Doria exhibited a painting with a Cornish title, in the Second Exhibition of Works by Plymouth Society of Artists at the City of Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery in September of 1945.
Painter Paul Dougherty was born in Brooklyn, New York. Like his father, he trained as a lawyer, and although he passed the New York Bar Exam in 1898 he never practiced, choosing art as a career. He trained at the Art Students League in New York City, and continued his studies in London, Paris, Munich, Florence and Venice. Dougherty returned to the States in 1905, and two years later was elected to the National Academy of Design.
He is mentioned as a former St Ives resident in a Pittsburg exhibition letter of 1912, when he exhibited The Island at the Carnegie Institute Annual Exhibition. For this painting he was awarded the Second prize of $1000.
Seeking a milder climate, Dougherty moved to Carmel and Palm Springs in 1931. Dividing his time between the two homes, Dougherty continued painting marines and rugged coastal scenes that had made him a famous artist on the east coast.
The St Ives Times reported that he returned to the town from Switzerland, where he had been with Mr William LLOYD, Secretary of the Art Club: 'Messrs Paul Dougherty, Elmer SCHOFIELD and Gardner SYMONS are a trio of front-rank American artists who have at different times lived and worked in St Ives. Mr Dougherty devoted himself chiefly to sea-scapes and rhythmic movements of breaking waves on the coast. We are pleased to welcome him, who with all the world to choose from, crosses the Atlantic year after year to find his motifs on our Cornish coasts.'
Please see biographical comments for Parke Custis DOUGHERTY (b Philadelphia) also: these are probably separate artists, but some confusion is possible.
Philadelphia-born (US) painter of genre, landscape and marine subjects, and portraits in oils. He studied at Académie Julian, and he was resident in Paris from 1906-9.
His association with Cornwall is with the artists of St Ives, and Tovey notes his visits, referring to him as Paul (from 1908 until 1914, though not thereafter, even though he remained a ratepayer for some years).
Johnson & Greutzner lists two artists who may qualify as this person; one is Paul DOUGHERTY who exhibited in 1925 at the Chenil Gallery, and the second is Parke CURTIS, who is identified as being an American. The query remains as to whether or not this is one person or two separate artists; further information is thus required.
Douglas was born in Norfolk, and came to St Ives in about 1890, exhibiting first with the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in 1896. In 1897 he married fellow artist Mabel BUCKNALL, and the couple worked from Skidden Hill Studios. Though originally a marine and landscape painter, he is probably best known for his photographic work (used to illustrate three books by Folliott STOKES published between 1908 and 1912).
He was a signatory of the Glanville letter [repr Tovey (2009)] sent in November 1898 to the St Ives Council expressing artists' concerns about insensitive plans for development in the town.
The first mention of the artist in St Ives was in 1895, when on STISA Show Day she exhibited a portrait Grief under her maiden name of Bucknall. Together with her husband John Christian William DOUGLAS, she lived at 10 Park Avenue, St Ives, both of the artists working from the Skidden Hill Studios. Three of her portrait miniatures were exhibited in March 1909 in St Ives: Miss Chadwick; Miss Kitty Hain and Miss Fourdrinier. She also painted still life scenes in oil and watercolour.
[Marriage: 9 Feb 1897 by Banns of John Christian Douglas (37) bachelor Artist of Tregenna Place (Father: John Douglas, EJCG Officer) to Mabel Maud Bucknall (34) spinster of Talland Road (Father: Samuel George Bucknall, Gentleman).]
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth (UCF).
Lyn Douglass lives in Saltash and exhibits with Drawn to the Valley.
Sue Dove teaches art at a number of further education colleges in Cornwall.
In 1976 Dove moved to Zennor, Cornwall, where he took rooms in The Old Poor House owned by Patrick HERON. Also living there at the time in the final two years of her life, was the impressionist painter, Alethea GARSTIN, the daughter of the famed artist and teacher, Norman GARSTIN of the Newlyn school. Taking tea with Alethea became a Friday afternoon treat for Steve.
In 1980 he moved into St Ives nearby and has been a much valued teacher of figure and landscape painting at the St Ives School of Painting and also at the Richard Lander School, Truro, while also exhibiting his work regularly in mixed and solo shows.
His studies in art had been undertaken at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry and Hull College of Art, followed by an Art teacher's diploma at Birmingham Polytechnic.
In 1980 he received a South West Arts Award, and a large exhibition of his work was shown at the Plymouth Art Centre. In Cornwall he showed with frequency at the Salt House Gallery, St Ives, Penwith Galleries and other venues. He joined with the group that formed the Porthmeor Printmakers in 1990, from which much support has been given to educational ventures in the Penwith and Tate Galleries.
Dove works from the Porthmeor Studios, St Ives (2011), which have been in process of renovation this year. Some of these studios will be ready for re-opening for OPEN STUDIOS Cornwall (28 May-5 June 2011).
