Marian Duckworth Harbord was born in Looe. In 1911 the family were living in Coalbrookedale, Shropshire. At one point in her career, she worked in the Catskill Mountains in the USA.
In 1939 Marian and her mother were living in 'Pounds Cross' just outside Polperro. Three of her artworks were included in the Polperro Art Society's 1939 show. In the same year her portrait of a child 'Joan' was shown at the Royal Academy, and she achieved further success there in 1941 with a portrait, 'Mary'. Her portrait of Herbert Morris was received with considerable acclaim.
In June 1941 she left Cornwall to work in the NAAFI. After her mother's death in 1945 she moved to London.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of the University College Falmouth.
Born at Leamington Spa, the son of a clock maker, Duggins arrived in St Ives 1904 to study under Julius OLSSON and Algernon Mayow TALMAGE. He combined painting with a photography business in the Midlands, and he exhibited from The Grove Studio, Leamington whilst painting intermittently at St Ives and Brixham throughout the 1930s.
He illustrated George Morley's Sweet Arden (1908) and Mary Dormer Harris's Unknown Warwickshire (1924).
A painting of Newquay Harbour is part of the art collection at Newquay Hospital.
Emma Dunbar graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Printmaking from West Surrey College of Art & Design in 1984. Since then she has worked fulltime as an artist, exhibiting throughout the UK. She is a regular exhibitor at Cornwall Contemporary in Penzance and Beside the Wave in Falmouth.
Married to the artist John McKirdy DUNCAN, Ann was living in London in 1930 when she had her first success at the RA. Two years later she and her husband had a joint show at the Fine Art Society in which she showed thirty works.
By 1933 they had moved to Mousehole in Cornwall, and it is probable at this juncture that she studied further under Stanhope FORBES (this remained her sending-in address until at least 1937). She was a painter of figures, landscape and still life.
After beginning his career as a copyist and engraver in the Havell studios, London, he set up his own engraving business working mainly on sporting and shipping subjects. Wood notes that most of his later marine works (paintings) were coastal and port subjects, as his knowledge of the sea was not great enough to paint marine subjects. He also painted landscapes and animals.
His titles include a hand-coloured restrike etching of Falmouth.
Wood records this artist as a Scot, who studied in London, Antwerp and Dusseldorf, and exhibited at the RA from 1893. He was the husband of the artist Ann DUNCAN. In 1932 Duncan and his wife had a joint show at the Fine Art Society.
By 1933 they had both moved to Mousehole, Cornwall. In 1937 at NAG he exhibited China Clay Mine, Jericho.
Mary Duncan was born in Bromley, Kent. She studied at both the Slade and in Paris. Before coming to Paul (nr Penzance) in 1925, she had lived in Dublin (1910) and in Bushey, Herts (1922). She exhibited widely and primarily at the RHA where she showed more than 65 works.
She began to exhibit at NAG in December 1925, and continued sporadically to do so. Her final home from 1936 was in Mousehole where she remained until she died. In 1937 at NAG, her offerings were A Calm Day near Land's End and Rocks at Pedn-Men-Dhu.
Celia Duncan followed a career in science for thirty years, owing to family pressure, but returned to painting in the 2000s. She uses acrylics to portray fishing villages and boats in a quirky style.
Mark Dunford was born in Dorset. He studied at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design from 1980 to 1982, and then at the Slade School of Fine Art until 1987. In 2001 he was elected a member of the London Group. He moved to Cornwall in 2005.
Dunford is a regular exhibitor at Tregony Gallery on the Roseland peninsula. His work has also been shown in the Netherlands and in Italy.
Illustrator of Cornish subjects, including Monumental Brasses of Cornwall, which included sixty-two illustrative plates with descriptive, genealogical & heraldic notes (1882). No further information currently available.
Daisy Dunlop is a jeweller who specialises in cast pieces and works from her studio in Hayle. She combines intricate castings with beaten silver sheet to create subtle, contoured pieces of jewellery filled with diffuse light.
