Allan Caswell was born in Edinburgh and now lives in Rock, near Wadebridge. He studied Illustration at Falmouth School of Art, before moving to London where he obtained a BA (Hons) in Illustration at Kingston University. He worked as a freelance illustrator for two years before travelling in south east Asia and Australia. Subsequently he spent four years in St Ives working and exhibiting and undertaking a solo show at the Plumbline Gallery. He was also a visiting lecturer at Falmouth School of Art. After a year in Padstow he travelled to Spain, Morocco, India and the USA.
Since 2003 Caswell has had his own gallery in Rock.
After a foundation degree at Falmouth Art School, Saul Cathcart gained a BA in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art.
He works from Krowji Studios, Redruth. His abstracted plein air paintings are inspired by the north Cornwall coast which he has known for 30 years.
Cathcart's work has been exhibited throughout Cornwall.
Born in Leicester 13 January 1855 (Bednar having obtained both GRO certificates), the artist painted a Newlyn title in 1886, the earliest indication of a visit to West Cornwall. His RA exhibits included views of Cornwall, the Midlands, and the Channel Islands. He died in Leicester, aged 70 (7 April 1925, GRO).
2021: A great-granddaughter of the artist has been in touch to tell us of three paintings by George Spawton Catlow in her possession, which were brought by his daughter to New Zealand in the late 1960s.
Sarah Caton works from a studio in the stable courtyard of Bochym Manor, near Helston.
In 1882 the artist exhibited a work entitled Gwavas Cove, Newlyn at the RCPS, Falmouth.
A student of the Herkomer School of Art, she was well known for her weaving. Being a close friend of Beatrice Michell NANCE, some four years after Beatrice's death, she married Robert Morton NANCE as his second wife.
After their marriage in 1906 they moved to Nancledra, midway between Penzance and St Ives. In 1914, on the outbreak of War, she moved with her husband to Carbis Bay. She exhibited at the RA under the name of Cawker.
See Frederic Cayley-ROBINSON, Phil Whiting and Barbara Cayley-ROBINSON
Rose Cecil works from Mount Pleasant, Mousehole.
The artist is listed as a member of NSA (2010).
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society exhibitor (1846) who won Bronze medal for sculpture.
Possibly Ernest Albert CHADWICK, painter of landscapes in watercolour as well as flower painter and wood engraver from Birmingham (Solihull). If this is the artist, he exhibited and was reviewed in the Cornishman within a distinguished exhibiting career. As yet this is the only evidence found about his presence locally.
Swedish born painter from Boston, the wife of Francis Brooks CHADWICK (Frank). She had known Anders ZORN in her student days in Sweden (Stockholm Academy) and Paris, and met him again with his own wife, Emma, in 1887 in St Ives. Cross notes, however, that Emma Chadwick did not seem very pleased to find the mesmeric Zorn in St Ives, and treated him distantly.
In the meantime, she had married the American painter Chadwick in Paris (1882), and they had been living in France from that date. She had won two Hon Mentions in the Paris Salons, one in 1887 and the second in 1889. Wood notes that she exhibited two pictures of domestic subjects in England in 1890 (no specifics) from a Paris address. At Whitechapel in 1902 she exhibited with the Cornish painters by showing Moonlight, St Ives. With her husband she lived an expatriate artistic life between Cornwall, London and France, where they spent much time with the artists' colony at Grez sur Loing.
Painter from Boston, Massachusetts, who had worked at Concarneau at the same time as Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE. Though little known today, Francis Chadwick was an important and innovative figure in the American art world in the late nineteenth century. Like his friend John Singer SARGENT, Chadwick was a portrait, figure and landscape painter,and both became part of the expatriate American art community. Other than Mary Cassatt, and perhaps Sargent himself, Chadwick may have been the earliest American painter to join the Impressionist movement, and he was the most established figure in the important artists' colony in Grez sur Loing in France where he spent almost all his professional career.
Chadwick visited other artists' colonies; in 1887 they were in Concarneau in Brittany and Cornwall (St Ives and Newlyn), joining other Swedish and American artists such as Edward Emerson SIMMONS, some of whom had also been in Grez. He and his wife, Emma CHADWICK, were in St Ives in 1905 when William Holt Yates TITCOMB was being treated to his 'leaving dinner', and Chadwick was known for his prowess as a cricketer for the St Ives side. Chadwick was also present to be a signatory of the Glanville Letter about the destruction of characteristic features of St Ives by indiscriminate development.
