, Trelissick and Trelowarren, and the Poly Guild in Falmouth. She undertakes both private and public commissions. Smith says 'My work is now heavily influenced by the dynamic landscape of Cornwall and my passion for the patterns formed in the natural and man-made environment.'
He exhibited for two years sending in from The Hut, St Levan, primarily to Liverpool where he exhibited 8 paintings in 1909.