Mac Dunlop is a visual artist, writer, broadcaster and filmmaker who lives in Falmouth. In 2007 he founded 'The Poetry Point', a 'writing hub' which encourages regional writers and artists to explore their inspirations and creativity across different media and art forms. He collaborates with Dr Annie Lovejoy on 'Caravanserai', an ongoing arts and literature project on the Roseland peninsula. Dunlop also works under the pen name MacD as a satirist and cartoonist with the lampooning e-zine Politoons.co.uk.
A portrait of Charles Barham, Mayor (1859) by this artist, is in the collection of Truro City Council.
Jill Dunn is a printmaker and part-time Italian teacher living in Penryn. In early 2021 she started printmaking in a full-time capacity under the name 'Riverbird'. She says: 'A lifelong fascination with water, trees and birds lies at the heart of my work.'
George Dunn and his son Horatio were local people who both in turn became general labourers at the Leach Pottery. George, an ex-miner and fisherman, offered his services to Bernard LEACH and Shoji HAMADA as a general helper when they were building the interior of the Pottery. Whybrow comments that he soon found himself sawing 200 tons of wood bought from the Great Western Railway for the kiln. For twenty-eight years he remained at the Pottery, working as needed on shelving, pottery benches and anything else required.
In 1937 for almost another twenty years, Horatio Dunn took over and became the essential assistant. Valerie BOND, is quoted: 'If it had not been for their hard work with the clay, there would have been no pots. Horatio's sense of humour kept us all going on difficult days, and we all owed a great deal to him. He also packed the pots for sending away - a very responsible job.'
Whilst neither of these men were potters themselves, they are included here as part of the teams which created the great tradition of pottery making in West Cornwall.
Sarah Dunstan was born in Helston. She studied at Falmouth School of Art from 1987 to 1989, subsequently gaining a BA (Hons) in 3D Design Ceramics in 1992 from Cardiff Institute of Higher Education. She works from the Gaolyard Studios in St Ives.
Dunstan has undertaken visiting lectureships at Falmouth University and Cornwall College. She has given demonstrations of her work in Denmark and Sweden. In 2008 she was the winner of the Cornwall Crafts Award.
Her work can be seen at Trelowarren, near Helston, and Trelissick Gallery, near Truro, and St Ives Ceramics. She has exhibited further afield in Bath, Wareham and beyond.
Born Charles Durdin Kelly in Plymouth on 16 February, 1850, he came with his mother and sister to Newlyn in 1877 as the tenants of Pembroke Lodge, where he remained until 1882.
Charles Durdin and Henry MARTIN were the only two artists recorded as living in Newlyn at the time of the 1881 Census. Bednar has been unable to locate the registration of C Durdin's death, under either name, in the Indexes of Deaths in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. He is known to have painted a Newlyn title in 1879. By 1892 he listed an address in Tipperary, Ireland for sending-in to the RHA.
Ken is a former Naval Officer and now a well known author and artist living at St Breward, Bodmin, Cornwall with his wife Brenda. His career began in the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman early in World War II and he gained a commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve shortly after.
Following the war, he spent 5 years demolishing wrecks around the coast of the British Isles before being transferred to the Royal Navy and holding his own command. On retiring from the Navy in 1954 he embarked on a four year cruise in his 14 ton yacht "Thyra"
In 1958 he took up journalism, becoming known for his informative 'Boat Test Reports' in the national newspapers and yachting magazines. A sailor of quite unusual experience, one of his varied exploits was to sail with his wife (1971-2) a 18ft 6in open boat, a Drascombe Lugger named Lugworm from Greece to Cornwall.
His book titles are numerous and illustrated with his own art work. Yet another creative experience occurred In 1978 when he spent 6 months cycling along the length and breadth of Morocco, crossing the Lesser and High Atlas Mountains in midwinter, ending up for two months dug into a sand dune on a lonely part of the African coast, before cycling back to Cornwall via Portugal.
Taking kindly to solitude, Ken and Brenda live in Cornwall high on Bodmin Moor where, to use his own words"... one retains that sense of being at sea even while on land, for here too one lives with the wind and the sky!" he is still remarkably active and productive, almost all of his time spent creating art work for which he holds regular exhibitions.
