He exhibited pieces of work in handwrought brass and copper at NAG in July-September 1928. The other exhibitors within this section were the members of the Newlyn Art Metal Industry (no individual names).
Artist daughter of Norman COOKE, and associated with St Ives, she was the sister of Doris Cooke BAYLEY and had her studio at the family home of Dunvegan (photo of home in Tovey 2009).
The outstanding British marine artist of his time, Edward Cooke came from a family of engravers that included his father George COOKE and uncle William Bernard COOKE. In 1835 he began to exhibit oils at the Royal Academy, and his paintings remained a feature of its Exhibitions for 45 years.
Cooke was particularly attracted by the Isle of Wight, and on his formative visit in 1835 made a thorough study of its fishing boats and lobster pots. Above all, he delighted in the beaches strewn with rocks of various kinds, fishing tackle, breakwaters and small timber-propped jetties. Tovey mentions his sketching of storage bunkers on the beaches in October of 1848. Though little is known at present about his visit(s) to Cornwall, his works include a number of local subjects. A sale of his works was held at Christie's in 1861, and his studio sale was in May 1880.
Student with St Ives associations who went on to become a STIAC stalwart (Tovey). He purchased Dunvegan at Carbis Bay, where he constructed his studio. His daughters Dorothy (Dossie, later Dorothy BAYLEY) and Iris COOKE were also artists, and all played an active part in the social and artistic life in the artists' colonies of West Cornwall.
The artist works with West Penwith subjects. No further detail known as yet.
Laurie joined the St Ives team at the Leach Pottery as a pupil of Bernard LEACH in 1931 (fl1931-1940s). Following Leach's return from an 18 month visit in Japan and the break-up of his first marriage in 1935, she and Leach lived together in Ditchling, Sussex. She became his second wife in 1944.
Sarah Cooling is a ceramicist who works from Krowji Studios, Redruth.
A painter, illustrator and medical practitioner who was born in Bristol. He was self-taught as an artist, though he was helped and encouraged by the wildlife artist Robert Gillmor. Coombs studied at Clifton College and Cambridge University and was a Bachelor of Civil Law.
While in general practice in Truro for 40 years, Coombs was heavily involved in ornithological research. He was a co-founder of the Society of Wildlife Artists. His work is held by the Peter Scott Gallery, and the Ulster Museum in Belfast.
John Franklin Coombs died in Truro.
David Cooper was born in the fishing village of Filey in east Yorkshire. He is a self-taught artist, based in Falmouth.
His work is heavily influenced by the Surrealists.
Gail Cooper is a ceramicist who works from a garden studio in Trevaunance, St Agnes. She uses St Agnes clay produced less than a mile away from her home. Her work is reminiscent of Cornwall's mining heritage.
Enid Cooper was born in Manchester, the daughter of the artist George Gordon Byron COOPER and his wife Julia. Trained by her father, she exhibited A Cornish Headland at the RA in 1918. The family address was in Bowdon, Cheshire.
In 1892, Rose Cooper donated a painting (as did her sister Mrs Emily Latham GREENFIELD) to the fund for restoring the organ in St Johns-in-the-Fields, the Anglican church at Halsetown, near St Ives.
The 1901 Census lists as an artist/painter the 60 year old sister of the head of household (Mrs) Emily GREENFIELD, living in Bellair Terrace, and from Brighton. Tovey also references her as a painter who took part in the social entertainments provided by the artists. Photographs of Rose Cooper in theatrical costume are reproduced in his book 'St Ives : A Social History', and she is listed in subsequent masquerades.
The artist was trained at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and in London, and spent most of his life in the south Manchester and Bowden areas. In Paris he studied with Jules Breton and Carolus Duran, and Grange Fell was given place of honour at the 1889 Paris Salon. He married Julia, and they had one daughter, Enid COOPER.
At the retrospective Altrincham Art Exhibition, over fifty of his oils and watercolours were exhibited, and the following comment appeared in the programme: 'It is difficult to single out individual works for mention, but Moonlight, Kynance Bay, Cornwall; Evening, Carbis Bay, Cornwall, and Peace, a translucent rendering of a moonlit sea, are uncommonly attractive and carefully executed.'
His list of Cornish titles was quite extensive, and most were first exhibited and sold between 1897-99. He also painted a series of landscapes associated with the poet Tennyson. His associations and favoured painting places locally were at the Lizard, Kynance and Carbis Bay.
The Canterbury-born artist was an RA student from 1824, and further studied at the BM. After teaching in Canterbury he travelled to France, Holland and Belgium, where he was much influenced by the Belgian animal painter Verboeckhoven, and the 17th Century Dutch school.
Though amongst the sketching grounds mentioned in Mallalieu, Cornwall was not listed (Devon the nearest); Bednar has noted paintings of Penzance and Land's End at the RA (1891). One of his oil paintings, Three Cows and a Bull (1879) is in the fine art collection of the RCM, Truro.
Wood describes his landmark series Landscape and Cattle at the RA (beginning 1833), with 266 exhibits in all shown until 1902 without a break - a 'record for continuous exhibiting at the Academy'.
He returned to live near Canterbury from 1860, but travelled extensively on working visits, and due to the popularity of his work repetitions and fakes of his pictures abound.
