Hannah Davies is based at St Minver, near Wadebridge. She was born in Cambridge, and moved to Cornwall to study for a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art, graduating in 2002.
Linda Davies lives in St Issey, near Wadebridge. In 2016 she completed an MA in Fine Art at Gloucester University.
Patricia Davies works from a studio at her home in Lynstone, Bude. She runs classes and workshops, and takes pet portrait commissions.
He was born on 27 November 1866, in Leicester and subsequently died there on 13 July 1912, age 45 (GRO).
In 1893 he exhibited two paintings - Street in Newlyn, Cornwall and Stormy Weather - at Suffolk Street (RBA) . Nothing is known to date about the time he spent in Cornwall.
Australian-born (Ballarat) and educated in France, the artist studied art in Melbourne and at Julian's Academie, Paris where he stayed for fourteen months in 1893.
According to James MacDonald who wrote a book about Davies, he spent eight months in 1901 working with the artist who was then living at Lelant, 'a leafy little village at the extreme head of St Ives Bay and across the narrow strip of water from the little town of Hayle. At this point the land rises abruptly from the sea, and for as far as St Ives itself (to which it sweeps without a break except for Carbis Bay) is varied and picturesque.'
While in St Ives, Davies served on the Hanging Committee for Lanham's Gallery, and exhibited with the Cornish artists at the Whitechapel Exhibition in London [Exhibition catalogue repr in Hardie (2009)].
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of the University College Falmouth (UCF).
The artist exhibited two St Ives paintings with the Cornish painters at Dowdeswells [Exhibition catalogue reproduced in Hardie (2009)]. There are at least four possible artists listed with this initial C; this is probably Charles DAVIS (fl 1891 Wood), also noticed at the time by Tovey in his social history study of artists associated with St Ives.
Diana Davis has a diploma in Botanical Illustration. She lives on the Lizard peninsula.
She is a member of a collective called 'Owrek', meaning 'gold' in Cornish - a group which was formed upon their graduation from Cornwall College.
Artist potter with Leach (1933-37), who joined the Leach Pottery in 1933 and supervised it with Laurie COOKES (Leach's second wife) whilst Bernard LEACH was in Japan and his son David LEACH in Stoke on Trent learning the business.
In 1937 he married May SCOTT, who had come to work at the Pottery after being a paying pupil with Muriel BELL at Malvern. The two of them worked hard to keep the Pottery financially viable at a difficult time in its history. They then went to Africa that year, returning after WWII to set up the Crowan Pottery in Praze (1946), and later moved to New Zealand (1962) where they created the Crewenna Pottery; between 1972-79, they spent time in the Peruvian Andes teaching new pottery techniques. His life with May is recounted in greater detail in her biography (published in 1990) entitled May Davis Her Story.
Artist potter with Leach 1936-37, May Scott was born in 1914 and worked at the Leach pottery from 1936-37.
In 1937 she and her husband Harry DAVIS went to teach at Achimoto College in Ghana, with Harry as Head of the Art School. After the war and back in West Cornwall, they set up the Crowan Pottery in an old watermill they converted to generate the electricity to run the pottery.
In 1962 they moved to New Zealand and established the Crewenna Pottery in Nelson. In 1972 they went to Izcuchaca in Peru, returning to Nelson in 1979. Harry died in 1986 and May in 1995.
Harry and May Davis produced aesthetically pleasing pots, using a variety of decorative techniques including wax resist, and favoured mainly Celadon and Tenmoku glazes. May wrote the story of their work and family life together, and published this from the Crewenna Pottery, calling it May Davis Her Story.
A colourist who learned to paint in St Ives and settled there in the 1980s.
Rose Davis' work has been exhibited at the Rainyday Gallery, Penzance.
She was represented by Michael Wood Fine Art in Plymouth from 2010 until her death in 2019. This gallery still (2023) holds many of her works in stock.
Based in Lamorna, Davis is inspired by his surroundings, producing mainly landscapes and seascapes.
From his catalogue entry for his 70th birthday exhibition at the Belgrave Gallery (1995)
'Influence of Cornwall I first came to Cornwall in the summer of 1946, staying at Gwithian Towans for several months. I spent three months at St Keverne in early 1947 and lived in Penwith for 18 months from late 1949 to 1951, mainly at Gwithian but also at St Ives. From 1952 I spent several weeks in Cornwall almost every year until 1992 when I came to live here permanently, first at Cockwells and then at Penzance. Cornwall has always had a considerable influence on my development as a painter predominantly through its landscape, its rocky coastline, and the way in which the light plays on the sea...Since living permanently in Cornwall, the influence has been correspondingly greater and my work has found a new impetus as well as a new direction.'