In 1914 an artist by this name presented the St Ives Times with a black and white drawing Presents from the Allies, with the monies raised from the sale of the original to go to the newspaper's "Tobacco for the Troops" fund. Living at 23 The Terrace, St Ives.
Joanne Chadwick studied at Falmouth School of Art during the 1990s. Subsequently she gained a teaching qualification. Based in mid-Cornwall, she currently works for 'Arts for Health Cornwall', assisting people who suffer from memory loss. She offers private tuition in oil painting.
Michael Chaikin creates copper mobiles of fish and other creatures. He describes his work as 'marvellous metal moving mechanical monstrosities.'
Chaikin creates sculptures, mosaics and textile hangings from a wide range of source material.
He produced the earliest plates after Thomas ALLOM in Britton and Brayley's Devonshire and Cornwall Illustrated (1832).
The artist came to Cornwall to settle in 1978, after studying at the Oxford School of Art, followed by teacher training and teaching posts which included two years on the Isle of Skye mountaineering. His final teaching post prior to turning to full-time painting was five years as an Art Tutor at Fitzharry's School, Abingdon, Oxford.
In Cornwall, he took an active part in NSA activities, and served on the Council of Management of Newlyn Orion Gallery and as Chairman of Council in 1987-89. He exhibited in many mixed shows, and held a one-man exhibition in 1988.
Mel Chambers uses 13th century inlay techniques to create encaustic tiles. Her work also includes painting animal portraits.
Chambers grew up in West Cornwall and studied at both the Penzance School of Art and the Redruth School of Art before moving on to the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1954-57). After briefly working for Shell, and teaching at Peckham, he returned to Cornwall where he taught art at Fowey for almost a decade. In 1967 he became Head of Art at Queen Mary's Boys School, Basingstoke. From there in 1970 he joined the teaching staff of the South Devon College of Art and worked in both Newton Abbot and subsequently in Torquay when the school re-located. He retired as Head of the School of Art and Design there in 1995 and returned to Penwith, where he now lives and paints.
John is also a writer on art-related topics, a prominent one being The Auckland Bramley (1999) being the story of a neglected painting by the Newlyn artist, Frank BRAMLEY, that hangs in the Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand.
In Cornwall he has exhibited in Penzance, St Ives and in Newlyn and engages with series or groups of paintings employing mixed media and experimental abstract and geometric forms/images to a chosen theme, often with Cornish language titles. He has shared joint exhibitions with the constructivist sculptor Gordon ALLEN (2006) and John BERRYMAN (2007) and showed in mixed and group shows.
Chandler was born in Middlesex and came to live and work in St Ives in 1976. Her studio is also her home, and her subject matter is largely figurative or figures in a landscape, representing reflections of life.
Christopher Chandler is based in St Minver, near Wadebridge.
In the will of the sculptor Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781-1841), a large sum of money (£105,000) was left to the Royal Academy for the purposes of building up a National Collection of British art - painting and sculpture - being that art created within the shores of Great Britain. It was not until 1877, after the death of Lady Chantrey, that the first works were bought with the Investment's interest, seven pictures and one sculpture, and hung in the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum).
In 1897, the 85 works purchased by that time were handed over 'to the nation' and lodged in the newly constructed Tate Gallery. From that time the Bequest became a support fund for Tate Acquisitions, remaining the primary Fund until the 1920s. It was considered a great honour for an artist to have a painting chosen and purchased under the Chantrey Bequest terms. Reproductions of the Chantrey Bequest works may be found in the Strand Magazine (Christmas issue, December 1927).
Other Collections such as that of Sir Henry Tate (1819-1899) were equally prestigious, and it was as a result of the purchase by Tate of The Health of the Bride in 1889, that Stanhope FORBES was enabled to marry Elizabeth ARMSTRONG. The original sixty-five works presented by Sir Henry became the core, along with the Chantrey Bequest purchases and the vast Turner Bequest, of the Tate Gallery. Now the Tate Galleries on its four major sites is the repository of over 65,000 works of art. Most of the Chantrey Bequest paintings can be viewed on-line at the Tate Gallery website.