St Ives Times (10 Oct 1913) reported: 'Mr F S Budgen is sending work to be exhibited at the Goupil gallery'. And a week later they remarked on his works at the gallery, which included The woods near Knill's Monument and coastal studies. He worked from 5 Piazza Studios, St Ives. He also exhibited A Dorsetshire Village by Moonlight (1913) in St Ives.
The artist is Frank Budgen, great friend of the Irish writer James Joyce: "I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book." (Joyce is alleged to have said this to the artist as he was laboring on his epic novel Ulysses in Zurich.) Identification has been confirmed by a recent correspondent (2012) who also referred to his studio address as above listed in the Piazza Studios.
New artist to the Lander Gallery, Truro, in their summer exhibition, showing beach scenes in acrylics. Rachel's paintings are based on photographs and sketches of Cornwall's coastline. She has exhibited at the Toe in the Water Gallery, Fowey.
Donnette Bufton is a self-taught artist who finds the diversity of landscape and the influence of other artists in west Cornwall, where she lives, inspiring. She has been working closely with the Cornish based charity ACE to produce a range of greetings cards, the sale of which helps to raise funds for their educational work in Uganda.
Possibly Helen M BULKLEY of St Agnes, Cornwall who is known to have exhibited from 1909-1929 (J&G).
The only local records for this artist are in the NAG Exhibition Record for December of 1925, and the Craft section of the NAG show of December 1926, but the entries are unspecified.
Oliver Bull was born in west London. After undertaking a Foundation Degree at Wimbledon School of Art, he gained a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design. Subsequently he worked for six years as a designer/concept visualiser. Currently based in west Cornwall, he works from a studio in Mousehole. Since the 1990s he has been a marine and landscape painter, and a surfer.
His work is exhibited regularly at the Mall Galleries in London, and is held in private collections throughout the world.
His mother was the painter Anne BULL.
Anne Bull is a set designer and figurative artist. She studied at Ealing Art School, and the National Portrait Gallery and Mall Gallery workshops. She has exhibited at the Royal Society of Marine Artists in London and the Society of Women Artists, Westminster. Her son Oliver BULL is a marine and landscape painter with a studio in Mousehole.
An oil painting, entitled Truro, being a view of the river and the residences lining it, is part of the collection of the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
Born in Cornwall, her schooling was at Bedales, and she was a pupil to Christopher Cash.
She exhibited at the Sheviock Gallery in Cornwall, and also with the Penwith Society of Artists in St Ives. The Michael Parkin Gallery sold her work.
In 1971 she married artist and illustrator/designer Glynn Boyd Harte (aka Boyd Harte) and the two lived in London, giving much time and love to the Art Workers Guild, that had begun in the 1880s with the birth of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The couple had two sons, and spent time in France, in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, and in London. Her husband died of leukaemia in 2003.
Katie Bunnell works from a studio at Grays Wharf in Penryn. She graduated from Bristol Poly in 1989 with a degree in 3D Design (Ceramics), and completed an MA in Ceramics & Glass at London's Royal College of Art in 1993, where she was a Darwin Scholar. In 1998 she was awarded a doctorate for her practice based research thesis, 'The Integration of New Technologies into Ceramic Designer-Maker Practice'.
Until 2015 she was Associate Professor of Design at Falmouth University, where she created 'Autonomatic', an award-winning design research collective, exploring the relationships between craft making and digital technologies.
Her work as a designer, maker and trained researcher has involved collaboration with programmers, technology developers, design historians, cultural geographers and many other creative thinkers and doers. A recent collaboration with Steve Brown, digital ceramic print researcher at the Royal College of Art, London, was the 'Captured Collection', a series of plates and bowls commissioned by jeweller Mirri Damer.
Katie's work has been shown nationally and internationally.
Keith Bunt was born in Cornwall and has lived in the county all his life. His subjects include the River Fowey and the south coast from St Austell Bay to Lands End. His paintings are pared down using simple gesture and form in a visually poetic response to the landscape he knows so well.
Emma Bunt was born in 1862 to William Phillips and his wife Maria Anne (nee Russell) who were married in St Austell in 1852. Her first sending-in address was in South Croydon (1911), but by 1912 she had settled in Falmouth, Cornwall. She was a resident of Falmouth up until about 1947 when she moved to Newquay.
After Emma's marriage to Thomas Bunt, the couple spent some time in Shanghai, where he was involved in military projects for the Chinese government. According to the family tree, they had two children who died young.
She is known to have exhibited from 1911-1951 and it is believed that a floral study by her was shown at the Royal Academy. She also exhibited at Newlyn Art Gallery.
In 2016 a relative contacted the CAI to say he has two of the artist's floral works in his possession, together with two portraits of family members.
A London-based painter who lectured at RCPS Falmouth, having exhibited and taught (1825) at RA, BI, SS, and NWS.
According to the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Annual Report (1842): 'The influence of the Society is difficult to measure, as it frequently admits, but the 1842 exhibition was judged superior to any previous one. That year J M Burbank gave a very detailed lecture on water colour painting, specifying such basic requirements as an HB pencil, 2/3 thicknesses of paper, 2 basins of perfectly clean water and much else in similarly fascinating vein.'
W Burbridge is noticed as an artist by Johnson & Greutzner with an address in Crantock Street, Newquay. If this is the same artist, he or she also exhibited in 1933 at Leeds. Crook Farm, Sidford was the title given for one of the two paintings shown in 1937 at NAG, the other being The Byes, Sidford. In the NAG list, this name is spelled Burbidge.
