Suzie Cumming is based in Hayle.
She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Nell was the daughter of Edward Ryan Tenison, a doctor who had been a naval surgeon. With no support from her family, she studied at Cope's School before working as an illustrator. She funded her own further training at Colarossi's Academy in Paris, where she won a medal for drawing, and at the Whistler School.
It was at the Whistler she met the Italian-American Cyrus CUNEO (later ROI), marrying him in 1903. Both she and Cyrus worked as illustrators in London, Nell contributing to a variety of periodicals including The Girl's Own Annual, The Girls' Realm, The Ladies' Realm, Woman at Home, Black and White, among others, and illustrating books such as A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil. She worked under both her maiden and married names.
Cyrus tragically died of blood poisoning in 1916 and this affected Nell greatly. She first moved to Dartmoor, then Cornwall, living first at Halsetown and then in St Ives. She bought Down-along House, which she restored, and it became The Copper Kettle (cafe). After 1930 her visits to St Ives became less frequent.
Nell's son Terence CUNEO inherited his mother's talent, attaining great fame as a painter.
'Terry', as his mother called him in her RA portrait (1913), was the son of Cyrus CUNEO ROI and Nell Marion CUNEO (nee Tenison), and born in Shepherd's Bush, London. He showed artistic talent within an artistic family from an early age. Initially tutored by his mother, he began formal training at Chelsea Polytechnic (1924- 27) under Percy Jowett, who considered him singularly unpromising as an artist; later in life he attributed the greatest influence upon his work to his father.
His work is first mentioned in Cornwall when he exhibited linocuts at STISA in 1925. He was most active as an illustrator in the 1930s, his first successes being commissions from Chums, followed by Boy's Own, The Magnet, Christian Herald, and Wide World Magazine, Strand and especially the Illustrated London News. In 1931 he joined the London Sketch Club and by 1938 STISA, by which time he was writing and illustrating his own stories. He was the official artist for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
He is now hailed as the greatest railway painter of the twentieth century, and known for his paintings of historic groups, battles and parades. At the RCM, Truro, is a collection of six of his oil paintings focussing on the industrial history of Cornwall.
Cunningham is a sculptor, working primarily in stoneware, to create ceramic sculptures mostly of animal forms in various sizes for interior and exterior spaces. She works from Trevelloe Farm, Trevelloe, Lamorna.
She exhibits with the Lamorna Valley Group.
Born in Bristol, the son of the portrait and genre painter James CURNOCK (1812-1870).
It is not known where Curnock junior worked in Cornwall, but Cornish titles appear in his prolific exhibition record which also features numerous Welsh views. He was reviewed favourably by Ruskin, and mentioned in the Academy Notes of 1875.
A member of the Industrial Class NAMI, John Curnow also studied at the Penzance School of Art. A metalworker, he was apprenticed as a mould-maker at Holman's Dock for a time, but later joined the police force. He was the uncle of John LAITY.
Tim Currant is a painter based in Millbrook, east Cornwall. His figurative drawings are expressions of somatic energy.
After many years, his drawing hand was 're-ignited' while living in Spain. This began his exploration into the human figure, a journey he describes as 'never-ending'.
A pupil at the Simpson School of Painting in St Ives, the artist exhibited a view, Hayle Estuary, at the March Show Day in 1924.
The artist was born in Newcastle under Lyne, Staffordshire, the son of an Irish builder and railway contractor, who was also described as a stonemason. Encouraged by the novelist Arnold Bennett, he studied at Newcastle and Hanley School of Art where he won a National Scholarship and British Institution Scholarship.
He worked as a ceramic artist, painting figure subjects on porcelain in Boullemeir style. He became the Master of Life Painting at Bristol, married in 1907, and moved to London. He is said to have had some success but gave up the post, and in 1910 studied at the Slade, becoming a friend of Mark GERTLER and Phil Whiting.
In 1911 he left his wife and moved to Newlyn in 1912, from which he exhibited at the NEAC, becoming a member in 1914. Meantime he set up home with Laura KNIGHT's model, Dolly Henry (painted by her in a picture later bought by Lord Leverhulme, entitled Mallows). An account of the unhappy relationship ending in the murder in 1914 of Dolly Henry by his hand, and his subsequent suicide, is elliptically summarised by Laura Knight in Oil Paint & Grease Paint. A romanticised account of the event appears in Gilbert Cannon's novel Mendel (1916).
Curtis was born in Birmingham. Having studied at Birmingham College of Art during the 1960s, he taught art and ceramics in Oxfordshire before moving to Cornwall to paint full time. He prefers to work en plein air - a technique ideally suited to subjects such as the beaches, harbours and landscapes of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. His work is held in collections throughout the world.
Una d'Aragona obtained a BA in Fine Art from University College Falmouth in 2009. She was one of five exhibitors in the 'Silent Signals' exhibition at the Crypt Gallery, St Ives (Dec 2010).
She works from Krowji studios, Redruth, creating colour saturated abstract layered paintings.
Born in Co Waterford, Ireland, the artist is known to have studied at the Penzance School of Art and Heatherleys, and to have exhibited at the RCPS at Falmouth in 1889-90. In private ownership are a number of her watercolours, inserted into large notebooks, depicting European cityscapes. More recently, three of her works of Australia have been listed on the Australian Arts Sales Digest as sold.
From about 1902 she came to went to live in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, and married William Meredith. In 1927 she moved to Burton on Trent, subsequently living in Keynsham with her daughter and son-in-law, where she died in 1932.
Sophie was well-travelled on the continent and elsewhere, and was particularly well known for her landscapes of Belgium, Italy, and interiors of Cathedrals. One of her paintings is of Truro Cathedral, and belongs to the collection there.