'Familiar domestic objects have always been central in my paintings, as has the spectacular landscape of West Cornwall'. This is the opening statement on the invitation card for Jessica's exhibition of New Paintings at the Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, with whom she has been exhibiting regularly for a number of years.
Jessica was born in Bristol but the family moved to Cornwall when she was an infant and she was brought up in the small Penwith hamlet of Trevowhan. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls, Truro School before her art studies began with a Foundation course at Falmouth School of Art, and then continued at Goldsmiths College of Art, London. There she completed a degree in Fine Art and Textiles followed up with wide-ranging travel in Europe and the USA. She then returned to Cornwall where she presented her first solo exhibition at the Bread Street Gallery, Penzance, progressing through the years to exhibit both nationally and locally in mixed and solo shows. She is a member of the NSA and also of the Penwith Society. She has served for a number of years on the Council of Management of NAG/The Exchange, Penzance.
In 2007, Jess published a boxed set (limited edition of 500) of her images, ranging from paintings to photography, which provided a good opportunity to view the general scope of her work. Selected that same year for inclusion in the Tate St Ives exhibition, Art Now Cornwall, she was described as creating 'strong, almost sculptural sense of design, reminiscent particularly of William SCOTT with whom she shares an affinity for line and categorisation'.
Sarah Stoten of the Stour Gallery who regularly exhibits Cooper's paintings comments: 'She paints with the same lean economy that underpins the environment of Cornwall's Penwith peninsula. Nothing is redundant, and she knows when just the suggestion is sufficient.'
Jessica maintains her present studio in the complex belonging to the Newlyn School of Art where she also teaches (2012).
A self-taught artist, Dave Cooper uses acrylic as watercolour on highly textured paper.
Gillian Cooper was born in London and studied at the Camberwell School of Art, before doing a BA at Bristol and an MA at Cardiff. Since then she has worked and exhibited widely, having been in residencies in Germany, Belgium and Serbia. In 2005 she became a new member of the NSA, having been active in artist-led exhibitions (PALP) and other shows in Cornwall since 2001.
Cooper now (2010) works from an artist's studio at Trewidden Gardens, Buryas Bridge, west of Penzance. Her semi-abstract paintings, drawings and limited-edition prints illustrate transitional moments and metamorphosis in landscape. See www.nsanewlyn.com for further details. She also offers workshops to individuals and groups in a range of art subjects. See www.outofplace.org.uk and www.keap.org.uk in reference to workshop opportunities.
Cooper's figurative and abstract paintings express the ever-changing mood of the sea, from the vantage point of her studio overlooking Fowey harbour. Surfaces are washed with colour then scored, scraped back or obliterated to create an interesting narrative which allows her to explore colour and rhythm. After obtaining a Fine Art Diploma with Distinction and Interior Design Diploma she worked with the National Trust in Cornwall on their holiday refurbishment projects.
Currently she is represented by the Webb Street Company in Fowey and the Gribbin Gallery in Polkerris, and also exhibits with the National Trust.
Her latest exhibition, 'Lost Horizons', is showing at David Simon Contemporary Gallery in Bath, from 10 October to 7 November 2015.
Lisa Cooper was born in Norwich and attended Norwich School of Art. She subsequently spent several years studying and travelling before settling in London to work as a journalist. Moving to Cornwall in 2003, she returned to painting. Her work has been exhibited at the Camelford Gallery, Rock Institute, Bude Castle, Padstow Memorial Hall, and the Crypt in St Ives. She is based in Nanstallon, near Bodmin.
She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Julie D Cooper works from her studio in St Ives. She was a student at Central St Martins College of Art in London. Her work has been widely exhibited in Cornwall and beyond.
Clare Cooper graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in History of Art and Painting in 2024, before relocating to Cornwall.
Born in London, Copas is one of three brothers who all became painters. He studied drawing at Epsom School of Art and etching at the Royal West of England Academy.
Adopting his mother's maiden name with the intention of avoiding confusion with his brothers (Holt by surname), he departed London for Cornwall and worked for many years as a boatman for the St Levan family of St Michael's Mount. He exhibited regularly both in Newlyn and St Ives.
His subject matter is immensely varied, some from his experience with the sea and boats, and also from sketching visits to Spain, Greece and from literature. He has been commissioned to produce large mural - paintings for such as the headquarters of the Wildfowl Trust at Arundel, and a large Shakespearian painting to travel with the Shakespeare Company Art Collection.
Educated in his native Ryde on the Isle of Wight and Finsbury Park College, London, the artist lived and worked with his wife and fellow-artist Phil Whiting (nee Butchart) in Liverpool. Whybrow notices this couple in St Ives in her artists' colony list of 1911-20. Nothing further has been found as yet related to Cornwall.
Whybrow notices the presence of the Theresa Norah Copnall (nee Butchart), and her husband Frank T COPNALL in St Ives sometime during the decade 1911-1920, and implies that Theresa was furthering her studies there (but no detail is given). She initially studied at Slade, Herkomer and in Brussels.
A New Yorker and painter-member of STISA (1932-1933), the artist focused on coastal and marine subjects. Her address by 1934 was in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she painted landscapes.