Yvonne Burdekin's work is inspired by the landscape of the Lizard peninsula.
Kate Burdett has a degree in Literature and Fine Art and lives in the far west of Cornwall. Her paintings have been exhibited at a number of venues in Cornwall.
Arthur Burgess was born in Bombala, Australia. His father was an officer in the Australian Navy and, being an artist himself, encouraged his son to draw from an early age. He attended schools in New South Wales and Tasmania, and trained for three years in an architect's office, spending all his leisure hours sketching ships in Sydney harbour.
Just after his 21st birthday he emigrated to England. In November 1901 he signed into St Ives Arts Club as a guest of Julius OLSSON, and later became his pupil. The registers show he visited again in January 1912 and November 1914. Tovey includes a coloured plate of his painting, Drifting Home, St Ives, in his social history of the St Ives artists (p243) and another, Rowing Boats in a rocky cove (p244). During the War he became Official Naval Artist for the Australian Government.
In WWII he was commissioned by various shipowners to paint their merchant ships and convoys in ports all over the country. Having made rough sketches, he returned to his studio in Ludlow to complete the finished pictures (his studio in London having been bombed in the Blitz). His wife, Muriel BURGESS (nee Coldwell), was a pupil at the Forbes School whilst copying her father's portrait in 1936-37. The couple were married in 1911 in Shrewsbury, and had one daughter. He died in 1957, pre-deceasing Muriel, who died in 1960.
His grandson has added to our information with a recent paragraph, and this is included in the Miscellaneous section following.
The artist (SEE also Muriel COLDWELL) is noticed as an exhibitor from 1903-5 both at Birmingham and the Society of Women Artists. Her address was in Shrewsbury, Shopshire. (J&G)
Iris Green records that this is the same M Burgess who attended the FORBES SCHOOL of Painting in 1936/7. She was the wife of Arthur James Weatherall BURGESS. Photos of the two artists are included in Tovey (2009, p239), and the correspondence between the pair before their marriage provide rare insights into the student life of the St Ives Art Colony (p245, etc.).
Burke completed a Foundation course at the Falmouth College of Art before going on to Teacher Training and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting at Central St Martin's College of Art.
The artist is listed as a member of NSA (2011).
Billy A K BURMAN is a watercolourist who has lived and painted in the Penzance area for the past 30 years.
Valerie Burn trained in Fine Art at Leicester and Nottingham Colleges of Art and Design. This was followed by a career in art education for over thirty years. Her style and technique is eclectic and diverse. Her work has a decorative quality which reflects her interest in light and colour. Her fabric work includes silk painting. Valerie holds workshops at her studio in Saltash. She has exhibited at Drawn to the Valley.
Altarnum-born, he only came further west than Falmouth to end his days in Redruth workhouse. In Altarnum he began carving with local materials - Delabole slate and 'Cornish marble' - and entered pieces for exhibitions at the Royal Polytechnic Society at Falmouth, winning Bronze medals, and a Silver for his Laocoon.
The president of the RCPS, Sir Charles Lemon MP, introduced Burnard to Sir Francis Chantrey, London's most famous sculptor who in turn introduced him to London Society and later to Queen Victoria, to sculpt a bust of the six-year old Prince of Wales.
In London, Burnard was employed initially as a carver for Henry Weekes, and also assisted Chantrey. By 1841 he was an independent sculptor with a studio and an established reputation. At the death of his daughter, however, he drowned his sorrows in drink and lost his wife and family in his disintegration. He returned to Cornwall, and literally became a wandering tramp and homeless person. Taken finally to the Redruth workhouse, he died there, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Camborne cemetery.
In 1954, the Old Cornwall Society righted this oversight with a slate memorial to the sculptor, remembered as one of Cornwall's most outstanding.
The self-trained artist was born at Laneast, the son of Richard P and Elizabeth Burnard. Initially he was a housepainter in Truro, and married Jenny Chapman of Altarnun in 1822, with the permission of her parents as she was a minor at the time. With her he had 4 children. In this period he also began a side career as a limner (a portrait painter) and travelled around Cornwall and nearby Devon painting children and animals, much as John OPIE. the Cornish wonder had done before him.
A rare example and a most remarkable one of his paintings of John Gubbins Newton and Mary Newton of Devon is part of the Mellon Collection at the Yale Centre of British Art, and considered unique portraiture in 19th century painting.
His wife Jenny died, and in 1832 Burnard remarried to Elizabeth Stodden of Gerrans. Altogether this couple were to have 10 children, and in 1839 the family moved to south Australia, where they settled at Adelaide. There Burnard continued to paint portraits, and also taught art.
Born in Birkenhead, the daughter of an actuary, her training was at Birkenhead School of Art, Liverpool School of Architecture and Munich Kunstlerinnen Verein. She also studied under Hermann Groeber at Munich. In addition to oils and watercolours, she also produced lithographs and block prints.
Her first local exhibit was in 1899, and she appears to have moved to Carbis Bay in 1914 but there is no mention of her work in the St Ives Times until 1920. In 1924 at St Ives Show Day she exhibited 'effective' pictures of Sennen, Carbis Bay and Conway, and also A Woodland Lane. In 1926 she is recorded as exhibiting at NAG. In Who's Who in Art (1934) she was listed as living at 'Sunset', Porthmeor.
Janet Burnett is a ceramicist with a studio very close to the edge of Bodmin moor. Previously she lived in Wiltshire, where she had a 25 year career in commercial design and illustration.