The friend who alerted the CAI to Ken's artistic endeavors comments: 'The seascapes and skies he creates are a remarkable testament to his intimate understanding of the forces of nature and how nature interacts with the land, sea and sky, in particular to man's presence in nature's realm. He is a truly inspirational artist with a gift to be able to capture the stunning beauty and wildness all nature in all her guises. I have a work specially commissioned for me by my family. It's one of my favourite art works and I look at it every day. It never ceases to amaze me how well the subject matter has been captured as a moment in time that appears timeless.' That is indeed a fine testament to an artist.
We are sad to announce the death of Ken Duxbury, who passed away on 11 August 2016.
Dyer had joined the Royal Horse Artillery in 1916 and was promoted to Gunner-fitter, then Sergeant Instructor Armourer where he began working with copper, creating 'trench art'. After service in France, Belgium and Egypt, he returned to Cumbria in 1922, then walked South to find work, setting up a workshop behind a forge in Mousehole. Working in Mousehole during the 1920s, he was strongly influenced by the Newlyn School of craftsmen near Penzance.
He began by making items to suit local demand. Unable to interest Tom BATTEN and Johnny Payne COTTON in handling his output at Newlyn Copper, he continued to work independently for about ten years. His best pieces show superb craftsmanship, often making use of familiar 'Newlyn' motifs of birds, shells and sea-weed. Other pieces have finely drawn local views such as St Michael's Mount.
By 1930, however, competition from cheap foreign imports forced him to close his business. The three pieces shown at the 1986 Exhibition of Arts and Crafts in Newlyn were a cylindrical tea caddy (impressed 'H Dyer', inscribed 'St Ives'), an ash tray, and a chamber candlestick.
2019: A recent correspondent, whose grandfather and Herbert Dyer were close friends, casts doubt on the paragraph above regarding the closure of Dyer's business. The correspondent remembers (and his Mother has confirmed) that Dyer was still making pieces in the 1960s, mainly as wedding gifts, from his functioning workshop. The correspondent feels privileged to be currently renting these premises as a stained glass workshop.
Brooklyn-born (16 February 1856), Dyer studied art under Gerome at the Beaux Arts and with Collin in Paris. He was primarily a figure painter, with a predeliction for paintings of children as angels.
In 1889 he arrived in St Ives for a summer holiday and stayed for the rest of his life. In 1890 he exhibited with the St Ives artists at the Dowdeswell show. Kellys (1893) gives his address as 2 Richmond Terrace where he lived with his wife Annie, also an American. His studio was in the grounds of Talland House. In 1895 he exhibited at the opening exhibition at Newlyn. Both of the Dyers were actively involved with the St Ives and Newlyn artistic communities, and Lowell served as President of STISA at least twice (1893-4 and 1918).
His eyesight was beginning to fail by the time STISA was formed, and he was almost totally blind by the date of his death. He is remembered by Charles MARRIOTT as an American from Boston and a Swedenborgian by faith, who painted angels combining Swedenborg with Botticelli. He was definitely considered the wit of the St Ives' community, and a friend to many artists of the Newlyn community as well.
John Dyer was born near Taunton in 1968. After completing a foundation course at Falmouth School of Art in 1987, he gained a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from Middlesex Polytechnic, showing his final year work at Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden.
A popular contemporary painter who lives and works in Falmouth, Dyer's amusing and colourful works are often seen in mixed and solo exhibitions, and in the auction houses. Aside from his painting practice, he has worked as a part-time lecturer from 1991 to 2000 at Falmouth College of Art. The painter Ted DYER is his father, and he is married to the artist Joanne SHORT.
In 1989 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society by Robin Hanbury-Tennison. His work has been shown widely in Cornwall and throughout the UK. He has been Artist in Residence on many occasions, most notably at the Eden Project (2001-2008).
Ted Dyer was born in Bristol in 1940. His younger years were spent in Devon and Somerset but he moved to Cornwall with his family in 1972. A landscape painter with a career spanning 60 years, he is described as 'the Cornish Impressionist'. His works are highly collectable. He is represented by the John Dyer Gallery.