She was commissioned to paint a miniature landscape, as several of the Cornish artists were, for ‘a famous Dolls’ House’ (Queen Mary's Dolls House).
Artist who flourished in 1889; records at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in California reveal two Cornwall titles. He is identified as English and artistically active in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Da Costa's full name was John Henry Alphonse Frederick Francis Da Costa. He was born at Teignmouth, Devon (28 December 1866 GRO), and listed as a Newlyn resident in the 1891 Census as living at Cliff Castle Cottage in Belle Vue (1896), the address from which he sent-in to the RA and Manchester. This was the house of Henry and Elizabeth Maddern, where many artists lodged before.
With him in 1891 are recorded Mary Josephine Da Costa, a widow (possibly mother) from Metz, Germany, and Oscar M J Da Costa of the 21st Hussars from St Helier, Jersey. John is listed as a Fine Arts Student from Teignmouth, Devon. He exhibited with the Cornish painters at Dowdeswells in 1890, with Beg, Sir and with A Pastoral at Nottingham Castle in 1894. His sales record at NAG is sparse, showing the sale of only one work, A Study. [All of these catalogues are reprinted in Hardie (2009).]
By 1897 Da Costa is mentioned by Norman GARSTIN in his article in the Studio 'as being no longer among us' and bemoaning the fact. From Newlyn he moved to London, later to Oxfordshire, and then to various addresses in Kensington and Chelsea. By 1904 he was running his own art school classes in Kensington, London (Studio), with the help of his Newlyn friend Phil Whiting. The artist died in London on 26 May, 1931, age 64 (GRO).
Her married name was Mrs CA Gayer PHIPPS (under which she sometimes exhibited). Born in Warrington, Cheshire, she studied at Manchester School of Art and with Stanhope FORBES at Newlyn.
She also lived in London, India, Australia and Dartmouth, and exhibited widely.
Mark Dale spent his childhood on a farm near Helston. After attending a course in illustration at Redruth School of Art, he obtained a BA (Hons) in Art & Communication at Cornwall College. He then enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist in Derbyshire, returning to Cornwall after taking early retirement.
The artist was an active seller at NAG exhibitions. In 1896 she exhibited and sold Carnations in the Sketch Exhibition (Sixth), and Sweet Sultans and Carnations in 1897. In 1900 she sold Homeward Bound and a Sketch. Other purchased titles include Polperro (1901), Street in St Keverne (1902), Foggy Morning (1903) and Lands End (1903). The standard reference books do not list her name.
Resident in Cornwall in 1921, as his portrait of Arthur MEADE (featured on Show Day in that year) reveals, he did not exhibit with STISA until 1929. His studio, close to the old lifeboat station, is featured in Francis John ROSKRUGE's Map of the Studios for Show Day 1929. His name does not appear in standard reference books. No further information is currently available.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth.
Richard Dalkins' first oil paintings, done while a teenager on the Isles of Scilly, were included in an art exhibition at his home town of Preston. This early promise prompted him to enrol at Preston's Harris School of Art, where he studied graphic design from 1961-1965. Subsequently he undertook a postgraduate course at St Martins' School of Art in printmaking and painting. A year's teaching was followed by a career as an illustrator in London, where he created book and album covers. His work has involved him in programmes commissioned by BBC TV.
Since 2006 Richard and his wife Vivienne have lived in St Ives, where his studio is open by appointment. His figurative paintings employ a permanent red earth iron oxide watercolour.
He is a regular exhibitor at STISA open exhibitions.
Dalton was a boat designer and builder, with a definite talent for the painting in watercolour of boats and marine subjects. Born in Plymouth in the early years (c1910-15) of the 20th century, he was the son of a builder and the grandson of a portrait painter on ships. Percy was a student at Plymouth School of Art, and though he must have showed talent (offered support to study in Rome) he went to sea instead, taking a variety of jobs, and crewing racing yachts for wealthy clients in the 1930s.
In WWII, he was comissioned a sub-lieutenant and worked on gun sights and torpedoes back in Plymouth, at the Devonport Dockyards. Following the war, he moved with his wife Beatrice and children to Falmouth, Cornwall where he remained for the rest of his life. His commissions for boat designs were many, and some of these may be found in local marine collections. His watercolours were also numerous, and some can be seen on the website that gives his biographical details: www.parishtram.co.uk/percydalton.htm.
Born in Bristol, Dalwood is described by his biographer in the ODNB: 'Widely known as Nibs, Dalwood was one of the most charismatic, talented, and innovative British sculptors of his generation.'
In an interview with the artist Yan Kel FEATHER, for the Western Morning News, the interviewer was told about the art scene of c1947 in St Ives: 'everyone was scraping a living, before reputations were made, when the critic David LEWIS was working as a short order cook in a cafe on the waterfront, sculptor Hubert Dalwood was making toast at Tregenna Castle and Terry FROST was waiting on tables in St. Christopher's.'
This tidbit is the only mention that we have as yet concerning Dalwood in Cornwall, though by entering the pioneering Bath Academy of Arts at Corsham Court, Wiltshire (where he studied between 1946-49) he would have come across many artists that were either from Cornwall or would in future make their homes in Cornwall's artist conclaves. It may well be that he came to Cornwall during college breaks to work at summer jobs.
The year before he joined STISA he exhibited at the RA (at that time resident in Warwick Square, London).
Among his works is the locally titled Farm at Zennor. By 1938 he was living in Bexley, Kent, but was hospitalised shortly afterwards. Dalzell was a landscape painter, his work described as modern, virile and bright.
Anne Damarell's work has been shown at the Ebenezer Gallery, home of the East Cornwall Society of Artists. She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.