Cornwall Artists Index

Born in Newton Abbot, Devon, the son of a bank manager whose ancestors had crossed the River Tamar to Plympton from the Duloe, Morval area of East Cornwall a couple of generations previously. Hambly was educated at Kelly College, Tavistock, Devon. He studied at Newton Abbot School of Art under Wycliffe Egginton and Conway Blatchford, and repeatedly said that Egginton, whom he considered a great watercolourist of Dartmoor subjects, had been the strongest influence on his work.

He went on to Bristol Municipal School of Art where he studied etching under Reginald E J Bush.  He completed his Art Teaching Diploma in 1925. After a brief spell teaching at Weston super Mare and then Salisbury Schools of Art, he moved to Cornwall and became Headmaster of Camborne and Redruth School of Art. He taught art at Redruth Boys and Camborne Girls County Schools along with day and evening classes He was also involved in the work of the Workers' Educational Association. Among his students at Redruth were Marion Grace HOCKEN and Sven BERLIN. Hambly considered Berlin to be the best and most hard-working student he had ever had. Together with his etchings and watercolours Hambly also designed the seal of the local Council, and the East Window above the High Altar in St. Andrew's Church, Redruth showing Carn Brea, Wheal Euny and Redruth Clock Tower.

He exhibited at RI from 1938 until 1966, at Royal West of England Academy from 1926 and at St Ives Society of Artists from 1929 until 1973. He became a member of RWA in 1964 after years as an associate member.

After WWII he suffered a bout of TB which prevented him working temporarily. In 1956 he took early retirement to allow himself more time to devote to his own painting. He left Redruth after a 30 year teaching career and went to live at Downside Vicarage, Chilcompton, Somerset, with Rev Lionel Greenway and his family. They had become great friends in the 1930s while Lionel Greenway was curate at St Andrews Church, opposite the Art School in Clinton Road, Redruth. He died following a heart attack in November 1973 and was buried in Downside Churchyard.

Louise Hamilton has lived and worked in Cornwall since 1991. In the early 1990s, as a mature student, she studied at Falmouth College of Art on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course. More recently she has undertaken two years' study on the Porthmeor Programme at St Ives School of Painting.

In 2023 she joined Prime Women Artists, a supportive and creative network for women artists of all disciplines in Cornwall.

In the 1891 Census this artist was listed as 'Artist Living On Own Means' in Morrab Road, originally from Epley, Gloucestershire. The head of the household was Lydia Livingston, together with her son G B P LIVINGSTON, also an artist, and Miss Hamilton is listed as her niece. No artistic detail about her is known.

Elspeth Hamilton studied architecture at Liverpool University.  Her subsequent career focussed on the teaching of architectural design and she was associated with many universities both in the UK and abroad, as a visiting lecturer.

Her semi-abstract works take their inspiration from the Cornish coast and Bodmin Moor.

Marie-Claire Hamon's work has been exhibited at the Rainyday Gallery, Penzance and at Padstow Fine Art. 

Of her own painting she says; 'I find myself drawn to making images that tell a story about provenance and destination as a sort of philosophical meandering.Topical concerns such as migration, travel, the search for utopia or survival inspires much of the underlying feeling in my paintings. The landscape offers a continued source of imagery, which often supports and feeds my train of thought.'

Marie-Claire Hamon is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art.

A pupil of the FORBES SCHOOL in 1926.

One of the artists in the group who regularly contribute to the annual collections shown at Gallery TRESCO on the Isles of Scilly.

A teacher of art at Redruth School of Art.  More research required.

A correspondent (2025) has told us of two watercolours in her possession, signed J A Hancox. These rugged coastal scenes, probably painted during the 1920s, were purchased at an antiques fair in Devon.

In a letter from Stanhope FORBES to his mother (dated 7 July 1904), he refers to Mrs Handyside as a charming elderly lady from New Zealand, though originally from Ireland, a fine handsome woman and as active as any of the young ones. She was also, after some years, to be a pupil of Frank Proschwitzry FREYBURG in St Ives (c1910).

In the 1937 Exhibition at NAG Forbes exhibited a Portrait of Mrs Handyside, but it was not for sale. Tovey displays a small colour plate of Mrs Handyside's accomplished work Girl with Sticks (courtesy of W H Lane Fine Art) on p116 of St Ives: A Social History. However, a photo purporting to be Mrs Handyside, appearing on page 157 of the same volume, appears certainly a fine handsome woman, though not one who could be described as 'elderly'. This is dated c1910 or six years later.

William Lee Hankey was born in Chester. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in London and then in Paris, where he became influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage. He lived in France in the early 1900s. A member of the Newlyn School, he is best known for his portraits of pastoral life. From 1893 he was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy.

Porthleven association.

The artist was educated in Paris and studied art under Stanhope FORBES.  He lived in London and Norfolk, and was the father of C A Hannaford RBA.

His sending-in addresses included 'The Mumbles, Swansea, Wales' 1897; Plymouth, Devon 1902; East Grinstead, Sussex 1913; London 1916; Stalham, Norwich, Norfolk 1927.

Dave Carter of the Hayle Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall has shared his knowledge of this artist with us. This is an ideal example of the kind of information we are seeking about the artists who worked at some time in Cornwall.

"We have a painting by Clifford Hanney (1890-1990) and notice he is not included in your database. A relative of Hanney's wife has recently asked if we have any more information about the artist and whether the couple had any children. What we do know follows:

Clifford Hanney was born in Publow, Pensford, near Bristol in 1890 and, after studying at the Merchant Venturer’s School, the University there and art at West Marlands School of Art, Southampton and Bristol Municipal College of Art under R. E. J. Bush, taught art at various schools and colleges, becoming Principal of Crewe School of Art (1943 –50).

Elected an Associate of the Royal West of England Academy in 1923, he was one of the founders of the New Bristol Art Club in 1933 and was a President of both Oldham Society of Artists (1929) and the Bristol Savages (1963). In 1974 he was awarded the Diploma Italiana Universita delle Arti.

A painter of marine, landscape and figure subjects, Julius Ollson was a particular influence on the play of light on water exhibited in Phil Whiting’s marine works.

Clifford married the artist, Eirene Hutton-Seed in 1931. They often went on ‘caravanning periods’ where they were away for three months at a time to Dorset, Cornwall and Devon and especially to Godrevy on St Ives Bay. There they got to know Arthur Hayward (who painted their portraits), Herbert Truman and met Stanhope Forbes.
 

Brian Hanscomb is a printmaker who specialises in copperplate engraving and pastel collage work. In 2010 the ecological magazine 'Resurgence' wrote that 'Brian Hanscomb is known as Britain's leading copperplate engraver'. He is inspired by Zen Buddhism, Quakerism and his immediate locality of Bodmin Moor.