Robin's education was at Bournemouth Grammar School and St Catherine's College, Oxford. He had several solo shows in London when his early work was admittedly abstract expressionist. After a dry period in which he trained as a psychologist, psychotherapist and group analyst, he began again in 1979 to make work, first in wood collages and then as a painter, still abstract in nature but with a much greater textural and disrupted finish/surface.
His final home was in Penzance.
Initially a ceramicist, Sue Davis has turned to painting and mixed media. She has a studio opposite the Greenbank Hotel in Falmouth.
Jack Davis is an artist and tutor for the Expressive Landscape course at Newlyn School of Art (2017).
F G Davis has exhibited in St Ives for over forty years. He is based in Devon, spending time also in France.
His work, described as contemporary abstract, has been widely exhibited in Cornwall, Devon and London in group and solo shows, as well as in France and Australia.
Davison was a Cambridge graduate, who began his creative life as a poet. In the mid-1940s he was invited to St Ives by Patrick HERON, and decided there that art would pull him forward to life as an artist. At first this was drawing and painting and this work was abstract in the modernist tradition, simple and beautiful in both colour and structure. His brief first marriage had broken up prior to coming to Cornwall and here he met his second wife, Margaret MELLIS, whose marriage to Adrian STOKES the writer, was also coming apart. The two married and on honeymoon went to Venice, where they both used the opportunity to paint. Soon after they moved to the south of France (Cap d'Antibes), and then upon return to Britain they moved to Suffolk where they would spend the rest of their lives, though exhibiting elsewhere.
From 1952 Davison's art became that of collagist, and he never returned to painting. His skill with torn paper and colours juxtaposed on one another is acknowledged as supreme of its kind. There is much on the internet about his skill and promise, though to this day he remains undiscovered as the major talent that he is considered. The Goldmark videos on YouTube, are excellent and instructive of his unfettered vision.
Brought up in an artistic family, Harry Davy expressed his creativity from an early age. After obtaining a degree in Physiological Sciences from Oxford University, he gained a PGCE specialising in Expressive Arts and taught for several years. Later on he worked in interior design before turning his attention more fully to his visual art practice. He is particularly interested in the juxtaposition of the natural world and the built environment.
Davy now lives and works in Cornwall.
Leonid Davydenko is a Ukrainian painter, currently living in Cornwall.
Dawson studied at Shipley School of Art and at the Forbes School. He was later Headmaster of Bingley, Nelson and Accrington Schools of Art, and lived in Accrington, Lancashire.
From an address in London (1889-91), the artist exhibited three paintings at the RBA. Although she is mentioned in Whybrow's 1883-1900 list of artists in and around St Ives, nothing further is currently known about her.
Bob Dawson's sculptures have been inspired by environmental and maritime issues taken from studies of the South West coast line. Available in bronze and ceramic, they are extremely tactile and rich in surface texture. These abstract works combine natural and manmade forms. They are ideally suited to alfresco and corporate gardens, or in open office space. Clients can choose from small runs of limited edition or by private commission.
'I draw inspiration for my work from the marine and coastal areas of the South West. Observing the sea in all weathers, sketching wave motion, capturing by interpretation the constantly moving forces that shape and reshape our coastline. Weathered rock formations and rugged surface textures provide a rich vein of inspiration driving my creative energies. A lifelong interest in the human form is an ever-present passion. It forms the structure of my sculptures,sometimes hidden, yet manifesting itself in surrealist.'
Natalie Day is an abstract landscape painter who uses natural materials to tell a story of the land. She describes herself as a 'natural world artist'.
In 1994 she completed a foundation course at Falmouth University but life events did not allow her to pursue her passion for art until 2018, when she started building her artistic career alongside her health professional role as a chiropractor. Returning to her roots in Cornwall, she then completed two years of study with Newlyn Art School.
She is now (2023) a guest tutor at the St Ives School of Painting, School of Outdoor Art, and runs her own art classes in Bude.
In 2023 she joined Prime Women Artists, a supportive and creative network for women artists of all disciplines in Cornwall.
Kate Reeve-Edwards has said of her work: "Natalie’s work explores the nature of home. Having grown-up in Cornwall, it investigates her personal relationship with the county and the history of the land. Her process begins in the earth, routing in geology to fathom and forage natural pigments such as red clay and yellow ochre. Out of this communion with soil she builds reimaginings of the landscape, constructing and understanding her place within it. "