Having studied art previously, Florence met and married Mr Pilcher in India in 1882. He died after she had returned to Scotland to have their second child, and she then married her second husband,Thomas Millie DOW, in Scotland.
In 1889 the couple came to Cornwall where they first stayed at the Tregenna Castle Hotel before making their home in Talland House, St Ives six years later. They made frequent painting trips to Italy thereafter.
Florence's grandson was married to the novelist Rosamunde Pilcher, the author of The Shell Seekers, which is based in St Ives.
Dow was born in Fifeshire, and studied at Carolus-Duran, Paris. On his return to Scotland he became associated with the Glasgow school of painters. During the early 1880s he spent many summers at Grez sur Loing in France with the colony of British and American painters congregated there. In 1884 he travelled to America to paint with his friend A H Thayer, after which he settled back in Glasgow, exhibiting often and widely. Whilst in Scotland he became the second husband of Florence Ellen (formerly Pilcher).
He visited St Ives with his family in 1889 and moved there six years later, having bought the lease to Talland House from Leslie Stephen in 1895. After visiting St Ives, he exhibited with the St Ives Artists in the Dowdeswell show of 1890, with the title On the Sands at Lelant, Cornwall. He was a Glanville letter signatory (Nov 1898), and became a member of the NEAC.
Jacob Down is an artist, architect and designer based at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives. In 2017 he created Skyscribbles, which visualises the complex flight paths of seagulls and other birds in the skies above St Ives. He uses a technique which he developed while a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His work also featured in the music video, Carousel, by A Blaze of Feather.
Jack was born 8 april 1859 (GRO), the son of a Falmouth corn merchant who conducted business and lived in Bank House, Grove Place in the 1880s. Jack became a close friend of Henry Scott TUKE; of a similar age, Tuke wrote in June 1885 'I find Downing much the most energetic and therefore congenial companion here', and helped him with his amateur painting. They were friendly all of Tuke's life.
Jack eventually took over the family business, married, and had one daughter. In the RCPS Exhibition of 1894 he exhibited three paintings. His titles include Sailing ships at Falmouth, A fishing vessel and Cornish lugger entering a port. A Newlyn title in 1895 was recorded by Bednar for this artist. Downing died at Falmouth on 3 April, 1932, aged 73 (GRO).
Paula's early years were spent in south-east England. Having studied Fine Art and Ceramics at college, she began a long teaching career in London, Sussex, Australia, Kent and Hampshire. During these years she continued to practise ceramics, mainly hand building with clay.
The inspiration for her work has always been the landscape, seascape and ancient history of west Penwith. She is based in Perranarworthal, near Truro.
Jo Downs obtained a BA (Hons) in Design (glass and ceramics) from the University of Sunderland in 1994. One of the world's most respected fused glass designers, she creates artworks of great individuality and depth. In 2001 she moved to Cornwall, setting up a studio in Launceston. She now has galleries in Padstow, St Ives and Fowey as well. She has carried out commissions for cruise liners, churches, hotels and corporate headquarters, as well as many projects for private clients.
Born in Norfolk, the artist died in Valence, 1914 (Bednar, NPC). In 1883 he had exhibited a Newlyn title.
One of the art masters who met with the young Brian HATTON in Cornwall in 1903. Hatton arrived in St Ives hoping to gain critiques for his work from some of the prominent artists of the area, and after some little time and a visit to Dowson's studio, that he managed with the help of John Ward GIRLESTON (aka Girdlestone), a pupil of Albert Julius OLSSON, that he was able to make some useful contacts. Hatton made sketches of some of the artists he met, and Tovey includes these in his social history of the St Ives artists' colony (p258 includes one of Dowson).
Prior to this, Dowson lived in Windsor (1894 until at least 1896) and also in London (1902) before returning to Eton. His addresses for sending-in work are recorded as London (1880 and 1901) and Eton, Bucks (1881). This presents a rather confusing picture but may simply mean that he maintained homes and/or studios for a spell before moving back. In 1903, in Hatton's diary Dowson is called "a nice old boy." He exhibited extensively, primarily at the Fine Art Society but liberally elsewhere, and travelled widely on the Continent.
The acting craft is a different kind of exhibition of talent. The best study of the merry band of Newlyn actors, musicians and self-promoted playwrights is by Pamela Lomax, and appears as Chapter 14 in the Treasures of the Morrab Library, brought together by the researchers of the Penwith Local History Group (Penzance: Morrab Library; copies are available direct from the Library).
Cross shows a photograph under the title: ‘Theatricals. The Newlyn Players’, and also recounts some unfriendly local news coverage in the Cornishman (1887). Many of the artists took part as actors and orchestral players.
The WCAA has the benefit of two scrapbooks and a photographic record of the players and many of their costumes.
