Caroline Cleave lives in Port Isaac. Her popular designs, based on themes of sustainable fishing, coast and countryside, are licensed by Emma Ball and distributed nationally.
Beach Scene (acrylic on canvas), an abstract painting of the sea and horizon by this artist, is part of the collection at the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
Margritt Clegg was born in Bremen, Germany and moved to the UK in 1965. During the 1980s she obtained degrees in Fine Art and Printmaking from the Wimbledon School of Art and moved to St Ives in 1994.
She has exhibited widely, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Local exhibiting venues have included the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance and the Millennium Gallery in St Ives. Her work has been featured in various publications including 'Another View : Art in St Ives' by Marion Whybrow.
Her work, St Ives, Cornwall, is mentioned by F Ruhrmund in his review of the 2011 NSA exhibition, 'Uncharted Landscapes', held at the Mariners' chapel gallery, St Ives.
The artist is listed as a member of NSA (2009 list). She was selected as an exhibitor for the 2010 Open Art Exhibition, which launched the 4th annual Newlyn Arts Festival.
Clemence works from the Old Board School Studios in Newlyn. Her subjects are drawn from people and places around Penzance.
An enamel craftsman who attended the Enameling Class at Newlyn as a teenager, learning from Reginald Thomas DICK, Clemens continued to make jewellery as a hobby, mostly for his wife and family, whilst carrying on his father's trade as a marine smith on the North Pier.
His work was exhibited by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society at Camborne, and was awarded a certificate of merit in 1908. He also worked in silver and copper, and it was he who assisted Tom BATTEN in making the copper galleon on the roof of the Seaman's Mission in 1911.
Cleves is listed as a regular exhibitor at the Lander Gallery, Truro (2011).
Clifford painted a portrait of William M Pryce (1735-1790) that is held by the RCM, Truro. Based on this oil on copper painting J Basire was to create a line engraving, copies of which are in the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, and as reproduced in Pryce's Mineralogia Cornubiensis reprints. Pryce was a surgeon, mineralogist and antiquary born at Redruth.
An oil painting with this signature of St Ives Harbour, was observed in The Chapel Street Bookshop, in February 2011.
A correspondent (2021) has contacted us as he knew Gordon Close and his wife during the 1990s, when the artist was living in north Wales. After a career as a scenery painter with the BBC, Close retired to St Ives.
Born on 12 July 1867 in Bolton, Greater Manchester (GRO), his addresses consecutively were Hulme, Lancashire (1882), Bolton, Lancashire (1890) and North Wales (1895). He worked intially as a lithographic printer but began to exhibit paintings in 1890, and in the 1891 Census described himself as a landscape artist. He was a frequent visitor to Cornwall and produced several paintings of Polperro which, dated from the 1890s, have appeared on the market.
The painting known to have a Newlyn title was dated 1899, and is currently housed in Manchester City Art Gallery. His titles include another Newlyn title (in the Walker Gallery, Liverpool) and Home from the Fields. He died in Llandudno, Conway, Wales at age 75, on 3 February 1943 (GRO).
Born in Bromley, and educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, he also studied under Borlase SMART, and married the painter Jean MAIN. A great lover of the sea, he lived on his yacht White Heather, which was normally based at Brockenhurst in Hampshire. Although he came to Newlyn on her in 1950, his sending-in address remained at Brockenhurst.
Maggie Cochran graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chichester University in 2017. Subsequently she completed the one-year Porthmeor Programme in St Ives. A coastal landscape artist, she lives in Falmouth and works from Krowji Studios in Redruth.
In 2016 she was the winner of Cornwall Life Painter of the Year, and she was shortlisted for the Artists & Illustrators Artist of the Year in 2018. Her work has been widely shown across Cornwall and beyond, and is held in private collections both in the UK and abroad.
In 2023 she and her artist friend Sharon BRUSTER set up Prime Women Artists, a supportive and creative network for women artists of all disciplines in Cornwall.
She was the wife of Alfred COCHRANE. They lived at Parc-an-Carne, St Ives.
Married to fellow artist Taka COCHRANE, they lived at Parc-an-Carne, St Ives. He specialised in landscapes, detailed interiors, and delicate and refined still life painting. He was elected a founder member of STISA, and agreed to the role of Secretary in 1928, no-one else at the AGM having volunteered for this important but arduous task. He resigned his position in 1933 due to ill health, but continued to exhibit.
William Cock is one of three infants of that name born in the Camborne area in 1866. The most likely family is as the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Cock of Edward Street, Tuckingmill. He had a long career of over 50 years (1878 - 1932) working in the engineering works of Messrs Holman Bros, certainly by 1901 as a draughtsman in their Art and Publicity department at Camborne.
