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.).
Andrew Burgess studied at Falmouth School of Art, then worked as an interior decorator in Cornwall and London before returning to north Cornwall to live.
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).
Ed Burkes graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Falmouth University in 2016. He is based in east Cornwall.
His work reflects his belief that music, language and art all have an effect on one another. His paintings often include fragments of text.
Ed's first solo show was the culmination of a nine month studio residency in Derby. The substantial body of works which he created was exhibited at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, before moving to Mall Galleries in London in 2021.
He has received several prestigious awards, including the Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award, the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Travel to Italy Award, and the Falmouth School of Art Purchase Prize,
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.
There was an exhibition of his unspecified work at Market Hall, Penzance in 1917 in the Great Exhibition and Sale of Work (28 April-5 March).
Heather Burns works from the Lifeboat Art Studio in Porthleven. Her colourful paintings, which focus on her interpretation of the weather and environment, are semi-abstract and lyrical. She is a former member of Taking Space.
Louie Burrell was a painter of portraits whose life and career were marked by a succession of struggles and setbacks, relieved by intermittent periods of fame. Her early promise was acknowledged by Hubert von Herkomer. who offered Burrell a three year scholarship to his art school in Bushey. Financial constraints prevented her from accepting his offer straight away, so she took up a teaching post in Truro during the late 1890s, in order to save enough to finance her studies. During this time she used local people as subjects for the portrait miniatures which would pave the way for prominent commissions later in her career. In 1902 her miniature 'The Red-Haired Girl' was accepted by the Royal Academy, and today hangs in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
In 1904 Burrell left Bushey for South Africa, where she married. During her pregnancy, her husband died suddenly. In order to provide for her young daughter, the artist sought work abroad, spending some years in Canada and the USA. Her social connections ensured that she was awarded commissions to paint portraits of figures prominent in royal and political circles, both in the UK and abroad. A second marriage in London failed after a few months, so she and her daughter Philippa set sail for India where her work received a mixed reception.
Returning to England, she began to suffer from poor health and gave up portrait commissions, though she continued to enjoy sketching expeditions to various locations including Cornwall. She was still painting until shortly before her death in 1971 at the age of 98.
Louie Burrell's spirit of adventure and determination to forge a career on her own terms mark her out as exceptional, in an era when women were crippled by social and domestic constraints. In recent years Philippa Burrell has done much to promote awareness of her mother's work.
Born on 26 July 1856 in Bridgwater, Somerset (GRO), the artist studied at South Kensington and at the Slade. He worked in Rome with Cipriani (1878) and in Paris with Lefebvre, Cormon, Boulanger and Bonnat.
He lived for a period (unspecified as yet) in the West Country, and later in the South of France. He was a friend of Stanhope FORBES, from Quimperle, and Forbes encouraged he and his friend Tom Trythall ROWE to visit Newlyn soon after his own decision to stay in 1884.
In September 1884 The Cornishman reported that there were 27 artists working in Newlyn, although Burrington did not turn up until 1885 and remained for a short time only in the West country. He died on 9 October 1924 in Garda, near Verona, Italy. Bednar has secured the Italian certificate verifying his death, and noted his earliest known date of a visit to West Cornwall from Forbes' letters of 1888.
Born in Truro and married to Jane, the 1891 Census lists him as a Photographic Artist living in Trelowarren Street, Camborne. He is considered to be the pioneer of underground photography in mining. At the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, a distinguished collection is that of Herbert HUGHES (died 1937) of Dudley, Worcestershire, who in 1892 befriended Burrow, and they together toured Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly annually .
Burrow's photographs were originally shown at the annual exhibition of the Photographic Society of Great Britain, where he received a medal for his work and much acclaim in the press. His book Mongst Mines and Miners; or, Underground Scenes by Flashlight: A Series of Photographs, (1893) with Explanatory Letterpress, illustrated methods of working in Cornish mines, and included in Part One 'An Account of the Photographic Experiences' by J C Burrow. He was photographer to HRH, the Prince of Wales.
The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) review of oil paintings in Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly, reveals two portraits (oil on canvas) by J C Burrow, indicating that he may also have been a painter, though this may be another (no dates in PCF for artist, though both are painted within the period that the photographer JCB is known to be alive). The portraits are of James Holman (1825-1892) and John Holman (1819-1890) of Cornish engineering fame.
Pippa Burrows' harbour scenes are lighthearted and 'naive' in style.
Max Burrows is based on a farm at Crackington Haven. His subjects include animals and humans with an expressive edge.
Jenni Burrows was born and educated in Sussex. In 1987 she undertook a Foundation course at Hastings College of Art & Technology. This was followed by an HND Design (Textiles) at Huddersfield Polytechnic, and in 1993 a BA (Hons) in Fine Craft Design at the University of Ulster. The following year she set up a workshop in Plymouth, resuming her studies in 2001 to obtain a PGCE in Art & Design (secondary) at Brighton University. In 2010 she was awarded a Foundation Certificate in History of Art at Birkbeck. In 2013 she completed an MA by Project in Contemporary Embroidery and Threadwork (with Distinction) from the Cass School of Art & Architecture. Since 1994 she has taught and lectured at secondary and higher education institutions. She has received a number of awards and commissions, and her work has been exhibited widely throughout the UK.
While she has a background in textile art and education, Jenni's more recent work has developed into what she describes as 'a form of practical mindfulness, integrating painting, mixed media, drawing, stitching and printing to cope with a diagnosis'. In 2018 she was a visiting speaker and practitioner at the Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation in Washington DC.
Her 2019 film 'How will you wear it?' was selected for the Reel to Real Crafts Council Film Festival.
Based in Hayle, she joined Taking Space in 2019.
Paul Bursnall was born in Hayes, Middlesex and moved to Falmouth in 2021.
He paints in a naive style, using blocks of colour and heavy outlines. Since 2006 he has sold almost 2000 paintings around the country, based on his favoured themes. Several UK galleries exhibit his work on a regular basis and these include the Red Rag, Bath, The Wren Gallery, Burford, and The Picture Parlour, Boscastle, Cornwall.
He is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Although a resident of Leamington Spa, she was a stalwart of STISA for over 30 years.
Brian Busselle was born in Kent. He graduated from Maidstone College of Art with a degree in graphic design, and had a successful career in advertising. He lives and works in Falmouth.
An artist and illustrator, Emma Butcher works from a studio at Grays Wharf, Penryn. In 2018 she graduated in MA: Authorial Illustration at Falmouth University. Her work has been published by the National Trust, Atlantic Press, independent magazines and the audiobook app Audrey.
Her work is mysterious and occupies liminal spaces such as shore and coastline, windows and caves. She is interested in visual storytelling, atmosphere, psychology and space.
Initially trained as an architect, he was a sculptor guest of Patrick HERON in 1951 (working in welded steel). No further information currently is available about his connection to Cornwall.
Born in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland on the 11 January 1858, she studied at the Westminster School of Art with Frank Calderon. Though her sending-in address remained in Ireland throughout, she exhibited with a Newlyn title in 1896, and in the same year The Chantrey Bequest purchased The Morning Bath (RA, 1896).
She studied in the Summer classes of 1894 and 1895 with Norman GARSTIN, though there is no specific information about her visit/s to Cornwall. By 1935 she had moved to Wellington, New Zealand, but returned home to Thomastown by 1941, where she died on 11 October of that year, age 83.