Artist who used the Porthmeor Loft Studio, St Ives, to paint an enormous panel for the great Livery Hall of the Drapers' Company in London (1903). By that time, he had already received a Gold Medal from the RA together with a travelling fellowship, and his painting The Lament for Icarus had been purchased by the Chantrey Bequest.
At the RCM, Truro, his painting, The Sea Maiden (1894) is part of the fine art collection.
A sketchbook left in a legacy collection to the WCAA by artist Jane AKEROYD is by the theatrical arts tutor (voice) Frank Drew, and contains accomplished charcoals and drawings of Holland (Delft), Sennen Cove, rock formations near St Ives, St Michael's Mount (pen and ink, complete), and other partially constructed scenes. It is clear that this artist was an excellent draughtsman and illustrator. Another item in Jane's studio remains was an architectural drawing of Morley College, Lambeth, and has been presented to the College in memory of one of their former lecturers. He also taught at the Rose Bruford School of Theatre Arts.
On an inserted postcard to Jane and her mother, living then at Bakewell, Derbyshire (April, 1967) Drew writes of the oil spill (Torrey Canyon disaster) which had not yet arrived at Penzance, but was 'very bad at my beloved Sennen Cove, where I had my cottage.' The postcard was sent from Penzance with the scene being of Mousehole, Cornwall, 'From an original drawing by Frank Drew'.
Further information needed.
Alfred Douglas Drew was born in Penzance. He served with the Parachute Regiment during the Second World War and was based in India until 1947. Subsequently he joined the Merchant Navy, working for the British Tanker Company during the 1950s and 60s. After returning to live in Penzance, he took up painting. Entirely self-taught, he opened his New Street studio in the early 1970s, selling his work and teaching art students for the next 15 years. His seascapes and landscapes sold throughout the UK and beyond. Every summer for many years his work was exhibited at Penlee House Gallery. Drew did not belong to any art groups or societies, preferring to be independent.
Agnes was the sister of the art and theatre critic Oscar Raymond Drey who married the artist Anne Estelle RICE. She was a great friend of Eleanor Emily RICE with whom she lived. She studied with Frances HODGKINS, who painted her portrait, and was said by Patrick HERON to have been a significant influence upon her work.
Among works produced were still lifes and portraits. Her first exhibit for STISA was Show Day 1934 at the Back Road West Studios with Job NIXON and his wife, which may indicate she was also studying under Nixon.
Drey died in St Ives, and a Memorial Exhibition was held in her honour at the Penwith Gallery.
A figurative painter who graduated from Falmouth University in 2009 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Adam Drouet has made his home in Cornwall. His work has been exhibited locally and nationally.
In 2019 he undertook an artist's residency at Crossroads Care Home in Scorrier.
Jeanne was the daughter of the famous actor Sir Gerald du Maurier and his actress wife Muriel Beaumont, and the younger sister of novelist Daphne. She studied at the Central School of Art in Southampton Row, and was in the life class under Bernard MENINSKY. She also studied drypoint and etching there. After she attended the St. John's Wood School of Art (studying painting under P F Millard) her first studio was in Hampstead, and she began exhibiting in 1938 with the RBA and SWA.
Following the death of her father and the outbreak of WWII, her family moved permanently to 'Ferryside' at Fowey, their holiday home since 1926. During the war she ran a market garden, putting her painting aside.
Her next exhibition was with STISA in the Autumn of 1945, opened by her mother Lady du Maurier. She took a studio in St Ives and again exhibited in 1946 where she met Dod PROCTER who asked her if she could paint her portrait. The two became close friends, spending three winters together, two in Tenerife and one in Africa. By the time she exhibited at the RA in the 1950s, Jeanne had moved to Manaton in Devon. She painted mostly still life, flowers, landscapes and the occasional portrait. Among her works exhibited at the RA were flower paintings.
Jeanne was also a member of the NSA, and exhibited with the Newlyn artists in 1977 at Pont-Aven in Brittany.
Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, Richard Dubieniec studied Fine Art at Leeds College of Art from 1968 to 1971. This included a year working at Falmouth School of Art, during which time he lived at Mylor Bridge. He worked with a design group in Falmouth, then as assistant to sculptor John MILNE in St Ives.
Subsequently he worked as a development officer for Cornwall Trust for Nature Conservation, then embarked on a teaching career which led to his appointment as Head of Design and Technology at St Lawrence College in Ramsgate.
After retiring in 2006, he moved to Chantelle in Allier, France, to become an active multi-disciplinary artist and director of Arthouse Chantelle, an arts centre and residency.
Henrietta was born in Sussex and after attending West Sussex College of Art & Design continued her studies at Byam Shaw and Wimbledon Schools of Art, followed by three years at the Royal Academy Schools in London. She has exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions in Cornwall and throughout the UK. She describes her abstract paintings as 'autobiographical deconstructions and reconstructions of life ... appearing on the canvas as an abstract gestural web'.
Nina Ducker's porcelain and stoneware ceramics are inspired by nature.