In 1890 he married Alice Tangye Bryant in the Redruth RD of which Camborne was a part. Their son William Garstin COCK (later COX) who was named by his father in tribute to the artist Norman GARSTIN of the Newlyn School, was born in 1892. Although the timing is uncertain, William changed the family name to Cox during the next decade. When his daughter, Iris Winifred was born in 1896 she was registered as COX although the family were still recorded as COCK at the time of the 1901 census. Ten years later they had become COX.
William Cock developed a considerable reputation locally as an artist and painted four portraits of mining and engineering worthies, that are held by the RCM, Truro. He was probably commissioned by the Holman family while working for them as the paintings, like those of J C BURROW are of men important to Cornwall's mining heritage: Captain Charles Thomas (1794-1868), John Henry Holman (1853-1908), John Holman (1819-1890) and Nicholas Holman (1777-1862).
In 1903 William Cox presented two of his large oil paintings to Camborne Free Library to be hung in the Reading Room. Although William is still described as a draughtsman in 1911 both his son, Garstin and his daughter are recorded as Art School Students.
William is mentioned as an artist in an exhibition review of March 1912. He and his son shared a studio in St Andrews Street, St Ives, from as early as February 1907. They called it the 'Beach Studio'. [Tovey p129, St Ives 1860-1930]. Though he worked for Holman's Engineering, William was an accomplished amateur and continued to paint together with his son until the impending Great War came into focus, causing them both to work in munitions to make ends meet.
He studied under John Noble BARLOW, as did his son. He also exhibited at the RCPS Falmouth in 1920. He survived his son who had died six years before, dying in 1939 with his probable death recorded in the Bodmin RD.
Cockcroft is 'intrigued by the forms of the natural world, growth and decay, transitions from one state to another.'
She lived in St Ives, working from The Hutch Sudio between 1901-1910, though not exhibiting until later (1911-1920).
Joan Cockett's early love of art was encouraged by her teacher, Elfreda Dadd, a great-niece of the painter Richard Dadd. After a year working at a London printers, she became a student at Goldsmiths College, where she studied painting. Subsequently she became head of Art at a south London comprehensive school. She moved to Cornwall in the 1980s. Her work has been exhibited widely in Cornwall.
A painter in acrylics, Ali Cockrean studied at Central St Martins College of Art & Design, and the Slade School of Fine Art. Her expressionist landscapes can be found in collections across the world including Europe, Hong Kong, the USA and Canada. She has undertaken a number of private commissions, and was featured on BBC TV in 2012 after she was commissioned to paint the Queen's Jubilee River Pageant live from London's Millennium Bridge.
Cockrean moved to Cornwall in 2015. She is an art tutor to adults and children, and offers talks and demonstrations on her subject. She works as a freelance tutor for Truro Arts.
Born in Hartlepool, Cockrill studied at Wrexham, Denbigh and Reading before living and teaching in Liverpool. Cockrill has showed with Bernard Jacobson and Archeus Fine Art in London.
A regular exhibitor in Cornwall and a successful teacher, Cockrill has also taught at the Royal College of Art, the Slade and St. Martin's School of Art. He was elected RA in 1999 and is currently Keeper at the RA Schools. Work is held in many private and public collections including the British Museum, Art Council of Great Britain, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Emily Coghill was born in the Cape colony and spent her early years in South Africa, the daughter of William Henry Cogill (Coghill), a merchant and hotel owner, and his wife Annette Gillman. According to a current correspondent (descendant) her family did have ties with Cornwall, but when they returned to the UK, they settled in the southeast, living first in Fulham, London (1891) and by 1901 in Surbiton, Surrey [Crossways, Crane's Park]. According to a correspondent (2023) she attended Portsmouth School of Science & Art after leaving Portsmouth High School.
In between those dates she spent some years in Cornwall, where her exhibition dates begin from 1894. Her sending-in addresses range from St Ives (1894-7), returning to Surbiton, Surrey from 1897 and then from Seaton, Devon in 1925. Emily and her brother Frank lived at Woodlands, Old Beer Road, Seaton from 1925 to 1931, after their parents had died.
David Tovey, in 'St Ives - The Artists and the Community - A Social History' has suggested that this little-known artist may have been an early student of Julius OLSSON.
Her parents seem to have visited St Ives from 1891. She gives St Ives as her exhibiting address in 1894, the first year that she started to show her work, and she is recorded on the Visitors’ List between August and October that year, being signed in to the Arts Club by Olsson in October. In 1895, she continued to use St Ives as her exhibiting address when she showed 'A Grey Day' at SWA, and she took part in the performance of Our Boys in Olsson’s new Porthmeor Studio in December 1895. She also donated work to St John’s Organ Fund in 1896. In 1898, she uses a Surbiton address, but appears to have returned to the colony from time to time, as she was a guest of Gertrude Rosenberg at the Arts Club in January 1906 and of the Douglases in February 1908. She stopped exhibiting regularly at the SWA in 1912 and by the time of her final exhibit in 1925 was living at Seaton, Devon.
Emily Cogill died in Bridport, Dorset, age 89 in 1954.